Felix Schröder

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Felix Schröder (born March 17, 1876 in Dortmund , † March 3, 1966 in Essen ) was a Protestant church musician and composer .

Life

From 1893 he attended the teachers' seminar in Soest , where August Knabe was his pioneer in music education and church music. In addition to his main job as a teacher, he worked from 1906 to 1943 at St. Marien in Dortmund as an organist. He was also a music teacher at the municipal preparatory (piano, organ, violin, singing, harmony) and lecturer for organ playing at the Pedagogical Academy and the University for Teacher Training in Dortmund. He organized more than 200 church music in St. Marien and the area around Dortmund. Due to the circumstances of the Second World War , his life path led him to Getmold (today a part of Preußisch Oldendorf ), where he continued to work as a school teacher and church musician and lived until 1964. In view of his services to church music, the leadership of the Westphalian regional church awarded him the title of "church music director" in December 1946.

He composed church cantatas like you organ of my life and oh holy heavenly angel . His music is stylistically rooted in the 19th century. With Otto Heinermann and Gerard Bunk he belongs to a generation of musicians who shaped the appearance of Protestant church music in the industrial metropolis of Dortmund and in Westphalia during the first half of the 20th century.

literature

  • Felix Schröder: 33 chorale preludes for organ, edited by Klaus Beckmann u. Ulrich Bartels, annual edition of the regional association of church musicians in the Protestant Church of Westphalia, Verlag Strube Edition 3185, Munich, 2000. ISMN M-2009-2348-3.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library

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personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1966
Place of death eat