Willy Spilling

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Willy Spilling (born September 18, 1909 in Nuremberg ; † August 14, 1965 ibid) was a German composer with a doctorate in musicology .

Life

From March 15, 1948, Spilling headed the music department in the Studio Nuremberg (now Studio Franken ) of the Bavarian Radio . He engaged Kurt Edelhagen as the leader of an in-house big band (1949–52) and promoted the performance and documentation of Franconian folk music . In the classical field, he founded the series Musicalisches Tafel-Confect (from 1952, for early music ) and made numerous world premieres of new music possible . In addition, he worked a. a. together with the Franconian State Orchestra .

Willy Spilling's estate is in the Nuremberg City Library .

Honors

Works

Compositions

Vocal works

  • Psalm cantata . Premiere 2001 Nuremberg ( Lorenzkirche , as part of the ION )

Instrumental works

  • Old Nuremberg . Suite for piano op.27a (1939).
  • Version for orchestra by Gerhard Schindler op.27b (1951). Recording from 1971 ( Nürnberger Symphoniker , conductor: Günter Neidlinger) on part 2 of the double CD Music in Nuremberg - From the time of A. Dürer to the present (Colosseum 2000)

Texts

student

literature

  • Siegfried Goslich (Ed.): Willy Spilling. Life and work of a Franconian composer (1909–1965) . Hans Schneider Verlag, Tutzing 1968. ISBN 978-3795200329

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  1. ^ Website Studio Franken ( Memento from October 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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