Wolfgang Spindler (music historian)

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Wolfgang Spindler (2006)

Wolfgang Spindler (born March 30, 1938 in Bamberg ) is a German music historian , musician and founder and director of the Capella Antiqua Bambergensis .

Life

Wolfgang Spindler graduated from the Musisches Gymnasium in Bamberg and studied from 1957 at the Philosophical-Theological University of Bamberg for teaching and in Perugia (Italy) the subjects of education and music . From 1960 he worked as a teacher in various places in Upper Franconia . He also studied at the Church Music Institute of the University of Erlangen. He also completed organ masterclasses at the Musica Sacra Nürnberg with Heinz Wunderlich ( Hamburg ) and Walter Kraft ( Lübeck ). He then took time off from school to do his doctorate in musicology in 1973 on the rhetorical figures in Johann Sebastian Bach's tonal language . In 1974 he was appointed head of the school music department at the University of Bayreuth . He also took on teaching positions at the State Institute for Music Teachers and at the Academy (now University) for Music in Bayreuth . In 1978 he accepted a professorship at the University of Bamberg on methods of social work - with a focus on music education . In addition, he became head of the music and sporting department in the social work department with research and practice in early musical education, historical musical instruments, their construction and historical dance . After 43 years of service in the Free State of Bavaria , Wolfgang Spindler retired.

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In 1976 he founded the Bamberg Ensemble for Early Music , with which he gave concerts at home and abroad. In 1983 he built up the ensemble of the Capella Antiqua Bambergensis with a focus on music of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages , of which he has been director ever since. Since 1973 he has regularly published articles in daily newspapers about concerts in the early music scene throughout Germany.

Exceptional projects

Wolfgang Spindler at a concert in 2006 in the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg as part of the supporting program of the exhibition Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation

In 1990 he was an initiator of the twinning between Bamberg and Prague in cooperation with the 1st Lions Club of Prague . During the first three years it was mainly medical goods worth over DM 1 million that were conveyed to Prague. On November 3 and 4, 1990, he gave the first public concert of the Capella Antiqua Bambergensis in Prague together with the Musica Bohemica in the Waldstein Palace , followed by a concert in Krummau in 1991 . He developed a language program Czech through songs . His research and practice are historical harps and their use in music education. Since 1997 he has been working on Peter Maffay 's children and youth projects , for which he developed the so-called magic harp . A CD and a picture book on Tabaluga were created .

From 1992 to 1999, together with family members, he restored the former royal-Franconian and later Prince-Bishop-Bamberg Castle of Wernsdorf near Bamberg. Regular concerts by the Capella Antiqua Bambergensis take place here. In August 2006 he and his ensemble musically organized the opening event of the 29th exhibition of the Council of Europe and the Saxony-Anhalt State Exhibition of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in Magdeburg Cathedral . Spindler continues to take part in all the high feasts of the Christian church year in the former St. Michael monastery church in Bamberg with musical performances.

Awards

  • Silver medal of the Free State of Bavaria by Franz Josef Strauss , for his services as director of the Capella Antiqua Bambergensis, 1981
  • Prize of the Bavarian People's Foundation, 1995
  • Prize of the Kulturfonds e. V. of the von Tucher family , 1995
  • Culture Prize of the Frankenbund, 1995
  • Culture Prize of the Upper Franconian Foundation , 2000
  • Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2002
  • Berganza Prize of the Bamberg Art Association, 2004
  • Merit medal of the Bamberg district in silver, 2004
  • The European Medal of the European Parliament, 2006, for special services to European unification
  • Culture Prize Bavaria of E.ON Bayern AG, 2006
  • City Medal Bamberg

Publications

  • The relationship between word and tone in Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas: The musical implementation of the recitative texts. Schadel and Wehle, Bamberg 1973.
  • Music and movement education, Spindler / Priesner, Verlag ECBaumann, Kulmbach, 1977 ff, pp. 5-34.
  • Reflections on music as a school subject and its problems in elementary school, in: Taschenbuch des Grundschulunterrichts, Ed. Hans Rudolf Becher, Burgbücherei Schneider GmbH, Baltmannsweiler, 1981, pp. 419–427.
  • A thousand years of Bamberg music history, in: Yearbook of the Archdiocese of Bamberg 1982, pp. 28–35, St.Otto-Verlag, Bamberg.
  • Music figuratively - artists and instruments in old graphic representations, publisher Bernhard Schemmel, exhibition catalog of the Bamberg State Library 1983.
  • Music in the spiritual and secular territories, in: Upper Franconia in the modern times until the end of the Old Empire, Ed. Elisabeth Roth, Upper Franconian Foundation Bayreuth 1984, Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg, pp. 543-588.
  • When stones sound. From Bamberg Cathedral and the secrets of medieval music, in: This great festival made of stone, Ed. Hans-Günter Röhrig, St. Otto-Verlag, Bamberg 1987, pp. 161–170.
  • Music for all classes, in: Upper Franconia in the 19th and 20th centuries, Ed. Elisabeth Roth, Upper Franconia Foundation Bayreuth 1990, Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg, pp. 211–282.
  • Johann Degen's song book from 1628, reprint, 4 translations in music books and commentary, St.Otto-Verlag, Bamberg 1992.
  • Various articles about Franconian musicians in MGG, Music in the past and present: general encyclopedia of music, 2nd revised edition / editor by Ludwig Finscher. Kassel; Basel; etc., Bärenreiter, 1999 ff.
  • Musical Middle Ages in Franconia, in: Franconia in the Middle Ages, eds. Johannes Merz and Robert Schuh, Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2004, pp. 279–296.
  • Schalmeien, Trumeln, Zauberharfen, in: Edel und frei - Franconia in the Middle Ages, catalog for the 2004 state exhibition in Forchheim, pp. 225–242.
  • Music in the medieval city, in: Far Worlds - Free City - Dortmund in the Middle Ages, eds. Matthias Ohm, Thomas Schilp and Barbara Welzel, Dortmunder Mittelalter-Forschungen, catalog for the 2006 exhibition, pp. 285–296.
  • The meaning of the psaltery in the Middle Ages, in: Himmelschöre & Höllenkrach, ed. Ursula Härting, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm 2006, pp. 49–52.

Discography

Albums:

  • Codex Manesse - The music radio play on the Great Heidelberg Song Manuscript. Voiced by Christian Brückner u. a. (2006)
  • CRANA - Music in a City 500 Years Ago (2003)
  • Emperor Heinrich II. - Music for Emperors and Kings (2002)
  • The Castle Concert vol.1 - The Organ of Wernsdorf Castle (2001)
  • Tabaluga's magic harp - based on an idea by Peter Maffay (1998)
  • The Miss of Franconia (1994)
  • Musical confectionery (1993)
  • E lady jolie (1991)
  • Cheerful Music from Old Times (1989)

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personal data
SURNAME Spindler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg