Franz Surges
Franz Surges (11 October 1958 – 20 September 2015) was a German composer and musician.[1]
Education[edit]
Surges was born in Remagen, Germany. He studied at the Episcopal School for Church Music, Aachen, and at the Cologne Conservatoire, Department Aachen. He took the 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 masterclasses resp. music academies, e.g. by Jean Guillou, Piet Kee, Guy Bovet, Harald Vogel, Monserrat Torrent.
Position and awards[edit]
From 1981 Franz Surges was a church musician at St. Antony, Eschweiler-Roehe (since 2006 also St. Michael, Eschweiler), composer, choir director and music teacher, among others, for church-musical (so-called C-exams).
Franz Surges obtained a number of prizes and awards, 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", Passau, Germany, 2002
- First Prize composition contest in the town of Siegburg, 2006
Oeuvre[edit]
Surges composed works in various genres: choral (male chorus, female chorus, mixed chorus), orchestral, chamber (strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, organ), instrumental and vocal.
Literature[edit]
- Anthology of information about Franz Surges (in German)
References[edit]
- ^ "Große Trauer: Komponist Franz Surges stirbt im Alter von 57 Jahren" (in German). Aachener Zeitung. 21 September 2015. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
External links[edit]
- Verlag Dohr – biography and list of works
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