Wilhelmine Bucherer

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Wilhelmine Bucherer (born December 20, 1919 - June 2, 2006 ) was a Swiss harpist .

Life

Wilhelmine Bucherer grew up with four sisters and one brother in Rüschlikon . Her father, Max Bucherer , the son of a German immigrant, left the family when Wilhelmine was eleven years old. She first received piano lessons and also learned to play the lute. After eight school years, she went to the Zurich Conservatory as a fourteen-year-old student and began her professional training as a harpist, which she completed at the age of 19. During her studies, she performed with various German and Swiss orchestras.

Wilhelmine Bucherer spent the following war years in Germany and played in Berlin, Stralsund and Franzisbad, among others. She returned to Switzerland shortly before the end of the war. There she was employed full-time for 25 years in the Zurich Radio Orchestra of the Beromünster radio studio under the direction of - among others - Hermann Scherchen and Paul Burkhard . After a liaison with an Austrian sculptor, who came from her son Christof, Wilhelmine Bucherer married in 1960, this marriage lasted five years.

Due to growing dissatisfaction on a vacancy in the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra of the public radio station Kol Israel , Bucherer decided in 1970 to do a probationary year and then moved to Israel. She played in this orchestra until she was 65 and toured Sweden, England and North America on international concert tours. In Israel, Wilhelmine Bucherer also met her second husband, the Austrian-Jewish writer Max Zweig . After his death, she returned to Switzerland in 1997 and spent her final years in Urtenen-Schönbühl .

In addition to her orchestral work, Wilhelmine Bucherer was also known as a solo harpist. She composed her own songs and published records and later also tape cassettes and CDs. Again and again she performed together with singers or instrumentalists. For example, the LP Jesu, my joy in the Swiss missionary organization Midnight Call was released in 1975 with the soprano Ria Deppert . She also gave concerts with the Swiss boy soprano Daniel Corti , the Israeli baritone Asas Franco and the Israeli singer Cilla Grossmayer and the violinist Louise Schlatter .

Discography

  • Jesus my joy. Missionswerk Mitternachtsruf, 1975. (with Ria Deppert , soprano)
  • Daniel Corti, boy soprano, sings to the harp: 7 sacred songs by Wilhelmine Bucherer / 63rd Psalm of David. Patmos-Verlag, Möttlingen 1963. (with Daniel Corti )
  • Golden sounds. Mission work midnight call. (with Ria Deppert)
  • Golden Sounds 2. Missionswerk midnight call.
  • The angel's address to the soul. Elite special.
  • I want to praise you: harp songs. (with Cilla Grossmeyer and Asas Franco)
  • Harp Solo (1986) / Harfenlieder (1989; with Cilla Grossmeyer). MSG fine gold.

Audio

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christof Bucherer: Max Zweig and Wilhelmine Bucherer Jerusalem. From YouTube, accessed October 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ Eva Reichmann: How I came to Max Zweig. ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On the website of the PEN Center for German-Language Authors Abroad, accessed on October 2, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.exilpen.de
  3. ↑ Cover illustration
  4. ^ Catalog entry at the National Library of Australia, accessed October 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ Music studio-Corti
  6. ↑ Cover illustration
personal data
SURNAME Bucherer, Wilhelmine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss harpist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1919
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2006