Hans Berger (church musician)

Hans Berger, 2017

Hans Berger conducts the Oberaudorf church choir, 2003

Hans Berger (born October 29, 1944 in Oberaudorf ) is a Bavarian church musician and choir director .

Life

He directs the Hans Berger ensemble , which specializes in classical folk music, and works closely with both the Montini Choir and the Müllner Peter Choir. He is also considered a zither virtuoso and has arranged and composed a large number of works from the Baroque and Classical periods for this instrument and the ensemble .

One of his merits is the rediscovery and evaluation of the sheet music collection of the Upper Bavarian polymath Peter Huber, known as Müllner-Peter (1766–1843), whose works he edited and since then has made available to a larger audience in numerous sound recordings and concerts.

In 1986 he married the music teacher and choir director Rosalie (Rosi) Käsweber (1964–2002), with whom he founded the Musiktage Oberaudorf-Reisach in 1991, which she directed until 2000. His son Johannes Berger (* 1987) comes from the marriage .

The Hans Berger ensemble was awarded the Hanns Seidel Foundation's Culture Prize at the “Folk Music Day” in Wildbad Kreuth in 2008 .