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PRESS RELEASE Organ recital with Prof. Bernhard Haas from Stuttgart
Prof. Haas studied organ, cembalo, music theory and composition in Cologne, Freiburg and Vienna. Since 1994 he is at the national college of music in Stuttgart and furthermore internationally active as professor and concert organist. He is assistant professor at courses and member of th jury at competitions. Several CD recordings as well as publications for musicology enlarge his work. Following the concert a standing reception takes place with possibility for the meeting with the interpreter on the churchyard. Tickets are available in the main entrance at 15.45 hours. Markus Grohmann, Director of Sacred Music. Neuhausen auf den Fildern, June, 12th 2007 |
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Day of the organ music For the coming weekend the diocese Rottenburg has arranged a day of the organ music. In the whole dioceseThe Organ shall given attention in differents ways in as many municipalities as possible. The organ music and the possibility of learning the queen "of the instruments" will also be in the centre particularly. Due to the many actions for the restoration of the Walcker organ within the last few years the organ topic is well known in our municipality very well. We nevertheless want to participate in the tow actions during this day: 10:30 hours: Service in the parish church. Child choir and the Kisispatzen Accompanied on the Walcker organ. For this event the children's choir is going to sing on the organ gallery. 14:00 hours: organ walk to Scharnhausen. We meet on the churchyard Neuhausen for a walk to Scharnhausen at 2 p.m. There we will visit the Link organ of the Roman Catholic church "to the good Shepherd". This organ was the first organ project of our parish when Scharnhausen was still daughter church of Neuhausen. This instrument gets 10 years old in October. After the organ inspection we plan want to have coffee or eat ice cream in the Restaurant "the old Guard". After this break the march will lead us back to Neuhausen. Young and old are cordially invited! A registration is not required. Everybody carries the expenses for coffee etc. himself. Markus Grohmann, Director of Sacred Music. Neuhausen auf den Fildern, April, 30th 2007 |
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Kaleidoscopic organ tones 27.03.2007
By Peter Eltermann. "Please keep distance to the organ". This information sign at the Hieronymus Spiegel-Positiv did not impress Daniel Roth at all. If so, the almost fully occupied Roman Catholic parish church St. Peter and Paul would not have had the chance for a world class organ recital in Neuhausen. The French organist, celebrated internationally and honoured with many awards and prices, offered music in a programme diversified broadly on the highest standard and opened this year's row of the "Neuhauser organ recitals". He followed an invitation of the Director of Sacred Music Markus Grohmann, who reported him of the Neuhauser Walcker organ, explained Daniel Roth. "And I am not disappointed. This instrument has an impressive richness of tone and extremely charming tone colours. It has given great pleasure to play here ", the pleasant virtuoso summed up after the concert. Roth then startet the full-length programme at the organ positive, made by Hieronymus Spiegel in 1762, mentioned at the beginning. Doing so Professor Roth experienced a personal premiere. He has never played an organ in standing. Exactly this was demanded here since the manual is attached so highly that it is impossible to play while seated.. At first the master made sound Jan Pieterszoon Sweelincks variations about the chant " my young life has one end ". Roth, after the beginning resembling almost telling stories then changed to short Stakkati which lost themselves in rejoicing triplets. The left hand worked over long ways contrarily to the right one before the variations ended in meditative leisure. He left the instrument with measured steps and went to the Walcker -- organ on the gallery. The the last year prize-winner of the European church music festival in Schwäbisch Gmünd brought up enthusiasm with the quartet G minor, fantasy and fugue B major of the rather unknown French composer Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely. Majestic vibrancy paired with with a warm-hearted tone made up the charm of this fascinating work . Next to Johann Sebastian Bachs " prelude and fugue D major " the interpreter also played two works of its own and works of Cesar Franck and Eugene Gigouts" scherzo E major "and" toccata H minor ". The "Petite rhapsody sur une song alsacienne" goes back Alsatian song. The audience then was experiencing a premiere at Daniel Roths's last play, a free improvisation about a given topic. Before the concert began he was given different topics. Roth made improvisations brilliantly and with a great dedication on "a spring of the mercy" and "Judica", the introit of the Sunday. To the end applause the audience spontaneously got up and thanked this outstanding artist this way. With kind approval of the Esslinger Zeitung, dated March, 29th 2007 |
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CD recording with Prof. Dr. Christof Bossert at the Walcker organ.
Markus Grohmann, Director of Sacred Music. Neuhausen auf den Fildern, March, 22th 2007 |
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A world-famous organist Prof. Daniel Roth opens series of concerts 2007.
The programme: Prof. Roth will play works from different epochs of the Parisian organists and composers. A. Boëly, C. Franck and E. Gigout. J. S. Bachs Praeludium and fugue in D major of will also be on the programme. He is furthermore going to play variations of J. Sweelinck on the organ positive, made by Hieronymus Spiegel in 1762. The audience may even more suggest a theme for an organ improvisation before the concert begins! Sale of tickets: The sale starts on Thursday, March 7th, at Schreibwaren Knoblauch Dahlienweg 7, at Bücher & Co, Esslinger Strasse 1 and at Volksbank Filder e.G., Schloßplatz 13. Further sales will be in our organ shop in the priest's office. Each Friday, from 9.30 a.m. until 11.00 a.m. Markus Grohmann, Director of sacred music. Neuhausen auf den Fildern, March, 8th 2007 |
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Prof. Dr. H. C. Bossert prepares the next CD.
Dr. Helmut Thomas Eisele, Neuhausen auf den Fildern, March 10. 2007 |
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Visitor from UK on the Walcker - organ. Last Monday we had a visitor from UK who payed a visit to our restored Walcker organ. Prof. David Sanger from Wells had other appointments in Stuttgart before. He did not miss to come to Neuhausen before his take-off in Stuttgart - Echterdingen airport. Prof. Sanger said goodbye with the words: „I´m very, very impressed!“. Markus Grohmann, Director of sacred music. Neuhausen auf den Fildern, February, 22th 2007 |
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Leaflet to the series of concerts 2007.
Please make use of this. The format is chosen so that the information can be sent out also in a normal letter envelope to acquaintances and friends at the simple post rate. The leaflet can be downloaded on this link.. Markus Grohmann, Directeur de musique sacrée. Neuhausen auf den Fildern, Fevrier, 1. 2007 |
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Visitors from Poland.
Markus Grohmann, Director of sacred music. Neuhausen auf den Fildern, February, 1st 2007 |
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Series of concerts 2007 to be introduced at SWR 4
Markus Grohmann, Director of sacred music. Neuhausen auf den Fildern, February, 1st 2007 |
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Large donation of the Male-Voice Choir Neuhausen for church and social purposes
Director of the Sacred Music, Markus Grohmann, Neuhausen auf den Fildern, February, 23nd, 2006 |
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Organ recital with Prof. Peter Planyavsky from Vienna on July 3rd at 7:00 p.m. Next Sunday, July 3rd, 19.00 hours, the second great organ recital takes place after the the reinauguration of the Neuhausener Eberhard Friedrich-Walcker organ of 1854. Our guest will be the well-known organ virtuoso Professor Peter Planyavsky from Vienna. Planyavsky was a cathedral organist at the famous Viennese Stefansdom until the last year for 35 years. With his concerts, organ improvisations and compositions he attained world-wide reputation. He gives a concerts all over the world. In 1991 he received the state promoting price of Austria for music. Planyavsky is wellknown Juror at organ competitions.On next Sunday he will perform own free improvisations and pieces of Brahms, Hummel, Fuchs, Schmidt, Mendelssohn, Froberger and Bach.With attention Prof. Planyavsky has accompanied the Neuhausener organ project.He is going to come to Neuhausen extra for this concert from Vienna. Kirchenmusikdirektor Markus Grohmann, Neuhausen auf den Fildern, den 29. Juni 2005 |
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Peter Planyavsky A Biography
Since 1980, Planyavsky has been Professor of Organ and Improvisation at the University for Music and Drama in Vienna. In 1996, he was elected Head of the Department of Church Music. Aside from his current teaching positions, Mr. Planyavsky has a full schedule as a recitalist, workshop and master class coach, conductor, and a member of competition juries. He has toured in North America, Japan, Australia, South Africa and most European countries. He performed at the national convention of the American Guild of Organists in 1988 in Houston and a regional convention in 1989 in St. Paul, as well as being a featured artist for a national convention of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. In 1983, he was chosen as one of five internationally known organists to perform for the dedication season of the new organ at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. In 1990, he was one of a small number of international cathedral organists presented in concert by the Washington Cathedral to celebrate the finishing of the Cathedral. Mr. Planyavsky conducting career has included performances of the great works of sacred music including Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Duruflé’s Requiem and the great Haydn masses. Lately he has been emphasizing the concertos with organ and orchestra of Guilmant, Jongen, Heiller, Peeters, Rhinberger, Horatio Parker and others. As a competition judge, he has been invited to juries in Nuremburg, Haarlem, Chartres, St. Albans, Manchester and various other major cities in Europe. Awards presented to Mr. Planyavsky include the Municipal Music Award of the City of Vienna (1976) and the SANDOZ Fine Arts Award in 1976. He has also been a winner of several international competitions in organ improvisation, including Graz, Austria and Nuremburg, Germany. He was awarded the Staatlicher Förderungspries für Musik 1991 (the Federal Award for Music of the Republic of Austria 1991). Peter Planyavsky has recorded extensively, and is well-known as a composer of music for organ as well as various other instruments, and vocal literature. Current as of March 1, 2005. |
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Happy Easter - Frohe Ostern - Buona Pasqua
The solemn High Mass on the Easter Sunday celebrated parish priest Alfred Kirsch in the festively adorned parish church of St.Peter and Paul. In his sermon he explained the Easter message with the symbolism of Maria of Magdala which first of all found the empty grave Jesus Christ . As spiritual music we performed: Corrie Saturday Easter night "Early in the morning when the sun rises" by Friedrich Stade. "This is the day that God made" by Lorenz Lauterbach. " The stone has moved away " by Markus Grohmann. "Lux et Origo" GL 410: choir, Männerschola and youth singing circle of St.Peter and Paul. Solemn High Mass on the Easter Sunday: Ordinarium: "Missa brevis in F" of Giovanni Pierluigi from Palestrina (1526-1594). Arranged for 4 voice Choir and brass player quartet Colla parts. "Hallelujah Coda" by C.Mawby. "Hallelujah" from the Messiah of G.F. Händel for choir, organ, brass players and kettledrum timpanis. Stuttgart brass player quartet and choir St.Peter and Paul. H. Russ, organ. Entire management: Deanery church musician Markus Grohmann.
Dr. Helmut Thomas Eisele, Neuhausen auf den Fildern, Easter Monday 2005. |
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Neuhausen auf den Fildern. The series of concerts 2007 in the parish church St. Peter and Paul Neuhausen goes with an organ recital in the summer break. OnSunday,July 1st, 16.30 hoursProf.Bernhard Haas, fromStuttgart, willplay pieces from György KurtágandRobert SchumanncompositionsofDietrich Buxtehude, Charles-Valentin, and Alkan. Both historical organs of the parish church come to sounding. The Spiegel positive dated 1762 as well as the big Walcker organ dated 1854. 
NEUHAUSEN: Daniel Roth guests in St. Peter and Paul.
Prof. Dr. h. c. Christoph Bossert (colleges of music Würzburg and Trossingen) has been in our church for almost a whole week in order to record three large organ works of the late romantic Max Reger (1873-1916) on our Walcker organ for a professional CD production. A very big and effortful venture for the interpreter, his 2 assistants as well as for the sound mixer. During the next years Prof. Bossert is going to record the entire organ work Regers on some instruments particularly suitable for Reger in Germany . With the great chant imaginations „Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott“ the first CD of this row and „Freu dich sehr o meine Seele“ as well as the 1st organ sonata Regers is comming from Neuhausen now. We may really be pleased about it. As soon as the CD is available in the trade, we will announce it. 
On Sunday, March 25th, our series of concerts 2007 starts at 7 p.m.with the world-famous organist and composer Prof. Daniel Roth from Paris. We are particularly pleased that we could win Prof. Roth for this concert in Neuhausen. Roth is Titularorganist at the Parisian church St. Sulpice. He is successor of Charles Widor and Marcel Dupré. He has been organist at the famous basilica Sacré Cœur before. After chairs in Strasbourg and Saarbrücken, at present, he is professor for organ at the college of music Frankfurt am Main. Professor Roth, born in 1942, was awarded numerous prizes. In 2006 he got the price for European Sacred Music of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. In UK he received the price "the Royal college of Organists". 
Today we could welcome Mr Prof. Bossert from Würzburg on the E.F. Walcker organ. His is going to record his new DC next week. Today and tomorrow he will try out the stops and examine which combination to select tonally. One more he was very enthusiastic about the organ and about the room. In room and its corresponding sound analysis was E.F. Walcker has been a master, so Prof. Bossert. We may be curious about the result! 
Daniel Roth, widely acclaimed as one of the leading French organ virtuosos, has held several prestigious positions as both pertormer and teacher. At the age of twenty he made his debut at the organ of the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur in Montmartre-Paris, as assistant of his teacher, Madame Rolande Falcinelli. He later succeded her as titular organist, a post which he held until 1985 when he was appointed titular organist at St-Sulpice, the famous Paris church where is predecessors were Charles-Marie Widor, Marcel Dupré‚ and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald. A former student at the Paris Conservatory, Daniel Roth's teachers have included Marie-Claire Alain and Maurice Durufé. He has won several competitions, among them the Grand Prix de Chartres 1971, interpretation and improvisation.
Last Monday Michael Markusczevsky, organist at the Protestant Reformed church to Warsaw as well as organ master builder Olgierel Nowakowski found their way to Neuhausen to inspect our organs. Both gentlemen are from Warsaw. The restoration of a romantic organ also queues in the Warsaw church. The visitors were primarily interested in the intonation of our original Walcker registers. Both visitors were impressed by the overall plan of the restoration. The restoration of the Hieronymus Spiegel organ positive also could convince. Organist Markusczevsky received the tip to look at our new houses organs close from Professor Bossert. Professor Bossert gave a concert with us in the context of the Max Reger-Konzerte last year. 
SWR editor Verena Neuhausen was recently in our community to inform herself about our series of concerts 2007 and to report the results in the broadcast SWR4. Mrs Neuhausen was impressed with some tone samples of the quality of the Walcker organ. The editor questioned Markus Grohmann, Director of the Sacred Music, about the concept of this year's series of concerts. In addition, she was given informations about Professor Daniel Roth from Paris who will open the row of concerts on March 25th as the interpret of the 1st organ recital. A concert tip in the broadcast is most likely sent in the "Morgenläuten" on SWR 4 on Sunday, February 11th, 2007, between 8-9 a.m.
Already before Christmas the president of the executive board of the Male-Voice Choir Neuhausen, Hans Jaudas (on the left in the picture) as well as the head of the group of Mixdur, Peter Klapper, submitted a donation with the amount of 3.700. € to our parish priest Alfred Kirsch. The amount resultet from the proceeds of the concert of the group Mixdur in our parish church on the 2nd Advent. The amount was divided up with one third each for the church health and advice centre, the organ restoration and for the children and youth welfare Neuhausen. All people being responsible for the male-voice choir, the group Mixdur as well as the numerous concert-goers are cordially thanked in this place! 
Peter Planyavsky was born in Vienna in 1947, and became a student at the University of Music and Drama in Vienna when he was 12. His primary teachers in music were Anton Heiller (organ, composition and improvisation), Hilde Seidlhofer (piano) and Hans Gillesberger (choral conducting). He graduated in 1966 with a Master's Degree in Organ, and the following year received a Diploma in Church Music. He then worked for one year in the workshop of a major Austrian organ builder, and the following year served as Abbey Organist at Schlägl, Austria. Then from 1969 through 2005 Peter Planyavsky held the position of Cathedral Organist at St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna. For several years during this period (1983-1990) he also served as the Director of Music at the Cathedral and was also responsible for the cathedral choir. Following the installation of the Cathedral’s new Rieger organ in 1991, there were 30 organ recitals at the Cathedral each year, 18 of which were performed by Mr. Planyavsky in addition to 15 performances yearly with choir and orchestra.
We wish all members of the Society for the Promotion of the historical Eberhard Friedrich Walcker Organ, all donators and all friends of the Neuhausener E.F. Walcker organ a blessed Easter time.
