Thomas Windisch

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Thomas Windisch (born October 12, 1914 in Hals , Egerland ; † May 23, 2005 ) was a German composer , architect , painter , poet and pianist ; full-time master builder , part-time composer, organist and choir director .

Life

From 1920 to 1939 Windisch studied civil engineering at the higher state trade school in Reichenberg ( Liberec ), received music lessons from his father and then went to the music schools in Beschau and Preßnitz . In the latter he received private lessons from Hugo Wagner (1873–1944) and Wilhelm Pochmann. He received his further musical education through private studies in Dresden , Berlin and Göttingen . From 1936 to 1947 he worked as a répétiteur, choirmaster in Reichenberg and after 1945 as organist, choir director, music critic and painter. His musical works have been performed since 1936. As a displaced person , he became a planning architect in the State Building Department in Stuttgart and was also a composer and music writer.

Thomas Windisch wrote numerous orchestral works, piano concertos, songs and choral chants, brass music and church music in almost all styles. His compositions included a multitude of entertaining works, over 260 songs and choirs, as well as masses and, above all, serious music for piano, string ensembles, choir and large orchestra, among others.

His main work and musical legacy is his textbook "Die Freie Musik", published in 1980, about a novel composition and music concept he developed, from which Mittendorfer married the piece "Greif" in 1980 in the concert hall of the Munich University of Music, directed and designed by his daughter Sigrid the dark of one night "was premiered. The textbook contains:

Four elementary principles of free music :

  1. all tonal and atonal systems are dissolved
  2. each voice has its own melody when played together
  3. each polyphonic piece of music can also be played individually or in different groups
  4. the variety of scales determines the interplay and harmony of the various melodies.

Works as a composer

  • Concerto for violin, violoncello and string orchestra op. 1-FM (1970) - his first work in "Free Music"
  • Panta Rhei ("Everything flows") for piano solo op. 3-FM (1972)
  • Concerto for violoncello and piano op.5-FM (1973)
  • A Dozen Leaves in Free Music op.6-FM (1974)
  • Räuber-Galopp for large orchestra (1954); World premiere: 1955 Munich (from the fairy tale dance game Once Upon a Time ... )
    Recording January 5th, 1955, Das Fränkische Landesorchester, conducted by Leo Eysoldt, Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk
  • Typi, the thinking chicken, fights for the paradise of animals. Fantastic animal story for all ages . 2nd Edition. Baden-Baden 1999 [EA 1982]

Works as an architect

literature

personal data
SURNAME Windisch, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, architect, painter, poet and pianist; full-time master builder, part-time composer, organist and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hals , Egerland
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2005