church music
Church music is a genre of Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn.
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Early Christian musi ...
Hans-Dieter Möller Hans-Dieter or, more rarely, Hans Dieter are German masculine given names, composed of Hans and Dieter. Notable people with these names include:
People named Hans-Dieter
* Hans-Dieter Bader (1938–2022), German operatic tenor
* Hans-Dieter B ...
(organ) and Gustav Adolf Krieg (organ improvisation). After postgraduate studies at the
Hochschule für Musik Saar
The Hochschule für Musik Saar is a conservatory of music in Saarbrücken, Germany and dates back to 1947. From 1994 until 2002, it was named ''Hochschule des Saarlandes für Musik und Theater'' (University of Music and Drama Saarbrücken). Since ...
Theo Brandmüller
Theo Brandmüller (* 2 February 1948 in Mainz; † 26 November 2012 in Saarbrücken) was a German composer of contemporary music, organist and university Professor.Konzertexamen in 1995 in the subject . Also in 1995, he was awarded third prize at the Festival Europäische Kirchenmusik in
Schwäbisch Gmünd
Schwäbisch Gmünd (, until 1934: Gmünd; Swabian: ''Gmẽẽd'' or ''Gmend'') is a city in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. With a population of around 60,000, the city is the second largest in the Ostalb district ...
.
After working as a cantor in
Oberhausen
Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...
and Soest, he was appointed to St. Michael's Church, Hamburg in 2001. There, he served as organist and choirmaster until 2021. In 2006, he was appointed church music director by the church leadership of
North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
The North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (; NEK) was a Lutheran regional church in Northern Germany which emerged from a merger of four churches in 1977 and merged with two more churches in 2012. The NEK largely covered the area of the stat ...
. On 1 May 2021, he took up the post of in
Jüterbog
Jüterbog () is a historic town in north-eastern Germany, in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg. It is on the Nuthe river at the northern slope of the Fläming hill range, about southwest of Berlin.
History
The Polabian Slavs, Slavic se ...
south of Berlin.Manuel Gera: Destiny on Elbphilharmonie.de
The main focus of his activity is organ improvisation. Together with his wife Anne-Katrin, he conceives organ concerts for children.
Norddeutscher Rundfunk
(; "North German Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to NDR (), is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, ...