Franz Surges

Franz Surges (born 11 October 1958 in Remagen, Germany) is a German composer and musician.

Contents 1 Education 2 Position and awards 3 Oeuvre 4 Literature 5 External links

Education

Surges studied at the Episcopial School for Church Music, Aachen and Conservatoire Cologne, Department Aachen. He took his 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 master classes resp. music academies, e.g. by Jean Guillou, Piet Kee, Guy Bovet, Harald Vogel, Monserrat Torrent.

Position and awards

Since 1981 Franz Surges has been 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 award, 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

Franz Surges has composed works in various genres: choral (male chorus, female chorus, mixed chorus), orchestral, chamber (strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, organ), instrumental and vocal.

Literature

• Anthology of information about Franz Surges (German)

External links

• Verlag Dohr – biography and list of works

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