Rudolf Jaggi

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Rudolf Ulrich Jaggi (born September 21, 1940 in Bern ; † September 3, 2015 in Basel ) was a Swiss composer .

Life

After completing the teachers' seminar, Jaggi began studying music at the Bern Conservatory and the University of Bern . He earned degrees in school music , conducting and as a theory teacher. He continued his composition studies with Robert Suter at the Music Academy of the City of Basel .

From 1968 Jaggi lived in Basel as a composer and choir director (1959 to 2001). From 1972 to 2001 he was a lecturer in music education at the cantonal teachers' seminar (today the university of education). He composed piano and organ pieces, chamber music, orchestral works, oratorios, theatrical music and choral works. Rudolf Jaggi has received numerous composition prizes. Among other things, he was Honorary President of the Northwestern Switzerland Choral Conductors Association (NWChV).

Jaggi also studied Egyptology (at the Egyptological seminar at the University of Basel ) and jazz (pianist, arranger and composer of the PAL JAM-Septet).

Jaggi lived in Basel and Provence. He died in September 2015 after a brief serious illness. His son, the cellist Martin Jaggi , is also a composer.

Publications

Article by Rudolf Jaggi in the Egyptian magazine Kemet

  • Provence and Egypt (1999/2)
  • Midaq Alley (Naguib Machfûs) (1999/3)
  • At the god Thoth in Thebes West (2000/2)
  • Pharaonic meeting in southern Morocco (2000/3)
  • During the Theban Gaugott Month (2001/1)
  • The lion-headed Amun (2001/2)
  • News from the MISR project in the Valley of the Kings (2001/3)
  • A museum has never been opened like this (2001/4)
  • What was Isis doing at the carnival? (2002/2)
  • Counter-temple in the Thebaïs (2002/3)
  • In the footsteps of Howard Carter (2002/3)
  • The sycamore (2003/3)
  • In the Hatshepsut quarry (2003/4)
  • Qubbet el-Hawa I (2004/1)
  • Qubbet el-Hawa II (2004/2)
  • Basel - a city in Tut fever (2004/4)
  • In the realm of the Meret-Seger (2005/1)
  • A sanctuary for Ptah and Meret-Seger (2005/2)
  • Egyptological walks through Paris (2006/2)
  • Birket Habu (2006/3)
  • Ruodlieb and the ancient Egyptian wisdom teachings (2007/1)
  • Kom es-Samak, the "fish hill" (2007/2)
  • Arabic music (2007/3)
  • Deir esch-Schelwit (2008/1)
  • Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino (2008/2)
  • The water that comes from heaven (2008/4)
  • A place of silence - Deir Rumi (2009/1)
  • A visit to Butehamun (2009/2)
  • A grave in Cairo: Sheikh Ibrahim, JL Burckhardt (2009/3)
  • The Abusir Papyri (2010/1)
  • Carter in Qurna, 1933 (2010/2)
  • Hassan Fathy, architect (2010/3)
  • Balady Project (2011/1)
  • Grave cone (2011/2)
  • Hellenistic terracottas from Egypt (2011/3)
  • The Carpentras Stone (2012/1)
  • At Saint Theodore in the Thebaïs (2012/2)
  • The Berlin leather manuscript - a royal novella? (2012/3)
  • The Ostraka Fountain (Grand-Puits) (2013/1)
  • Merire in the Underworld (2013/4)
  • The battle for the tank of Inaros (2014/1)
  • An overview of ancient Egyptian music (2014/3)

literature

  • Swiss composers of our time , Winterthur 1993.
  • Swiss choir composer , Zurich 1999.
  • Bruno Spoerri (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz . CD supplement to: Bruno Spoerri (Ed.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories . Zurich 2005.
  • Alexander Reischert: Settings in the 20th century . Music & Church 2007/6, Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of persons in the Egyptology department at the University of Basel ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aegyptologie.unibas.ch
  2. ↑ Kemet magazine
personal data
SURNAME Jaggi, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaggi, Rudolf Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2015
Place of death Basel