Matthias Müller (Harmonist)

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Matthias Müller (* 1966 in Sanderbusch ) is a German organist , pianist and harmonist .

Life

After attending the vocational school for music in Krumbach (Swabia) with Cantor Emil Wendler from Kempten , Müller learned the piano with Pavol Kovac. From 1986 to 1994 he was cantor in the Michaelskirche in Munich / Lochham . He continued his studies from 1992 to 1996 at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg with Karl Maureen and Gregorian chant with Domkapellmeister Brauckmann and studied with Jaroslav Tůma in Prague and with the harmonium specialist Jan van Mol in Antwerp. After working as a regional cantor in southern Harlingerland and organist at the St. Mauritius Church in Horsten from 2001 to 2004, Müller moved to Saxony-Anhalt. In 2007 he became cantor in the church district of Haldensleben / Wolmirstedt and head of the church choir in Irxleben and the Max Drischner choir in Klein Ammensleben .

Concerts took him to various European countries, including GDR, Italy, Belgium and Spain. He has given concerts with the Pomeranian Philharmonic in the Schauspielhaus Berlin , the Catalan Orchestra in Barcelona and the Orchestra of the Basque Conservatory in Bilbao in Warsaw, Łódź and Berlin. As a lied accompanist, he performed with the Sevillian tenor Pedro Cuadrado ( Teatro de la Maestranza ) and the Colombian baritone Carlos Mera-Euler, in 2004 with the baritone Ivo Berkenbusch at the international festival in the Bellapais monastery . In 2005 concerts at the international organ festival in Asturias followed .

Müller specialized in rarely played, partly unpublished organ and harmonium works, especially from Spain and the Basque Country. Since 1996 Müller has been invited to the international organ festival weeks in Castile . He was visiting professor at the 1st International Church Music Congress in Medina de Rioseco ( Valladolid ). He received the estate of the composer Max Drischner and spreads his musical legacy. He published about the harmonium in various journals and books, about Drischner in MGG .

Müller is the owner of a harmonium and organ workshop for repair work with historical materials. For the restoration of the great cathedral organ in Gijón , he received the Great Medal of Honor from San Lorenzo in 2001. Since 2005, the restoration of organs by Carl Böttcher from Magdeburg and Wilhelm Rühlmann , for example in Klein Ammensleben and Eimersleben, from the second half of the 19th century has been a focus.

He is the founder and artistic director of the International Clavier Festival with historical keyboard instruments at Hundisburg Castle near Magdeburg as well as the founder of the Rühlmann Organ Festival in Saxony-Anhalt.

Awards

  • 2001 Medal of San Lorenzo, Gijón
  • 2010 The MDR says thank you for important voluntary work
  • 2011 Gala of the honorary office

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Müller. orgel-information.de, archived from the original on March 14, 2016 ; accessed on April 10, 2018 .
  2. ^ Adolf Karl Gottwald: Basque ways on the organ . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 5, 1994, reproduced on Matthias Müller's website, accessed on April 10, 2018 (jpg; 949 kB).
  3. ↑ Matthias Müller . 9th International Piano Festival at Hundisburg Palace, accessed on April 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ International Rühlmann Organ Festival: Soloists: Matthias Müller . Website of Orgelbau Rühlmann, Zörbig, March 25, 2018, accessed on April 10, 2018. In
    2015 he inherited the estate of the Rühlmann organ-building dynasty. Head of the international festival, Festimusical, in the castles and monasteries of Bourgogne, accessed on March 13, 2016.
  5. ^ Libro del Centenario de la Parroquia de San Lorenzo Martir de Gijón
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, pianist and harmonist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanderbusch