Hans-Klaus Heinz

Hans-Klaus Heinz (born February 26, 1927 in Saarbrücken ; † May 24, 2004 there ) was a German composer and Protestant pastor.

Hans-Klaus Heinz 1987

Life

Hans-Klaus Heinz was born as the eldest of three children of the old Saarbrücken pastor Eduard Heinz and his wife Ruth. Uebe born. His younger brother was the later monument conservator Dieter Heinz . Since 1937, Hans-Klaus Heinz received lessons in piano and music theory at the renowned Saarbrücken Conservatory Eduard Bornschein. In addition to theology, his father Eduard had also studied music and musicology, among others with Gustav Jenner and Hermann Grabner . From 1925 Karl Rahner was cantor at the Saarbrücken Ludwigskirche , from whom Hans-Klaus Heinz was instructed in organ playing and choir conducting. Eduard Heinz was a member of the Confessing Church .

In 1943, Heinz was drafted as an air force helper, in the spring of 1945 he was still doing the Reich Labor Service and was taken prisoner by the Americans in France, from which he was released in the same year.

In 1946 he passed his Abitur at the Ludwigsgymnasium in Saarbrücken and then studied theology and musicology (composition) at the universities of Heidelberg, Mainz and Bonn. In 1951 he passed the first theological exam and became vicar in Neukirchen-Vluyn. After graduating from the Wuppertal seminary in 1952, he became vicar in St. Wendel. After the second exam in 1953, he was ordained and sent to Wiebelskirchen as an assistant preacher, where he took over his first pastor shortly afterwards. In 1964 he moved to the pastor's office in Gersweiler, where he stayed until his retirement in 1989. He spent his retirement at the Rodenhof in Saarbrücken, where he gave his last sermon on January 1st, 2004. After a short, serious illness, he died in May 2004 and was buried in the family grave in the main cemetery in Saarbrücken.

Works

Hans-Klaus Heinz has an extensive range of chamber and church music. The music was mainly performed at church and house concerts in Saarbrücken, Wiebelskirchen and Gersweiler. On February 28, 2002, a large gala concert took place in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer House in Saarbrücken for the composer's 75th birthday, at which only works by Eduard and Hans-Klaus Heinz were performed. From the works of Hans-Klaus Heinz have been published so far:

Works on sound carriers:

• The Gersweiler introits recorded by Ev. Church choir Dudweiler under Erich Nikolaus, MusicCassette with accompanying text booklet, Saarbrücken 1989

Musical works in print:

• Six Gregorian introits for the Passion time op. 112 (1984), ed. by Thomas Bergholz 1991
• The Gersweiler Introiten ed. by Joachim Conrad, Pforzheim 1992
• Lord, our ruler Psalm 8 for solo voice, choir and organ op. 56 (1963), ed. by Joachim Conrad 1997
• For this day we consider the choir cantata for soprano, choir, two violins and organ op. 58 (1964). With an introduction by Ralf Krömer ed. by Joachim Conrad 1997
• Songs from the 'Verklingenden Weisen' by Louis Pinck for soprano and piano op. 53 (1959), ed. by Thomas Bergholz 1998
• Four chorale arrangements op. 93, ed. by Thomas Bergholz 1999
• My most beautiful Zier und Kleinod Partita in versions for organ, for piano four hands and for string quartet op. 50 (1961), ed. by Thomas Bergholz 2002
• Four songs from 'Herbstfeuer' by Ricarda Huch for soprano and piano op. 71 (1968), ed. by Thomas Bergholz 2002
• Four chants from the Lied der Lieder for soprano and piano op. 67 (1967), ed. by Thomas Bergholz 2002
• 13 chorale arrangements for 2 to 5 recorders op. 5, op. 28 and op. 93, ed. by Thomas Bergholz 2019

More publishments:

• Pastor Adolf Fauth as a popular writer. In: 200 years of the Evangelical Church. Contributions to the history of the Protestant parish Gersweiler, ed. by Kurt Groth, Saarbrücken 1984
• Four homilies on the book of Tobias. In: Et Exaltavit Humiles. Festschrift for Wolfgang Müller, ed. by Joachim Conrad, Saarbrücken 1991.

literature

• Thomas Bergholz: The Gersweiler introits. In: Die Gersweiler Introiten, text booklet for the MusicCassette, ed. by Joachim Conrad, Saarbrücken 1989.
• Ralf Krömer: Musical considerations for the Ascension Cantata 'We think about this day' (op. 58) by Hans-Klaus Heinz. In: H.-K. Heinz: Choralkantata op.58, ed. by J. Conrad, pp. 14-19.
• Joachim Conrad , Thomas Bergholz: Life and musical work of the pastors Eduard and Hans-Klaus Heinz. 1st edition 1990, 2nd edition Saarbrücken 1998.
• Thomas Bergholz, Joachim Conrad, Martin Ufer: First, the dear nightingale. Festschrift for Hans-Klaus Heinz (publications of the presbytery of the Kölln parish, volume 2). Püttlingen 2002.
• Joachim Conrad: Heinz, Hans-Klaus (1927-2004), in: BBKL 24 (2005), Col. 781-793

Web links

• Hans-Klaus Heinz in the Saarland biographies