Kurt Gäble | Composers

Composer, arranger, conductor, musician and music teacher Kurt Gäble was born in 1953. He has dedicated his life to music, especially wind band music. The course for this was already set in early childhood, when singing together with the mother as a pastime while doing various household chores. The recorder followed and over time many other instruments, all of which the autodidact taught himself.

For the music-loving Kurt Gäble, it was not a big step from making music to composing - the need to create his own melodies and sounds quickly arose. Studying music in Augsburg was the logical consequence of Gäble's talent and passion for music.

The family man is firmly rooted in his home town of Lauben near Memmingen. He appreciates life in the village, the local values and traditions. A sustainable life with nature is also a matter close to the heart of the practicing barefoot runner - when he is not composing or making music, he spends a lot of time on his bike.

Kurt Gäble has created around 100 original works and arrangements for concert band. Due to his career and his wide-ranging interest in music, he is certainly active in a wide variety of genres. Over time, unique classical arrangements such as "Hebe deine Augen auf" from the oratorio "Elias" (Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) or a large number of modern original compositions such as "Dialogue of Generations" or "Blue Planet" were created. But also arrangements of rock and pop songs such as "Bergwerk" (Rainhard Fendrich) and arrangements of new sacred songs for choir and wind band testify to his creative and versatile creativity. And last but not least, marches like "Salemonia" or his great polka hit "Wir Musikanten" are part of the standard repertoire of European wind orchestras.

Kurt Gäble's original works usually have a profound content, intended to convey a message and values. His musicals such as "Freude" and "Franziskus" were also created under this aspect, which not only allow a special sense of community to be experienced in their implementation with wind orchestra, choir and actors, but also in their often Christian-social-ecologically inspired content. Based on this idea, Kurt Gäble has always been particularly interested in bringing people together through music. For some time now, he and his musician friends have been visiting people with dementia in nursing homes in order to enable them to remember their childhood and youth with the help of music and to give them joie de vivre.

As a sign of appreciation for Kurt Gäble's special commitment and his musical merits, he was presented with the Medal of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on November 28, 2018.