Eberhard Höngen

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Eberhard Höngen (born March 23, 1944 in Wiesbaden ) is a German choir director , composer and arranger .

Life

Höngen grew up in a musical family, his father was active as a choir director and organist , and one of the relatives was the opera singer Elisabeth Höngen . Höngen trained as a choir director with Hermannjosef Rübben and took over his first smaller choirs in Remscheid in 1964 . He then became the director of the Lippe Choir of the Lippe Choir. It was during this time that his first published compositions were written.

From 1985 he was a district choir director in Tübingen for a few years and directed several choirs in the region. As an arranger, he wrote choral pieces for Maria Lullaby by Max Reger , Conquest of Paradise by Vangelis and Memory by Andrew Lloyd Webber . In 2010 Höngen was awarded the Medal of Honor of the City of Pfullingen. To this day he is active as a choir director, composer and arranger. Höngen is one of the longest serving still active choir directors in Germany. The then seventy-year-old celebrated his 50th anniversary of the choir director in 2014 with anniversary concerts with four choirs and over 150 singers in Pfullingen and Oberensingen .

Choirs

  • Men's choir Eintracht Pfullingen 1904 (since 1985)
  • Singers' wreath Harmonie Tübingen 1828 (1986-2013)
  • Sängerkranz Dusslingen (since 1988)
  • Liederkranz Oberensingen 1875 (since 2000)
  • Women's choir Vivida Großengstingen (since 2014)

Publications

  • Song booklet of the Lippischer Sängerbund 1978. A collection of choirs and folk songs for all choir groups , ed. by Eberhard Höngen, PJ Tonger Verlag , Rodenkirchen / Rhein 1978
  • Stupid stuff , text and composition for male choir, Musikalienverlag Karin Krüger, Detmold 1982
  • Dunja , text and composition for mixed choir, Musikalienverlag Karin Krüger, Detmold 1982
  • Hungarian wedding , text and composition for female choir, Musikalienverlag Karin Krüger, Detmold 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürgen Herdin: Not all singers have to be able to read music ( Memento from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Südwest Presse , December 15, 2010
  2. ↑ Shine with Handel's Hallelujah , Weblog of the Swabian Choir Association , December 29, 2010
  3. ↑ Program sequence (PDF; 143 kB), concert before the Choir Association Ludwig Uhland
  4. ↑ Magdalena Kablaoui: Singer in the Soul , Reutlinger Generalanzeiger , December 14, 2010
  5. ↑ Concert "Music, you heavenly art" ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 337 kB), concert program of the male choir Eintracht Pfullingen 1904
  6. ↑ Gabriele Leippert: What counts is the joy of singing , Reutlinger Generalanzeiger , June 6, 2013
  7. ↑ Evelyn Rupprecht: Singing on a grand scale , Südwest Presse , February 28, 2014
  8. ↑ Magdalena Kablaoui: Looking for new challenges: Eberhard Höngen has been a choirmaster for 50 years and still has new ideas at the age of 70 , Reutlinger Generalanzeiger , April 1, 2014
  9. ↑ Magdalena Kablaoui: Choir director with passion , Reutlinger Generalanzeiger , November 10, 2014
  10. ↑ Jürgen Herdin: With hunters and lust for life , Reutlinger Nachrichten , November 10, 2014
  11. ↑ Nicole Mohn: A very personal request concert: four choirs celebrate the golden anniversary of Liederkranz conductor Eberhard Höngen , Nürtinger Zeitung , November 24, 2014
  12. ↑ Jürgen Herdin: "Schubert is out" , Südwest Presse , March 1, 2012
  13. ↑ Holger Seitz: Eintracht Pfullingen: Give a piece of time , Reutlinger Generalanzeiger , December 24, 2012
  14. ^ Farewell to our choir director Eberhard Höngen ( memento from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), website Sängerkreis Harmonie Tübingen, April 3, 2013
  15. ↑ Antje Hansen: Vivida introduces itself in the gym , Südwest Presse , June 22, 2015
  16. ↑ Joachim Baier: Cozy Mountain Christmas in Engstingen , Reutlinger Generalanzeiger , December 16, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Höngen, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director, composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden