Frieder Bernius (born 22 June 1947) is a German conductor, the founder and director of the chamber choir Kammerchor Stuttgart , founded in 1968. They became leaders for historically informed performances . He founded the Stuttgart festival of Baroque music, "Internationale Festtage Alter Musik", in 1987, and is a recipient of the Edison Award (1990), Diapason d'Or (1990) and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1993).
18-916: Frieder Bernius was born in Ludwigshafen -Oppau, the second child of the Protestant minister Helmut Bernius and his wife Inge, a church musician. After his Abitur at the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Mannheim he studied music and musicology at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and at the University of Tübingen . In 1968, his first year at the Musikhochschule, he founded the Kammerchor Stuttgart (Stuttgart chamber choir). They first concentrated on
36-484: A 1772–73 poem by Goethe which describes the course of an idealised river from a mountain spring to the ocean. Both poems are examples of Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress"), a German proto- Romantic aesthetic movement with an emphasis on subjective experience. Victor Hehn [ de ] interpreted "Gesang der Geister" as an extended Romantic metaphor, in which the repeated ascent and descent of water between Heaven and Earth represents man's attempt to grasp both
54-625: A cappella music of the 19th and 20th century, but expanded their repertoire. Since 1977, Bernius has collaborated with leading German orchestras and conducted the choirs of broadcasters, such as the SDR and WDR , the NDR Chor and the RIAS Kammerchor . In 1985 the choir decisively turned to early music, and Bernius became known as a conductor of historically informed performance. He has continued in Bach's music
72-407: Is a part song for male voices. It was written in 1817, and first published in 1891. A typical performance takes about 6½ minutes. His third and final version, D.714, is a part song for male voices and low strings. It was completed in 1821, and first published as his Op. posth. 167 in 1858, thirty years after his death. A typical performance takes about 10 or 11 minutes. The forces are unusual, and it
90-405: Is not often performed; but it has been recorded more than twenty times. It is the best-known of all settings of the poem, and has been much admired. Capell called it "one of Schubert's greatest choral works". Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has said that it is "one of [Schubert's] most magical pieces", and also that "[i]t should be listened to only at night, and will make you feel as if you are
108-523: Is without either rhymes or strong rhythm. Goethe compares the soul of man to water. Water cycles between Heaven and Earth. It gushes over a high cliff and breaks among the rocks. It flows through grassy meadows to a lake where the stars see their reflection. Wind is the water's lover, stirring it into restlessness. The soul of man is like the water, and the destiny of man is like the wind. "Gesang der Geister" has been contrasted with " Mahomets Gesang [ de ] " ( transl. Mahomet's Song ),
126-694: The Musica Fiata of Cologne , the La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy of Paris and the Tafelmusik of Toronto . In 1985/1987, he was instrumental in founding the Barockorchester Stuttgart and the Stuttgart festival of Baroque music, "Internationale Festtage Alter Musik" (now "Stuttgart Barock"). In 1988, Bernius, the Kammerchor Stuttgart and the Barockorchester Stuttgart performed the first concert of
144-665: The Klassische Philarmonie Stuttgart. Opera Sacred music Orchestral Ludwigshafen Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 389916464 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:39:56 GMT Gesang der Geister %C3%BCber den Wassern " Gesang der Geister über den Wassern " ( transl. Song of
162-603: The Rheingau Musik Festival Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem with the Kammerchor Stuttgart and the Sinfonia Varsovia at Eberbach Abbey. In 2006 he released a CD of Symphonies No. 5 and No. 6 by Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda on the Orfeo label, and also recorded Handel's Messiah (2009), Cherubini's Requiem (2010), and Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg 's opera Die Geisterinsel (2011). In 2009 he
180-868: The Spirits over the Waters ) is a 1779 poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). It may be best known in the English-speaking world through a musical setting of 1820–21 by Franz Schubert (1797–1828) as a part song for men's voices and low strings (D.714). In 1776, Goethe settled in Weimar , seat of the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar , and a centre of the intellectual movement known as the Age of Enlightenment . In 1779, he embarked upon his second tour of Switzerland, this time accompanying his employer Duke Karl August (1757–1828). From 9 to 11 October,
198-440: The ducal court and a close friend to and influence on Goethe. In 1789, he revised the poem for publication in one of his volumes of collected writings. He gave it the title it now bears, made minor modifications to the wording, and changed its form from a dialogue between two spirits speaking alternately to a monologue. The poem is 35 lines long, mostly of four or five syllables, and is divided into six stanzas of uneven length. It
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#1732858796417216-703: The first season of the Rheingau Musik Festival at Eberbach Abbey . On 23 June they performed two works by C. P. E. Bach , his Magnificat and the oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wüste , with soloists Nancy Argenta , Lena Lootens , Mechthild Georg , Howard Crook and Stephen Roberts . Bernius and the choir toured the Far East in 1988 and the USA in 1989. Bernius began recording with Sony Classical in 1989. In 1992 he recorded Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice with Nancy Argenta and Michael Chance . In May 1990 he
234-402: The mundane and the eternal, and the contrast between the restless cascade and the tranquil lake is between stormy passions and calm reflection, in a kind of mysticism or pantheism where these opposites blend to form a natural whole. Peter Härtling suggested that the poem could be read in the context of an attempted distancing by Goethe from Charlotte von Stein. Terence James Reed thought that
252-678: The party visited the area around Lauterbrunnen , in the Bernese Oberland . Goethe was impressed by the sight of the Staubbach Falls , which cascade down a sheer rock face 300 m (980 ft) high. He was motivated to write a first version of this poem, with the title "Gesang der lieblichen Geister in der Wüste" ( transl. Song of the Lovely Spirits in the Desert ). He sent it to Charlotte von Stein (1742–1827), lady-in-waiting at
270-405: The several-voice-to-a-part approach, as opposed to the one-voice-per-part approach advocated by Andrew Parrott and Joshua Rifkin . The Historical Dictionary of Choral Music says that it the choir is "recognized for high musical standards and stylistic flexibility, winning many international awards." Classical cites Bernius as leading "lively and intelligent performances." He has collaborated with
288-589: The wind symbolises the psychological disturbance caused by love. This section is arranged chronologically. The D-numbers of the Schubert settings are the Deutsch catalogue numbers. Schubert made several attempts to set the poem between 1816 and 1821, and completed three of them. His first version, D.484, is for voice and piano, and has survived only as a fragment, which music critic Richard Capell called "a grievous relic ... mutilated by chance". His second version, D.538,
306-729: Was awarded the Dutch Edison Award for his recording of Symphoniae Sacrae III by Heinrich Schütz with the Musica Fiata, and in November 1990 he was awarded the French Diapason d'Or for his recording of Missa Dei Filii by Jan Dismas Zelenka with the Tafelmusik. In 1991 he founded the orchestra Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart . In 2002, he became musical director of the ensemble Hofkapelle Stuttgart . On 10 July 2005, he conducted at
324-709: Was honoured with the Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig. Bernius has been teaching numerous workshops teaching, including in Belgium in 1995. In 2012, he and the Kammerchor Stuttgart were among the "Wegbegleiter" ("Companions along the way") of the Rheingau Musik Festival in its 25th anniversary season, artists who had appeared regularly from the beginning. They performed at Eberbach Abbey Schubert's " Gesang der Geister über den Wassern ", and Ein deutsches Requiem by Brahms, with
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