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41-673: Gabriel Dessauer (born 1955) was cantor of St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden , since 1981. In 1985 he called singers together to form a choir in order to perform a single work, the Hebbel-Requiem of Max Reger in the organ version of the Munich organist and composer Max Beckschäfer . The concert on 16 October 1985 was part of the Internationale Orgelkonzerte Wiesbaden , with concerts of Roger Fisher , Judit Hajdók and Maurice Clerc , among others, on

82-657: A concert against Antisemitism . Janina Moeller sang the mezzo-soprano solo, and Petra Morath-Pusinelli was the organist. In November 2015 Dessauer was the organist for a sing-along organised by the Diocese of Limburg in St. Bonifatius. A choir of 150 volunteers studied Gabriel Fauré's Requiem and performed it as part of the Wiesbadener Bachwochen festival. As a contrast, Dessauer performed Olivier Latry's Salve Regina organ meditations, in which, according to

123-621: A regular concert on New Year's Eve on the Walcker organ at the Marktkirche, Wiesbaden , together with church organist Hans Uwe Hielscher . To celebrate the bicentenary of Franz Liszt 's birth in 2011, he played three major organ works by the composer on instruments that were built around the time of the compositions, Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H , Variations on Bach's " Weinen, Klagen " (1863), and Fantasy and Fugue on

164-531: A reviewer, he made the listener feel "...the complete cosmos of humanity, including the cruelty and violence, from which this prayer asks for salvation from" ("den gesamten Kosmos des Menschlichen nachempfinden ließ, einschließlich der Grausamkeit und Gewalt, aus der in diesem Gebet um Errettung gebeten wird"). Magnificat (Rutter) Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

205-1106: 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. Dessauer appeared with the Chor von St. Bonifatius in Azkoitia and San Sebastián on a Cavaillé-Coll -organ (1986) at both churches, at the Limburg Cathedral (1987), in St. Jakobus, Görlitz (1990), and in Memphis, Tennessee (1996). They appeared in Rome in 2008, when they performed Vivaldi's Gloria and Haydn's Nelson Mass in San Paolo dentro le Mura in concert, and sang during mass at St. Peter's Basilica . Dessauer has appeared in recitals in Europe and

246-470: A voice part next to each other, to improve homogeneity. 1992 On 16 June 1992, commemorating the 80th birthday of Maurice Duruflé , the choir sang in St. Bonifatius his Requiem in the organ version, with alto Laetitia Henke-Cropp and organist Petra Morath. Gabriel Dessauer played Duruflé's Suite op. 5. 1998 On 11 January 1998 the choir sang secular choral music in the hall of St. Bonifatius, accompanied by Petra Kristen, piano: Edward Elgar's From

287-431: Is a German cantor , concert organist, and academic teacher. After studies with Diethard Hellmann and Franz Lehrndorfer , he was responsible for the church music at St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden from 1981 to 2021, conducting the Chor von St. Bonifatius until 2018. Besides normal church services, he conducted them in regular masses with soloists and orchestra for Christmas and Easter and a yearly concert. In 1995 he prepared

328-627: 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. Dessauer was born in Würzburg , the son of Guido Dessauer and his wife Gabrielle. He received his Abitur at the Kolleg St. Blasien in 1974. He then studied church music at

369-595: The Boni-Musikwochen 2009 in St. Bonifatius the choir performed choral music from North America, Rupert Lang 's Earth teach me on words of the Ute people , Morten Lauridsen 's O magnum mysterium , Eric Whitacre 's Lux Aurumque , and Moses Hogan 's Elijah Rock and Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho . 2010 Celebrating 25 years, the choir performed as part of the Boni-Musikwochen 2010 in St. Bonifatius

410-520: The Frankfurter Dom , with organist Andreas Boltz . In 2013 he performed Schubert's Mass No. 6 along with his Unfinished Symphony . The concert of 2014 was John Rutter's Magnificat . 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

451-633: The Prayer of Saint Francis . The program was repeated at Sint-Pieters in Oostkamp on 2 August 2007. 2008 As part of the Boni-Musikwochen 2008 in St. Bonifatius, celebrating the 175th birthday of Brahms , the choir sang three motets op. 110, Geistliches Lied op. 30, and Fest- und Gedenksprüche op. 109. The program was repeated at the Heilig Hart Kerk in Knokke . 2009 As part of

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492-683: The Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium in Munich for a year, studying organ with Elmar Schloter . From 1975 to 1980, he studied church music and concert organ at the Musikhochschule München with Diethard Hellmann and Klemens Schnorr  [ de ] . He continued his studies with Franz Lehrndorfer and received the Meisterklassendiplom (master class diploma) in 1982. He was a member of Karl Richter 's Münchener Bach-Chor . Dessauer

533-760: The Spreckels Organ Pavilion in San Diego . In 2010, he gave a recital at St. Ignatius Loyola, New York . 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 . Until 2010, Dessauer played

574-532: The Walcker organ of the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden , which Max Reger had played himself when he had lived there starting in 1891. Gabriel Dessauer conducted the choir, Beckschäfer was the organist. He also played his arrangement for organ of Reger's Die Toteninsel , part of Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin . The concert is considered the foundation of the Reger-Chor. The name was chosen in 1988, when

615-507: The organ version by the Munich organist and composer Max Beckschäfer . The name Reger-Chor was chosen in 1988, when the next project was dedicated to the German premiere of Joseph Jongen 's Missa op. 111. Later projects included one of the first performances in Germany of Rutter's Requiem , recorded on the Reger-Chor's first CD in 1990. In 2001 an international collaboration began with

656-592: The Bavarian Highlands op. 27, the first of " Two Songs to be sung of a summer night on the water " by Frederick Delius, Rutter's Five Childhood Lyrics , and the Zigeunerlieder , op. 103, by Brahms . The songs of Rutter were performed also on 24 January at a workshop for choral conductors which the composer conducted in Limburg, introducing his Magnificat . He first listened and then conducted

697-473: The German premiere of John Rutter's Mass of the Children in 2004. In 2006, Dessauer conducted Karl Jenkins's Requiem , composed in 2004. In 2010, he chose works by Bach, including his Mass in G minor and choral movements from cantatas BWV 140 , BWV 12 , BWV 120 and Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir , BWV 29 . In 2011 he conducted Haydn's Die Schöpfung . The children's choir sang along with

738-617: The German premiere of Joseph Jongen's Mass for choir, brass ensemble and organ, Op . 130, which was not yet in print then, both in the Stiftskirche of Aschaffenburg and in St. Bonifatius. 1989 On 15 January the choir performed Henry Purcell 's anthems Remember not, Lord, our offences and Hear my prayer, O Lord , Magnificat for St Paul's by Herbert Howells, Benjamin Britten's Te Deum in C and Herbert Sumsion's In Exile , with organist Petra Morath . On 14 July 1989

779-602: The Mass No. 1 in B ♭ major by Johann Nepomuk Hummel , and Hans Leo Hassler's Missa super Dixit Maria in 2012. On Dessauer's initiative, the organ built in 1954 was refurbished by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau in 1985. Every year, typically on 3 October, German Unity Day , Dessauer has conducted choral concerts of works such as Mendelssohn's Elias , Ein deutsches Requiem of Brahms, and Verdi's Messa da Requiem . Both Chor and Kinderchor appeared in performances of Hermann Suter 's Le Laudi (1998 and 2007), and in

820-702: The Sea in Ships and In Exile , and three movements from Andrew Carter 's Benedicite . On 2 December 2006 Ignace Michiels conducted the choir in Bach's Christmas Oratorio , performed in the Concertgebouw . 2007 As part of the Boni-Musikwochen 2007 in St. Bonifatius, celebrating Das Jahr des Historizismus , the choir sang on 15 Juli 2007 Ryelandt's Missa six vocibus op. 111 and Kurt Hessenberg's O Herr, mache mich zum Werkzeug deines Friedens op. 37/1, after

861-1115: The U.S., at the Washington National Cathedral and St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York . He played the Kotzschmar organ at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine , and in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. In 2004, he lectured at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Los Angeles on the choral music of Max Reger , who was a member of the parish of St. Bonifatius while he studied and lived in Wiesbaden. In 2005, Dessauer played at

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902-637: The children's choir Kinderchor von St. Bonifatius , and of the Schola for Gregorian chant . The church choir sings at services, including regular orchestral masses by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert for Christmas and Easter, accompanied by members of the orchestra of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden , with soloists from the Hochschule für Musik Mainz such as Andreas Karasiak and students. In 2011 they performed

943-518: The choir for a memorial concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, performing Britten's War Requiem with choirs from countries involved in the war, and concerts in Wiesbaden and Macon, Georgia . Programs of choral concerts included Hermann Suter's Le Laudi in 1998, the German premiere of Rutter's Mass of the Children in 2004, and the world premiere of Colin Mawby 's Bonifatiusmess in 2012 which he had commissioned for

984-482: The choir sang Bach's Missa in G minor in St. Bonifatius with the Kammerorchester Marburg. 1990 On 1 November 1990 the choir sang in St. Bonifatius Reger's motets Der Mensch lebt und bestehet and Nachtlied from Acht geistliche Gesänge , op. 138 , and Rutter's Requiem in the version for chamber ensemble. The concert was recorded on CD, the choir positioned "mixed", no two singers of

1025-473: The choir's 150th anniversary. The concert of 2008, Vivaldi's Gloria and Haydn's Nelson Mass , was also performed at San Paolo dentro le Mura in Rome. 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

1066-837: The choral part of the program was Joseph Ryelandt 's Missa quatuor vocibus mixtis cum organo op. 84 and Kodaly's Laudes organi . Bruges was European Capital of Culture that year, therefore music was performed of a composer who had been affiliated with the city for life. 2003 The choir premiered in concerts in St. Bonifatius and St. Salvator the organ version of Reger's Der 100. Psalm of François Callebout. 2004 The choir sang in St. Salvator and St. Bonifatius sacred works for choir and organ of Van Nuffel, including In convertendo Dominus , and Reger's Nachtlied . 2006 The choir performed both in St. Leonhard, Frankfurt , and in St. Bonifatius choral music from England, Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for Gloucester Cathedral by Herbert Howells, Herbert Sumsions They That Go Down to

1107-727: The chorale Ad nos ad salutarem undam . In 2014, Dessauer toured in the US, playing concerts at the Washington National Cathedral , at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, California, and at the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ in Salt Lake City. In 2020, Dessauer organised the Winterspiele concert series to honour the 150th anniversary of Louis Vierne , playing his Third Organ Symphony , among others, in

1148-435: The concert with an organ version of Mendelssohn's Variations sérieuses and an arrangement of Liszt 's St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots from Deux légendes (1862). The same program was performed in Wiesbaden on 12 November. 2012 The project of 2012 was Gabriel Fauré's Requiem . combined with Bach's Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 . 2015 For the 30th anniversary, Bach's Missa of 1733

1189-563: The last movement of Bach's congratulatory cantata BWV 134a , Van Nuffel's In convertendo Dominus , the Gloria from Ryelandt's Missa op. 84 and Reger's Hebbel-Requiem . The program was performed on 4 September 2010 in St. Salvator as the final concert of the Kathedraalconcerten 2010. 2011 On 5 November, the choir performed Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms in an organ version at St. Salvator. Ignace Michiels began

1230-542: The music himself. 2001 The first concerts of the Regerchor-International were performed in St. Salvator and in St. Bonifatius. the choral part of the program was William Lloyd Webber's Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae , Jules Van Nuffel 's psalm Dominus regnavit , and again Reger's Requiem . The concert in Wiesbaden was recorded. 2002 The choir sang concerts in St. Salvator and St. Bonifatius,

1271-618: The newly-edited parts for the Dresden court, with members of the orchestra of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden . 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

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1312-564: The next project was dedicated to the German premiere of Joseph Jongen 's Missa op. 111. Later projects included one of the first performances in Germany of Rutter's Requiem , recorded on the first CD of the Reger-Chor in 1990. In 2001 an international collaboration began with the organist Ignace Michiels , bringing together an almost equal number of singers from Flanders and the Rhein-Main Region to perform an annual concert both in Germany and Belgium. 1988 The choir sang

1353-799: The organist Ignace Michiels , organist of St. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges , bringing together singers from Flanders and the Rhein-Main Region to perform an annual concert both in Germany and Belgium. In 2003 he conducted the premiere of the organ version of Reger's Der 100. Psalm by François Callebout. 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

1394-611: The soprano. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the choir in 2012, Dessauer commissioned Colin Mawby to compose the Missa solemnis Bonifatius-Messe . Mawby wrote the Mass in 2011 for the forces available at the church (soprano, choir, children's choir, oboe and organ), and the work was premiered on 3 October 2012. The organist was Ignace Michiels from St. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges , soprano Natascha Jung, and oboist Leonie Dessauer. A second performance took place on 3 November in

1435-556: The summer instead of winter because the planned concert was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic . Dessauer retired at the end of 2021, succeeded by Johannes Schröder . From 1995 to 2013, Dessauer was an organ teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz , part of the Gutenberg University in Mainz. In 1985, Dessauer invited singers to form a choir to perform a single work, the Hebbel-Requiem of Max Reger in

1476-818: The war: the Swindon Choral Society from Swindon , UK, the Macon Civic Chorale from Macon, Georgia , and the Schiersteiner Kantorei conducted by Martin Lutz . A year later they took part in a performance of the work with similar forces in Macon. 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

1517-480: 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 War Requiem was performed in a ceremony of the government of Hesse at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden , with choirs from countries who were opponents during

1558-804: Was chosen, performed with soloists and members of the Hessisches Staatsorchester . 2016 The choir remembered Reger's centenary of death by another performance of Der 100. Psalm . A concert on 27 August 2016 at the Bruges Cathedral combined Bach's Concerto in A major, BWV 1055 , played in an organ version by Leonie Dessauer on an oboe d'amore and Ignace Michiels, who also performed Reger's organ works Scherzo , from Zwölf Stücke , Op. 65 /2, and Perpetuum mobile , from Zwölf Stücke , Op. 80 /2. The choir also sang two works by Belgian composers, Van Nuffels psalm setting Laetatus sum and Joseph Ryelandt 's Panem de coelo. It

1599-415: 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

1640-828: Was the closing concert of the Kathedraalfestival Brugge 2016. 2017 In the Martin Luther Year, the choir performed again Der 100. Psalm , in the church St. Stefanus in Ghent , a sister city of Wiesbaden. Michiels performed in the concert on 5 November on the Forrest  [ nl ] organ also works by Guilmant , Dupré , Dubois and Widor . The encore was Reger's "Die Nacht ist kommen" from Acht geistliche Gesänge , Op. 138 . Gabriel Dessauer Gabriel Dessauer (born 4 December 1955)

1681-460: 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. Dessauer has been the cantor at St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden , the central Catholic church in the capital of Hesse , since 1981. He is the conductor of the 107-member Chor von St. Bonifatius , founded in 1862, of

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