Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule

Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule
	Plaque with the names of directors at the Janusz-Korczak-Haus in Berlin
Successor	Berliner Kirchenmusikschule
Established	1929
Founded at	Spandau (now part of Berlin)
Dissolved	1998
Services	Academy of church music
Key people	Hugo Distler; Gottfried Grote; Ernst Pepping; Helmuth Rilling; Hanns-Martin Schneidt; Heinz Werner Zimmermann;

The Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule (Spandau school of church music) was a music academy in Spandau, Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1929, it was housed in the Heinrich-Schütz-Haus in Spandau and was closed in 1998.^[1] The schools choir appeared and recorded as the Spandauer Kantorei. It was located in today's Berlin-Hakenfelde, and is also known as Berliner Kirchenmusikschule.

Students of the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule formed the base of the Spandauer Kantorei (Spandau chorale), a mixed choir which presented numerous concerts and radio broadcasts in Berlin.^[1] Notable teachers included composers Hugo Distler, Ernst Pepping, Winfried Radeke and Heinz Werner Zimmermann, his wife Renate Zimmermann, the organists Heinz Lohmann and Karl Hochreither, and the conductor Helmuth Rilling (until 1966). The last director was Martin Behrmann, who published a Handbuch für Chorleitung (manual for choral conducting).^[2]

The school was suggested for university status in 1990^[2] because of its excellent reputation,^[3] but instead it was dissolved in 1998 and became part of the Musikhochschule Berlin.^[2]

Directors

1929–1935 Gerhard Schwarz
1935–1955 Gottfried Grote
1955–1963 Hanns-Martin Schneidt
1963–1976 Heinz Werner Zimmermann
1976–1998 Martin Behrmann

References

^ ^a ^b Fröhlich, Tilman (2012). Chorleitung als Klangformung: / Wechselwirkungen zwischen Chorleitung und Chorklang sowie deren Entwicklung im europäischen Raum (in German). GRIN Verlag. p. 6. ISBN 9783656170280.
^ ^a ^b ^c Uehling, Peter (8 January 2014). Nachruf auf Martin Behrmann Der Herr der Chöre (in German). Retrieved 7 June 2018. {{cite book}}: |newspaper= ignored (help)
^ Moser, Hans Joachim (1951). Die alte Anziehungskraft / Berlin ist wieder Metropole der Musik (in German). Retrieved 7 June 2018. {{cite book}}: |newspaper= ignored (help)

External links

Spandauer Kantorei discogs.com
Gustav A. Krieg: Die gottesdienstliche Musik als theologisches Problem: dargestellt an der kirchenmusikalischen Erneuerung nach dem ersten Weltkrieg, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1990

[Fröhlich-1] Fröhlich, Tilman (2012). Chorleitung als Klangformung: / Wechselwirkungen zwischen Chorleitung und Chorklang sowie deren Entwicklung im europäischen Raum (in German). GRIN Verlag. p. 6. ISBN 9783656170280.

[Uehling-2] Uehling, Peter (8 January 2014). Nachruf auf Martin Behrmann Der Herr der Chöre (in German). Retrieved 7 June 2018. {{cite book}}: |newspaper= ignored (help)

[Moser-3] Moser, Hans Joachim (1951). Die alte Anziehungskraft / Berlin ist wieder Metropole der Musik (in German). Retrieved 7 June 2018. {{cite book}}: |newspaper= ignored (help)

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