Oskar Lagger

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Oskar Lagger (born February 11, 1934 in Münster , Wallis ; † July 14, 2019 in Sion , Wallis ) was a Swiss composer and conductor .

biography

Oskar Lagger grew up in the canton capital Sion , where he also went to school and then attended the college Sion, which he completed in 1956 with the classical Matura (English and Latin). From 1956 to 1962 he studied in Paris. Oskar Lagger studied composition and singing at the École César Franck and graduated with a diploma in both subjects. He studied musicology at the Sorbonne , organ and Gregorian singing at the Institut de musique sacrée de l 'Université catholique, also in Paris. He then continued his vocal studies in Vienna , where he became familiar with twelve-tone music.

For the school year 1962/1963 he was appointed as a music and singing teacher at the German-speaking teachers' seminar in Sion. He also taught at the seminary and conservatory in Sion. Oskar Lagger continued his singing studies and took lessons from Jakob Stämpfli , Paul Lohmann , Laura Sarti and others

Oskar Lagger was the choirmaster at the cathedral in Sion for 30 years. From 1971 to 1996 he conducted the Pro Arte choir of the Sion Conservatory.

From 1982 to 1994 Oskar Lagger was director of the Sion Conservatory, where he campaigned for lower tuition fees, improved employment conditions for teaching staff and an increase in cantonal subsidies. During this time he was also a member of the jury at singers' and choir meetings and worked as an examiner at other conservatories.

Oskar Lagger was married to Cécile Lagger-Nussbaum and had five children.

Musical creation

Oskar Lagger's aim was to promote young talents, be it as a teacher at the teachers' seminar in Sion or as a teacher and later director at the Conservatory in Sion. Brigitte Balleys , mezzo-soprano, Brigitte Fournier , soprano and Norbert Carlen , baritone, enjoyed their musical training with Oskar Lagger. Since only men were taught at the teachers' college at the time, he wrote sentences for the four-part male choir for folk songs. Oskar Lagger gave the choir singing and school music in Upper Valais significant impulses through the vocal and musical training of the teachers at the teachers' seminar. As musical director, Oskar Lagger has performed numerous concerts as a choir director or soloist with the clubs he directs. He conducted the choir of the Sion Cathedral at services on Sundays and holidays and at funerals.

In 1971 Oskar Lagger founded the Pro Arte Sion choir , with which he developed a broad repertoire from baroque to contemporary choral music, including masses by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Joseph Haydn , Franz Schubert and Giacomo Puccini , cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach , the Requiem by Johannes Brahms and Gabriel Fauré , operettas by Jacques Offenbach and contemporary music by Calmel, Taillefer and Carl Orff . Oskar Lagger has performed with the choir at international choir competitions.

Oskar Lagger was a member and later President of the Music Commission of the Valais Choral Association (VWG).

Soloist career

Oskar Lagger was active as a singer at home and abroad. His solo activities as a bass took him to France, Germany, Italy, Poland and South Africa.

Compositional creation

Lagger's oeuvre includes secular and ecclesiastical songs and works as well as arrangements for mixed choir, children's and male choirs, with piano, organ and / or orchestral accompaniment and instrumental music. His musical role model is Johann Sebastian Bach . Lagger wrote many compositions on texts in the Upper Valais dialect, in particular the texts by Adolf Imhof , Hannes Taugwalder and Eduard Imhof inspired Oskar Lagger's compositions. Oskar Lagger also edited foreign choral works and adapted them to the possibilities of the choirs he conducted.

Music theory literature

Oskar Lagger wrote musicological and educational writings: Exercices vocaux pour choeur Voice technique: breathing, phonetics, exercises

Catalog raisonné

The Handbook of Swiss Choir Composers (Musikverlag Hug) lists a detailed catalog of works by Lagger; the works listed below complete the list of the media library.

For a voice with accompaniment:

  • 30 folk songs with piano accompaniment for beginners in solo singing
  • 13 chansons pour les petits with piano
  • 3 children's songs in the Upper Valais dialect with piano accompaniment; Text: Eduard Imhof 1. Ds Njw Jahr bigrjetze 2. Ds Grängier-Gloria-Matoria 3. Glasigi Öuge before Frejd
  • 8 Gommer Limericks for voice and piano; Text by Eduard Imhof
  • 16 German / French folk song arrangements for children with piano accompaniment
  • 4 paraphrases grégoriennes for a voice and organ
  • 3 Latin chants for soprano and organ 1. Laudate Dominum 2. Ave Maria 3. In manus tuas
  • 3 songs for a deep voice and piano; Text: Paul Verlaine 1. Green 2. Spleen 3. Streets
  • 3 pieces for soprano and piano or string quartet; Text: Paul Verlaine 1. Soleils couchants 2. C'est la fête du blé 3. La Bise
  • Vie cycle of 7 songs for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano; Text: Jacques Darbellay
  • 4 children's songs in the Upper Valais dialect for one voice and piano; Text Eduard Imhof 1. Ds Schaf and d Lammjini 2. Kameli 3. Ohni Ljecht 4. Herodes
  • 20 folk songs for school lessons for a voice and piano

For mixed choir with piano accompaniment:

  • Tulipa grengiolensis ; Text: Eduard Imhof
  • Glitter dance ; Text: traditional
  • Zer Taferna ; Text: Adolf Imhof

For choir and organ:

  • Grängjer Mäss ; four-part choir and organ, text: Eucharist
  • Bell mass ; three- and four-part choir and organ
  • Missa Sancti Raphaelis four-part choir and organ
  • Missa Santae Caecilae four-part choir and organ
  • Ecce nomen Domini Emmenanuel 3 versions for mixed choir - female choir - male choir and organ

For choir, solos and orchestra:

  • Stockalperis Edictum Cantata; Text: Eduard Imhof
  • Le curé de Yerkalo, sur les traces de Maurice Tornay , text: Jacques Darbellay
  • L'âme de Coubertin , text: Jacques Guhl
  • Le miracle de Théophile de Rutebeuf , text: Michel Roulin
  • Wäger Baschi cantata: Text: Rev. Eduard Imhof
  • Schiner Oratorio Text: Eduard Imhof
  • Caecilia - Caeli Lilia , cantata; Text: Eduard Imhof
  • Le Gros-Bellet ; Text: Eric Morisod.
  • Histoire d 'autre ; Texts by Philippe Baud (commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the Valais Choral Association)

Instrumental:

  • 27 pieces pour orgue
  • Adoro te submissive variations for organ
  • Suite for organ
  • Organ accompaniment for choral songs 12 booklets
  • 10 motets for organ
  • 8 enlumineurs pour piano
  • 8 arabesques for piano
  • 10 pieces pur pianistes en herbe
  • 6 pieces for oboe and piano
  • 6 trios for flute, oboe and bassoon
  • 8 duets for double bass and piano
  • Quartetto for strings 3 movements
  • Fugue majorquine for string quartet
  • Piano sonata 4 movements
  • Sanetsch 91 , March for Harmony Music
  • Quatre paysages du Moyen Orient , for string orchestra
  • Orchestral music and solo interludes for the play "The Last Sander"
  • Astro safari ; Texts: Rev. Eduard Imhof, for accordion, also rewritten for piano and string quartet.

Awards

For his work Ave maris stella , Oskar Lagger received the 1st prize in the composition competition of the Valais Chanting Association VWG (Fédération des Sociétés de Chant du Valais) in 2001.

Oskar Lagger received the 1st Grand Prize at the Alpenchorfestival 2012 Brig for the following four works:

  • Ds Karusell Cat. A Text: Hannes Taugwalder , Zermatt / Aarau (1910–2007)
  • Vischperterminu (MC) Cat. B Text: Hannes Taugwalder
    Culture award of the community of Goms to Oskar Lagger 2017
    Culture award of the community of Goms to Oskar Lagger 2017
  • In Aletsch (FC) Cat. B Text: Peter Imhof, Ried-Brig
  • D'Mijsch Cat. C Text: Hannes Taugwalder

He received a 2nd prize at the composition competition of the Société cantonale des chanteurs fribourgeois with “Les réfugiés” based on a text by Josiane Haas.

Honors

In recognition of the services rendered to the association, Oskar Lagger was made an honorary member of the Valais Choral Association.

On June 11, 2017, the community of Goms named Oskar Lagger the first culture award winner. The culture award was presented at a concert in the parish church of Münster.

The Valais media library honored the musician and composer Oskar Lagger with the publication of a book “Oskar Lagger - compositeur / composer”. This work, which is kept bilingual throughout, contains a biography of the composer, an appreciation of his musical and pedagogical work and a list of all the works stored in the media library of the canton of Valais.

literature

  • Swiss choir composers biographies, catalog raisonnés with discography and bibliography, Hug Musikverlage, pp. 211–214, ISBN 3-906415-70-8 .
  • Regional newspaper Aletsch-Goms from March 13, 2015, pp. 16-18
  • Oskar Lagger - composer / composer. Biography and list of the works kept in the Valais media library. Published by: Mediathek Wallis 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oskar Lagger, 1934. In: 1815.ch, accessed on July 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ [1] Alpine Choir Festival Brig 2012; Ranking of the composition competition
  3. ↑ Walliser Bote from June 13, 2017, article by Alois Grichting, page 8, honorary concert and cultural prize for Oskar Lagger
  4. ↑ Aletsch-Goms regional newspaper, No. 12; 23rd year, from June 23, 2017 pp. 22 and 23 Oskar Lagger - first Goms Culture Prize winner
  5. ↑ [2] Invitation to an honorary concert
  6. ^ [3] Program of the concert of honor
personal data
SURNAME Lagger, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lagger, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Münster , Valais
DATE OF DEATH 14th July 2019
Place of death Manners