Theo Brand

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Theo Brand (2014)

Theodor Friedrich Johannes Ludwig Brand , called Theo Brand (born August 6, 1925 in Freising ; † September 22, 2016 there ) was a German composer , music teacher and organist .

Life

Theo Brand was born on August 6, 1925, the only child of Maria Brand (née Lichtinger) and the biology , chemistry and geography teacher at the humanistic grammar school Franz Brand in Freising. He spent his childhood and youth in Freising, where he attended the elementary school St. Georg and the humanistic cathedral grammar school. In 1943, at the age of 17, he was called up for military service and therefore received a certificate of maturity in August of the same year . Since he was plagued by unpleasant diseases, he did not have to go to the front. He witnessed the bombing raids on Munich and Freising. Shortly before the surrender of the Nazis in 1945, he had to hide on a farm near Freising, since it under the " Freedom Action Bavaria " Employees of Major Brown was. He was immediately released from the prison camp in Erding when he was able to present a letter from Cardinal Faulhaber about his importance as an organist in Freising. From 1945 to 1952 Brand worked as choir director and organist at the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Freising-Neustift. From 1946 to 1949 he studied school music with a major in piano , until 1951 concert organ and composition a . a. with Joseph Haas and Wolfgang Jacobi at the University of Music in Munich . In 1950, he took the pedagogical examination for the higher teaching post at the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich. From 1950 to 1951 he worked as an organ teacher at what was then the Institute for Teacher Education in Freising, before starting his service as a music teacher at the secondary school in Amberg in 1951 . He then worked from 1952 to 1986 as a music teacher at the German Gymnasium in Freising, which was opened in 1965 a. a. was renamed " Camerloher-Gymnasium " through his initiative . There he met the Latin , religion and history teacher Elisabeth Glas, whom he married in 1958 and with whom he had two sons and two daughters. From 1964 to 1973 Brand directed the Freising Chamber Choir as the successor to Staatskapellmeister Hanns Haas . From 1966 to 1968 he had a teaching position for the history of church music at the Philosophical-Theological University of Freising and from 1976 for music theory at the University of Music in Munich. Theo Brand died on September 22, 2016 at the age of 91 in Freising. He was buried in the St. Georg cemetery in Freising.

Create

Theo Brand's compositional work includes instrumental and vocal works. Brand found his stylistic roots in Gregorian chant , with Igor Stravinsky , Paul Hindemith and Carl Orff . Numerous productions were recorded and broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk . Also live broadcasts such. For example, the festive mass Missa benedictus , which was broadcast live from the Martinsmünster Landshut on All Saints' Day in 1955, or the oratorio Gethsemani , which was broadcast on April 7, 1957 from the rebuilt Asamsaal Freising under Staatskapellmeister Hanns Haas. His Proprium St. Petri was u. a. 1993 to the pontifical office of Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI. , listed in the Kuratiekirche St. Georg Weng-Fahrenzhausen.

Honors

In 1986 he was awarded the Freising District Culture Prize.

In 2012, his services to the city of Freising were awarded the City Medal of Freising.

Works (excerpt)

Religious music

  • Missa benedictus , for the 150th anniversary of the Freising teacher training college in 1954
  • Legend of Mary , for 1 speaker and 4-part mixed choir premiered in 1955 by the BR choir
  • Gethsemani , oratorio premiered in 1948 in St. Peter and Paul Freising-Neustift
  • Proprium St. Petri , premiered in 1992 for the anniversary celebration in St. Peter and Paul Freising-Neustift
  • The secrets of the joyous rosary , a Marian celebration based on the Gospel of Luke for 4 female voices and cantors
  • Five organ preludes to songs from Mary
  • Intercession for a 5-part mixed choir based on texts by Josef Weinheber

Youth music

  • Weilheimer Stückl , School Opera, premiered in 1967 at the Camerloher Gymnasium Freising
  • The Frog King , fairy tale game for speaker, piano and percussion

Choir cycles

  • Three Croatian songs for 4-part mixed choir
  • The small calendar for 5-part mixed choir 1957
  • Choirs based on songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein for 4 mixed voices
  • Buschiaden , four choirs based on poems by Wilhelm Busch for 3 equal voices
  • Cheerful animal fables for 3-part female choir
  • Der Sterngucker , musical burlesque based on the zodiac poems by Josef Weinträger for solo baritone with piano, 4-part mixed choir, timpani and percussion (3 players) ad lib. 1961

Instrumental music

  • Piano sonatina 1955
  • Concertino for piano and flute
  • Sonatina "October 5 , 1960 " , violin sonata 1960
  • Prima vera 1986 , piano trio based on medieval spring songs, premiered in 1986 as part of the cultural award ceremony
  • Cinque Pezzi , cello concert 1986
  • Sinfonietta for string orchestra 1989
  • Quattro Pezzi , saxophone concert 1997
  • Concertino Giocoso for strings and percussion instruments 1957
  • Vogelhochzeit for piano 1958
  • The street boy and what he experiences for piano for 3 and 4 hands 1958

Edits

  • Placidus von Camerloher : The Christmas Cantata, edited 1968
  • Placidus von Camerloher: Mass in A major (arrangement with Max Eham )
  • Placidus von Camerloher: Freising Symphony op. III No. 2 for strings, 2 trumpets and timpani

literature

  • Hans Niedermayer (Ed.): Nothing comes from nothing. Portraits of former students of the Freising Dom-Gymnasium. Freising 1991, ISBN 3-88841-028-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report 1938/39 of the Humanist Gymnasium . Buchdruckerei A. Warmuth Freising, Freising 1939, p. 4 .
  2. ↑ a b c music publishers Hans Gerig Cologne (ed.): The composers of the new series . Music publishers Hans Gerig Cologne 1960, p. 3 .
  3. ↑ Birgit Goormann-Prugger: Obituary for Theo Brand. In: sueddeutsche.de. SZ, September 27, 2016, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Peter Spanrad: gifted teacher and musician: The Freisinger Theo Brand (91) died. In: merkur.de. Mercury, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Asamchor presents impressive works by Theo Brand. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ A day to celebrate. In: sueddeutsche.de. sueddeutsche.de, August 5, 2015, accessed on May 27, 2018 .
  7. ↑ hl: Brand music on ether waves . Ed .: Freisinger Zeitung. No. 83 . Freising April 6, 1957, p. 2 .
  8. ↑ Culture prize in the Freising district. In: Kreis-freising.de. Freising District Office, accessed on May 23, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Peter Spanrad: city medal for Theo fire. In: camerloher-gymnasium.de. Camerloher-Gymnasium, March 19, 2012, accessed on May 24, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Freisinger Anzeiger (Ed.): Award of the Culture Prize . Freisinger Anzeiger, Freising 1986, p. 13 .
  11. ↑ Camerloher-Gymnasium Freising (ed.): Camerloher-Gymnasium Freising annual report 1970-71 . Book printing training workshop Birkeneck near Freising, Freising 1971, p. 42/43 .
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music teacher and organist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2016
Place of death Freising