Wolfgang Neininger

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Wolfgang Neininger (born February 4, 1926 in Müllheim ) is a violinist , pianist and composer as well as conductor and former lecturer in music theory and typesetting at the University of Music and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel .

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Wolfgang Neininger grew up in his place of birth, Müllheim, where he began studying music at an early age. He wrote his first composition at the age of six. His father Albin Neininger, who was a professional music teacher at the schools in Müllheim, was transferred to Karlsruhe by the National Socialists together with his family because he was living in Müllheim a. a. also used for Jewish children. Wolfgang Neininger was able to begin further music training at the Karlsruhe University of Music as a young student , i.e. during his school days without a high school diploma. After his father was transferred to Strasbourg , he continued his music studies there at the conservatory in violin, piano and composition, and in 1943 he graduated from high school. He was one of the small number of music students who were exempted from military service because of their achievements. As a 16-year-old he was able to play Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier by heart.

During the civilian internment of the family in France from 1944 to 1945, Neininger composed his 24 variations on his own theme for piano. In 1946 the family was able to return to Germany. General Music Director Lessing had Wolfgang Neininger perform and immediately engaged him as first violinist and pianist with the SWF Symphony Orchestra in Baden-Baden. At the same time, Neininger began studying philosophy in Freiburg and Basel.

When Paul Sacher , the patron of old and new music in Basel, became aware of him as a guest conductor in Baden-Baden in 1947, he received his call for music theory and composition at the Basel University of Music. Before taking up his post in Basel, he submitted to the final exams for the teaching and soloist diploma in composition, piano and violin. From that time on, he was a lecturer in music theory and composition theory at the Basel University of Music for 40 years and then an expert on final exams for another 20 years. Numerous students became well-known musicians and music educators (including Yasunori Imamura , Veronika Hampe ). At the Volkshochschule Basel he regularly held seminars on various musical traditions.

He was a founding member and temporarily concertmaster of the Cappella Coloniensis of the West German Radio in Cologne . He was a founding member of the Collegium Aureum , he was a co-founder and honorary member of the German Handel Soloists of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and at times director of the Freiburg Bach Choir (1947/1948). In addition, Neininger still conducts the Collegium Musicum Schopfheim today (2016) , an ensemble of amateurs that was founded in 1952.

Numerous concert tours took him abroad a. a. to Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Waseda University in Shinjuku , where he not only gave a commemorative speech on Hiroshima in 1987 , but also premiered his commissioned work Variations on Four Japanese Folk Songs .

He became a member of the Rotary Club Lörrach in 1959 and a founding member of the Rotary Club Schopfheim-Wiesental in 2006. For his cultural commitment he was recognized by Rotary International with the Paul Harris Medal . He was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

According to his pupil Pascal Trudon , the extensive Neininger biography that is currently being developed consists of three DVDs.

Wolfgang Neininger was married to the actress and theater director Marianne Neininger née Herbster (born May 15, 1927, died February 5, 2013) since 1948. With an amateur drama group, she ran the theater on the Au in the former brewery buildings of her grandparents in Schopfheim. The Neiningers have two children, daughter Claudia Redel and son Johannes Neininger.

literature

  • Wunderkammer Alte Musik - The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89466-278-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b William Staufen Lead: Wolfgang Neininger. Pianist, violinist, conductor and composer. In: Markgräfler Kulturführer (PDF; 726 kB), accessed on August 17, 2016
  2. ↑ Classics at the Collegium Aureum
  3. ↑ Collegium Musicum has big plans. In: Badische Zeitung . May 15, 2019 (on Wolfgang Neininger and Collegium Musicum Schopfheim)
  4. ↑ Culture is what is lived. Pascal Trudon. In: Pascal Trudon's website
  5. ↑ Many people are touched by theater. In: Badische Zeitung. February 13, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Neininger, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, violinist, orchestra conductor and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Müllheim (Baden) , Germany