Ursula Görsch

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Ursula Görsch (born March 4, 1932 in Bremen ) is a German composer .

Life

From the age of 6, she received piano lessons, which was later followed by the flute subject. Görsch completed her studies in music at the University of Education in her hometown of Bremen. Her compositional career began while she was working as a freelancer for Radio Bremen . During her 5-year foreign school service (Istanbul), Ursula Görsch founded the first youth chamber orchestra in Turkey. She gave a number of concerts in collaboration with the Goethe Institute and was also the organist of the German Evangelical Church in Istanbul. In 1969 she began further studies (flute) at the Karlsruhe University of Music . She later taught at a Bremen grammar school, but pursued and intensified her compositional activity, which resulted in numerous performances. From 1974 to 1986 Ursula Görsch was chairwoman of "Jugend musiziert" for Bremen-Stadt. From 1985 to 1995 she received a teaching position at the University of Bremen and from 1997 to 2005 Görsch was a lecturer at Valley View University in Accra ( Ghana ). In 2017 she received the Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize from the Esslingen Artists' Guild .

Works

  • Transformations (1989/90)
  • Cantata curiosa (1989)
  • They Came Through the Desert (1982)
  • Concert piece (1988)
  • Quartetto festivo (1986)
  • Punctum contra punctum (1989) 
  • Three Songs of Man (1991)
  • Miniatures for percussion (1979)
  • Diarium for flute quintet (1984)
  • Cario Samlero Flutes.-Duets (1983)
  • Piano latinero (1986)
  • Le danseur (1990)
  • The Four Elements (1992)
  • Metamorphosis (1992)
  • Ciphers (1994)
  • Four Amazing Choral Pieces (1995)
  • Duo for recorder and viol (1996)
  • It's All Vain (1998)
  • To Life (1999)

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personal data
SURNAME Görsch, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen