Jörg Ewald Dähler

Jörg Ewald Dähler
Born	(1933-03-16)16 March 1933 Bern, Switzerland
Died	3 November 2018(2018-11-03) (aged 85) Bern, Switzerland

Jörg Ewald Dähler (16 March 1933 – 3 November 2018),^[1] was a Swiss conductor, harpsichordist, forte piano player and composer.

Life

Born in Bern, Dähler, son of the reformed pastor Karl Walter Dähler (1903-1986), grew up in Langnau im Emmental. He then attended the teacher training college in Hofwil. At the Hochschule für Musik in Bern, he graduated as a teacher of piano and then studied harpsichord at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau.

He also taught Basso continuo, chamber music and choral conducting at the Berne Conservatory of Music and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Among his pupils are Olive Emil Wetter, Hans Eugen Frischknecht. From 1965 to 1998, he conducted concerts in Bern, at the Bätterkinden Gasthof Krone and the Hindelbank castle and from 1974 onwards, the Bern Chamber Choir.^[2]

He also practised drawing. He illustrated two collections of short stories by his father, written in the German dialect of Bern. : "Momou das git’s" (Langnau im Emmental, 1983^[3]) and Ou das het’s ggä (idem, 1986).^[4]

Works

• Das Passionsgeschehen nach dem Evangelisten Lukas. Für 1–8-stimmig gemischten Chor, Sprecher, Posaunenquartett und Orgel. 1987.
• En tant qu'éditeur:^[5]
  • Tomaso Albinoni, Concerto en ré majeur op. 7 n° 1
  • François Devienne, 6 Sonates, opus 24 pour basson et basse continue - Accolade-Musikverlag.
  • Galuppi, Magnificat en sol
  • Vivaldi, Concerto en la majeur
  • Vivaldi, Concerto pour 2 trompettes, cordes et basse continue en do majeur

Recordings

• Bach, Flute Sonata in E major, BWV 1035 - Peter Lukas Graf, flute (Claves Records CD 50-401)
• Bach, Goldberg Variations (1986, Claves)
• Devienne, Six Sonatas for bassoon and basso continuo (Claves CD 50-9207)
• Galuppi, Musiche Veneziane, Concerti e Sinfonie (1976, Claves CD 508306) OCLC 1040113294

Galuppi, Baldassare "Passatempo al Cembalo" - Sonatas for the Harpsichord. - Claves D - 603 (LP) (1976).

• Keiser, Markus Passion - Gemischter Chor Zweisimmen (Claves)
• Schubert, Winterreise - Ernst Haefliger, tenor (September 1980, Claves) OCLC 890804017
• Schubert, Schwanengesang - Ernst Haefliger, tenor (1985, Claves) OCLC 637752983
• Schubert, Sonatas in A major and A minor D 664 - on a Brodmann piano, 1820 (March 1978, Claves) OCLC 20868313
• Schubert, Sonatas D 605a, D 960 (1980, Claves) OCLC 900320095
• Schubert, Impromptus, op. 90 and 142 (July 1975, Claves) OCLC 953014707
• Schubert, Trios with piano D 898 and D 28 (12-15 novembre 1990, Claves) OCLC 659311465
• Vivaldi, Concerto in B minor op. 3 N 10 for 4 violins, cello, strings and harpsichord (1970, Claves)^[6] on Music Brain

References

1. Der Bund
2. on Vernerkammerchor
3. OCLC 10457663
4. OCLC 74985682Jörg-Ewald Dähler ist gestorben
5. www.musinfo.ch
6. Jörg Ewald Dähler

External links

• Literature by and about Jörg Ewald Dähler in the German National Library catalogue
• Jörg Ewald Dähler discography at Discogs