Wolfgang Schult
Wolfgang Schult (* 1942 in Hamburg ) is a German church musician , conductor, pianist, organist and musicologist.
Career
Schult studied church music (A-exam) and musicology at the universities in Hamburg and Bremen as well as the University of Marburg. He was a student of Detlef Kraus, Ursula Günther, Martin Behrmann and Hans Heintze. From 1963 to 1982 he worked as a church musician, from 1971 at the Evangelical City Church in Dillenburg . From 1971 to 1981 he taught at the Wilhelm von Oranien School in Dillenburg, and from 2000 to 2008 he was a music teacher at the Laubach College .
Schult works as a freelance musician (pianist, harpsichordist, organist). From 1971 to 2014 he directed the Bachwochen Kantorei Dillenburg (formerly Jugendkantorei Dillenburg), from 1982 to 2015 the vocal ensemble Arcani musicali and from 1989 to 2013 the university choir of the University of Marburg . Since it was founded in 1975, he has been the artistic director of the Bachwochen Dill (www.bachwochen.org). From 1996 to 2002 the yearbooks of the Bachwochen Dill were published with the following topics: 1996: Brahms; 1997: Bach & Handel; 1998: Roemhildt, Bach, Mozart; 1999: Bach & Schubert; 2000: Bach, G. Schumann, Dvořák, Hummel; 2001: Luigi Cherubini & Gorg Schumann; 2002: England & Germany. He has also appeared as the editor of previously unpublished works (e.g. Passions by Steuerlein and Gesius).
In 2013 he founded his own music publisher, Edition Arabeske. So far, there have appeared: choral movements, motets by Christoph Demantius, the piano trio by Wilhelm Berger as well as his own compositions (cantata: Lahn in - Lahn out; instrumental movements for the dance of death by Hugo Distler).
Since 2015 he has mainly performed chamber music (piano trios with the Tavuk Trio; accompaniment).
For his many years of work in musical life far beyond the region and for his services in the musical youth work, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Federal Cross of Merit ) on November 25, 2001 .
Web links
- Portrait at the Bachwochen Dill (with picture), accessed on August 29, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.unichor-marburg.de Retrieved June 20, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schult, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church musician, conductor, pianist, organist and musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |