Werner Pees

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Cathedral Kapellmeister Werner Pees on the Way of St. James in 2007

Werner Pees (* 1956 ) is a German church musician and cathedral music director at the Kaiserdom in Bamberg .

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Pees studied church music at the Catholic church music school in Aachen and completed his studies with the A-exam. From 1982 to 1988 he worked as an organist and choirmaster at Wetzlar Cathedral . On October 1st, 1988 he was appointed head of the Office for Church Music in Bamberg . He held this position as the diocesan music director of the Bamberg Archdiocese until 2007.

As head of church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg , Pees founded the Church Music Conference , a committee of regional and deanery cantors who act as branches of the Office for Church Music within the diocese . He also filled individual departments on the basis of the new service regulations put into effect by Archbishop Elmar Maria Kredel in 1987. By creating new church music locations and increasing the number of existing ones, Pees achieved a nationwide supply of qualified musicians, which continued in the training of part-time workers.

Right at the start of his activity, in December 1988, Pees launched the publication Kirchenmusik im Erzbistum Bamberg , which appeared three times a year and has a print run of 2,000 copies each time. It is an information leaflet with specialist articles, reports, information, training advice and a concert calendar for church musicians, choirs and lay people interested in music. In 2003, he entrusted Ludger Stühlmeyer with the editorial team .

In order to meet the steadily increasing demand for qualified diocesan choir supervisors, he initiated the twice-yearly choir meeting in the Basilica Vierzehnheiligen , an offer to all choir singers of the archbishopric during a work weekend dedicated to voice training and developing new ones Literature to learn. The highlights of these choir seminars are the diocesan church music days in Bamberg, during which he united the choirs of the diocese to form an overall choir of over 1000 members, as well as the choir pilgrimages to Rome and Tuscany . The choir books Vierzehnheiligen , which are published by the year, were created as a working aid .

In 1989 Pees founded the girls' choir at Bamberg Cathedral, in 1995 the cathedral choir in Bamberg and in 2002 the Schola Bamberg. In 1995 he was also the cathedral music director, an office he still holds today. His duties include leading the cathedral choir, which is based on a long tradition and has 125 members, founded in 1192 by Bishop Otto, the Bamberg Cathedral Choir, the Girls Choir at Bamberg Cathedral and the Bamberg Schola. With the choirs of Bamberg Cathedral, with whom he has already received several prizes and awards in choir competitions, Pees regularly goes on concert tours at home and abroad. He is also present with the cathedral music on radio and television. In 2008 Dommusik was given a new domicile. The former Kolping House on Bamberg's Kaulberg near the Upper Parish offers the Cathedral Music Secretariat, the cathedral choirs and the New Spiritual Song workshop spacious modern rehearsal and conference rooms.

Pees has set himself the goal of recording stations of church music on sound carriers. He is breaking new ground by combining historical models and newly commissioned compositional creations.

Publications (selection)

Fonts

  • Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (portrait). In: Church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg , issue 1, February 1989.
  • Petr Eben (portrait). In: Church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg , issue June 2, 1989.
  • Interesting facts about the children's choir . In: Church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg , issue 5, September 1990.
  • Mozart's masses . In: Church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg , issue 8, December 1991.
  • Diocesan portion II of the praise of God . In: Church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg , issue 15, December 1994.
  • Be happy, do good - and let the organ whistle. Prelate Wich on his 70th birthday . In: Church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg , issue 20, July 1999.
  • Church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg 1988–2007 . In: Stations of Church Music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg , Bamberg 2007, pp. 73–78.
  • Choir educator, advisor and fatherly friend. Domkapellmeister Paul Joseph Metschnabl on his 100th birthday , in: Fränkischer Tag Bamberg June 25, 2010.
  • How people come to sound. Considerations for rehearsing new music with amateur choirs. In: Musica sacra 133rd volume, issue 1 , February 1, 2013, ISSN  0179-356X , pp. 6-10.

Compositions

  • Your word, O Lord, is light on my path .
  • All that breathes praise the Lord .
  • Amen calls .
  • Hallelujah call .
  • God, praise be sung to you . Text: Alois Albrecht.
  • God does great things, sing praises to him . Text: Alois Albrecht.
  • Praise be to you, Lord . Text: Alois Albrecht.
  • Let yourself be boasted, Eternal God . Text: Alois Albrecht.
  • Tu solus dominus . Setting of the ordination by Auxiliary Bishop Herwig Gössl , 2014.

Sheet music editions

  • Bamberg children's choir book . Office for Church Music, Bamberg 1992.
  • Chorhefte Vierzehnheiligen . Office for Church Music Bamberg, born 1996 to 2006
  • Bamberg choir book . Office for Church Music, Bamberg 2007.
  • Vespers for the 1000th anniversary of the Bamberg diocese . (Commissioned composition) Music: Wolfram Buchenberg , Text: Alois Albrecht , Bamberg 2007.
  • "Missa Christ vincit" Max Jobst (1908–1943) . Bamberg 2015.

Discography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Office for Church Music Bamberg
  2. ^ Church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg Entry in the DNB
  3. ^ Ludger Stühlmeyer: Musica semper reformanda. Music practice in the Archdiocese of Bamberg in the 19th and 20th centuries 20th century. On new paths. In: Stations of church music in the Archdiocese of Bamberg . Bamberg 2007, p. 71 (portrait of Werner Pees).
  4. ↑ Bamberg Girls' Choir
  5. ↑ Bamberg Cathedral Choir
  6. ^ Barbara Stühlmeyer : The Domschola in Bamberg. An interview with Bamberg's cathedral music director Werner Pees. In: Karfunkel, magazine for tangible history . No. 92, Wald-Michelbach 2011, p. 122f.
  7. ^ Website of Bamberg Cathedral Music
  8. ↑ Werner Pees on the Jakobspilgerweg
personal data
SURNAME Pees, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and cathedral music director
DATE OF BIRTH 1956