Wolf Bergelt Explained

Wolf Bergelt (born 4 October 1951) is a German author, organist and organ scholar.

Life

Berglelt was born on 4 October 1951 in Oederan, Saxony. He received his first organ lessons from Horst Schröter at the Silbermann organ of the town church of Oederan until his church music studies in Dresden. He completed his compulsory military service as a singer in the Erich-Weinert-Ensemble Berlin. He then worked as a music editor while continuing his church music studies in Halle (Saale), where he dealt with music-historical, music-psychological and instrumental issues, among other things. From 1975 to 1980, he worked as a cantor and organist in Berlin and Prenzlau. It was during this time that he first became involved with the organ heritage of the Mark Brandenburg region, which had hardly been explored until then.[1]

Work

Bergelt has been involved since 1979 with the inventory and systematic historiographical development of the "organ landscape of Brandenburg",[2] which he started from Prenzlau as district church musician of the Uckermark. Since then he has published numerous papers on the history of organ building in Prussia and its heartland Brandenburg (su.). As part of this work, he published regularly from 1983 to 1987 in the traditional Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift (IbZ) Musik international.[3] [4] In 1989, his first developmental cross-section Die Mark Brandenburg – eine wiederentdeckte Orgellandschaft appeared,[5] which was later published in the work Orgelreisen durch die Mark Brandenburg[6] underwent a considerable expansion. In the same year (2005) he launched the reference work Organ Handbook Brandenburg[7] and in 2009 the edition Dokumente der Orgelwelt.[8]

In 2012, his opus magnum Joachim Wagner – Orgelmacher was published,[9] which is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the central figure of Prussian organ building and congenial contemporary of Gottfried Silbermann and Arp Schnitger. In this work Bergelt expanded the life story, the list of works[10] as well as the work histories[11] of Joachim Wagner's organs and thus the overall picture of his life and work with essential new insights.[12] The work was highly regarded in both the national and international organ specialist press and beyond.[13] [14] The continuation series Wagner-Geist im Orgelbau der Schüler aims at the extensive presentation of individual work histories from Wagner's circle of students.

In the series Dokumente der Orgelwelt Bergelt appears mainly as editor, where – as in volume 12 – he contributes comments, but also acts as author.[15] The selection of topics concentrates on rare, partly rediscovered or also endangered source material of particular cultural-historical importance and scientific relevance. In this respect, the series also represents a form of source maintenance and preservation.[16]

In addition to his academic work, Bergelt is also active as an artist, with works including the children's audio book Die klingende Königin,[17] the aphorism collection Herzgeist,[18] and the Toccata à la harmonica, a compositional homage to Parisian street musicians[19] was created.

Publications (selection)

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Autorenwebseite von Wolf Bergelt. 11 March 2021. de.
  2. https://www.orgellandschaftbrandenburg.de/ orgellandschaftbrandenburg.de
  3. Book: Musik international : Instrumentenbau-Zeitschr.. . 0720-0439.
  4. Web site: Wolf Bergelt . Articles on individual organ works and organ builders in the instrument building journal (IbZ) "Musik international" . 11 March 2021.
  5. Book: Wolf Bergelt . Die Mark Brandenburg, eine wiederentdeckte Orgellandschaft . 1989 . 3-921140-32-3 . 11 March 2021 . en .
  6. Book: Wolf Bergelt . Orgelreisen durch die Mark Brandenburg . Books on Demand . 2017 . BoD – Books on Demand . 978-3-7431-5217-5 . 11 March 2021. en.
  7. https://www.freimutselbst.de/labium/orgelhandbuch/ Organ Handbook Brandenburg.
  8. https://www.freimutselbst.de/labium/dokumente/ Documents of the Organ World
  9. Book: Bergelt . Joachim Wagner (1690–1749) – Orgelmacher . 2012 . Verlagsgruppe Schnell & Steiner . 978-3-7954-2562-3 . Regensburg.
  10. https://www.orgellandschaftbrandenburg.de/joachim-wagner/ Jochim Wagner – Werkverzeichnis
  11. Institut für Orgelforschung Brandenburg: Forschung, retrieved 11 March 2021.
  12. Aumüller . Gerhard . Wolf Bergelt: Joachim Wagner (1690–1749), Organ Maker . Organ – Journal für die Orgel . 2012 . 70–72 . de, en, fr . DNB-IDN019338252 . 11 March 2021 . 45.
  13. Wirth . Matthias . 2013 . Bergelt, Wolf: Joachim Wagner (1690–1749), Organbuilder . ISO Journal: The Magazine of the International Society of Organbuilders . 45 . 70–72 . . 11 March 2021 .
  14. December 2012 . Fixstern am Orgelhimmel . dead . Magazin für Denkmalkultur . 22. Jg. . 6 . 74 . . 11 March 2021.
  15. Web site: Scherer-Orgel Bernau . 11 March 2021. de.
  16. Web site: Dokumente. 11 March 2021. de.
  17. Web site: Hörsinn . 11 March 2021. de.
  18. Web site: Herzgeist . 25 November 2019. de.
  19. Web site: Toccata a la harmonica . 11 March 2021. de.

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