Raimund Walter Sterl

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Raimund Walter Sterl (born September 25, 1936 in Regensburg ; † November 6, 2010 there ) was a German organist , composer , archivist and music historian .

Life and work

Raimund Walter Sterl received piano, violin and organ lessons from his father, the church musician and choir director Franz Sterl (1905–1968). He already played the viola in the school orchestra and later worked as an organist at various churches in his hometown. During this time his first compositions were performed. After graduating from high school (now Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium ), he acquired knowledge of music history and composition theory in self-study . From 1956 to 1958 he studied composition with Alfred Zehelein . In 1959 he joined the city of Regensburg as a civil servant. He attended the Bavarian Administration School from 1960 to 1963 and the Archive School in Munich from 1965 to 1966 . From 1964 until his retirement in 1993 he was Deputy Head of the City Archives in Regensburg. He was particularly interested in researching the music history of old Bavaria , especially Regensburg. From 1964 to 1990 he was an organist at the Herz-Marien-Kirche .

He also wrote from 1957 to 1965 as a reviewer for Kulturspiegel, a Regensburg weekly newspaper. As a composer, he created 138 compositions, including 61 organ works for liturgical celebrations and for sacred and secular concerts.

In 1983 the narrator and radio author Cornelius Streiter [= Bernhard Doerdelmann] wrote an almost one hour audio picture for Bayerischer Rundfunk about " Sophie Strasser - the Viennese woman from Regensburg or: How Franz von Soupe came to world fame" on February 20, 1983 was broadcast on the 2nd radio program. Although the majority of the biographical details presented as facts are demonstrably fictitious, Sterl passed on in good faith Streiter's inventions as facts in two extensive Sofie von Suppè articles: “Rosine Sophie Strasser (1841–1926). Her significance for Franz von Suppé's life and work ”and“ A Regensburg woman as a musical muse in Vienna. Franz von Suppé's wife Rosine Sophie Suppé, b. Strasser (1841–1926). "

Works (selection)

The compositional estate of Raimund W. Sterl can be found in the Proskean music department of the Bishop's Central Library in Regensburg.

Instrumental music

Organ music

  • Prelude and fugue in D based on a theme by Heinz Benker (1954)
  • Fantasy in A minor (1955)
  • Chorale arrangements I (1960)
  • Organ Mass (1982)
  • Arioso per organo (1983)
  • Three Pieces (1987)
  • Second Organ Mass (1991)
  • Preludio, Interludes I – III, Postludio (1992)
  • Three Passion Meditations (1993)
  • Poem and Finale (1994)
  • Organ triptych (1995)
  • Cinque Movimenti for flute and organ (1998)
  • Third Organ Mass (1999)
  • Seven sketches on a sequence of tones from Edvard Grieg's Canon (Opus 38 No. 8) (2003)
  • Homage à BACH (2005/06)

Harpsichord music

  • Praeambulum, Choral and Ostinato on f-es (1982)
  • Arioso (1983)
  • Three Interludes (1990)
  • Preludio e Fantasia alla ciacona sopra Horst Leuchtmann (1991)
  • Music about BACH (2000)

Piano music

  • Danse diabolique for piano four hands (1956/57)
  • Miniatures I (1956/60)
  • Sonatina non facile (1984)
  • Suite (1990, second version 1990/91)
  • Five piano pieces (1961/93)
  • Pieces for keyboard instrument (1994)
  • Twelve Fughetten, Fugatos and Fugen (1985-2001)
  • Sketches - Six Fantasy Pieces (2006)

Chamber music

  • Three pieces for flute and piano (1956)
  • Three little pieces for treble recorder (F) and piano (1984)
  • Episodes II, Quattro pezzi per il flauto (1993)
  • Pièce élégique for cor anglais and keyboard instrument (1996)
  • Notabene and Postscriptum for flute solo (2006)

Small orchestral music

  • Prelude for Strings (1954)
  • Miniatures for strings (1960)

Vocal music

Secular solo singing

  • Four chants for low voice and piano accompaniment based on words by Wolf Peter Schnetz (1957)
  • Seven songs for medium to high voice and piano based on poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wilhelm Busch, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern and Oskar Loerke (2001)

Sacred solo singing

  • "Ave Maria" for alto and organ accompaniment (1954)
  • "Alma Redemptoris Mater", Marian antiphon after Guillaume Dufay for medium voice, viola, cello and positive organ (1992)

Fonts

Books

  • Collaboration on: Guido Hable, History of Regensburg. An overview by subject area (studies and sources on the history of Regensburg I), Regensburg 1970
  • Max Jobst (composers in Bayern 53), Tutzing 2010 (together with Helmut Bieler, Thomas Emmerig and Randolf Jeschek)

Essays

  • An organ contract from 1583, in: Musica sacra 85 (1965), pp. 324–326.
  • Christoph Stolzenberg (1690–1764), high school teacher, cantor, composer and organ expert, in: Musik in Bayern 11 (1975), pp. 5–8.
  • On the music for keyboard instruments solo by Max Jobst, in: Max Jobst (composers in Bavaria 53), Tutzing 2010, pp. 95–106.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Streiter [= Bernhard Doerdelmann]: Sophie Strasser - the Viennese from Regensburg or: How Franz von Soup came to world fame. An audio picture by Cornelius Streiter. Broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk on February 20, 1983 on the 2nd radio program. 12:05 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. 24-page typescript. BR, Historical Archive, HF / 23240.3.
  2. ^ Raimund Walter Sterl: Raisin Sophie Strasser (1841-1926). Their significance for Franz von Suppé's life and work. In: Music in Bavaria. Half-yearly publication of the Society for Bavarian Music History . No. 49. (Tutzing) 1995, pp. 55-63.
  3. ^ Raimund Walter Sterl: A Regensburg woman as a musical muse in Vienna. Franz von Suppé's wife Rosine Sophie Suppé, b. Strasser (1841-1926). In: Regensburger Almanach 1996. Volume 29. (Regensburg) 1996, pp. 179-185.
personal data
SURNAME Sterl, Raimund Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, composer, archivist and music historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2010
Place of death regensburg