Werner Jacob
Werner Jacob was a German organist, composer and academic.Career
Werner Fritz Hermann Herbert Jacob was born in Mengersgereuth, Thuringia. He studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg to 1961, organ with Walter Kraft, harpsichord, composition with Wolfgang Fortner, and conducting with Carl Ueter. He studied organ also privately with Anton Nowakowski.
Jacob was the church musician at St. Sebald in Nuremberg from 1969 to 1991. He was from 1985 to 2003 the artistic director of the .
Jacob was professor of artistic organ playing at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart from 1976 to 1998. He was a composer in many genres. A symphony 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 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.Compositions
- Fantasie, Adagio und Epilog
- Improviation sur E.B.
- Metamorphosen über Themen aus Max Regers op.135b
- Cinque Pezzi sacri
- Suscipe verbum 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
- Quartet for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
- De visione resurrectionis for mixed choir, baritone solo, two groups of percussion and organ
- Telos nomou for spreaker and instruments
- Babel for speaker, five soloists and mixed choir
- Canticum II – Canticum Canticorum for soloists, choir and instrumentalists
- Canticum III – Canticum Caritatis "Wenn ich mit Menschen und Engelszungen redete" for soprano, two gongs and tamtam
Recordings
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Das Orgelwerk, Emi-Classics
- Max Reger, Die großen Orgelwerke, Emi-Classics
- Orgelmusik der Familie Bach, Wagnerorgel im Dom zu Brandenburg, ETERNA 8 26 869, 1977
