Werner Jacob (4 March 1938 – 23 May 2006) was a German organist, composer and academic.

Career

Werner Fritz Hermann Herbert Jacob was born in Mengersgereuth,

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. He studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg to 1961, organ with Walter Kraft,

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, composition with

Wolfgang Fortner Wolfgang Fortner (12 October 1907 – 5 September 1987) was a German composer, academic composition teacher and conductor. Life and career Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense ...

, and conducting with Carl Ueter. He studied organ also privately with Anton Nowakowski. Jacob was the church musician at St. Sebald in

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from 1969 to 1991. He was from 1985 to 2003 the artistic director of the (ION, International week of organ music). Jacob was professor of artistic organ playing (''Künstlerisches Orgelspiel'') at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart from 1976 to 1998. He was a composer in many genres. A

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in five movements was unfinished when he died in Nuremberg.

Awards

Jacob was awarded the in 1983. He received in 1993 the , and in 2003

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Compositions

* ''Fantasie, Adagio und Epilog'' * ''Improviation sur E.B.'' (

Ernst Bloch Ernst Simon Bloch (; ; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms: Karl Jahraus, Jakob Knerz) was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinker ...

) (1970) * ''Metamorphosen über Themen aus Max Regers op.135b'' (1975) * ''Cinque Pezzi sacri'' * ''Suscipe verbum'' (1996) for horn in F and orgel after a responsorium of the "Maulbronn-Lichtentahler Antiphonale" * ''...sine nomine super nominam...I'', ''Fantasia per organo, timpani e altri strumenti a percussione'' (1985) * Quartet for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1960) * ''De visione resurrectionis'' for mixed choir, baritone solo, two groups of percussion and organ (1966) * ''Telos nomou'' for spreaker and instruments * ''Babel'' for speaker, five soloists and mixed choir * ''Canticum II'' – Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) for soloists, choir and instrumentalists * ''Canticum III'' – Canticum Caritatis "Wenn ich mit Menschen und Engelszungen redete" for soprano, two gongs and tamtam (1991)

Recordings

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, ''Das Orgelwerk'' (complete organ works), Emi-Classics *

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University Chu ...

, ''Die großen Orgelwerke'', Emi-Classics * ''Orgelmusik der Familie Bach'', Wagnerorgel im Dom zu Brandenburg, ETERNA 8 26 869, 1977

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacob, Werner 1938 births 2006 deaths People from Sonneberg (district) German classical organists Musicians from Thuringia 20th-century German organists 20th-century German male musicians 20th-century German classical musicians German male classical organists Academic staff of the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany