Albert Thate

Albert Thate (born July 14, 1903 in Düren , † October 11, 1982 in Düsseldorf ) was a German church musician , composer and lecturer. His best-known work is the 1935 canon on the request of the Emmaus disciples, Lord, stay with us , which is often sung as evening prayer.

Live and act

Thate completed his studies in Protestant church music at the Cologne University of Music in 1930 with the A-exam and in 1932 with the composition exam. In 1934 he gave organ lessons to Jürg Baur . Until 1943 he was cantor and organist at the Matthäikirche and then until 1968 at the Kreuzkirche in Düsseldorf , where he was involved in the construction of the organ in 1966 . Thate was a church musician and lecturer in composition at the church music school in Düsseldorf.

Works (selection)

Lord stay with us. Canon, ( Praise to God 89; Evangelical Hymn book 483)
Sonata in G for recorder and piano (harpsichord). Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1950, ISMN M-006-41737-7.
About temporal death and eternal life. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1951.
(Arr.): Sociable songs to sing on the piano with a melody instrument at will. Book III. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1960.
Lynkeus' Tower Song . Mixed choir. Text source: Faust II.

literature

Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , p. 323 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Works by and about Albert Thate in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ The organ of the Kreuzkirche. ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Evangelical Kreuzkirchengemeinde Düsseldorf.
↑ Matthias Schneider: 483 - Lord, stay with us . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 9 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-50332-6 , pp. 21 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Thate, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German church musician, composer and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Düren
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 1982
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] The organ of the Kreuzkirche. ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Evangelical Kreuzkirchengemeinde Düsseldorf.

[2] Matthias Schneider: 483 - Lord, stay with us . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 9 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-50332-6 , pp. 21 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).