Erhard Egidi

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Erhard Egidi (born April 23, 1929 in Rheinsberg ; † September 8, 2014 in Hanover ) was a German church musician . From 1972 to 1991 he was cantor of the Neustädter Church in Hanover .

Life

He comes from the Egidi family and studied at the church music school in Spandau with Gottfried Grote , Ernst Pepping and Herbert Schulze . From 1954 to 1972 he was cantor at St. Lamberti, Hildesheim .

Neustädter Church, Hanover , 2009

From 1972 he was cantor at the Neustädter Church and was later appointed church music director. In his first concert with the St. Johannis Choir, he conducted Bach's Missa in A and Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore . He played concerts for keyboard instruments, for example Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord, music for clavichord such as a Sonata by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust , and Bach's Clavier-Exercise III with his wife Maria on two organs. Every autumn he went on a concert tour with the choir with an a cappella program. In 1980 he gave a concert in the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden with Leonhard Lechner's motet Oh God, I am complaining to you , Bach's motet The Spirit Helps Our Weaknesses and Pepping's Missa Dona nobis pacem . Other travel destinations included Copenhagen (1972), Paris (1973), Strasbourg (1979) and Vaduz (1987), but mainly small towns without choirs.

Egidi founded the St. Johannis Chamber Orchestra , which mainly consisted of teachers and students from the Hanover University of Music , to participate in choral concerts and for their own concerts. On June 11, 1983, he conducted Bach's B minor Mass for the Kirchentag . In 1986 he performed Stravinsky's Canticum sacrum and Ein deutsches Requiem von Brahms together, and in 1988 he conducted Stravinsky's Cantata with Mozart's Great Mass in C minor . In November 1990 he performed the funeral music of the first organist of the Neustadt church, Johann Anton Coberg , which had been lost for 300 years. He created performance material from the recovered score and combined the music in a concert on November 25, 1990 with Bach's motet Come, Jesus, come , his cantata Wachet up, calls us the voice , BWV 140 , and Stravinsky's psalm symphony . In the last choir concert before retirement, Egidi conducted Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1991 , with Dantes Diwiak as Evangelist , Anselm Richter as Vox Christi , Monika Frimmer , Ralf Popken and Joachim Gebhardt. Hugo Thielen's review emphasized dramatic drive and concentrated performance.

Egidi composed choral works for church services, some of which were published by Carus-Verlag .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Egidi . Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . September 17, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Hampel: Intensive Confession . Wiesbaden Courier, October 31, 1980.
  3. ↑ a b c 30 years of the St. Johannis Choir . Kantorei der Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche, 1988 (accessed April 23, 2013).
  4. ^ Canticum sacrum / A German Requiem . Neustädter Kirche, November 16, 1986 (accessed November 4, 2010).
  5. ↑ 30 years choir of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover . Neustädter Kirche, November 20, 1988 (accessed November 3, 2010).
  6. ↑ Bernhard Kaps: In the cut of the styles , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. November 28, 1990. 
  7. ^ Hugo Thielen: With dramatic élan , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. March 12, 1991. 
  8. ↑ Erhard Egidi / Works . Carus publishing house . Retrieved April 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Egidi, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinsberg , Free State of Prussia , Weimar Republic
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2014
Place of death Hanover , Lower Saxony , Germany