Siegfried Heinrich

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Siegfried Heinrich (born January 10, 1935 in Dresden ) is artistic director of the festival choir of the Hersfeld Festival , the Marburg Concert Choir , the Frankfurt Concert Choir, the International Bach Days in Hesse and Thuringia as well as the Bad Hersfeld Opera Festival and the Bad Hersfeld Festival Concerts.

education

He completed his musical training in the Dresden Kreuzchor , at the Dresden Church Music Academy and the Frankfurt Music Academy

Musical work

In 1957 he founded the Hessian Chamber Orchestra Frankfurt and the Studio for Old Music and Old Opera. From 1961 to 2000 he was church music director at the Bad Hersfeld town church . From 1961 to 1977 he led the conductor and harpsichord class, orchestra and choir of the Kassel Music Academy . Later he also taught at the comprehensive university in Kassel . Also in 1961 he took over the Bad Hersfeld Festival Choir and the Hersfeld Festival Concerts, and since 1974 the International Bach Days in Hesse and Thuringia. Since 1980 he has directed the annual opera in the Hersfeld monastery ruins. Since 2000 he has been working for the Bach Institute and Bach Choir Frankfurt / Main eV.

He is considered the initiator and builder of the Johann Sebastian Bach House in Bad Hersfeld.

Siegfried Heinrich's wife played a decisive role in these activities; Christa, who directed youth and children's choirs for many years. For this she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the Philipp-Nicolai-Medal of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in 1999 . Both are committed to the targeted promotion of musical youth.

Interpretations

In the opinion of critics of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Frankfurter Neue Presse and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Siegfried Heinrich is regarded as an outstanding interpreter of music from the Middle Ages to the present day. The repertoire that he rehearses with his choirs includes works by Johannes Ockeghem , Claudio Monteverdi , Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Johannes Brahms , Benjamin Britten , Arthur Honegger and Krzysztof Penderecki .

Facilities

Own institutions of works by Monteverdi (the operas L'Orfeo , L'incoronazione di Poppea and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria as well as the Marienvesper ), of Orlando di Lasso's St. Matthew Passion , Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue and Giacomo Carissimi's Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo saw performances in many European countries as well as at the inauguration of the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main in 1980 and the Semperoper in Dresden in 1985.

World premieres and premieres

Heinrich also directed world premieres of works by contemporary composers, e. B. by Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion in Munich 1967, Frankfurt am Main, Marburg , Bad Hersfeld, Kassel and Hanover .

Festival concerts

Heinrich has been artistic director of the opera festival and festival concerts since 1961 and of the opera festival in the ruins of the Hersfeld monastery since 1980. More than 30,000 visitors listen to the festival concerts and the opera festival every year.

Organs, bells, carillon

Sound sample: Sunday bells of the Bad Hersfeld town church

On Heinrich's recommendation, two organs were built for the town church of Bad Hersfeld : the large three-manual Döring organ with 57 registers (1974) and the two-manual Bach organ by master organ builder Tzschöckel in a historical setting with 11 registers (1987). Only the case of the Döringörgel has been preserved, into which a new movement was installed in 2010. The Bach organ was supplemented by a pedal in 2001 . Heinrich suggested the transfer of two bells from the Katharinenturm of the monastery ruins to the town church. This resulted in the largest ringing of medieval bells in Hesse. As with the new organ, he found sponsors for a glockenspiel at the city church and for the new suspension of the supposedly cracked Lullus bell from 1038 in the Katharinenturm, one of the few Romanesque bells in Germany from the early days of bell casting, which now sounds again on high holidays.

Johann Sebastian Bach House

The new construction of the architecturally and acoustically excellent Johann Sebastian Bach House in Bad Hersfeld is also due to him. It was built in 2004, recommended by the Presidium of the German Music Council and with the help of the State of Hesse , the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg and the city of Bad Hersfeld. Heinrich also managed to find sponsors for the glockenspiel , which sounds the musical anagram BACH every hour. Every year, the Johann Sebastian Bach House is available for eight months as a "musical educational facility" for soloists, choirs and orchestras of all nations for artistic work and four months for the Bad Hersfeld Theater Festival.

Social aid for Eastern Europe

Heinrich also gave impetus for social projects. Thanks to the active support of sponsors and volunteers, aid campaigns could be carried out in Eastern Europe by providing people with food, clothes and medicine to help them survive times of severe crisis. By sending sheet music, numerous new connections were made and consolidated.

Honors and honors

Siegfried Heinrich has received numerous awards for his musical work:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on August 21, 1989 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1989 No. 34 , p. 1758 , point 779 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden