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Willi Gundlach
Willi Gundlach (born 15 May 1929) is a German choral conductor
Willi Gundlach
and academic. He taught at the music department of the Technical
University of Dortmund. He researched and edited works by Fanny Born 15 May 1929
Hensel-Mendelssohn. He founded and conducted a chamber choir at Oberhausen,
the university and recorded with them, including operas for the Kurt Free State of
Weill Foundation. Aer his retirement from teaching, he cofounded Prussia, Weimar
and organised a concert series at St. Peter, Syburg, including organ Republic
concerts and vocal concerts with notable performers. Education PH Braunschweig
Musikhochschule
Career Hannover
Technical
Born in Oberhausen, Gundlach studied first to be an elementary
University of
teacher at the Pädagogische Hochschule (PH, School of education) in
Hannover
Braunschweig. He studied to be a teacher of higher education in
Hanover, at both the Musikhochschule and the Technical University. Musikhochschule
He studied musicology in Kiel and at the Musikhochschule Köln, Kiel
promoted to Ph.D. in 1960.[1] Musikhochschule
Köln
Gundlach first taught at the PH Flensburg, then from 1963 at the PH
Occupation Choral conductor
Dortmund. In 1980, he was appointed professor of music and its
pedagogy ("Musik und ihre Didaktik") at the Technical University of Music editor
Dortmund.[1] He published several books on his topics, including Academic
studies of Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn. In 1977, he founded the
Organization Technical
chamber choir of the university (Kammerchor der Universität
University of
Dortmund) and conducted it until 2005, although he retired from
Dortmund
teaching in 1994. He conducted the choir of the university from 1976
Syburger
to 1995. In 1985, he founded an international week of music, Campus
Sonntagskonzerte
cantat (e campus sings), which he directed to 2001.[1]

Gundlach recorded choral music with the Kammerchor, including works by Hugo Distler und Fanny Hensel-
Mendelssohn.[1][2] He conducted a recording of Distler's Choralpassion, Op. 7, for soloists and five-part choir a
cappella, with Peter Kooy as vox Christi, Wilfried Jochens as the Evangelist, and Gerrit Miehlke as Pilate. [3] He
recorded in 1990 two operas by Kurt Weill for the Kurt Weill Foundation, [4] with soloists, the Kammerchor and
orchestra, Der Jasager, wrien in 1930,[5][6] and Down in the Valley, wrien in 1948.[7]

He initiated and cofounded a concert series of bimonthly concerts at the Romanesque church St. Peter in Syburg, the
Syburger Sonntagskonzerte.[8][9][10] e series began in 1998 with the inauguration of a new organ. Performers have
included Heinz Wunderlich, a pupil of Karl Straube and a professor in Hamburg, the composer and organist Wolfgang
Stockmeier, professor of organ and improvisation at the Musikhochschule Köln, and Hao Ständer who taught organ
at the Dortmund University. Among the vocal groups were, besides the Kammerchor, the Alsfelder Vokalensemble,
conducted by Wolfgang Helbich, and the Kewiger Bach-Ensemble, conducted by Wolfgang Kläsener.[8] e 100th
concert was given in 2012.[11]

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Gundlach organised an Offenes Kantatensingen (Open cantata singing) as part of the concert series, regularly on the
Second Sunday in Advent, calling volunteer singers to an all-day rehearsal the day before, [9][12] and a rehearsal with
soloists and orchestra, mostly students of the university. He moderated the event in the candle-lit church, conducting
all who gathered in singing Advent songs and rounds, and conducting the cantata with the prepared project group.
[12][13] Aer a start in 1998 with varied choral music for Christmas, the programming was more and more ambitious.
In 1999, Dieterich Buxtehude's Magnificat was performed, among others.[12] In 2000 the first Bach cantata was tried,
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61, followed in 2001 by Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, and in
2002 by Wachet auf, ru uns die Stimme, BWV 140.[12] In 2003, the ensemble performed a Magnificat in G major by
Georg Philipp Telemann, while in 2004, the prepared cantata was Part VI from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, "Fallt mit
Danken".[14] In 2005, Gundlach conducted the Oratorio de Noël by Camille Saint-Saëns.[14] e choice of 2006 was
Part I from Handel's Messiah, covering Advent and Christmas.[14] In 2007 Gundlach selected Part III from the
Christmas Oratorio, beginning "Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen", in 2008 when the series celebrated its 10th
anniversary, Part I, beginning "Jauchzet frohlocket". [12] Gundlach then passed the cantata series to younger
musicians, but conducted one more Bach cantata in the 100th concert on 6 May 2012, the congratulatory cantata BWV
207, however with a new text wrien for the occasion by Martin Geck.[12]

References
1. "Univ.-Prof. (em.) Dr. phil. Willi Gundlach" (https://www.musik.tu-dortmund.de/institut
/personen/ehemalige-mitarbeiterinnen-und-mitarbeiter/univ-prof-em-dr-phil-willi-gundlach
/?%2Finstitut%2Fpersonen%2Fehemalige-mitarbeiterinnen-und-mitarbeiter%2Funiv-prof-
em-dr-phil-willi-gundlach%2F=) (in German). Technical University of Dortmund. Retrieved
22 November 2017.
2. "Willi Gundlach" (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/willi-gundlach-mn0001636354). AllMusic.
Retrieved 22 November 2017.
3. "Hugo Distler: Choralpassion op.7" (http://oe1.orf.at/programm/20140417/348243).
Funkkolleg Golgotha (in German). ORF. 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
4. "Kammerchor der Universität Dortmund: Ensemble hat seit 20 Jahren einen guten Klang"
(https://idw-online.de/de/news7576). Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (in German). 10
November 1998. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
5. Godfrey, Paul Corfield (2015). "Kurt Weill (1900–1950) / Weill Edition"
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Aug/Weill_v12_C7178.htm).
musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
6. "Der Jasager (1930)" (https://www.kwf.org/pages/ww-der-jasager.html). Kurt Weill
Foundation. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
7. "Down in the Valley (1948)" (https://www.kwf.org/pages/ww-down-in-the-valley.html). Kurt
Weill Foundation. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
8. "Orgel der Ev. Kirche St.Peter, Syburg" (http://www.orgelbau-sebastian.de/syb2.htm).
orgelbau-sebastian.de (in German). Retrieved 29 November 2017.
9. "Sonntagsmusiken leben von der Begeisterung" (https://www.derwesten.de/staedte
/dortmund/sued/sieben-leben-fuer-die-musik-id6430082.html). WZ (in German). 18 April
2008. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
10. "Syburger Sonntagsmusiken / ... eine Konzertreihe in der Ev. Kirche St. Peter zu Dortmund-
Syburg / Archiv" (http://archive.is/aPrrS) (in German). syburger-sonntagsmusiken.de. 2013.
Retrieved 19 January 2013.
11. Meier, Susanne (5 March 2012). "Sieben Leben für die Musik" (https://www.derwesten.de
/staedte/dortmund/sued/sieben-leben-fuer-die-musik-id6430082.html). derwesten.de (in
German). Retrieved 29 November 2017.

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12. 100. Syburger Sonntagsmusik (in German). St. Peter, Syburg. 6 May 2012.
13. Kortmann, Thilo (4 January 2011). "Musikalische Juwelen in St. Peter"
(https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/dortmund/sued/musikalische-juwelen-in-st-peter-
id4125346.html). derwesten.de (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2017.
14. 10 Jahre Syburger Sonntagskonzerte / Jubiläumskonzert / Sonntag Kantate 2008 (in
German). St. Peter, Syburg. 2008.

External links
Willi Gundlach (https://www.discogs.com/artist/Willi+Gundlach) discography at Discogs
Sina Hosbach: Das Liederbuch in der Grundschule: Eine multidimensionale
Bestandsaufnahme (https://books.google.com/books?id=05zGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA351)
R. Larry Todd: Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn (https://books.google.de
/books?id=Sn08DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA400)
Willi Gundlach (ed): Hensel, Fanny geb. Mendelssohn / Zum Fest der Heiligen Caecilia
(Chorpartitur) (https://furore-verlag.de/shop/produkt/506/) Furore Verlag
Syburger Sonntagsmusiken (http://www.syburger-sonntagsmusiken.de/common/team.html)
Willi Gundlach: CAMPUS CANTAT 1085 – 2001 / Der Glanz der Musik und die dezente
Mitwirkung der Administration (https://books.google.de/books?id=VedcBAAAQBAJ&
pg=PA13&) in Bürokratie und Subversion: die Universität in der permanenten Reform auf
dem Weg zu sich selbst : eine Streitschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Dietrich Groh

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