Background
Surges was born in Remagen, Germany.
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Franz Surges
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Education
Surges was born in Remagen, Germany. He studied at the Episcopal School for Church Music, Aachen, and at the Cologne Conservatoire, Department Aachen. He took the 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 responsible music academies, e.g. by Jean Guillou, Piet Kee, Guy Bovet, Harald Vogel, Monserrat Torrent.
Career
Music academies, e.g. by Jean Guillou, Piet Kee, Guy Bovet, Harald Vogel, Monserrat Torrent. Surges composed works in various genres: choral (male chorus, female chorus, mixed chorus), orchestral, chamber (strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, organ), instrumental and vocal.
Achievements
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From 1981 Franz Surges was church musician at Saint Antony, Eschweiler-Roehe (since 2006 also Street 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 awards, 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.
