Church music at St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden

 

Gabriel Dessauer

Born in Wuerzburg, Gabriel Dessauer studied Church Music and organ in Munich with Diethard Hellmann and Franz Lehrndorfer. He finished his studies with the diploma “masterclass”.

Since 1981 he serves as Director of Music at St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden , the main Catholic Church in the capital of Hesse . With the church choir (120 members) he has conducted major works by Mendelssohn (Elias), Brahms (Requiem), Verdi (Requiem), Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

Dessauer concertizes regularly in Europe and the US. Here he has played recitals in Washington (National Cathedral), New York (St. Patrick's Cathedral), Andover (Methuen Hall) and Portland /Me (Merrill Auditorium), Los Angeles (First Congregational Church, Catholic Cathedral). In 2004 he presented a workshop about the Choral music of Max Reger (who was member of Dessauers parish when he lived in Wiesbaden ) for the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Los Angeles . In 2005 he played again at the Kotzschmar Organ in Portland/ME and at the Spreckels Organ at Balboa Park in San Diego/CA.

As member of the music faculty he teaches Organ at the Gutenberg University in Mainz (Musikhochschule Rheinland-Pfalz).

His Organ Recordings:

• Orgel-Feuerwerk: Lemare, Ogden, Holst, Elgar, Liszt, Bach, Jongen, Vierne
• Orgel-Feuerwerk II: Van Hulse, Widor, Mozart, Gárdonyi, Lloyd Webber, Ruter, Elmore Bratton, Mulet, Reger
• Orgel-Feuerwerk III: Heaps, Bossi, Joplin, Leighton, Hendrie, Yon, Van Hulse, Rawsthorne, Reubke
• Orgel-Feuerwerk IV: Rawsthorne, Dupré, Gardner, Bach, Eben, Bédard, Höller, J. Strauss
• Orgel-Feuerwerk V: Anderson, Van Hulse, Vierne, Lefébure-Wely
• Kontraste: Holzmann, Tournemire, Ogden, Vierne, Lemare, Glass (Dance No.2)
• Max Reger: Introduktion, Passacaglia and Fuge e-minor op. 127, Psalm 100
• Romantische Orgelkonzerte: Bossi (Konzert a-minor), Rheinberger (Konzert g-minor)

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Organ concerts with Gabriel Dessauer 2008

Samstag, 13.2.2010, 12 Uhr
Dillenburg, Herz-Jesu
Heitere Orgelmusik zur Marktzeit
Gabriel Dessauer, Orgel

Freitag, 4. Juni 2010 … Uhr
Klausen, Pfarr- und Wallfahrtskirche Maria Heimsuchung
Orgelkonzert im Rahmen des Rheinland-Pfalz Kultursommer
Gabriel Dessauer, Orgel

Samstag, 17. Juli 2010, Nachmittag
Rom, San Paolo entro le mura
International organ series
Gabriel Dessauer, Orgel

Freitag, 30. Juli 2010, 19.30 Uhr
Magdeburg, Dom
Orgelkonzert Gabriel Dessauer

Dienstag, 10. August 2010, 20.30 Uhr
Brügge, St. Salvator-Kathedrale
Orgelkonzert Gabriel Dessauer

Samstag, 25. September 2010, 18.30 Uhr
Marburg, Stunde der Orgel
Oboe und Orgel
Leonie und Gabriel Dessauer

Samstag, 23. Oktober 2010, 20.00 Uhr
Sorrento, Chiesa San Francesco
Orgelkonzert Gabriel Dessauer

 

Contact

Gabriel Dessauer
Pfarramt St. Bonifatius
Luisenstr. 31
D-65185 Wiesbaden
Germany
Tel.: (+49.) 611 236 44 86
E- Mail: GDessauer@t-online.de