Odilo Klasen

Odilo Klasen (* 1959 in Moers on the Lower Rhine) is a German church musician , organist and composer .

Life

Klasen is regional cantor (catholic) for Düsseldorf with the deaneries D- Benrath , D-Süd, D-Nord, D-Mitte / Heerdt and D-Ost as well as pastoral musician at the churches of St. Franziskus Xaverius (organ Klais 1970/2000, IV / P 60 Reg.), To the Holy Cross and St. Josef (Klais 1930–1975, IV / P, 64 Reg.). His teachers were the Straube and Ramin students Konrad Voppel (Duisburg), Viktor Lukas and Rudolf Ewerhart (Cologne) and Franz Lehrndorfer (Munich), with whom he took his master's degree in organ. Courses with Daniel Roth and Harald Vogel expanded the spectrum to include French organ music and the interpretation of the northern German repertoire. Organ concerts took him to various cathedrals in Germany and the European surrounding area, and in 1990 he was selected to take part in the organ competition in Chartres .

He supervises and founded several concert series: The annual cycle "Winter Organ Concerts" in the churches of Düsseldorf , "Bach inspires " ( maxhaus Düsseldorf), "Düsseldorfer Nachtmusiken", "Die Rote Zwanziger" (2006) (in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and other churches and buildings from the twenties).

Early music occupied him in Vienna and Austria : he was a harpsichordist and répétiteur with the Vienna Bach Soloists and conducted operas at festivals in the Danube region.

In 2007, Klasen received a composition grant from the city of Düsseldorf for the oratorio psalm XXX “I never waver in world time” (German text by Martin Buber ).

He received his doctorate in 2014 with the thesis “ Oskar Gottlieb Blarr . Composer and Cantor in Düsseldorf after 1960 ”.

Sound recordings (excerpt)

• Organ concert in the Herzogenburg Abbey / A, ORF
• Giacinto Scelsi , Hymnos (UA), Pfaht, Philharmonie Köln, RSO, WDR
• Johann Sebastian Bach , 5th Brandenburg Concert , cologne chamber ensemble
• Carl Sattler , 2nd Sonata, Charles-Marie Widor , 2nd Symphony, St. Lambertus, Düsseldorf

Works (in selection)

Instrumental and vocal compositions

• String Quartet (premiered in Duisburg 1980)
• Two songs for Bass, Va, Kl, Fg, Git (WP Duisburg 1981)
• "Round dance" after the communion hymn of the Acts of John for solo voices, speakers and instr. (WP Düsseldorf 1991)
• "Tafelmusik", for Fl, Kl, Vl, Klv, Perc and two actors (premiere Bergische Biennale Remscheid 1995)
• Trio 3-2-1 "for Croatia " f. Vl, Vc, prep. Klv (UA Zagreb / HR 1997)
• "Lac" for Kl, Vc, Klv (WP Palma Composers Festival / E 2000)
• “Ein Fenster” for voice, harp + instr., Composition commissioned by the Johanneskirche for the exhibition by Mischa Kuball (UA Johanneskirche (Düsseldorf) 2001)
• "En archä", the prologue of the Gospel of John for Alto, Vl, Kl, Org (WP Düsseldorf 2005)
• Concertino for harp and string orchestra (WP Düsseldorf 2006)
• "Toccatina alla batalla" for organ (WP Cologne, Dom ( Winfried Bönig ) 2007)
• Ps. XXX “I never waver in world time” f. Solos, choir, orchestra (scholarship from the city of Düsseldorf, UA Düsseldorf 2007)
• "In paradisum" for organ, baritone and percussion (WP Düsseldorf 2008)

Stage works

• "Judit" musicopera f. Solos, choir, instr (WP Düsseldorf 2000)
• “Marien magdalena”, musicopera f. Solos, choir, and instr. (funded by the New Music Fund of the Archdiocese of Cologne , UA Düsseldorf 2002)

electronics

• "We call for 40 days", 40-day interactive sound installation in front of Bach's St. Matthew Passion on the construction and history of the Antonius Church, commissioned by the Antonius Church in Wuppertal , Wuppertal 2004
• “Creation”, 28-day sound installation for Haydn's The Creation , Düsseldorf 2005
• "Maxhaus", spatial sound installation over five levels and rooms in the catholic town house, Düsseldorf 2008

Web links

• Internet presence Odilo Klasen