Adolf Hartmut Gärtner

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Adolf Hartmut Gärtner (born June 3, 1916 in Brașov , Austria-Hungary ; died February 9, 2017 in Munich ) was a German music teacher and choir director .

Adolf Hartmut Gärtner grew up in Kronstadt (Romanian: Brașov) and received piano lessons from his mother at an early age . After attending the Honterus High School , he became a student of Victor Bickerich , who taught him the piano and the organ . He studied at the Berlin University of Music , which he graduated with a state examination for higher education as well as for organists and choir directors. During this time he worked in the Collegium musicum and in the Heinrich Schütz circle . In 1939 he went back to Transylvania , where he did military service and from 1941 worked as a music professor at the regional church seminary in Sibiu and married Erika Ballmann, the music professor at the Schäßburg teachers' seminar . He became music director of the music club "Hermania" and conductor of the Sibiu men's choir.

In 1944 he worked as an interpreter at a course for officers of the Romanian army in the German Reich , when Romania changed sides after the Jassy-Kishinev operation in August that year; Adolf Hartmut Gärtner then stayed in Munich, where he became organist at the Paul Gerhardt Church in 1945 . After being a prisoner of war , he worked as a music teacher at the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich from 1949 and as a seminar leader from 1950. From September 3, 1945, he directed the Paul Gerhardt Choir and the Munich Oratorio Orchestra. In 1978 he retired as director of studies and on October 26, 1986 he gave his farewell concert as director of the Paul Gerhardt Choir.

His extensive estate with books, audio, visual and written materials is kept in the archive of the Transylvania Institute.

Awards and honors

Works

  • Adolf Hartmut Gärtner: Victor Bickerich (1895–1964). Church musician and music teacher in Transylvania , Verlag Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk 1997
  • Adolf Hartmut Gärtner: Uncommon things from nine decades , Munich 2008, private print
  • Adolf Hartmut Gärtner: Uncommon things from nine and a half decades , Munich 2012, private print
  • Adolf Hartmut Gärtner: The unusual from almost a hundred years , Munich 2015, private print

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rolf-Dieter Happe: Adolf Hartmut Gärtner: With wit and inimitable storytelling In: sevenbuerger.de, July 23, 2006, accessed on February 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Christian Schoger: Siebenbürgisch-Sächsischer Kulturpreis 2005 to two musicians In: sevenbuerger.de, May 29, 2005, accessed on February 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Adolf Hartmut Gärtner presents memoirs in Munich In: sevenbuerger.de, November 4, 2012, accessed on February 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Choir chronicle on the website of the Paul Gerhardt Choir , accessed on February 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ Transylvania Institute (address: Schloßstr. 41, 74831 Gundelsheim, Tel. 06269 42100).
personal data
SURNAME Gardener, Adolf Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2017
Place of death Munich , Bavaria , Germany