Erhard Egidi
Erhard Egidi | |
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Hannover, Germany | |
Education | Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule |
Occupation | Kantor |
Years active | 1954 | –1991
Erhard Egidi (23 April 1929 – 8 September 2014) was a German
Career
Born in Rheinsberg, he studied in Berlin at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule (Spandau academy of church music) with Gottfried Grote, Ernst Pepping and Herbert Schulze.[1] He was cantor at St. Lamberti, Hildesheim from 1954. He included contemporary music, for example in 1957 a concert for Trinity Sunday with works including works by Johann Nepomuk David, Burkhard's Die Sintflut, and Pepping's setting of the Gospel for the Sunday, Jesus und Nikodemus from the Gospel of John, and a setting of the Epistle, "O welch eine Tiefe des Reichtums".[2]
From 1972 Egidi was cantor at the
Egidi founded a chamber orchestra Kammerorchester St. Johannis, mostly of teachers and students of the
In November 1990 he performed a Trauermusik (Funeral music) by
In his last concert before his retirement in 1991, Egidi performed once more in 1991 Bach's St Matthew Passion, with Dantes Diwiak as the Evangelist, Anselm Richter as vox Christi, Monika Frimmer, Ralf Popken and Joachim Gebhardt. The review by Hugo Thielen on 12 March 1991 in the HAZ stressed the dramatic drive and the concentrated performance.[9]
He kept playing concerts for historic keyboard instruments, such as a program for clavichord on 13 October 2001.[3] Several of his private organ students became cantors, such as Axel Fischer[10] and Alexander Kuhlo.[11] Egidi composed works for use in the church, some were published by Carus-Verlag.[12]
Egidi died on 8 September 2014 at the age of 85.[13]
References
- ^ a b Hampel, Helmut (31 October 1980). Intensives Bekenntnis (in German). Wiesbadener Kurier.
- ^ "Erinnerungen an Ernst Pepping (II)". Ernst-Pepping-Gesellschaft. 2000. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ a b "... mein schmeichelndes Klavier" (in German). Hainholz parish. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ^ a b c 30 Jahre Kantorei St. Johannis (in German). Kantorei der Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche. 1988.
- ^ Canticum sacrum / Ein Deutsches Requiem (in German). Neustädter Kirche. 16 November 1986.
- ^ 30 Jahre Kantorei der Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis zu Hannover (in German). Neustädter Kirche. 20 November 1988.
- ^ J.S. Bach h-moll-Messe (in German). Neustädter Kirche. 27 May 1990.
- ^ a b Kaps, Bernhard (28 November 1990). "Im Schnitt der Stile" (in German). Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
- ^ Thielen, Hugo (12 March 1991). "Mit dramatischem Elan" (in German). Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
- ^ "Axel Fischer" (in German). Lüchow parish. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ^ "Alexander Kuhlo" (in German). Altenkirchen parish. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ^ "Erhard Egidi / Works". Carus-Verlag. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ "Erhard Egidi". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. 17 September 2014.
External links
- Literature by and about Erhard Egidi in the German National Library catalogue