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Günter Jena (born 1933) is a German choral conductor and musicologist. He was the director of church music at St. Michaelis in Hamburg from 1973 to 1997. He founded the festival Bach-Tage Hamburg, and provided music for ballet performances of choreographer John Neumeier at the Hamburg State Opera, including Bach's St Matthew Passion.
Career
[edit]Born in Leipzig, Jena attended the Thomasschule there, and then studied musicology. He studied psychology and philosophy in Berlin, and conducting and organ at the Musikhochschule München with Karl Richter, becoming his assistant.[1]
Jena worked as the church musician at St. Johannis in Würzburg. In 1969 he founded the festival Würzburger Bachtage.[1] From 1973 he was the church musician at Hamburg's Hauptkirche St. Michaelis, where he regularly conducted performances of works by Bach, music from the classical period and the romantic period.[2] He founded the festival Bach-Tage Hamburg, and was appointed Kirchenmusikdirektor (director of church music) for the region. Jena prepared choir and orchestra for performances by the choreographer John Neumeier at the Hamburgische Staatsoper, including Bach's St Matthew Passion in 1981[3][4] and Mozart's Requiem.[2] Jena conducted the performances for the premieres, and also a revival of the St Matthew Passion in 2013, now in his church.[5] The 200th performance of the production was given on Good Friday 2017.[3]
Jena prepared and conducted the NDR Chor for a recording of the complete a cappella works by Johannes Brahms from 1981.[6] It includes works such as Fünf Gesänge, Op. 104. Jena retired in 1997.[2] He published books about the musicological and theological background of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, The Art of Fugue and St Matthew Passion. He is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg.[1]
Awards
[edit]Jena was awarded the Würzburg Cultural Prize in 1970.[7] The Hamburg Senate appointed him an honorary professor in 1986 and awarded him the music prize Johannes Brahms Medal in 1987. [8]
Publications
[edit]Publications by Jena are held by the German National Library:[9]
- "Das gehet meiner Seele nah". Die Matthäuspassion von Johann Sebastian Bach. Piper Verlag 1993, Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1999
- "Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht". Das Weihnachtsoratorium von Johann Sebastian Bach. 1997
- Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen, 2000
Selected recordings
[edit]Recordings by Jena are held by the German National Library:[10]
- Johannes Brahms, Chorwerke. NDR Chor.
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium. Choir and orchestra of St. Michaelis, Lynne Dawson, Marjana Lipovšek, Peter Schreier, Andreas Schmidt. 1997
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Günter Jena (Conductor)". Bach-Cantatas. 2003. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ a b c Banuscher, Doris (4 January 2003). "Günter Jena feierte mit zwei Ehrenbürgern 70. Geburtstag". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ a b "Jubiläum von John Neumeiers / "Matthäus-Passion" / 200. Aufführung des Balletts am Karfreitag" (PDF). Journal (in German). Hamburgische Staatsoper. 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Die Schuldigen oder auch die Sühnenden" (in German). Ballett-Journal. 25 March 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ "Hamburg / St. Michaelis: Matthäus-Passion von J.S.Bach in der Choreographie von John Neumeier" (in German). Der neue Merker. 18 June 2013. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ Stäbler, Markus. "1979 bis 1998: Gänsehautmomente mit Menuhin und Karl Richter". 70 Jahre NDR Chor (in German). NDR. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ "Kulturpreisträger der Stadt Würzburg" (in German). Würzburg. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Brahms-Medaille" (in German). aluan.de. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Publications by Günter Jena" (in German). German National Library. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ^ "Recordings by Günter Jena" (in German). German National Library. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
External links
[edit]- Literature by and about Günter Jena in the German National Library catalogue
- Official website
- Günter Jena (in German) weihnachtsoratorium-oper.de
- Günter Jena at AllMusic
- Günter Jena discography at Discogs
- Five partsongs (Gesämge) for mixed chorus, Op. 104 kellydeanhansen.com
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