Eugene Klause

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Eugen Klause (born June 18, 1903 in Zduńska Wola , Poland , † December 12, 1999 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German church musician and composer .

Klause was a church musician in Bartenstein from 1930 to 1945 . In 1935 he was appointed managing director of the East Prussian Church Choir Association and in 1937 regional chairman of the Association of Protestant Church Musicians in East Prussia . From 1946 to 1964 he was a church musician in Wernigerode (Harz). In retirement he lived in Bad Kreuznach.

Eugen Klause was married to the singer Marga Klause. Her daughter is the violinist Hilma Klause.

Publications

  • Dietrich Buxtehude: Everything you do (editor)
  • Sun of Justice , songs for the church year in three- to four-part movements (1954)
  • Bartensteiner choir book , sacred chants from one to five voices with and without instrumental accompaniment (1938)
  • Sings praise and thanks , Schloßböckelheimer Chorbuch, 1969

Individual evidence

  1. Our Bartenstein , Heimatkreisblatt Bartenstein / East Prussia, March 1999 edition, published by the Heimatkreisgemeinschaft Bartenstein.

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