Gabriel Dessauer
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Gabriel Dessauer (born 4 December 1955) is a German
In 1985 Dessauer founded a project choir, later named Reger-Chor, dedicated to rarely performed sacred music for choir and organ. It developed into a German-Belgian collaboration, with regular concerts at the St. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges.
Dessauer is an internationally-known organ recitalist. He has lectured at international conferences, especially about the music of Max Reger, who was a member of the St. Bonifatius parish. He was an organ teacher on the faculty of the Hochschule für Musik Mainz from 1995 to 2013.
Career
Dessauer was born in
Dessauer was the organist for services at the Kolleg St. Blasien 1971–1974, then at the Akademie Tutzing for one year and conductor of the choir of the Protestant parish in Tutzing. From 1975 to 1981 he was cantor of St. Andreas in Munich.[1]
Church music at St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden
Dessauer has been the cantor at
Every year, typically on 3 October,
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the choir in 2012, Dessauer commissioned
Dessauer first continued the tradition of the Stunde der Kirchenmusik ("hour of church music") monthly concert, and then began a series Boni-Musikwochen instead, grouping choral and organ concerts around a theme within the span of one to two weeks. The Musikwochen 2010, Reger und mehr ("Reger and more"), presented concerts given by Kent Tritle and Ignace Michiels, among others.[11]
Dessauer appeared with the Chor von St. Bonifatius in
Organ recitals
Dessauer has appeared in recitals in Europe and the U.S., at the
Since 1992, Dessauer has conducted events for the Rheingau Musik Festival called the Orgeltour (organ tour), visiting historic organs in the region. The first tours covered historic organs of the Rheingau; later ones extended to the cathedrals of Worms and Speyer, Würzburg, and Fulda.[1]
Until 2010, Dessauer played a regular concert on New Year's Eve on the
In 2014, Dessauer toured in the US, playing concerts at the
In 2020, Dessauer organised the Winterspiele concert series to honour the 150th anniversary of Louis Vierne, playing his Third Organ Symphony, among others,[15] in the summer instead of winter because the planned concert was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.[16]
Dessauer retired at the end of 2021, succeeded by Johannes Schröder.[17]
Teaching
From 1995 to 2013, Dessauer was an organ teacher at the
Reger-Chor
In 1985, Dessauer invited singers to form a choir to perform a single work, the
In addition to works by Reger, Dessauer chose rarely-performed church music by composers such as Herbert Howells, Benjamin Britten, Herbert Sumsion, Maurice Duruflé, Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, William Lloyd Webber, Jules Van Nuffel, Joseph Ryelandt, Andrew Carter, Kurt Hessenberg, Rupert Lang, Morten Lauridsen, and Eric Whitacre. In 2015 he conducted Bach's Missa of 1733 in B-minor in the newly-edited parts for the Dresden court, with members of the orchestra of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.[18]
Choral projects
In 1999 Dessauer collaborated with Ignace Michiels, in a joint project to bring a century of violence to a close. The same programme was performed in both Bruges and Wiesbaden by the Cantores and Chor von St. Bonifatius choirs, with Michiels playing the organ and Dessauer conducting. The concert in Bruges on 23 October 1999 was named Eeuw van zinloos Geweld (Century of meaningless violence) and expressed it using Maurice Duruflé's Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain, Jules Van Nuffel's In convertendo Dominus, Jehan Alain's Litanies, Rudolf Mauersberger's Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst, Gerald Hendrie's Exsultate from the sonata In praise of reconciliation, and Duruflé's Requiem. The Wiesbaden concert was called Versöhnungskonzert zum Ende des Jahrhunderts (Concert of reconciliation at the end of the century).
In 1995 Dessauer prepared the choir for a memorial concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. On 8 May 1995, Britten's
In November 2009 Dessauer performed Duruflé's Requiem again, this time with a choir of volunteers who wanted to commemorate the Holocaust in a Gedenkkonzert gegen Antisemitismus, or a concert against Antisemitism. Janina Moeller sang the mezzo-soprano solo, and Petra Morath-Pusinelli was the organist.[19]
In November 2015 Dessauer was the organist for a sing-along organised by the
Recordings
- Kontraste (Contrast), Gabriel Dessauer at the Mayer organ of St. Bonifatius
- Orgel-Feuerwerk I – V (Organ Fireworks)[22]
- Just for Fun, Organ Historical Society Catalog[23]
- John Rutter: Requiem, motets of Reger, Reubke's Sonata on the 94th Psalm, Reger-Chor, Monika Fuhrmann (soprano), instrumentalists, organist (Rutter): Petra Morath, organist (Reubke) and conductor Gabriel Dessauer (1990, recorded live in St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden)
- Romantische Orgelkonzerte, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Organ concerto G minor op. 177, Léon Boëllmann: Suite Gothique op. 25, Kammerphilharmonie Rhein-Main, conductor: Jürgen Bruns(1997)
- Johann Werner Prein, Chor von St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden, Kinderchor von St. Bonifatius, Witold Lutoslawski Philharmonic Wroclaw, 1999[24]
- Max Reger: Hebbel-Requiem, organ works, Reger-Chor-International, conductor Gabriel Dessauer (2001, recorded live in St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden)
- Max Reger: Der 100. Psalm, Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in E minor op. 127, Reger-Chor-International, conductor Gabriel Dessauer (2003, recorded live in St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden)[25]
References
- ^ a b c d "Gabriel Dessauer" (in German). Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz. 2010. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ^ a b "Gabriel Dessauer". St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden. 2010. Archived from the original on 20 March 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ^ Hörnicke, Richard (5 October 2010). "Eine anrührende Glaubensbotschaft – Bachs g-Moll Messe unter der zügig zupackenden Leitung von Gabriel Dessauer". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
- ^ Hörnicke, Richard (5 October 2011). "Imposante Fülle / Haydns "Schöpfung" in St. Bonifatius". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
- ^ Milch, Volker (27 September 2012). "Der vor 150 Jahren gegründete Bonifatius-Chor in Wiesbaden jubiliert mit neuer Messe". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). Archived from the original on 6 January 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ a b Baumgart-Pietsch, Anja (9 January 2012). "Der Chor von St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden feiert sein 150-jähriges Bestehen". Wiesbadener Tagblatt (in German). Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ Kösterke, Doris (5 October 2012). "Eigenes Geschenk / Uraufführung Colin Mawbys Bonifatiusmesse". Wiesbadener Tagblatt (in German). Archived from the original on 27 December 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- ^ Milch, Volker (1 October 2013). "Gabriel Dessauer dirigiert am 3. Oktober Schubert in St. Bonifatius". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). Retrieved 3 October 2013.
- ^ Richard, Hörnicke (5 October 2013). "Franz Schuberts Messe in Es-Dur unter dem Dirigat von Gabriel Dessauer in St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ "John Rutter: Magnificat" (in German). St. Bonifatius. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ a b Hörnicke, Richard (13 August 2010). "Wenn Freunde musizieren". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
- ^ Scheidt, Claudia (2008). "Romfahrt des Chores" (in German). St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
- ^ Karschny, Thomas (30 August 2010). "Eine Hommage an Liszt". Wiesbadener Tagblatt (in German). Retrieved 12 September 2010.
- ^ Dessauer, Gabriel (2014). "Four Organ Concerts and a Choir Rehearsal in the US / A travel journal" (PDF). American Guild of Organists / European Chapter. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^ Orgel-Sommerspiele 2020 (St. Bonifatius) (in German) St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden 4 July 2020
- ^ Abgesagt: X. Orgel-Winterspiele zum 150. Geburtstag von Louis Vierne (St. Bonifatius) (in German) St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden 15 March 2020
- Diocese of Limburg. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
- ^ Baumgart-Pietsch, Anja (28 January 2015). "Gabriel Dessauer präsentiert mit dem Reger Chor International Bachs h-Moll-Messe". Wiesbadener Tagblatt (in German). Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^ Müller, Tabea (9 November 2009). "Mit tröstendem Grundton / Gedenkkonzert / Musik als Mahnung: Duruflé-Requiem vor der Reichspogromnacht in der Bonifatiuskirche". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). Archived from the original on 13 December 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
- ^ 21. Wiesbadener Bachwochen / Vom Himmel auf Erden (in German). Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Gesellschaft Wiesbaden. 2015. p. 15.
- ^ Kösterke, Doris (9 November 2015). "150 Chorsänger erarbeiten an einem Tag Aufführung zweier Kompositionen von Gabriel Fauré". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- ^ "Orgel-Feuerwerk I – V". Organ Historical Society Catalog. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ "Just for Fun". Organ Historical Society Catalog. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- OCLC 174599733.
- ^ "Der 100. Psalm (Tonträger): op. 106; Fassung für Chor und Orgel / Max Reger. (Arr. F. Callebout)". German National Library. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
External links
- Kantor Gabriel Dessauer i. R. St. Bonifatius
- Mozart: Kyrie and Gloria on YouTube, from Coronation Mass, 1 April 2018, St. Bonifatius
- Louis Vierne, Carillon de Westminster, op. 54/6 (17 April 2020, St. Bonifatius) on YouTube
- Dance Toccata on YouTube, by Naji Hakim1 April 2018, St. Bonifatius