Transcript Ludwig Bonvin S.J.

Ludwig Bonvin S.J.
1850-1939
LUDWIG BONVIN
Medicine & Law (Early years)
Priest
Composer
Educator
Writer
February 17, 1850
Born in Siders, Switzerland
Switzerland
1862-1870
College in Sion,
Switzerland
1870-1872
1872-1874
Medicine
Vienna University, Austria
Law, Sion, Switzerland
1874 1876
1878
1881
1882
1885
1886
Entered Society of Jesus,
Exaeten, Holland
Humanities, Wynandsrade, Holland
Philosophy, Bylenbeek, Holland
Prefect of Discipline, Austria
Theology, Ditton Hall, England
Ordained Priest, Ditton Hall
Tertianship, Portico, England
COMPOSITIONS
Sacred:
3 Hymnals
10 Masses
52 Motets
Litanies and offertories
COMPOSITIONS
Secular:
1 symphony
6 Tone Poems
Choral Works with Orchestra
11 Lieder Cycles
17 Chamber Ensembles
4 Operas for Children
Solos for violin, flute, organ, and piano
Jesu dulcis memoria
Missa festiva in honorem S.
Ignatii
Gohebener Stimmung
Publishers
Anton Boehm & Sohn, Augsburg
Alfred Coppenrath’s Verlan, Regenensburg
Supplement in Singenberger’s Caecilian
Fischer & Bros., New York
Gebrueder Hug & Co., Leipzig
F.E.C. Leuckart, Leipzig
L. Schwann, Duesseldorf
F. Kistner & C.F.W. Siegel, Leipzig
BUFFALO - 1887-1939
1887-1895, 1897-1905 C.C. Choir
1888-1907 C.C.Orchestra
1892-1929 Confessor, St. Michael’s
1895-1897, 1909-1910 C.C. French
1922-1929 Sacred Heart Academy
Orchestra
HONOR FOR FATHER
BONVIN
Eminent Musician, Member of Canisius
College Faculty Invited to Take Part in
International Musical Congress at
Straussburg - His Views on Motu
Proprio
CHURCH MUSIC
CONGRESS
Great International Gathering of
Musicians to be held at Straussburg Pius X’s Suggestion
Ideas of Rev. Ludwig Bonvin, S.J.,
Delegate to Congress, on What the
Reform in Church Music Implies - A
Moderate View
MOTU PROPRIO
Musical issues
The role of plainchant in the Church
The permissibility of mixed choirs in the
Church
“Hosanna”
English-Latin Hymn Book
(1910)
Rev. and Dear Father Bonvin,
Accept my congratulations on your new
Hymnbook entitled “Hosanna.” It is a great
satisfaction to find a hymn book in which sound
Catholic doctrine is set to melodies that are
beautiful and which breath a true Catholic spirit.
The appendix containing approved prayers and
devotions is a happy conception and adds much
to the usefulness of the book.
This book merits a very wide circulation; I
trust it will receive it.
Faithfully yours, Charles H. Colton, Bishop
CANISIUS COLLEGE MUSIC
1887-1895, 1897-1905
Directed Choir
1888-1907
Directed Orchestra
Canisius College Orchestra
1890-91
Local Performances and
Honors
1934 - Buffalo Symphony Orchestra
(Symphony No. 2)
1935 - Buffalo Symphony Orchestra (Ballade)
1928-1939 - Sacred Heart Academy (4
operas)
1969 - Honored by having a bust placed in
Kleinhans Music Hall
1985 - BPO goes to College Series, Canisius
College (Festzug)
The Caecilia - 1931
Died - February 18, 1939
LET’S GATHER UP THE TOIL
OF YEARS
Let’s gather up the toil of years
And weave it into song,
It’s diamond light will mark the path
Of us who march along.
Come, let us toast the grand old man,
A brothers’ song of praise:
‘Tis two score years and one score more,
God bless his length of days.
The silent song of sixty years
No bannered hosts may sing,
But trumpet-tongued thro’ Sion’s halls
The pealing anthems ring.
His broken frame our stronger steps
Will strengthen as we plod;
Long has he toiled for Christ our King
This veteran of God.
LUDWIG BONVIN
1850-1939