Eberhard Lauer

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Eberhard Lauer (* 1956 in Oberwesel am Rhein) is a German organist and church musician .

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After receiving musical training with Cantor Hans-Josef Roth in Viersen (Rhineland) before graduating from high school , Eberhard Lauer studied church music and organ under Roth at the Catholic University for Church Music St. Gregorius in Aachen , where he received the Passed B-examination (church music) in Frankfurt am Main , Düsseldorf (1980 A-examination, 1982 concert examination ) and Amsterdam . The organizational training was supplemented by studies with Viktor Scholz, Almut Rößler and Albert de Klerk as well as master classes in Haarlem , the Netherlands, and Toulouse , France, with Xavier Darasse , Marie-Claire Alain and Luigi F. Tagliavini (literature), Hans Haselböck and André Isoir ( improvisation ) and Colin Tilney and Kenneth Gilbert ( harpsichord ).

Lauer also studied musicology and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and graduated with a master's degree .

Eberhard Lauer is the winner of various competitions. In 1984 he won first prize at the Nuremberg International Organ Competition and in 1985 also first prize at the “Speyer Cathedral” International Organ Competition.

In 1982 Eberhard Lauer became a church musician at the former parish church of St. Marien in Hamburg, today's Mariendom , the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Hamburg , where he continues to work extensively as an organist (performing the complete works of Bach , Brahms , Franck , Mendelssohn , Messiaen and Schumann ), Conductor ( choral music and oratorios ) and harpsichordist . He is particularly fond of the liturgical organ and Gregorian chant . In 1987 he was appointed church music director.

Eberhard Lauer has been leading an organ class at the Lübeck University of Music since 1984 . In 2000 he was appointed professor .

In addition, he regularly gives concerts at home and abroad as an organist. CD, radio and television recordings document his artistic activity.

Discography (selection)

  • Franz Liszt: Organ Works (Motet)
  • F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sonatas (ambitus)
  • Symphonies by Widor and Vierne (ambitus)
  • Bach (FSM)
  • Works by Bach, Böhm, Bruhns, Buxtehude, Eben, Ives, Karg-Elert, Walther, Widor (ambitus)
  • Currently: from 2005 to 2007 recording of Olivier Messiaen's organ works on Kuhn organs in Hamburg and Minden .

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personal data
SURNAME Lauer, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and church musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberwesel