Sinziger Organ Week

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The Sinzig Organ Week or International Study Week for New Spiritual Music Sinzig was an international festival for contemporary music in the church . It was founded in 1976 by the organist and composer Peter Bares . Until 1996 it took place ten times in St. Peter in Sinzig and ten times in the Bonn Kreuzkirche and in the art station Sankt Peter in Cologne. It has been continued on a small scale since 2004 under the title organ mixturen .

Publisher Christoph Dohr compares the festival with the Donaueschinger Musiktage on the part of church music . Composers found here one of the few forums within the Catholic Church. The festival gained national recognition primarily through the commitment of the broadcasters WDR , SWF and DLF . According to Detlef Gojowy, there are 250 recordings from the Sinziger years alone in the WDR archive. Overall, the number is estimated at over 500.

history

The organist Peter Bares , employed in Sinzig in 1960 , built a special organ for contemporary music in St. Peter in 1972 . Together with Zsigmond Szathmáry and Ludwig Doerr , the first organ week took place in 1976, including their own compositions. With musicians such as Theo Brandmüller , Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht , Clytus Gottwald , Werner Jacob and Wolfgang Stockmeier , important organists, composers and musicologists came to Sinzig. The organ was complemented by performances by vocal ensembles.

Since 1985 the study week has been a guest at the Evangelical Kreuzkirche Bonn with the help of Johannes Geffert .

After Bares was hired at the Sankt Peter art station in Cologne under art father Friedhelm Mennekes , Bares continued the organ week between 1993 and 1996 at his new place of work. What is remarkable is the tenacity with which Bares stood up for new music within the Catholic Church. According to Struck-Schloen, Bares opposes the trend in Catholic church music in general. He succeeds in temporarily stopping the separation of high culture and folk art within the Church that was triggered by the Second Vatican Council .

Organ mixtures

In 2004 Bares had the organ in Sankt Peter in Cologne converted into an instrument for contemporary music, similar to the one in Sinzig . With 112 registers , its dimensions are larger than in Sinzig. The Sinziger Week continues on a small scale in the annual Organ Mixtures Festival.

The DLF has been a media partner since 2008 . There is an annual composer in residence who is supposed to deal with the special organ. Bare's successor, Dominik Susteck, has been in charge of the organ mixes since 2007 . A permanent guest is Zsigmond Szathmáry , who has meanwhile been appointed titular organist at Saint Peter . The organ mixes also include the younger generation of organists such as Andreas Jacob, Eckard Manz, Thomas Noll and Martin Schmeding. Composers in residence have been Peter Köszeghy (2009), Luis Antunes Pena (2010), Joanna Wozny (2011), Samir Odeh-Tamimi (2012), Jamilia Jazylbekova (2013) and Martin Schüttler (2014).

proof

  1. ^ Hermann J. Busch, Matthias Geuting: Lexicon of the organ, organ building, organ playing, composers and their works. Performers. Laaber 2007. p. 81.
  2. ^ Detlef Gojowy: Music lessons. Observations, persecutions and chronicles of the new art of music. Cologne 2008. p. 663.
  3. ↑ Michael Struck-Schloen: An organist mucks. In: The time. April 9, 1993. p. 56.
  4. ↑ Michael Gassmann (ed.): Tools of the Silence II. Cologne 2007.
  5. ↑ organ mixes
  6. ↑ Rainer Nonnenmann: You will look for me and not find me. The art station Sankt Peter in Cologne and its special organ for new music. In: NZfM 1/2009, organ 2/2009.

literature

  • Dominik Susteck: Peter Bares - composer and organ visionary. Cologne 2011.