Rudolf Pohl

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Rudolf Pohl
Pohl (left) with Berthold Botzet [de] in 2019
Born(1924-11-05)5 November 1924
Aachen, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany
Died1 December 2021(2021-12-01) (aged 97)
Kelmis, Wallonia, Belgium
EducationPriesterseminar Aachen [de], University of Bonn, Pädagogische Akademie [de]
Occupations
  • Prelate
  • Chorale conductor
Organizations
AwardsOrder of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Rudolf Pohl (5 November 1924 – 1 December 2021)[1] was a German Catholic prelate, musician, and choral conductor based at the Aachen Cathedral, where he led the Aachener Domchor to international recognition and revived a school for its boys' choir. He edited sacred music by Johannes Mangon, who had worked at the Cathedral in the 16th century.

Life and career

Born in

prisoner-of-war in Cherbourg. When he returned, he studied theology and philosophy at the universities of Paderborn, Frankfurt and Bonn, and at the Priesterseminar Aachen [de]. He was consecrated as a priest in 1951,[3] and worked as a chaplain in Krefeld. He continued his studies, now of musicology, at the University of Bonn from 1954 to 1959.[4][5]

In 1954, Pohl was called to the

Grundschule for boys.[5]

Simultaneously, Pohl was promoted to the

Niederrheinisches Musikfest in Aachen in 1957, along with Rehmann, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Wilhelm Pitz [de] and others. After Rehmann's sudden death in 1963, Bishop Johannes Pohlschneider [de] appointed him as director of the Aachener Domchor and Domkapellmeister. He improved the choir's quality, including the boys from the Domsingschule, leading them to international recognition by tours in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, France, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, England, Spain and Israel. Programs included masses, oratorios and Passions, also in recordings, and radio and television broadcasts of services from the cathedral.[6][5]

In 1985, Pohl was rewarded for his merits in applying the changes of the Second Vatican Council; on the 8th International Congress of church music in Rome, he was elected president of the Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae (CIMS), a papal organisation for church music. A year later, he retired as Domkapellmeister, succeeded by Hans-Josef Roth.[5]

Pohl initiated a foundation, the Rudolf-Pohl-Stiftung, for the instrumental education of the Domsingknaben, providing them with quality instruments.[3][6]

Pohl died in Kelmis on 1 December 2021, at age 97.[1][2]

Publications

  • Pohl, Rudolf (2010). Enchiridion – Musicae sacrae Musica sacra in den Zeugnisssen des Glaubens und der Kirche (in German). Aachen: Einhard.
    OCLC 700049694
    .

As editor

Pohl edited works by Johannes Mangon, with comments and a transcription into modern practice:[1]

Recordings

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c d Botzet, Berthold (2 December 2021). "Ehrendomherr und Domkapellmeister i. R. Dr. Rudolf Pohl verstorben". Dommusik Aachen (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Langjähriger Aachener Domkapellmeister verstorben : Rudolf Pohl widmete der geistlichen Musik sein Leben". Aachener Zeitung (in German). 2 December 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d Grzeschik, David (January 2020). "Domkapellmeister em. Dr. Rudolf Pohl 95 Jahre" (PDF). dm.dombauhuette-aachen.de (in German). pp. 20–22. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  4. Aachener Nachrichten
    (in German).
  5. ^ a b c d e "Großer Förderer der Musica Sacra 85 Jahre alt / Prälat Dr. Rudolf Pohl wird 85 Jahre alt". kathnews.de (in German). 5 November 2009. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  6. ^ a b c Gillessen, Dieter (2021). "Prälat Dr. Rudolf Pohl". Rudolf-Pohl-Stiftung (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  7. Aachener Nachrichten
    (in German). 2002. p. 1. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

Further reading

  • Hüter eines ungewöhnlichen Schatzes. Zum 65. Geburtstag von CIMS-Präsident Prälat Dr. Rudolf Pohl. In: Musica Sacra. year 109, issue 6, November/December 1989.

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