Wolfgang Bretschneider

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Wolfgang Bretschneider (born August 7, 1941 in Dortmund ) is a German organist and university professor for music and liturgical studies .

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Bretschneider studied Catholic theology , philosophy , musicology and education in Bonn and Munich , at the same time he completed organ studies with Franz Lehrndorfer , Jean Langlais and Guy Bovet . In 1967 he was in Cologne Cathedral by Cardinal Josef Frings for ordained priest and worked from 1967 to 1969 as a chaplain at the Quirinus-Münster in Neuss 1969 to 1997 Repetent the Archbishop Collegium Albertinum in Bonn. He received his doctorate in musicology from Günther Massenkeil with a hymnological thesis on the hymn of the Enlightenment period.

In 1985 he was elected to the board of the Werkgemeinschaft Musik eV, where he works as a spiritual advisor. Since 1987 he has been professor of liturgy and church music at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf, since 1994 at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne and in the same function since 1977 also at the seminary of the Archdiocese of Cologne . In 1984 he was appointed to the music commission of the German Bishops' Conference . In 1992 he was appointed to the liturgy commission of the German Bishops' Conference. In 2003 he was appointed honorary professor at the theological faculty of the University of Bonn, and in 2004 he was appointed advisor for church music in the sub-commission of the German Bishops' Conference for the creation of the new prayer and hymn book . Since 2011 he has been head of the Music Advisory Board at the Guardini Foundation Berlin . He is also a member of the Church Music Working Group in the German Music Council .

Bretschneider is a subsidiary and second organist at the Bonn Minster Basilica . As an organist he gives numerous concerts at home and abroad, his main focus is French organ music of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among other things, he published the entire organ works by Josef Gabriel Rheinberger . In 1989 Wolfgang Bretschneider became President of the General Cecilia Association for Germany (ACV), which he also represents on the Central Committee of German Catholics . He is also diocesan president for the church choirs in the Archdiocese of Cologne. On September 22nd, 2018, he was adopted as active president of the General Cecilia Association and was also appointed honorary president for life.

Works (selection)

Fonts

  • The educational significance and function of the German hymn between the Enlightenment and the Restoration, illustrated by the work of Kaspar Anton von Mastiaux (1766-1828) . University thesis Bonn 1980.
  • A song says more than words . Herder 1990. ISBN 3-451-22040-7
  • Useful or harmful? Does the liturgy need an organ? In: Musica sacra 119th vol. No. 5, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1999, ISSN  0179-356X .
  • Krzysztof Penderecki - Attempt to determine a position . Church music yearbook, Regensburg 2000.
  • Co-editor of the liturgical series Morgenlob - Abendlob - Celebrate with the community , 4 volumes, Planegg 2000 ff, Stuttgart 2009.
  • From the Motuproprio Pius X. (1903) to the Instructio Musicam sacram (1967). Historical Notes on the Relationship between Liturgy and Music. In: Liturgy and Music. Published by Stefan Klöckner, Trier 2005.
  • "... the music becomes chatter". About the value of silence and silence. In: Ad maiorem Dei gloriam. Commemorative publication Walter Graf. St. Pölten 2006.
  • "... for pastoral reasons". The tension between artistic demands and practical requirements. In: Music in the Church. Questions and Perspectives. Edited by W. Bönig. W. Bretschneider et al., Stuttgart 2007.
  • O world, I have to let you. J. Brahms: 2 chorale preludes for organ. In: The universe in the ear , edited by D. Korsch et al., Leipzig 2011.
  • Co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Church Music, Laaber 2011 ff.
  • New beginnings in the early 20th century. In: Encyclopedia of Church Music: The History of Church Music , Vol. 3, Laaber 2012.

Sheet music editions

  • Joseph Rheinberger. The entire organ work . J. Butz Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1991.
  • Organ music for church services and concerts for festivals of the church year and special occasions , 12 volumes. Dr. J. Butz-Verlag, Bonn 1994 ff.
  • Advent choir book. Carus, Stuttgart 1998.
  • Easter choir book. Carus, Stuttgart 2002.
  • Choir book mourning. Carus, Stuttgart 2010.

Discography

  • Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, Organ Sonatas No. 14 in C major, Op. 165 and 17 in B major, Op. 181, Miscellanees, Op. 174. Wolfgang Bretschneider at the Walcker organ in St. Jacobus, Ilmenau (Thuringia). Motet 12221.
  • Marcel Dupré, Le Chemin de la Croix op.29. Wolfgang Bretschneider at the Klais organ of the Bonn cathedral basilica. Motet 50691.
  • My prayer , What are we humans after all and My Bible , organ improvisations by Wolfgang Bretschneider, Hanns Dieter Hüsch reads psalms, poems and his own texts. Catholic Biblical Works, Stuttgart 1997.

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literature by and about Wolfgang Bretschneider on the Musica sacra page
  2. ^ ZdK list of members for the full assembly
  3. ↑ Report in the Mittelbayerische Zeitung : Music for the message of God from September 24, 2018, vol. 27, no. 220, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Bretschneider, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and music and liturgical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund