Dieter Wellmann

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Pauluskirche Bad Kreuznach

Dieter Wellmann (born January 28, 1933 in Berlin ) is a German church musician and composer .

Live and act

He studied at the church music school in Halle (Saale) , where he passed the A-exam in 1957 . Major teachers were Gerhard Bremsteller (organ), Heinz Wunderlich ( liturgical organ playing ), Eberhard Wenzel (choir direction and composition). Further organ studies led him to Marie-Claire Alain , Louis Toebosch and Helmuth Rilling (Summer Academy Haarlem / Bach Academy Stuttgart). He initially worked as a part-time church musician in Landsberg-Gollma and as a substitute in the student community in Halle. From 1958 to 1960 he was cantor in Siegen-Weidenau . From 1960 to 1996 he worked as a church musician at the Pauluskirche in Bad Kreuznach , and since 1963 also as district cantor at Nahe and Glan. In 1978 he was appointed church music director . His group of students included Helmut Freitag , Helmut Langenbruch , Gerd-Peter Münden and Udo Schneberger , Hendrik Ritter, Silke Hamburger, Oliver Vogt, Gerd Weimar and others. His compositional work was mainly inspired by his own practice.

With courses for the next generation of church music, with the leadership of children's and senior singing weeks and in the examination board of the church music school in Düsseldorf, he also worked at the level of the Ev. Church in the Rhineland with.

Wellmann is married to the church musician and recorder player Eva-Marie Wellmann, for whose recorder ensemble Fluturas as well as for their Orff instrumental group and common children's choir practice he composed some works. As a retired man he lives in Stromberg .

Trivia

In his retirement, Wellmann reactivated an old hobbyhorse from childhood: the construction of structures from anchor stones . In cooperation with the manufacturer, he designed a replica of the Brandenburg Gate , which was exhibited in the Berlin Department Store of the West .

Works

  • Gloria in excelsis Deo - God alone in the heights , motet; Eres
  • Chorale preludes ; mainly with Eres 2008, partly with Hänßler and Carus; Publication of the GdO
  • Near-country organ book. 20 miniatures ; Publication of the GdO; Eres 2004
  • Toccata, chorale and fugue on the Michael song “Lord God, we all praise you” ; Eres 1994
  • I want to boast you. Psalm 104 for children's choir and instruments ; Strube 1992
  • Seek the good of the city. Festive motet for the anniversary of a city ; Strube 1993
  • The sorcerer's apprentice. Choral ballad after Goethe for mixed choir and piano ; Eres 1994
  • This is the day the Lord makes - Introit for 4 ecclesiastical feast days ; Strube 1995
  • Three angels sang, song motets; Strube 1995
  • Angel and man. For medium voice and organ ; Eres 1998
  • Christ hymn. For soprano and tenor and organ ; Eres 1998
  • The Christmas story. For tenor, three-part children's choir and stick plays ; Eres
  • The bird wedding . Choir variations in musical history style sequence ; Eres 1984
  • A musical journey through Europe (songs ad UNESCO songbook) for children's choir ; Eres
  • X-ette. Study pieces for the large bass flute in the recorder ensemble ; Eres 1990
  • Liturgy polyphonic. Dialogic choral movements for the Ordinarium (with congregation) 4 to 8 voices ; Merseburgers
  • Seven old and new Christmas carols. Five-part choral movements ; Bear Rider
  • Early Christian blessing prayer. Five-part motet ; Strube
  • Choir and organ pieces to songs of the EKG and EG ; Strube, Merseburger, Hänßler, Carus
  • Ludus alternus triplex. Interplay for 5 wind instruments, organ and percussion ; manuscript
  • Inveni David. Invocation as opening to “King David” by A. Honegger ; manuscript
  • Petri fish haul. Gospel motets ; Eres 2008

Sound carrier

  • Baroque chorale partitas ; Long-playing record Pelca, 1979
  • Nearland organ book ; Eres CD, 2007
  • The bird wedding ; Eres CD, 2007
  • Chorale preludes ; Eres CD 2914, 2008

literature

  • Helmut Freitag : Composers of the near region: Gerhard Fischer-Münster, Fridel Grenz, Magdalene Schauß-Flake, Dieter Wellmann. Studies of regional church music with special emphasis on works for organ. Tectum-Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-8288-3979-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The marriage took place on June 26, 1959 in Siegen. Allgemeine Zeitung from June 26, 2009
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung of June 20, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Wellmann, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin