Franz Surges
Franz Surges (11 October 1958 – 20 September 2015) was a German composer and musician.
Franz Surges
- Born
- 1958 · Remagen.
- Died
- 2015 · Eschweiler.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- composer · conductor · choir director · music teacher · church musician
- Education
- Catholic University of Church Music St. Gregorius
- Languages
- German
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Education
Education
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.
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Franz Surges (11 October 1958 – 21 September 2015) is described as a composer, church musician, choral conductor and music teacher in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Franz Surges was born in Remagen (11 October 1958) and died in Eschweiler (21 September 2015).
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Eschweiler.
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Oeuvre
Surges composed works in various genres: choral (male chorus, female chorus, mixed chorus), orchestral, chamber (strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, organ), instrumental and vocal.
Position and awards
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
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