Winfried Schrammek

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Winfried Schrammek (born June 7, 1929 in Breslau ; † March 4, 2017 in Leipzig ) was a German musicologist and organist .

Life

education

Winfried Schrammek, son of a surveyor, received his first organ lessons as a student at the Herzog-Friedland- Gymnasium in Sagan from his music teacher Gustav Mikeleitis. At the age of 15 he was drafted into military service. After the end of the war he and his parents were expelled from their Silesian homeland . In Jena he passed the Abitur in 1948 and began a two-year study of church music at the Weimar Music Academy , which he completed with the intermediate state examination for church musicians. He then studied musicology, German and ethnology at the University of Jena until 1953 . After a three-year traineeship at Jena University, he received his doctorate there in 1956 with Heinrich Besseler . His dissertation topic was: The German song in the German organ tabs of the 15th century with special consideration of the Buxheim organ book .

Scientific activity

From 1956 to 1962 Schrammek was a research assistant in the music department at the Institute for Folk Art Research in Leipzig. During this activity he edited folk song editions and worked in field research on Harz folklore, especially on birch leaf blowing . The fruits of this work were the series of folk songs from German landscapes published by Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag under his leadership and other publications on customs in the Harz Mountains.

In 1962 he began his professional career as a research assistant at the Musical Instrument Museum at Leipzig University . In 1977 he was appointed curator , in 1988 acting director and in 1989 director of this museum. During this time he devoted himself to all museological work and was involved in over 50 special exhibitions. His specialty were the keyboard instruments and especially the organ and the clavichord .

From 1965 to 1990 he was a member of the Council for Museums at the Ministry of Culture .

Schrammek carried out extensive scientific research on the history of the organ. He was particularly interested in the central German organ landscape. In this area he was a proven expert for all structural, practical performance and liturgical questions. As such, he was instrumental in the rescue and restoration of numerous historical organs in Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia .

On May 27, 1968, under conspiratorial circumstances, he led the rescue of the small organ from the Leipzig University Church, which had already been prepared for demolition .

In 1993 he was appointed to the “Art History, Literature and Musicology” commission of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and in 1994 as an adjunct professor.

After retiring in 1995, Schrammek was visiting professor at the University of Leipzig until 2006 and until 2011 worked as a lecturer at the training music corps of the Bundeswehr in Hilden . Since 2004 he has been a member of the university rector's commission "Organ for the new building of the auditorium / church on the Augustusplatz campus ", whose concept he has shaped significantly.

Church musician

In addition to his professional activity, Winfried Schrammek was organist and choirmaster at the Catholic Church of St. Bonifatius . Until 1990 he belonged to a Collegium musicum , the "Chorus Cantorum", which was exclusively dedicated to the research and faithful performance of the Gregorian chant . At concerts he was particularly prominent as an interpreter of medieval organ and clavichord music. There was a close collaboration with Hans Grüß and his Capella Fidicinia . As an organist and expert, he also participated in numerous recordings for radio and CD.

Winfried Schrammek was buried in the university discounts of the II. Department of the Leipzig South Cemetery , not far from the grave of his teacher Heinrich Besseler.

Honors

Publications (selection)

Books

  • About the origins and beginnings of music. Breitkopf & Härtel Musikverlag, Leipzig 1957.
  • Musical instruments. Photos by R. Langematz. Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig 1970.
  • Museum Musicum. Photos by S. and V. Herre. Edition Peters, Leipzig 1981, DNB 830596682 .
  • Bach organs in Thuringia and Saxony. National research and memorial sites Joh.Seb.Bachs, Leipzig 1984.
  • with Klaus Gernhardt and Hubertus Henkel: organ instruments, harmoniums. In: Catalog of the Musical Instrument Museum. Vol. 6, Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1983.
  • Magister and Musicus. Hans Grüß in memory. University of Leipzig 2005.
  • About yodelling in the Harz Mountains. Wernigerode 2005.
  • About the birch leaf blowing in the resin. Halle an der Saale 2010

items

  • The mg. Position of the organ trio sonatas by JS Bach. In: Bach Yearbook 1954, pp. 7–28.
  • Birch leaf bubbles. In: Festschrift Heinrich Besseler. Leipzig 1961, pp. 7-14.
  • The history of the so-called Harz saying from the Middle Ages to the present day. In: Journal of the International Folk Music Council. 13, 1961, pp. 50-53.
  • The training of musical instrument restorers in the Musical Instrument Museum at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In: New Museum Studies. 12, 1969, pp. 98-105.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Gottfried Silbermann and the French organ art. In: Bach Studies. 5, Leipzig 1975, 93-107
  • Viola Pomposa and violoncello piccolo with Johann Sebastian Bach. In: Congress report Bachfest Leipzig 1975. Leipzig 1977, pp. 345–354.
  • Experiment on Johann Sebastian Bach's idea of ​​organ building, organ disposition and organ registration. In: Bach Studies. 7, Leipzig 1982, pp. 192-211.
  • On the history of the great organ in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig from 1601–1885. In: Contributions to Bach research. 2, Leipzig 1983, pp. 46-55.
  • The viola d'amore in the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. In: Bach Studies. 9, Leipzig 1986, pp. 56-66.
  • Organ, positive, clavicymbel and bells of the castle church in Weimar 1658 to 1774. In: Congress report Bachfest Leipzig 1985. Leipzig 1988, pp. 99–111.
  • About the value of musical instruments. In: Worksheet No. 2 of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. Leipzig 1998, pp. 25-31.
  • Gregorian chant at the turn of the second millennium - considerations on the occasion of the Ars Gregoriana by Helmut Kirchmeyer. In: Worksheet No. 16 / I of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. Leipzig 2000, pp. 5-19.
  • Muses - Museum - Musica. In: Theatrum Instrumentorum Dresdense. Schneverdingen 2003, pp. 27-35.
  • All articles about musical instruments and instrument makers in 7 different editions of Meyers Lexikon . Leipzig 1968–1980.
  • All articles about musical instruments and instrument makers as well as musical-liturgical terms in the lexicon of the Renaissance . Leipzig 1989.

Editions

  • with K. Fiedler, P. Nedo, K. Petermann: Folk songs from German landscapes. 7 volumes: Upper Saxony (1958), Harz (1957), Hesse (1958), Thuringia (1959), Saxony-Anhalt (1958) Lusatian Sorbs (1960), Mecklenburg (1960).

literature

  • Winfried Schrammek. In: Music in the past and present. (MGG), Metzler-Verlag, Volume 15, 2006, ISBN 3-476-41022-6 , p. 27.

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personal data
SURNAME Schrammek, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2017
Place of death Leipzig