Christian Lahusen (composer)

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Christian Lahusen (born April 12, 1886 in Buenos Aires , † May 18, 1975 in Überlingen ) was a German composer .

In Argentina as the eldest son of Heinrich Lahusen and Therese born. Born in Leinau, Christian Lahusen came from a family of merchants and entrepreneurs in Bremen . His grandfather Christian Lahusen was the founder of the Nordwolle company . He grew up with his siblings in the family's colonial seat in the immediate vicinity of Buenos Aires . House tutors were employed for the education and upbringing of the children. In 1899, at the age of 13, he was sent to Germany alone to attend high school in Wernigerode . In 1901 the family moved to Bremen and Christian continued his school attendance there. After graduating from high school , he went to Leipzig in 1905 to study music . He broke off his studies after a short time and devoted himself to his self-taught studies on numerous trips. In 1914 he became a répétiteur at the Opera House in Charlottenburg . During the First World War Christian Lahusen became a soldier and was used as a fighter pilot. After 1918 he worked as Kapellmeister and composer at the Münchner Kammerspiele and since 1920 freelance for this theater as well as for the Hamburger Kammerspiele and the Schauspiel Frankfurt . From 1931 he lived as a composer in Überlingen and was a music teacher at the Salem boarding school .

Lahusen mainly created sacred and secular vocal works (including folk and bank songs, 1910; Heimkehr im Abend, 1939; Kleiner Psalter, 1951) based on the German choral song of the 16th century . He also composed the incidental music for dramatic works, u. a. to Eichendorff's comedy Die Freier (1923).

In the main part of the Evangelical Hymn book he is represented as the composer of the songs Do you still know how it happened, We believe God in the highest throne , The world belongs to my God, Rejoice in the Lord and a quiet night . In praise of God he is represented in the highest throne with the song We believe God .

Christian Lahusen married his first wife Hedwig Ilse on March 28, 1917 in Berlin. In 1919 he married his second wife Rahel Herrmann, with whom he had a daughter and a son. After his death in 1975 he was buried in Constance.

Lahusen was a member of the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood for several years .

In his honor, a street in his adopted home Überlingen was named after him.

literature

  • Isolde Maria Weineck: Christian Lahusen; Life and work with special consideration of his liturgical compositions . Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1981, ISBN 3-921518-36-9 (also dissertation University of Münster, 1978).
  • Ulrich Wüstenberg: Lahusen, Christian Friedrich Martin Leberecht. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , pp. 190–191 ( limited preview in the Google book search)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Carl von Haebler: History of the Evangelical Michaelsbruderschaft . 1975, p. 229 .
personal data
SURNAME Lahusen, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lahusen, Christian Friedrich Martin Leberecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1975
Place of death Überlingen