Edwin Nievergelt

Edwin Nievergelt (born December 11, 1917 in Winterthur ; † December 3, 2010 there ) was a Swiss musicologist , organist and cantor . His work included diverse activities in the field of church music of the Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich.

Life

Edwin Nievergelt grew up in Winterthur-Veltheim and attended Rychenberg high school . At the University of Zurich, he studied musicology with Karl Matthaei and received his doctorate. phil. Together with Hannes Reimann , he carried out the youth singing weeks from 1948 , which later became the Engadiner Kantorei . In 1956 he was one of the initiators of the Laudinella cultural center and hotel in St. Moritz , where the youth singing camps were held every year from 1960 to 1998.

In 1978 he resigned as artistic director of the "Engadiner Kantorei" and devoted himself increasingly to the working group New Singing in the Church , which had been founded in 1971, and to the ecumenical youth hymn book Kumbaya together with Markus Jenny and Robert Tobler . He also worked as an organist in the St. Arbogast Church in Oberwinterthur and in parishes in the Winterthur region .

In the evangelical hymn book (EG) the midday and table song "Lord, give us our daily bread" written by Nievergelt is under number 464.

literature

• Hannes Reimann: Laudinella - praise for a seemingly insignificant idea. Ed .: Laudinella Cooperative, St. Moritz 1981.
• Walter Sutter: Chronicle 50 years of the Laudinella cooperative 1956 - 2006. Ed .: Laudinella St. Moritz cooperative, printed by: Kein & Aber Verlag , Zurich 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Edwin Nievergelt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary and curriculum vitae of Edwin Nievergelt on the website of the Reformed Church Music Association of Switzerland
• History of the Engadine Choir
• History of the hotel «Laudinella»