Roman Summereder

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Roman Summereder (born June 12, 1954 in Ried im Innkreis ) is an Austrian organist , music researcher, publicist and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Life

After graduating from the Humanistic Gymnasium in his hometown, he completed studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (church music and organ with Anton Heiller , at the Vienna Conservatory, music theory and composition with Kurt Schwertsik and at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in the harpsichord class of Robert Kohnen ). He worked as a répétiteur with the Wiener Jeunesse Choir and the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz, followed by a pedagogical career at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where from 1979/80 he first taught score playing, later also basso continuo , in 1999 with the Head of an organ class and in 2002 was appointed full professor at the newly founded Institute for Organ, Organ Research and Church Music. Master classes, readings, workshops, organ concerts and extensive journalistic activities complement his diverse musical and scientific activities.

Roman Summereder gives concerts on historical and modern instruments. Organ music of the 20th and 21st centuries. forms a focus of his repertoire, which is now documented with CD recordings. There are also world premieres and Austrian premieres. In 2003 he worked with György Ligeti's “Volumina” in the documentary “Grenzklänge - The György Ligeti Phenomenon”, which ORF produced for the composer's 80th birthday (direction and conception: Herbert Eisenschenk ). Summereder completed the first complete recording of the organ works by Anton Heiller (1923–1979) in 2014 on the Bruckner organ of the St. Florian Monastery Basilica near Linz.

Summereder is married to the organist Angela Amodio ; the two also give concerts together and play works for two organs.

Publications (selection)

Articles in anthologies and periodicals:

  • That's how it started. Roman Summereder in conversation with Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer and Hedwig Ebermann about a chapter in contemporary musical history in Upper Austria. In: "Upper Austria". Culture magazine, Linz 1988/38. Vol. / Issue 3.
  • Tin, copper and oak - always soften my heart. Comments and discussions (with Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer and Wilhelm Zika) on an Austrian variety of organ movement. In: Austrian Organ Forum 1989 / 1-2.
  • Diversity and unity. Spiritual and liturgical matters with Ernst Krenek (on Krenek's 90th birthday). In: Singing Church. Journal for Catholic Church Music, Vienna 1990/37. Vol. 3 u. 4th
  • Franz Schmidt circled - Austrian organ music between the world wars. In: Carmen Ottner (ed.): Franz Schmidt and the Austrian organ music of his time (Symposium 1991, Studies on Franz Schmidt Vol. X), Vienna 1992. ISBN 3-900695-24-5 .
  • Stroll through JN David's organ landscape. In: Singing Church. Journal for Catholic Church Music, Vienna 1995/42. Vol. / Issue 3.
  • An unknown text fragment by Josef Lechthaler as a mirror of contradictions in his work. In: Walter Pass (ed.): Commitment to Austrian music in teaching and research. Festschrift for Eberhard Würzl on the 8th Birthday, Vienna 1996. ISBN 3 9012 5414 5
  • Music without waste: An experiment on the origin, context and performance practice of Karl Schiskes organ pieces. In: Grassl / Kapp / Rathgeber (ed.): Austria's new music after 1945: Karl Schiske. (Viennese publications on the history of music vol. 7), Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2008. ISBN 978-3-205-99491-6 .
  • Build new. A panorama of organ building in Austria after 1945. In: Kurt Estermann (Hg.): Organ restoration and organ building in Austria after World War II. Egon Krauss on his 100th birthday, conference report 2005 (= Studia Wilthinensia Artis Organi, vol. 2); Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-85061-453-5 .
  • JS Bach's Organ Works - Traditions of Mediation in Austria. In: Hochradner / Leisinger (ed.): BACH - Contributions to the history of reception, history of interpretation and pedagogy. Three symposia as part of the 83rd Bach Festival of the new Bach Society in Salzburg 2008 (report), Freiburg / Br. / Berlin / Vienna 2010 (= sound-talking. Writings on the history of musical reception and interpretation, vol. 5). ISBN 978-3-7930-9638-2 .
  • The future of the organ. Schönberg's text fragment and 100 years of Austrian organ music. In: Wolfgang Sauseng (ed.): 100 Years of Church Music Studies in Vienna 1910–2010 (Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Institute for Organ, Organ Research and Church Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3 -200-02033-7
  • At the intersection of cultures. An interview with the Belgian organ builder Patrick Collon. In: Kunsträum 5 (2012), publisher. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
  • From Reger - via Hindemith, Messiaen and Ligeti - to the Present. In: Paul Peeters (ed.): The Haarlem Essays. Celebrating fifty international organ festivals. (= 267th publication by the Society of Organ Friends), Bonn 2014. ISBN 978-3-928412-15-5
  • air from another planet. Guidelines between Schmidt, Schönberg and David (keynote lecture). In: 5th International Franz Schmidt Organ Competition, Kitzbühel 2014, documentation by the Franz Schmidt Society.
  • Year of the Janus Head - Reger 2016 Reda. In: Music and Liturgy 2016/3, as well as in: Heinrich Schütz-Jahrbuch 39/2017.
  • Heiller, Hindemith and others. A study of performance practice in the 20th century. In: Organum XX. Stations of Austrian organ culture in the 20th century. In: Vienna Contributions to Organ and Church Music, Vol. IV, Eds. Wolfgang Sauseng and Andreas Peterl, Vienna 2018.

Books

  • Departure of the sounds. Materials, pictures, documents on organ reform and organ culture in the 20th century. Innsbruck 1995 (1999). ISBN 3-900590-55-9
  • As if our ears were only now opening. Helmut Bornefeld, Siegfried Reda and the Heidenheim Working Days for New Church Music 1946–1960. A contribution to musical debates in the post-war period (= sources and studies on music in Baden-Württemberg, vol. 8), Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-89912-138-4

Editing

  • Philipp Jarnach: Romancero III op.21 (concert piece for organ, 1928) , ED 2087.

Discography

  • Heinrich Schütz: Small sacred concerts SWV 282-337, together with the Tölzer Knabenchor, overall direction: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (1987–1991), Vol. I / II / III, Capriccio 10 293, 10 388, 10 418.
  • Late Romanticism - Early Modernism. Works by Max Reger, Franz Schmidt, Philipp Jarnach, JN David, Siegfried Reda, on the Mahrenholz-Furtwängler organ of the Marienkirche in Göttingen (2004). Ambience audio ACD-1017.
  • From Anton Bruckner to Anton Heiller (Organ Landscape Upper Austria Vol. VIII). Works by Bruckner-Dittrich, F. Schmidt, JN David, E. Krenek, K. Schiske, A. Heiller, on the organs of the city parish church Linz, Christ Church Wels, St. Florian monastery basilica (2005). Weinberg records SW 010226-2
  • Tongues of fire. Works by Arnold Schönberg, Olivier Messiaen, Siegfried Reda and György Ligeti, on the Reda-Schuke organ of the Petrikirche in Mülheim an der Ruhr (2007), awarded the ORF Pasticcio Prize. Ambiente Audio ACD-1024
  • The Wöckherl organ. Vienna's oldest organ (1642) in the choir of the Franciscan Church, documented on the occasion of the restoration completed in 2011, together with Michael Radulescu, Peter Planyavsky, Martin Haselböck, Pier-Damiano Peretti, Vienna OFM002.
  • Paul Hindemith: Complete works for organ solo, on the Mahrenholz-Furtwängler organ of the Marienkirche Göttingen (2012). Ambiente Audio ACD-2024
  • Anton Heiller: The organ work Vol.I / II / III, on the Bruckner organ of the St. Florian monastery basilica near Linz (2013/14). Ambiente Audio ACD-2027-2028-2029.
  • Johann Nepomuk David, Selected Organ Works Vol. I (2017), recorded on the David organ of the Christ Church in Wels and on the Bruckner organ of the St. Florian Monastery Basilica near Linz, Ambiente Audio ACD-2036.

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personal data
SURNAME Summereder, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian organist and harpsichordist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried im Innkreis