Diskussion:Reinhard Van Hoorickx

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Father Reinhard van Hoorickx ofm, an honorary member of the Schubert Institute (UK) since its inception, died on 10 October 1997, aged 78. He had been very frail for some time, following a serious operation a few years ago.

Father Reinhard was born in December 1918 near Ghent in Belgium, and entered the Franciscan order in 1937, being ordained priest at Sint-Truiden in 1943. His subsequent missionary work took him to Egypt (1947-1956), Jerusalem (1956-1964) and Syria (1964-1968). In 1968 he returned to Ghent, where he spent 13 years, after which he was transferred to Corsica. He remained in Corsica until 1993, when illness forced him to return to his native Belgium for medical treatment. His final years were spent in the monastery of Sint-Truiden where he had been ordained.

Father Reinhard was an obsessive Schubertian, and is best known for his persistence in tracking down every fragment of Schubert's work. It was through his patient persistence, for example, that the 'Therese Grob Songbook', a group of manuscripts presented to Therese by Schubert in 1816 and guarded jealously by her family, was released for copying, and he was responsible for its first publication.

While in the Middle East, Father Reinhard tried his hand at completing some Schubert song fragments, which he then had printed in private editions. He seldom tried to second-guess Schubert's intentions, but merely completed the songs 'for practical use'. Some seventy songs were completed in this way, along with choral and instrumental works. Father Reinhard was delighted when a record of 13 'unknown Schubert songs' in his versions was released in 1981, with the tenor Zeger Vandersteene a winning advocate, and his work has reached a much wider audience recently with the inclusion of several of his song completions in the Hyperion Schubert Edition.

Father Reinhard was a friend to many Schubertians. Before his illness struck, he was an avid and generous correspondent. Correspondence was kept neatly filed in brown envelopes in a large cupboard, by surname, with a copy of his reply appended to each letter. When I visited him in Sint-Truiden last year, my modest correspondence envelope was there, and I was also able to examine two large files of letters from Maurice Brown. Scholars turned to him for advice, and he usually had the answer. In recent years, his short term memory let him down, but he never forgot a D number !

A traditionalist, he continued to wear the brown robe of the Franciscans after it had become optional. He enjoyed the monastic routine and told me how happy he was to be back in Sint-Truiden, as we paced the monastery garden after the communal lunch. This gentle man will be greatly missed by Schubert friends throughout the world.

Paul Reid 1997 (nicht signierter Beitrag von ErzBengel 2013 (Diskussion | Beiträge) 22:32, 28. Nov. 2013 (CET))

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Nach den im Artikel angegebenen Quellen wird sein Name, wie in Belgien üblich, mit großem "V" geschrieben: Reinhard Van Hoorickx. Verschieben? -- Michael Bednarek (Diskussion) 02:46, 6. Dez. 2020 (CET)