Passage of Nostalgia: The Life and Work of Jacobus Kloppers, A

Martina Viljoen

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Jacobus Kloppers, an eminent composer, organist, pedagogue, and scholar, significantly contributed to musicological and organ teaching in South Africa and Canada and, in the latter context, art music, and liturgical composition. A Passage of Nostalgia – The Life and Work of Jacobus Kloppers, as a symbolic gesture, constitute recognition of his work both in South Africa and Canada.This publication is unique in that, apart from relevant disciplinary perspectives, biographical and autobiographical narrative, and anecdote, all constitute a necessary means through which the authors illuminate Kloppers’ compositional process and its creative outcomes. In this regard, Kloppers generously dedicated his time to the project to make information on his life and work available, often in complex ways. This retrospective input supports the work offered as an authentic, self-reflective recounting of a life of dedicated service in music.The construct of nostalgia as an overarching theme to this volume on some level denotes Kloppers’ position of cultural and religious ‘insidedness’ and ‘outsidedness’. However, apart from representing a return to a lost and challenging past, the composer’s creative work affirms his individuality, sense of artistic self, and propensity for spiritual acceptance and tolerance. Moreover, nostalgia in his oeuvre takes on importance as a rhetorical artistic practice by which continuity is as central as discontinuity.

Sujets

• Littérature Sud-Africaine
• Littérature sud-africaine
• Musicology
• Dialectic
• Sonata form
• Compositions

Informations

• Publié par: UJ Press
• Date de parution: 20 décembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781928424734
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 17 Mo

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E D I T O R | M a r t i n a V i l j o e n

A Passage of Notalgia – The Life and Work of Jacobus Kloppers

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Table of Contents

List of Figures ............................................................................................... List of Examples ........................................................................................... List of Tables ................................................................................................ Acknowledgements ...................................................................................... Foreword ...................................................................................................... Editor’s Preface ............................................................................................. Introduction .................................................................................................

Chapter 1: Jacobus Joubert Krige Kloppers ................................................ Eljee du Plooy & Martina Viljoen

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Chapter 2:Jacobus Kloppers and his teaching of Musicology: a history and impressions ........................................................................... 145 Charles Stolte

Chapter 3: Reflections on the philosophical paradigm underlying the Musicology of Jacobus Kloppers ................................................................. 169 Danie Strauss

Chapter 4: Stylistic Influences in Kloppers’ organ oeuvre ......................... 201 Martina Viljoen, Nicol Viljoen & Jan Beukes

Chapter 5: Dialectics and Sonata Form in the Dialectic Fantasy .............. 257 Matildie Wium & Luzanne Eigelaar

CHAPTER 6: For JJKK: Reminiscence as Being – and Reflections on Jacobus Kloppers’Relections for Piano277 ................................ Izak Grové

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Afterword .................................................................................................... 297 Martina Viljoen

Compositions by Jacobus Kloppers ............................................................ 309 Tabled chronologically (1964-2020)

Glossary of organ terminology used in Chapters 1 & 4 .............................. 319 Bibliography ................................................................................................. 321 Contributing Authors .................................................................................. 339

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List of Figures

Kloppers and his father ca. 1941 ........................................................... The Kloppers family ca. 1954 ................................................................ Miss Pollie van Tonder .......................................................................... Mathlener’s organ class of 1954 ............................................................ The Potchefstroom Conservatory during the 1960s ........................... Kloppers and Miensie in his parents’ garden, Randfontein, March 1961 ............................................................................................. Kloppers and Miensie on their wedding day, 26 August 1961 .......... TheStaatliche Hochschule für Musik...................., Frankfurt am Main Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt am Main .................................................... Kloppers at the entrance of theJohann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, 1961 ...................................................................................... The Musicological Institute of the Goethe University, 1961 ............. Kloppers at the organ of theDeutsche Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Frankfurt am Main-Süd..........................................................................................

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Jacobus Kloppers, his wife Miensie and Prof Chris Swanepoel at Kloppers’ inaugural address, 1971 .................................................... 92 Picture of Kloppers (second row, third from left) and other members of the Commission for the Revision of the Afrikaans Hymn Book, 1973 ................................................................. 93 Kloppers teaching at The King’s University College, 1979 ................ 112 The Kloppers family and friends at the occasion of having become Canadian citizens, 1984 ............................................................ 114 Kloppers with Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel, at his induction into the Cultural Hall of Fame, 2008 ................................... 127 The Kloppers family in Banff, Alberta, 2010 ....................................... 129 Kloppers at the Winspear Organ console ............................................ 138

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