Peter Seeger

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Peter Seeger (born January 5, 1919 in Berlin ; † July 7, 2008 ) was a German composer , music teacher and conductor .

Life

He studied from 1936 to 1940 at the State University for Music a . a. with Kurt Thomas (choir direction), Fritz Stein and Walther Gmeindl (orchestra direction ), as well as with Heinz Tiessen and Paul Höffer (composition). After the war he became music director in Nordhausen, came to Offenburg in 1947 as director of the Ortenau music school, from where he directed the town band “Harmonie” Kehl-Sundheim, became a music educator at the Lender home school in Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl in 1957 and a music educator at Johann in 1960 -Sebastian-Bach-Gymnasium in Mannheim. He was the Bundeschormeister in the Badischer Sängerbund. As a composer he wrote mainly for wind band and choirs.

Concert band works

  • 1956 Lippische Tänze , Suite, Musikverlag Müller
  • 1956 Serenade , Musikverlag Bohne + Schulz
  • 1957 Toccata , for wind orchestra, Bohne + Schulz
  • 1958 Concerto grosso , for two flugelhorns, tenor horn, baritone and wind orchestra, Musikverlag Schott
  • 1959 Festive Intrade , Bohne + Schulz
  • 1961 French style , Molenaar music publisher (NL)
  • 1963 hymn about an old Italian hymn of praise , Musikverlag Müller
  • 1963 Moravian Rhapsody , Molenaar Music Publishing House (NL)
  • 1964 from Castile , Molenaar
  • 1964 (The) Bremen Town Musicians , Molenaar
  • 1964 Festive resonance , Bohne + Schulz
  • 1964 hymn , Müller
  • 1976 Partita , Bohne + Schulz
  • 1978 Happy Day , for male choir and wind orchestra, Müller
  • 1983 Rhapsody based on German folk songs , Bohne + Schulz
  • 1987 Südliche Häfen , for mixed choir and wind orchestra, UA Karlsruhe

Cantatas

  • 1956 Keep your eyes open in traffic! , small scenic cantata for children's or youth choirs with soloists and instruments - text: by the composer
  • Goethe cantata , cantata for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra
  • Christmas cantata , for soloists, children's choir and mixed choir

Stage works

  • 1971 Warehouse-Life , a satirical choir revue in 10 sections for soloists, multiple speakers, mixed choir and combo - Text: Fritz Graßhoff (1913–1997), Musikverlag Schott

Choral works

  • But get married , for a female or male choir
  • With my blonde (In my father's garden) , for male choir
  • Bellmann songs , five songs for male choir
  • Lively illusions , for a male choir
  • Das Ringlein (I never find it among the girls) , for male choir
  • The happy farmer - The happy farmer , for mixed choir
  • The Happy Farmer (Sing hey, sing hey) , for male choir
  • Man - a short lute sound , for female choir - Text: Abraham a Santa Clara
  • Der Verliebte (In herber Pein) , for male choir
  • The Volga Path , for male choir
  • Die Leineweber , for mixed choir
  • A picture book , dance suite for mixed choir, flute, oboe, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, accordion, timpani, percussion and strings * A hunter from Kurpfalz , for mixed choir
  • A flower on the hat , for male choir
  • Elslein , for female or male choir
  • Gloria im Himmel - Gloria in cielo , for mixed choir
  • It's good to have a wife for a male choir
  • Good moon , for mixed choir
  • From heart and pain , happy suite for mixed choir and plucked orchestra
  • We want to be young , for male choir
  • Not a beautiful country , for mixed choir - Text: Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio
  • Small gates-big gates , for male choir
  • Dear man in the moon , for mixed choir
  • Songs - golden bridges , for male choir
  • Lumpenlieder (Funny you brothers) , for male choir
  • May song (I love a girl with all my heart) , for male choir
  • Man is man , for female or male choir
  • Mein Herr Ich Kenn , for female or male choir
  • Molly Malone (In Dublin, the town) , for male choir
  • Monsieur Rouselle , for male choir
  • I like to eat peach for male choirs
  • Tell me where the flowers are for mixed choir
  • Beautiful summer - O bel été , for mixed choir
  • Six Hesse poems No. 1 , voor mannenkoor
  • Look, King Dagobert , for male choir
  • Sing my heart , for mixed choir
  • Hobby horses , for male choir
  • Weinlied , for male choir
  • How does the moon shine , for female or male choir
  • Once went through Paris , for a male choir

Vocal music

  • Spring expectation , for tenor soloist, female choir (soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto) and strings

Publications

  • Peter Seeger, Erich Ganzenmüller, Paul Wehrle, Jürgen Meyer, Heinz Spaeth, Hans-Walter Berg: Musikplan Baden-Württemberg - Materials for its preparation , Landesmusikrat Baden-Württemberg, 111 pp.
  • Peter Seeger: Interactive media between digital television and the Internet , in: Sozialwissenschaften und Berufspraxis 19,4, 1996, special issue "Sociology and New Media". Edited by Professional Association of German Sociologists, (339–354)

literature

The new lexicon of brass music , ed. by Wolfgang u. Armin Suppan. 4th ed. Lexicon of brass music. - Freiburg-Tiengen: brass music publ. Schulz, 1994.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Seeger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music teacher and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2008