Wolfram Adolph

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Wolfram Ludwig Adolph (born January 28, 1964 in Wiesbaden ; † March 20, 2019 in Saarbrücken ) was a German publicist and Protestant theologian and music journalist .

Wolfram Adolph (2009)

Life

After humanistic High School , he studied on a scholarship from the studienstiftung , Protestant theology , religious philosophy and musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , the University of Giessen and Heidelberg -University of Heidelberg . After completing his master's degree, he conducted research on theological hermeneutics and aesthesiology and received his doctorate on Martin Luther .

Adolph was the initiator and artistic director of various music festivals . From 1990 to 1993 he coordinated the organ music division of the French national cultural institutes (Institut Français) in Frankfurt am Main and Mainz. The Ministry of Culture in Rhineland-Palatinate commissioned him from 1993 to 1999 with the artistic and organizational project management of the International Organ Festival Weeks in the country's cultural summer. In 1992 he organized the “1. International French Organ Weeks Mainz - Wiesbaden - Frankfurt (IFO) "as well as the" Mainz Messiaen Days '93 "immediately after the death of Olivier Messiaen .

In 1992 he founded the classic CD label "IFO classics", which released around 200 titles. In 2004 he recorded his own audio CD ( Rêveries ) with works of French Impressionism on the symphonic Henri Didier organ in the cathedral of Laon (Picardy) .

Adolph lived in Saarbrücken since 2000 . He published on the history and aesthetics of the French organ in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2005 he has been President of the Institut Louis Vierne (ILV) - European Society for Symphonic Organ Art, located in Saarbrücken and Paris, which is committed to promoting symphonic organ art in Europe. As the responsible editor-in-chief at Schott Music in Mainz, he published the specialist musical journal Organ - Journal for the organ , which he founded in 1998 together with the music publisher Peter Hanser-Strecker. He was a founding member of the interdisciplinary competence center MOCArt for European organ culture at the University (Musikhochschule) Mainz.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Voices on the death of Wolfram Adolph. In: organ - journal for the organ. Retrieved on March 27, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Adolph, Wolfram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adolph, Wolfram Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 20th March 2019
Place of death Saarbrücken