Werner Jacob

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Werner Fritz Hermann Herbert Jacob (born March 4, 1938 in Mengersgereuth , Thuringia , † May 23, 2006 in Nuremberg ) was a German organist , composer and university professor .

Career

Werner Jacob studied organ with Walter Kraft , harpsichord , composition with Wolfgang Fortner and conducting with Carl Ueter at the Musikhochschule Freiburg until 1961 and privately organ with Anton Nowakowski .

Jacob was cantor at St. Sebald in Nuremberg from 1969 to 1991 and then titular organist . From 1985 to 2003 he was artistic director of the International Organ Week Nuremberg (ION) - Musica sacra.

At the University of Music and Performing Arts he taught from 1976 to 1998 to the artistic professional organ. In addition to his work as an organist, he composed in almost all genres. Up until the very end he wrote a five-movement symphony for large orchestra, which has remained unfinished.

Werner Jacob received the City of Nuremberg Prize in 1983 , was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1992 and the Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize in 1993. In 2003 he received the Federal Cross of Merit (1st class) and the citizen medal of the city of Nuremberg .

Jacob died on May 23, 2006 after a long illness at the age of 68.

Compositions

  • Organ pieces
  • Fantasy, Adagio and Epilogue
  • Improviation on EB (in honor of Ernst Bloch) (1970)
  • Metamorphoses on themes from Max Reger's op.135b (1975)
  • Cinque Pezzi sacri
  • Organ chamber music
    • Suscipe verbum (1996) for horn in F and organ based on a responsory from the "Maulbronn-Lichtentahler Antiphonale"
    • "... sine nomine super nominam ... I" (1985) Fantasia per organo, timpani e altri strumenti a percussione
  • Quartet (1960) for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
  • Choral works
    • De visione resurrectionis (1966) for mixed choir, baritone solo, 2 percussion groups and organ
    • Telos nomou for speakers and instruments; biblical scene Babel for speakers, 5 soloists and mixed choir
    • Canticum II - Canticum Canticorum for soloists, choir and instrumentalists
    • Canticum III - Canticum Caritatis (1991) When I spoke to people and tongues of angels for soprano, 2 gongs and tamtam

Discography

  • Johann Sebastian Bach , Das Orgelwerk, (complete recording), Emi-Classics
  • Max Reger , The Great Organ Works, Emi-Classics
  • Organ music of the Bach family, The Wagner organ in the Brandenburg Cathedral, ETERNA 8 26 869, 1977
  • Organ works by Buxtehude, Bruhns and Bach, The Stellwagenorgan der Marienkirche zu Stralsund, ETERNA 8 26 925, 1977 (recorded 1975)

Web links