Wilhelm Bruns

Wilhelm Bruns (* 1963 in Greven ) is a German horn player , chamber musician , lecturer and specialist on the valveless natural horn .

Wilhelm Bruns organizes a public rehearsal for the concert of the natural horn wind instruments in Dassel at the Solling house

Career

Bruns began his musical career in 1973 as a hunting horn player on the Parforcehorn and then studied with Hermann Baumann at the Folkwang University in Essen. He mainly dealt with the interpretation of early music and the natural horn, which Baumann had reintroduced into everyday musical life.

As a soloist and as a chamber musician , he subsequently played in numerous orchestras and ensembles , including Concentus Musicus Vienna , Cappella Coloniensis , "La Stagione" Frankfurt, Amsterdam Baroque , Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin , Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, Rebel (New York) and Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn .

In 1985, together with other natural horn specialists, he founded the German Natural Horn Soloists , which in 2002 received the ECHO Klassik Prize for the best concert recording of the year with Georg Philipp Telemann's horn concerts.

Bruns was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and won first prize at the 1987 natural horn competition in Bad Harzburg . Since 1988 he has been principal horn at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , and is also a lecturer in natural horn at the Mannheim School of Academy . In 1993 he organized the International Natural Horn Festival in Essen together with Oliver Kersken .

In 1998, the Brunswick E Minor Mass by Anton Bruckner along with the RIAS Chamber Choir on an old Kruspe-F horn and blows since all operas and concerts that are not designed with the natural horn, with a Viennese horn .

From 2000 he was a lecturer for natural horn at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt and Saarbrücken , at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin and the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe , as well as at the Handel Festival there .

In 2003, Bruns founded the International Natural Horn Academy in Ungstein , a district of Bad Dürkheim , which he has directed ever since. In January 2006, a multi-award-winning recording of the horn concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was released and in 2010 another recording with those by Joseph Haydn .

In 2013 he was in China for the first time as a soloist and teacher with the natural horn. But Bruns is also in Germany at various workshops and music festivals such as u. a. the Walkenried cloister concerts for many years.

Publications

• Hunting music (music printing), Ed. Wilhelm Bruns (Robert Ostermeyer Verlag, Leipzig)
• Anton Reicha : 24 Trios op.82 for three horns / score & parts, Ed. W. Bruns (Robert Ostermeyer Verlag, 2003)
• Exercises and technical studies for Parforce horn / exercise CD with music book

Discography (selection)

• Hummel , Ibert , R. Strauss , Hoffmeister , Zimmermann : Chamber music for wind instruments / students d. Folkwang University of Applied Sciences Essen (Westd. Kreditbank Cologne, 1986)
• Johann Ludwig Krebs : Clavier practice & complete works for organ and instrument obbligato (Dabringhaus and Grimm, 2000)
• WA Mozart: Horn Concertos K 417, K 447, K 495 and Horn Quintet K 407 / W. Bruns, Mannheim Mozart Orchestra , Quadriga Quartet, (Profil Medien, 2005)
• Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 31 and Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Heidelberger Sinfoniker, W. Bruns on the natural horn ( SCM-Verlag , 2010)
• Joseph Haydn: Divertimenti a. a. on historical instruments / Abegg Trio , W. Bruns, Tilman Schärf (Tacet, 2011)
• Rochard, Tyndare, Sombrun, Cantin: La Fete de Saint Hubert ( Hubertus masses )
• Gustave Rochard, Charles Tyndare, Albert Sombrun, Jules Cantin: La Fete de Saint Hubert, horn parts / new version of the complete masses by Johannes Matthias Michel (organ), W. Bruns (horn)
• Musique de chasse (French hunting music), Anton Richter: Horn Quartet, Harry Höfer : Mass No. 1
• Carl Oestreich : Trios and Quartets / German Natural Horn Soloists, W. Bruns
• Georg Philipp Telemann: Concertos and overtures for horns and orchestra / Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, German natural horn soloists, W. Bruns
• Georg Friedrich Händel : Concerti a due cori works for 4 horns and organ / German natural horn soloists, W. Bruns, Franz Raml (organ)
• Anton Reicha: 24 Trios op. 82 / German natural horn soloists, W. Bruns
• Parforcehorn ensemble "Les Amazones": Debut
• Franz Danzi : Sonatas for Horn and Piano / W. Bruns (Horn), Lars Jörnsson ( Hammerklavier )

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Bruns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Natural horn academy Bad Dürkheim

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ http://www.hofmusik.de
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated May 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.oliverkersken.de
5. ↑ http://www.naturhorn.com/pages/wilhelm.php
6. ↑ Multi-part work Jagdmusik (Volume 1 & 2 Fanfares and Concert Pieces / Volume 3 Concert Pieces)
7. ↑ 1 sound pl . in album: 33 / min / 30 cm
8. ↑ K = Köchel directory
9. ↑ http://www.quadriga-quartett.de
10. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.