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Friedhelm flame

Friedhelm Flamme (* 1963 in Volkmarsen ) is a German organist , choir director , musicologist , music teacher and university teacher .

Connected to church music since his youth, Friedhelm Flamme already worked as an organist as a teenager. He studied school music, church music, organ (concert exam with distinction with Gerhard Weinberger ), conducting, composing, educational science and theology at the Detmold University of Music and at the University of Paderborn . Further studies led him to Guy Bovet , Ewald Kooiman , Jon Laukvik , Thierry Mechler , Josef Mertin , Harald Vogel , Herbert Wulf and Wolfgang Zehrer.

Since 1991 he has been working as a church and school musician in the district of Göttingen and at the Paul Gerhardt School Dassel in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover . 1991–2004 he was cantor at the Laurentiuskirche Dassel, from 1991 to 2007 he was the specialist church music supervisor in the district of Göttingen Nord.

In 1993 he was appointed church music director. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer at the Detmold University of Music. He conducted a large number of vocal concerts, especially cyclical performances of Bach's oratorios with the vocal ensemble Südniedersachsen.

In 2006, he was charged with a thesis on the compositional works Friedrich Gulda Dr. phil. PhD at the Musicological Institute of the Detmold University of Music and the University of Paderborn. He published compositions and wind arrangements.

Friedhelm Flamme gives concerts as organist in Europe and overseas; he can refer to a broad repertoire and an extensive discography (Internet Classical Award 2004 for the recording of the complete organ works by Maurice Duruflé). His CD series Organ Works of the North German Baroque (cpo / jpc) is currently receiving wide attention from critics and audiences. The composer Walter Steffens wrote his organ symphony Le Cantique des Cantiques for Friedhelm Flamme based on pictures by Marc Chagall . Flamme is particularly committed to the rediscovery of the French composer Auguste Fauchard , whose works he presented in first recordings. In 2013 he gave the German premiere of the Symphonie Eucharistique .

On February 6, 2018 Friedhelm Flamme was appointed honorary professor at the Detmold University of Music.

Discography (selection)

  • Organ Works Of The North German Baroque Vol I to XV, 2004–2016
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Complete Organ Works, 2010
  • Marcel Dupré. Le Chemin de la Croix, 2005
  • Maurice Duruflé. Complete Organ Works, 2004
  • Carl Nielsen Rued - Langgaard. Organ Works, 2010
  • Auguste Fauchard, 1994
  • Auguste Fauchard. Anthology Aristide Cavaillé-Coll Vol. 4, 2004
  • Friedhelm Flamme plays works by Max Reger (including four chorale fantasies), 2004
  • Walter Steffens. Guernica and other Paintings, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detmold University of Music: honorary professor title awarded. In: Focus Online , February 6, 2018, accessed on February 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Flame, Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Volkmarsen