Werner Buschnakowski

Werner Buschnakowski (1987)

Werner Buschnakowski (born January 21, 1910 in Rehsau in East Prussia ; † November 13, 1995 in Grimma ) was a German cantor , organist , harpsichordist and music teacher .

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Werner Buschnakowski was the son of the teacher Walter Buschnakowski. He received his school education up to the Abitur at the Realgymnasium Insterburg and at the Deutsch-Orden- Oberrealschule in Wehlau .

As a schoolboy he played the organ and at the age of eleven was called in by the organists of Insterburg to do substitute services. At the age of fourteen he became the permanent representative of the organist of the Luther Church in Insterburg . During his last two school years he was a freelance organist at the church of Karalene near Insterburg.

Reconciliation Church Leipzig-Gohlis

In 1931 he went to Leipzig to the Church Music Institute church music to study. One of his teachers here was Friedrich Högner . Because of his good performance, he was admitted to the final examination after three years instead of the regular four, which he passed in the summer of 1934 with "good". In April 1934 he had already taken up the position of organist at the Reconciliation Church in Leipzig-Gohlis . In 1937 he also became a cantor.

In the church built in 1932 he had an organ made by the organ building workshop P. Furtwängler & Hammer . Buschnakowski used the organ and church to perform classical organ music and church instrumental and vocal chamber music outside of church services. There was a Buxtehude cycle with twelve concerts on the occasion of his 300th birthday and a Bach series with all of the composer's organ works. Between 1934 and 1938 the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft broadcast 14 organ concerts from the Church of Reconciliation.

Chamber music poster

His grave in the Connewitz cemetery

After military service from 1940 and Soviet imprisonment until 1949, during which he suffered paralysis of the right middle finger, he resumed his organist activity in 1950. Because of the rejection of the adaptation of the organ in the Church of Reconciliation to the time requirements by the parish, he devoted himself now increasingly the harpsichord , which among other things, to cooperate with the St. Thomas Boys Choir at motets led and to participate in their travels.

In 1957, together with leading members of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, he founded the long-standing Leipzig Baroque Chamber Music concert series , later called chamber music from the Bach-Handel era , with up to eight concerts a year. At the concerts, initially in the Gohliser Schlösschen and later in the Alte Börse , he sat on the harpsichord until 1984.

Buschnakowski began teaching in 1952 as a lecturer at the Dresden Church Music School , from 1959 to 1961 he taught at the Conservatory in Halle and from 1961 to 1971 at the Musicological Institute of the University of Leipzig .

He finished his service in the Church of Reconciliation in 1985. After a stroke, disabled and cared for in his house in Marienbrunn , he died on November 13, 1995 in a hospital in Grimma.

family

In 1936 Werner Buschnakowski married Elisabeth Restosky, whom he had met while studying music. The couple had two sons and a daughter. From 1939 the family lived in a house in Marienbrunn. Son Andreas (1936–2005) was organist and cantor in Chemnitz .

literature

• Katharina Buschnakowski: Werner Buschnakowski . In: Marienbrunn CVs , Association of Friends of Marienbrunn eV (digitized version)

Web links

• Gisela Berger, Dieter Michel: Werner Buschnakowski, cantor and organist from 1934 to 1985. In: Website of the reconciliation community Leipzig-Gohlis. Retrieved July 9, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Buschnakowski. In: GEDBASS. Retrieved July 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Andreas Buschnakowski. In: Chemnitzgeschichte.de. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .