Hans-Jürgen Schnoor

Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (born October 30, 1946 in Kiel ) is a German organist , harpsichordist and university professor in Lübeck . Since 1980 he has been the director of the Neumünster Bach Choir.

After graduating from the Klaus-Harms-Schule in Kappeln an der Schlei , Hans-Jürgen Schnoor studied church music , piano , conducting and harpsichord and, after a one-year assistant at St. Marien with Walter Kraft in Lübeck, started his first church music position at the Jakobikirche in Lübeck from 1971 to 1975. After four years in different areas of work - music therapist at the State Hospital Hildesheim, lecturer at the church music school Herford and teacher at the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Heide - he became cantor and organist at the Vicelinkirche Neumünster on March 1, 1980 . In 1995 he was appointed church music director. Since 1986 he has also been teaching harpsichord at the Lübeck University of Music , and has been a professor since 1997 .

In addition to the development of church music at the Vicelinkirche Neumünster with the Neumünster Bach Choir, various orchestras, instrumental and vocal groups, on the organ, on the harpsichord and on the fortepiano , he gives concerts in Europe and overseas as a soloist and as a chamber music partner and accompanist, made recordings on radio ( NDR, WDR), television ( NDR , Denmark , Poland , USA ) and on sound carriers (Bach: Well-tempered Clavier , Organ Works, Clavier-Exercise III , Bruhns: Complete Organ Works , Weckmann: Harpsichord Works , etc.). He is co-founder and director of the Ensemble Enrico Leone .

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SURNAME	Schnoor, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German organist, harpsichordist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiel