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Jean Faber

Die einzige Quelle in der Gegenwart | The only source of the presence

ca. 1870 – 1948

Jean Faber was most likely born in the 1870s. He studied medicine and worked as a practicing surgeon, but was also interested in music and gave informative lectures about musicians, including Beethoven. He also performed as a pianist at a Beethoven celebration, specifically in Beethoven’s Trio in E-flat major for violin, cello, and piano.3 He also acted as a piano accompanist at other concerts. He was married to Marie-Marguerite Bandermann (1864–October 24, 1918).

Dr. Jean Faber was a versatile man and also involved in social activities. He was president of the Luxembourg Medical Society (until 1947) and a member of the Société Belge de Chirurgie.

He was also president of the supervisory committee of the Music Conservatory and the Harmonie d’Eich. He was on the board of the society Les Amis de la Musique, founded in October 1928, and also on the executive committee of the Red Cross. In 1939, a hospital was built in Siebenbrunnen Castle, and he was to take over its management.

In 1947, he resigned from his presidency for health reasons.

The versatile physician Jean Faber was also active as a composer.

The Institut national de Luxembourg, the literary department of the supra-political Union nationale luxembourgeoise, has just published 30 old and modern songs under the title Vun den He’chten an aus den De’ften, with lyrics primarily by Siggy vu Lëtzebuerg (a pseudonym of Lucien Koenig). Composers such as Jean Pierre Beicht, Gustav Kahnt, Goldschmit, Jean Faber, and other anonymous composers contributed to this work.

At the General Assembly of the Medical Society, the Society’s former president, Dr. Jean Faber, also performed as a pianist: a review, whose author is not stated, states that he played the piano masterfully.

List of works (musical sources)

1. Weltliche Vokalwerke (Chorwerke, Kantaten)

  • Aux Armes (mit Pistonsolo)
  • Berceuse (Td.: Paul Palgen)

2. Klavierlieder/Melodien

  • Chanson d´Amour (Td.: Paul Palgen), Melodie
  • De Lëtzebuerger Stodent (Td.: Putty Stein), Klavierlied
  • De Mouer (Td.: Putty Stein), Melodie
  • De Musti (Td.: Putty Stein), Klavierlied , 1918 ersch.
  • Dem Wirsch seng Wuoden (Td.: Putty Stein), Melodie (UA: 1920 op der Fo’er; von August Donnen gesungen)
  • De Roosnewupp vum Foussballklub (Td.: Putty Stein, 31.12.1916 gedichtet), Melodie
  • Fuesend (Td.: Guillaume Lauff, 9.3.1918 gedichtet,) Melodie (UA: August Donnen)
  • Gräfin Elsa (Td.: Putty Stein), Melodie
  • Lidd fir den Héil opzehänken (Td.: Putty Stein), Melodie von Jean Faber/Louis Beicht
  • Nu looss mer eent sangen (Td.: Putty Stein, 1916 gedichtet), Melodie
  • Prozessionslied
  • Wann et Feierowend schléit (Td.: Putty Stein), Melodie

3. Orchesterwerke

  • D’Fuesent, arr. für Orch. von Jean-Pierre Kemmer

4. Blasorchesterwerke

  • An Amerika (ein Fox-Blues über das gleichnamige Luxemburger Lied: Text von Michel Lentz und Musik von Edmond Lentz)

5. Sammlungen (von Liedern oder Chorwerken)

  • Vun den He´chten an aus den De´ften (= Sammlung von ca. 30 luxemburgischen alten und modernen Liedern von u. a. Gustav Kahnt, Victor Goldschmit und Jean Faber)

6. Werke mit unbekannter Besetzung

  • De Lëtzeburger Stodent (Td.: Putty Stei), als Beiheft zu La Voix des Jeunes

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https://cover.info/en/artist/Jean-Faber


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Lukas Nowak

Lukas Nowak began playing the piano at the age of 6. At 14, he switched to the organ and received church music training from Helmut Kickton. He also learned the piccolo and guitar and acquired basic proficiency in horn and percussion. As a student, he wrote, among other works, choral and poem settings, a four-movement symphony, and a tone poem for organ and large orchestra (“The Prophecy of the Messiah,” premiered in 2004). He also worked as a choir director until he began his career. Since moving to the branch, he has been performing regularly again.

In addition to the general teaching program in Music Physiology and Musician Medicine, Dr. Nowak offers a special consultation hour for musicians by appointment, which is open to all students and faculty at the University of Music and Performing Arts.

https://www.musik.uni-mainz.de/studium/abteilungen/musikergesundheit


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Georg Weidinger

Since 1994, freelance composer and pianist, giving lectures on his own work and the Iannis Xenakis-Stochastics connection between scientific thought and composition, and lecturing on Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Since 1996, practicing as a physician.
In 1998, he founded the label “klaviermusik.at” and has released numerous CDs since then.
In 2000, the CD “Vienna Concert 2000” was released by Extraplatte.
Since 2002, he has had his own practice for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Vienna.

2004 CD “Quiet Nights” released on Ö1
2009 CD “Bright Side” released on Ö1
2011 Book “The Healing of the Center”
2013 Practice relocated to Wiener Neustadt
2014 Book “Daily Healing” and CD “Music for Healing the Center” (Ennsthaler)
2015 Book “The Chinese Medicine Cabinet”; founding of the Austrian Society for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Wiener Neustadt, President of the OGTCM

2016 Own TCM courses in Wiener Neustadt, CD “Quiet Moments”
2017 CD “Bach-Hindemith” on klaviermusik.at; book “The Golden Way of the Center” (self-published)
2018 Practice in Bad Sauerbrunn, CDs “Blossoms of Romanticism” and “Requiem for Franziska” and book “Cookbook for Healing the Center”

2019 CD “SONATA”, book and CD “The Sound of the Center”, CD “Games of Orchestra”, String Quartet I & II, Symphony No. 1 (“DISTROFIA”), debut novel “LAUFHAUS” with audio CD “LAUFHAUS Book Music”
2020 CD “Mozart Plus”, CD “Vienna Calling”, Symphony No. 2 (“FANFARA”); books: “Chinese Medicine Against Cancer”, “World Yoga”
2021 CD “Vienna Calling”, books: “The Miracle of the Immune System”, “Cookbook for Healing the Center II”

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

1995: Lower Austrian Music Factory Prize and commission for a choral-orchestral piece
1996 and 1998: First Austrian to win the Luigi Russolo International Composition Competition in Varese, Italy.

https://www.dieweidingers.com

https://www.youtube.com/@georgweidinger/featured

http://www.georgweidinger.com

http://www.klaviermusik.at

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Weidinger


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Ian Brunt

The 49-bell Carillon of St Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh is the largest such instrument in Ireland and Britain.

Dr Ian Brunt was Director of The Lanchester Early Music Festival and City Carillonneur of
Newcastle Upon Tyne
, regularly giving concerts and recitals on organ, carillon, harpsichord
and fortepiano.
He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 1979-
1981 as flautist, composer and general musician and has specialised in the baroque flute
for over thirty years
. He performs with Hexham Collegium Musicum, Anglia Concertante,
Durham Sinfonietta, Tyneside Baroque Players, Durham Baroque, The Hallgate Ensemble,
among others, playing chamber music and giving concerto performances and has recorded
six commercial solo albums on harpsichord, organ and carillon. Recent new music composed includes a pair of Notturni for classical guitar, a setting of George Herbert’s “My
Words and Thoughts” and a solo organ concert piece “Fantazia on a Melody from the Scottish Psalter (1615).” In 2007 he was photographed for The North East Passion Archive project, the images held by Tyne and Wear Museums at The Discovery Museum, Blandford
Square, Newcastle and also accessible on the Internet.

In a tribute to Dr Brunt, Michael Boyd of the British Carillon Society, wrote: “Ian was proud of his Northumberland heritage – he was an exceptionally competent player of the Northumbrian small pipes.

“I believe he wanted to instil a sense of community pride in the Edith Adamson memorial carillon, the first and only carillon to be installed in a civic centre of a major city in Britain. His repertoire also reflected his deep personal connection with the North of England.”

Dr Brunt championed the music of 18th-century Newcastle composer

Charles Avison and was an advocate of folk music on the carillon.

2021: News has just come through of the death this morning at the age of fifty-eight of Ian Brunt, Carillonneur of the Newcastle Civic Centre. Despite his busy workload as a G.P. and ongoing health issues, Ian was also dedicated to his beloved carillon art. He once described how he would swim seventy lengths five times a week in order to keep fit enough to play the carillon, which he claimed was “like going for a five-mile run”! He gave a memorable guest recital in Cobh in July 2007, when this photo was taken. This gentle and cultured man will be sorely missed and long remembered by his colleagues and friends. Requiescat in pace.

https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/our-city/edith-adamson-carillon-newcastle-civic-centre

https://www.facebook.com/Cobh49bellcarillon

https://www.discogs.com/de/release/7117467-Dr-Ian-Brunt-High-Baroque

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/two-church-organs-among-instruments-found-in-gps-living-room-going-under-auction-3173179

But in addition to being a doctor, he was also a composer and an accomplished musician on a variety of instruments, including piano and flute.

https://www.musicdurham.co.uk/reviews/organ-recital-dr-ian-brunt

The Edith Adamson Memorial Carillon, Newcastle Civic Centre
The Edith Adamson Memorial Carillon, Newcastle Civic Centre
The Edith Adamson Memorial Carillon, constructed in 1966 by J.Taylor and Co and installed in 1967, was given to the city by James Wilfred Adamson in memory of his wife. James (‘Jimmy’) Adamson started his paints business from a horse and cart, and went on to be a driving force in the establishment of British Paints Ltd, see LinkExternal link . The carillon, see LinkExternal link has 25 bells, the largest of which weighs 71cwt, 1qr, 13lb – which if my maths serves me correctly is 825lb, or 374.214kg – and is tuned to A major. Recitals take place on Saturdays at 2pm and occasionally on Thursday at 7pm – the Carilloneur is Dr Ian Brunt, who swims 70 lengths five times a week in order to keep fit enough to play the carillon, which takes so much physical energy that he describes it as ‘like going for a five-mile run’, see LinkExternal link . The carillon tower has twelve seahorses and is topped by the three castles of the Newcastle coat-of-arms, see LinkExternal link .


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Rupa Marya

Rupa Marya is a doctor, activist, musician and writer based in San Francisco. She is a professor of medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine[1] and co-author of the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (with Raj Patel).[2] She is currently suspended from teaching and banned from the UCSF campus after what the university described as the “targeting” of a first-year student from Israel in a social media post. The post cited speculation from the Israeli student’s classmates about potential service in the Israel Defence Forces and possible involvement in Israeli war crimes.

Marya was born in California to immigrant Indian parents. Her childhood was spent in the US, France, and India.[3] She attended the University of California San Diego, earning degrees in theater and molecular biology, before attending medical school at Georgetown University. It was during her residency at UCSF that she began writing and performing music.

Marya is the composer and front-woman of the band Rupa & the April Fishes[20] and was a lead plaintiff in the lawsuit that brought the song “Happy Birthday to You” back to the public domain.[21][22]

Rupa & the April Fishes’ debut album, “Extraordinary Rendition“, reflects on the societal impact of the September 11 attacks, while her subsequent album, “Este Mundo,” draws from her interactions with undocumented immigrants facing severe health challenges.[23] In “Este Mundo,” Rupa’s lyrics explore themes of longing, loss, and love, maintaining a thoughtful and intimate perspective.[24] Her music incorporates influences from jazztangoklezmerLatin American, and Balkan music.[25]

Marya has said her sense of justice was awakened in childhood as she witnessed class differences in India, and learned about colonization and genocide perpetrated against Native Americans in the United States.[5] She is involved in numerous organizations working at the intersection of social justice and health, including the Do No Harm Coalition[6] and Deep Medicine Circle.[7] She was recognized in 2021 with the Women Leaders in Medicine Award by the American Medical Student Association. She was a reviewer of the American Medical Association’s Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity. In 2019, Marya was among the physicians appointed by Governor Newsom to the Healthy California for All Commission.[8][9]

Marya has been vocal on social media as well as in her capacity as a medical professional regarding violations of Palestinian human rights.[10] After Dr. Avromi Kanal sent an email to hospital staff arguing against a cease-fire resolution, Marya publicly described this email as an “expression of anti-Arab hate” that prompted doctors of South Asian and North African descent “to say they do not feel safe in his presence.”

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Ronny Tekal

Ronny Tekal (born Ronny Teutscher on July 23, 1969 in Vienna) is an Austrian physician, cabaret artist, medical journalist, radio producer, author and co-founder of the medical cabaret Peter & Tekal.

Dr. Ronny Tekal is a general practitioner, medical cabaret artist, radio producer, and author. His satirical columns appear in “Ärzte-Woche,” “Ärztemagazin,” the Swiss “Weltwoche,” and various health magazines.
He is the Ö1 radio doctor for Austrian Broadcasting. He is a frequently booked keynote speaker, communications trainer, and moderator at medical symposia and conferences.

With the medical cabaret comedy duo Peter & Tekal, which he co-founded, he has brought laughter to around 500,000 patients (sorry, it’s a habit!) and audiences. He lives near Vienna.

Tekal studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in medicine in 1995. He has been a general practitioner since 2000. He lives in Mauerbach near Vienna.

Even during his studies, he composed sing-alongs for school classes, as well as the musical “Hospital,” which premiered in Vienna in 1992. This was followed by compositions for musicals by the children’s theater group “Die Stachelbären” at the Vienna Theater am Alsergrund, under the direction of Andreas Hutter, and for the play “Coccinella” by the Theater Impetus.

In 1995, he founded the cabaret duo Peter & Teutscher with communications scientist Norbert Peter. Since 2006, the group has focused exclusively on medical topics, choosing the name “Medical Cabaret.” Similar to the work of German physicians and cabaret artists Eckart von Hirschhausen, Lüder Wohlenberg, and Ludger Stratmann, their work focuses on satirical explorations of doctors, patients, and the medical system. Elements of the seminar cabaret created by Austrian psychologist Bernhard Ludwig also appear.

In 2000, they won the audience vote as the best Austrian participants at the Vienna Goldener Kleinkunstnagel (Golden Cabaret Nail) and twice received the Munich Kabarett Kaktus (Cabaret Kaktus). In 2013, the cabaret duo’s name was changed to Peter & Tekal.[2]

A portrait of the artists with excerpts from their programs was shown several times on ORF and 3sat in 2001, and the program Seitensprung (Side Jump) was also broadcast on Premiere Austria. In 2013, the program Patientenflüsterer (Patient Whisperer) was broadcast on ORF III as part of the Hyundai Cabaret Days. In 2016, he appeared on ORF with Echt krank! (Really Sick!) as part of Kabarett im Turm (Cabaret in the Tower).

Tekal is a member of the ORF radio science editorial team, an author, speaker, and creator of contributions for Ö1, primarily for Ö1 Radiodoktor.

His satirical column, “Side Effects,” has been published weekly in Ärzte-Woche (Springer-Verlag) since 2008.

As a founding member of PULS – Association for Combating Sudden Cardiac Death, Tekal headed the organization between 2008 and 2013. During this time, as part of this initiative, in addition to major first aid events in Vienna, the first publicly accessible defibrillators for laypersons (AEDs) were installed. The goal of making Vienna heart-safe was implemented jointly with the City of Vienna and the major emergency services. In 2013, there were over 300 defibrillators registered in the defibrillator network in Vienna at subway stations, shopping centers, the airport, public buildings, and police stations.[4] At the 4th German Interdisciplinary Emergency Medicine Congress in 2013, the presentation of the PULS campaign “Vienna Becomes HEART-Safe” was awarded first place.

Tekal, together with the second PULS founder, emergency physician Roman Fleischhackl, received the Vienna Helper Prize 2013 from the Vienna city government.

https://www.ronnytekal.com

https://www.medizinkabarett.at/peter-tekal

https://www.youtube.com/@petertekal6051/featured

https://www.youtube.com/@peterundtekal

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronny_Tekal


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Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953[1]) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen,[2] an American novelist and retired general physician.

Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While growing up in San Diego, California, Gerritsen often dreamt of writing her own Nancy Drew novels.[4] Her first name is Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance novels.[2] Although she longed to be a writer, her family had reservations about the sustainability of a writing career, prompting Gerritsen to choose a career in medicine.[5] In 1975, Gerritsen graduated from Stanford University with a BA in anthropology, intrigued by the ranges of human behavior.[6] She went on to study medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.[5] She received her medical degree in 1979 and started work as a physician in HonoluluHawaii.[7][8]

While on maternity leave, she submitted a short story to a statewide fiction contest in the magazine Honolulu. Her story, “On Choosing the Right Crack Seed“, won first prize and she received $500.[7][9] The story focused on a young male reflecting on a difficult relationship with his mother. Gerritsen claimed the story allowed her to deal with her own childhood turmoil, including the repeated suicide attempts of her mother.[7]

Inspired by the romance novels she enjoyed reading while working as a doctor, Gerritsen’s first novels were romantic thrillers.[7] After two unpublished “practice novels”, Call After Midnight was bought by publisher Harlequin Intrigue in 1986 and published a year later.[10] Gerritsen subsequently wrote eight romantic thrillers for Harlequin Intrigue and Harper Paperbacks.

In 1996, Gerritsen wrote Harvest, her first medical thriller.[10] The plot was inspired by a conversation with a retired homicide detective who had recently traveled in Russia. He told her young orphans were vanishing from Moscow streets, and police believed the kidnapped children were being shipped abroad as organ donors.[11] Harvest was Gerritsen’s first hardcover novel, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list at number thirteen.[12] Following Harvest, Gerritsen wrote three more bestselling medical thrillers: Life Support,[13] Bloodstream,[14] and Gravity.

In 2001, Gerritsen’s first crime thriller, The Surgeon, was published and introduced homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Although a secondary character in The Surgeon, Rizzoli has been a central focus of 13 subsequent novels (see below) pairing her with medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles.[16] The books inspired the Rizzoli & Isles television series starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.[17] Gerritsen also made an appearance in the series’ final season as a writer who helps Isles establish herself in the literary field

Although most of her recent books have been in the Rizzoli/Isles series, in 2007 Gerritsen wrote a stand-alone historical thriller titled The Bone Garden. A tale of gruesome murders, the book is set primarily in 1830s Boston and includes a character based on Oliver Wendell Holmes.[19][20]

Gerritsen’s books have been published in 40 countries and have sold 25 million copies.

Film and television

Gerritsen co-wrote the story and screenplay for Adrift, which aired on CBS as Movie of the Week in 1993 and starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Greenwood

She is also the composer of the musical piece “Incendio” for violin and piano, a waltz that features in the plot of her novel “Playing With Fire”.[24] The composition has been recorded by violinist Susanne Hou.

Gerritsen’s mother told her traditional Chinese stories, e.g. about Monkey King. Her novel The Silent Girl uses Chinese martial arts and traditional motives in contemporary Boston. One of the victims is a Chinese chef.

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Jussi Adler-Olsen

Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen (born 2 August 1950) is a Danish crime fiction writer, a publisher, editor, and entrepreneur, best known for his Department Q series. He made his debut as a nonfiction writer in 1984, and as a fiction writer in 1997.

Born in Copenhagen, he was the youngest of four children and the only boy. Son of the successful sexologist and psychiatrist Henry Olsen, he spent his childhood with his family in doctors’ official residences at several mental hospitals across Denmark. In his late teens, he played in a couple of pop groups as lead guitarist. He graduated from high school in Rødovre (1970), and studied medicine, sociology (passed History of Modern Politics), and film making (exam.art.) until 1978.

After a managerial career, he began to write full-time in 1995.

Adler-Olsen’s novels have been sold in more than 40 languages. Outside Denmark he has enjoyed particular success in Norway, Germany, and the Netherlands, being a frequent visitor on the top of the bestseller lists, e.g., on The New York Times Paperback bestseller list. Adler-Olsen’s books have been on the bestseller lists in numerous other countries including Austria, Iceland, France, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jussi_Adler-Olsen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jussi_Adler-Olsen


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Antti Hernesniemi

Antti Samuli Hernesniemi (born 1950 Kannus) is a Doctor of Medicine (M.D., University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine 1978; M.D., University of Oulu, Department of Public Health and General Medicine 1999) and a Master of Musicology (Åbo Akademi, Institute of Musicology 2016) and a composer-pianist.

He is artist

He is Ethnologist

https://personal.fimnet.fi/laakari/antti.hernesniemi/Antti_Hernesniemi/science-ethnomedicine.html

and last-not-least composer

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Gloria Bruni

Gloria Bruni (born Brünhild Ulonska in 1955 in Oschersleben) is a German singer (soprano), violinist, composer and dentist.

Gloria Bruni is the daughter of a physicist and grew up with her sister in Hamburg.[3] She graduated from the Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium in 1973. She received piano and violin lessons as a child and sang during her school years. In addition to studying dentistry and obtaining a doctorate,[4] she also studied composition with Diether de la Motte and singing with Naan Pöld in Hamburg, as well as in Munich and Milan.[3][5]

Bruni played as a violinist in the Hamburg Camerata Accademica and the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, and performed on tours at venues including Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[3]

As a singer, she was signed by Polydor and performed at the Puccini Festival and La Scala in Milan, with the London Mozart Players at the Dresden Semperoper and at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.[3]

Bruni is married, has a daughter and lives in Hamburg.

courtesy Gloria Bruni´s press kit

Bruni composes primarily for choir and vocal soloists. Her compositions often incorporate elements of folk or sacred music, combining different musical genres.

Her Requiem a Roma was premiered in the Holy Year 2000[6] as a commission from the Vatican in the church of Sant’Ignazio[4] and excerpts were also performed before Pope John Paul II.[3] In 2008, the children’s opera Pinocchio, which she composed, premiered in the Laeiszhalle with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.[7][3] Further performances of the work followed, including at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and the Teatro Regio di Parma.[7][8] The musical The Thorn Birds (“The Thorn Birds”), based on the libretto by Colleen McCullough, premiered in 2009 by the Wales Theatre Company, followed by a tour of Great Britain.[3][9] Other works include the fairytale mini-opera The Enchanted Pancake and Symphony No. 1 – Ring Parable (after G. E. Lessing’s Nathan the Wise), which also premiered in the Laeiszhalle.[10] This symphony has been performed not only as a concert, but also several times as a ballet.

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