Wilhelm Keller (composer)

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Wilhelm Keller (1985)

Wilhelm Keller (born August 8, 1920 in Wels , Austria ; † June 4, 2008 in Salzburg ) was a university professor , music teacher, composer, musician and author.

life and work

Wilhelm Keller studied music, music education and philosophy in Salzburg, Innsbruck , Leipzig and Münster , was seriously wounded in the Second World War , in 1945 teacher of composition and song accompaniment at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, in 1950 lecturer in music theory at the Music Academy in Detmold , in 1960 lecturer in music education the PH Lüneburg . In 1962 he returned to Salzburg at the invitation of Carl Orff , where he helped set up the Orff Institute at the Mozarteum. 1964 professor, 1973 head of the Institute for Musical Social and Curative Education in Salzburg, which he initiated, retired in 1991. From 1964 collaboration and numerous compositions for the Salzburg Advent Singing . 1991 Awarded the Pro Merito Medal of Honor from the Carl Orff Foundation. Member of the lyricists and composers group TAKT .

Numerous publications of books, compositions, records, articles in specialist journals and compilations, including a two-volume “Handbuch der Tonsatzlehre”, introductory papers to Carl Orff's “ Antigonae ” and five volumes of the music education series “Ludi Musici”.

At the Kiel Congress of the Institute for New Music and Music Education in Darmstadt in 1959 , he defined the concept of personhood as a style criterion for New Music. The broadcaster Free Berlin broadcast the presentations of this congress in 1960. They also appeared as a congress report in the series of stylistic criteria for new music .

Wilhelm Keller got involved in the 1950s and 1960s in Detmold for the benefit of conscientious objectors, was a co-founder of the Association of Conscientious Objectors in 1958 and for many years its chairman (one of the German branches of War Resisters' International, whose declaration of principle reads "War is a crime I am therefore determined not to support any kind of war and to work to remove all causes of war. ") He was one of the speakers at the closing rally of the first Easter march" against nuclear weapons of every nation "in 1960 in Bergen-Hohne. In the spring of 1960, Keller lost "because of his pacifist involvement as a lecturer at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold."

Works (selection)

  • Passion (Text: Wilhelm Willms ) Hänssler Verlag
  • Robo, the robot , Fidula-Verlag , 1977
  • The peoples play dodgeball , Merseburger Verlag , 1978
  • ... the Liab is oversized! , Emil Katzbichler , 1979
  • Annual run , Fidula-Verlag, 1980
  • Easter dance song (text by Wilhelm Willms ), Fidula-Verlag, 1981
  • Qua-, qua-, quatsch , Fidula-Verlag, 1981
  • Sun song (text: Franz von Assisi), Fidula-Verlag
  • Nigunim , Fidula-Verlag, 1982
  • Carnival cantatches, Fidula-Verlag, 1982
  • The Grim Reaper , Ernst Klett Verlag , 1982
  • Mother's Day , Fidula-Verlag, 1983
  • The Little Drummer , Fidula-Verlag, 1983
  • When the cloak of bitterness falls , Fidula-Verlag, 1986
  • Rotula , Fidula-Verlag, 1990
  • The dance , Fidula-Verlag, 1995
  • Magnificat (1985), Musica-Pretiosa-Verlag , 1995
  • Organa pro organo , Alfred Coppenrath , 1996

Discography (selection)

  • 1978 LP The Christmas Game Fidula-Verlag
  • 1981 LP Hidden God (based on Psalms by Ernesto Cardenal ) Fidula-Verlag
  • 1981 LP Die Auftakteule Fidula-Verlag
  • 1981 LP Oaner goes around in the country of Teldec
  • 1996 CD Carmina humana Sony
  • 2000 CD Adventus Domini: the wolves will live with the lambs, Salzburg Christmas Oratorio Profil-Verlag

Publications (selection)

  • Ludi musici , Fidula-Verlag , five volumes
  • Handbook of composition theory , Gustav Bosse Verlag
  • Folk songs from Salzburg , Österreichischer Bundesverlag , 1949
  • Carl Orffs Antigonae , Schott , 1950
  • Introduction to "Music for Children" , Schott, 1954
  • The opening owl , Fidula-Verlag, 1955
  • The sun beetle , Fidula-Verlag, 1955
  • Introduction to music for children , Schott, 1974
  • Günter Bialas , Schneider , 1984
  • Erna Woll , Schneider , 1987
  • Musical Lebenshilfe , Schott, 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Criteria of style in new music . Series: Publications of the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt, Volume 1 . Merseburger Verlag , Berlin 1961.
  2. ↑ Guido Grünewald: Pacifists in the Cold War: Attitudes, reactions and behaviors of West German pacifist actors in the 1950s and early 1960s , lecture in January 2017 at the annual meeting of the Archives of the Workers' Youth Movement in Oer-Erkenschwick
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels (city)
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2008
Place of death Salzburg