Gottfried Neubert

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Gottfried Neubert, church musician and composer (1926–1983)

Gottfried Neubert (born October 15, 1926 in Zwönitz ; † August 2, 1983 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German church musician and composer .

Life

Gottfried Neubert was the son of the chief bank director and chairman of the Erzgebirgsverein Erich Neubert (1897–1971) and lived with his parents for a few years at his birthplace in Zwönitz, where his maternal grandfather, Friedrich Hermann Löscher (1860–1944), was pastor and from 1930 in Chemnitz . In 1931 his father was transferred to Frankfurt am Main . There Gottfried Neubert attended the Kleist School (destroyed in World War II) and then the Lessing Gymnasium , his class teacher was Otto Schumann . He was confirmed in the Luther Church in 1941.

In 1942 he was drafted with the entire school class as a flak helper, in 1944 he came to the marine infantry in East Friesland , where he was taken prisoner by the British in April 1945 near Dörpen . In the prisoner-of-war camp (118 Mardy-Camp, Wales) he had the opportunity to play music in church services and concerts. When he met Hans Rudolf Siemoneit in one of the camps, he decided to study church music.

After his late release from captivity in 1948, he studied from 1949 first at the church music school, later at the Frankfurt University of Music a . a. with Helmut Walcha (organ), Kurt Hessenberg (composition) and Philipp Reich (choir director). From 1952 until his early and sudden death in 1983, Gottfried Neubert was cantor at the Luther Church in Frankfurt. Gottfried Neubert mainly composed church music for practical use such as song sets, motets , cantatas (also for children's choir), canons , quodlibets , instrumental pieces (e.g. for brass) as well as chorale preludes and other works for organ solo. He wrote commissioned compositions for regional trombone days and regional church singing days.

Works (selection)

  • Choral practice : 29 preludes for the organ, Strube-Verlag , 2005
  • Come here : three Introit psalms, Strube-Verlag, 1997
  • Sun of Justice : Choral cantata for 3 wind choirs, Strube-Verlag, 1997
  • Wake up, wake up, it's high time ( EG 244 ): Partita; for organ, Strube-Verlag, 1997
  • We all want to be happy : Choral cantata for Easter, Hänssler Musik , 1990
  • Two chorale partitas and a little wind music for trumpets and trombones , Merseburger Verlag , 1988
  • Jesus enters Jerusalem (text and melody), 1968 ( EG 314)
  • Sing happily in Advent (text and melody), 1977 (EG 536 - only: regional part Hessen-Nassau / Kurhessen-Waldeck )
  • Receiving us, Mr. ( EG 193 ): Cantata for 4 parts. according to Choir and instruments, Strube-Verlag , 2017

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dietrich Schuberth in: Who is who in the hymn book. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, 2001. ISBN 3-525-50323-7 . Pp. 225-226.
  2. ↑ Joachim Stalmann: 314 - Jesus enters Jerusalem . In: Martin Evang, Ilsabe Seibt (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch . No. 21 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-50344-7 , pp. 63–65 , doi : 10.13109 / 9783666503443.63 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Neubert, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwönitz
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1983
Place of death Frankfurt am Main