Franz Surges
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Franz Surges is a German composer
and musician.
and Conservatoire Cologne
, Department Aachen
.
He took his following exams:
He took further lessons in composition with Tilo Medek.
He completed international master classes resp. music academies, e.g. by Jean Guillou, Piet Kee, Guy Bovet, Harald Vogel, Monserrat Torrent.
), composer, choir director and music teacher, among others, for church-musical (so-called C-exams).
Franz Surges obtained a number of prizes and award, including:
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and musician.
Education
Surges studied at the Episcopial School for Church Music, AachenAachen
Aachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...
and Conservatoire Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
, Department Aachen
Aachen
Aachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...
.
He took his following exams:
- Cantor-exam (called A-exam)
- Diploma in Music Pedagogy (Organ)
- Diploma of the Artistic final-exam, main subject organ
- Diploma in Music Pedagogy (note-setting)
He took further lessons in composition with Tilo Medek.
He completed international master classes resp. music academies, e.g. by Jean Guillou, Piet Kee, Guy Bovet, Harald Vogel, Monserrat Torrent.
Position and awards
Since 1981 Franz Surges has been church musician at St. Antony, Eschweiler-Roehe (since 2006 also St. Michael, EschweilerEschweiler
Eschweiler is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Belgian-Dutch frontier, and about 15 km east of Aachen and 50 km west of Cologne.- History :...
), composer, choir director and music teacher, among others, for church-musical (so-called C-exams).
Franz Surges obtained a number of prizes and award, including:
- First prize composition contest "in Furtherance of Contemporaneous Music Maintenance in Religious Services", Schwäbisch Gmuend (1991) within the framework of the festival "European Church Music"
- First Prize composition contest "Mayrhofer-Prize", PassauPassauPassau is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is also known as the Dreiflüssestadt or "City of Three Rivers," because the Danube is joined at Passau by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north....
, Germany, 2002 - First Prize composition contest in the town of Siegburg, 2006
Oeuvre
Franz Surges has composed works in various genres: choral (male chorus, female chorus, mixed chorus), orchestral, chamber (strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, organ), instrumental and vocal.Literature
External links
- Verlag Dohr – biography and list of works