Willi Gundlach

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Willi Gundlach (born May 15, 1929 in Oberhausen ) is a German choir director and professor emeritus who taught at the music department of the Technical University of Dortmund . He researched the work of Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn and edited some of her pieces. He founded and directed the university's chamber choir, with which he made important recordings, for example the Passion by Hugo Distler and operas by Kurt Weill . In retirement, he organized a series of concerts in the Romanesque church of St. Peter in Syburg and conducted open cantatas every year.

Life

Willi Gundlach first studied at the Braunschweig University of Education , then for teaching at higher schools at the Hanover Music Academy and the Hanover Technical University . He studied musicology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and at the University of Cologne , where he received his doctorate in 1969.

Gundlach taught from 1960 to 1963 as a lecturer in music education at the PH Flensburg . In 1962 he founded the German-Scandinavian Music Weeks on the Scheersberg near Flensburg , which he directed until 1970. Every year in the pre-Easter period, students from the Scandinavian countries, mainly Norway, Sweden and Denmark, met here to make music with German students and then to present what they had learned in concerts to the public. These events were always very popular. The 58th Music Week is scheduled to take place in 2020.

In 1963 he moved to the PH Dortmund as a professor or to the resulting PH Ruhr in Dortmund. In 1980 he was appointed professor for music and its didactics at the university . In 1977 he founded the Chamber Choir of the University of Dortmund, which he directed until 2005, even after his retirement in 1994. He directed the university choir from 1976 to 1995. In 1985 he founded an international music week, Campus cantat (“The Campus Sings”), which he directed until 2001.

Music pedagogical and musicological work

Gundlach published numerous books, v. a. on music didactics, but also on historical music education. In the field of musicology he published, among other things, studies on Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn. Together with the music didactics Peter Fuchs, Ulrich Günther and Gottfried Küntzel he developed the music pedagogical model of the "auditory perception education". This was fundamental for the teaching work Sequenzen , which he co-authored and which appeared as a textbook for music lessons in secondary level I from 1971 .

Practical musical work

Gundlach played rarely recorded works with the Chamber Choir of the University of Dortmund, including music by Hugo Distler and Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn. He conducted a recording of Distler's Choral Passion , op. 7, for solos and five-part a cappella choir , with Peter Kooij as Vox Christi , Wilfried Jochens as Evangelist and Gerrit Miehlke as Pilatus. In 1990 he recorded two of the composer's operas for the Kurt Weill Society, with soloists, the chamber choir and orchestra: Der Jasager (1930) and Down in the Valley (1948).

In 1998 he was among the founders of a two-month series of concerts in the Romanesque church of St. Peter in Syburg, called Syburger Sonntagsmusiken . The series began with the inauguration concert of a new organ. Thanks to Gundlach's connections, well-known musicians such as Heinz Wunderlich , Wolfgang Stockmeier and Hatto Ständer made guest appearances . In addition to the Dortmund University Chamber Choir, the vocal ensembles included the Alsfeld Vocal Ensemble, directed by Wolfgang Helbich , and the Kettwiger Bach Ensemble, directed by Wolfgang Kläsener. The 100th concert was given in 2012.

An annual concert from 1998 to 2008 was the “Open Cantata Singing” on the 2nd Advent, in which Gundlach prepared a group of voluntary choristers the day before for a cantata work that he performed with soloists and orchestral musicians from the student group. In the church he moderated the event by candlelight and had everyone sing Advent carols and canons together.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ludwig Erk's school song books . (= Contributions to Rhenish music history 82). Volk, Cologne 1969 (also Univ. Diss.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Univ.-Prof. (em.) Dr. phil. Willi Gundlach . Technical University of Dortmund . Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ vdl: Intercultural encounters for 50 years | shz.de. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Festschrift: 50 Years of the German-Scandinavian Music Week 1962–2012, History and Stories, International Educational Center Jugendhof SCHEERSBERG
  4. ↑ Auditory Perception Education (2006) ( German ) Thomas Ott. 2006. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  5. ↑ Willi Gundlach . Allmusic . Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  6. ^ Hugo Distler: Choral Passion op.7 . In: Funkkolleg Golgotha . ORF. 2014. Accessed December 7, 2017.
  7. ↑ Chamber choir of the University of Dortmund: Ensemble has had a good sound for 20 years . November 10, 1998. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  8. ^ Paul Corfield Godfrey: Kurt Weill (1900–1950) / Weill Edition ( English ) 2015. Accessed December 7, 2017.
  9. ↑ Der Jasager (1930) ( English ) Kurt Weill Foundation. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  10. ↑ Down in the Valley (1948) ( English ) Kurt Weill Foundation. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  11. ↑ a b Organ of the Ev. St Peter's Church, Syburg . Retrieved November 29, 2017.
  12. ↑ Syburger Sunday Music /… a series of concerts in the Ev. Church of St. Peter in Dortmund-Syburg / Archive . syburger-sonntagsmusiken.de. 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  13. ↑ Susanne Meier: Seven Lives for Music . In: derwesten.de , March 5, 2012. Accessed November 29, 2017. 
  14. ↑ 100. Syburg Sunday Music . St. Peter, Syburg, May 6, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Gundlach, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen