Alfred bull

Alfred Stier (born November 27, 1880 in Greiz , † July 21, 1967 in Ilsenburg ) was a German composer and music director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .

Life

After attending elementary school, he went to Leipzig in 1902 to study church music . In Limbach he got his first job as a full-time church musician in 1904, and in 1911 he went to the Church of Reconciliation in Dresden . He was a song master and honorary old man of the Erato Dresden singers .

From 1919 to 1945 he was editor of the Sächsische Zeitschrift für Kirchenmusiker, from 1933 to 1944 he worked as a co-editor of Musik und Kirche . In 1928 he was one of the founders of the art service of the Evangelical Church in Dresden . In 1933 he was appointed regional church music director. In 1947 he went to Ilsenburg (Harz) , where from 1948 he worked as the state guardian of the church province of Saxony . He led numerous singing weeks, courses for choir singing with laypeople. He published old church music and composed chamber music, cantatas, choral works and songs himself. In 1955 he was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald . In 1967 he died in Ilsenburg.

Works

• The renewal of church music. Kassel 1926
• Guide to church music work . Berlin 1947
• The service of the church musician. A practical handout for cantors and organists in town and country. (In the service of the Church 9) . Kassel and Basel 1952.
• Church singing. Gütersloh 1952
• Music, a gift from God: from the service of music to people . Berlin 1960

literature

• Sven Hiemke: On the writings of the Dresden cantor Alfred Stier in the Nazi era , in: Dresden and advanced music in the 20th century. Part II: 1933–1966 , ed. by Matthias Herrmann and Hanns-Werner Heister, Laaber 2002, pp. 311-324 ( Musik in Dresden 5), ISBN 3-89007-510-X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 135.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Stier in the catalog of the German National Library