Walther Prokop

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Walther Prokop (born December 1, 1946 in Rosenheim ) is a German composer .

Life

Walther Prokop is the son of the painter and graphic artist Karl Prokop . Walther Prokop studied school music and composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Wilhelm Killmayer at the Munich Academy of Music . He was a music teacher at the grammar school in Gars am Inn and directed the school choir there. Prokop has been retired since 2011 .

From 1986 to 2004 he enriched concert life in Rosenheim as chairman of the Tonkünstlerverband Südostbayern. In 1981 he received the sponsorship award from the city ​​of Rosenheim .

Walther Prokop developed a traditional tonal language from his autodidactically processed musical and literary impressions. His compositions, often stimulated by concrete opportunities, are indebted to French models due to their timbre and melody. Prokop's literary interest is reflected in an increasing concentration on song compositions.

Works

Songs

  • Sommerfrische - songs based on poems by Joachim Ringelnatz (mixed vocal quartet, 2011)
  • The donkey is a stupid animal - two-line notes according to the natural history alphabet by Wilhelm Busch (mixed vocal quartet, 2006)
  • Praise of Wine - seven poems by Georg Britting (mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano, 2005)
  • Peregrina - five songs based on poems by Eduard Mörike (baritone and piano, 2003)
  • Suleika - twelve songs from the "West-Eastern Divan" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (baritone and mezzo-soprano, 2002)
  • Songs of a Forgotten - four songs based on poems by Theodor Kramer (baritone and piano, 2001)
  • Diptych based on texts by Salvatore Quasimodo and Federico García Lorca (soprano solo, 1988)
  • Songs of Love - based on poems by Odysseas Elytis (baritone and piano, 1984)
  • Five chansons based on texts by Jacques Prévert (tenor and piano, 1979)
  • Four chants based on poems by García Lorca (soprano, flute, viola, cello and percussion, 1975)
  • Memento - four songs based on Lorca, Nicolás Guillén and Giorgos Seferis (alto and piano, 1972)
  • Two Irish folk songs based on poems by William Butler Yeats (vocals and piano, 1971)

Choral music

  • Missa Unisono (for four-part mixed choir, 2004)
  • Missa Minima (for three equal voices, 2003)
  • O Venus in the Heavens - six sonnets by Louise Labé (for three-part female choir, 2002)
  • The year - based on poems by Josef Weinheber (for four-part mixed choir, 1995)
  • You are beautiful my girlfriend - for four-part mixed choir from the Song of Songs (1991)
  • Missa piccola (for three equal voices, 1987)
  • Missa in laetitia (for three-part women's or boys' choir, 1985; version for four-part mixed choir, 1985)
  • The donkey is a stupid animal - a dozen verses from Wilhelm Busch's "Natural History Alphabet" (for three equal voices, 1985)
  • Four Marian Antiphons (for mixed choir, 1985)
  • Two motets ( Ave Maria , Pater noster ) for three-part mixed choir (1983)
  • Missa magno cum gaudeo (for one or two-part choir, organ and instruments ad lib, 1979)
  • Eight mixed choirs based on Chinese poems (1964)

Chamber music

  • He falls into the ditch (piano four hands, 1976/2002)
  • Quasi una comedia - for solo flute and strings (1996)
  • Solo for Dalí for clarinet (1990)
  • Goodbye, Germaine Tailleferre ! for piano solo (1985)
  • Pas de deux for two horns (1985)
  • memories for clarinet solo (1984)
  • Four Elizabethan Miniatures for Orchestra (1983)
  • Divertimento for flute, oboe and bassoon (1981)
  • Little Harlequin - Three Stories for Piano Four Hands: Little Harlequin - The Princess's Soul, Attention please, Miss Marple (1979/81); Orchestra version 1985/86
  • Pastourelles - Miniatures for Violin and Cello (1978)
  • Laudes for piano solo (1977)
  • Sonata for flute and piano "Hommage aux Six" (1976)
  • Concertino for woodwinds, piano, percussion and strings (1976)
  • Trios for violin, cello and piano (1971)

Essays

  • Prokop, Walther: "The chamber and orchestral music of Franz X. Lehner" in Suder (Ed.): Franz Xaver Lehner (= composers in Bavaria, vol. 14), ISBN 3-7952-0556-5
  • Contribution in Saxer, Marion: “Beginnings” (Wolke Verlagsges., 2002), ISBN 3-9360-0008-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on Klanglogo.de ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 21, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / weblounge.klanglogo.de
  2. ^ OVB-Online - Birthday concert with works by Walther Prokop , accessed on December 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Finale furioso for Prokop. Wasserburger Zeitung, August 1, 2011, accessed on August 18, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Procopius, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim