Hans Peter Günther

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Hans Peter Günther (born May 16, 1941 in Plau (Mecklenburg) ; † September 8, 2015 in Greifswald ) was a German church musician.

Life

Günther grew up in Halberstadt . He studied church music at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . The subject of bubbles was introduced during his student days. After completing his studies, he went to Jarmen in 1964 as an organist in what was then the Greifswald regional church. In 1965 the later Pomeranian Evangelical Church found the state trombonist and trombonist in him . He enriched major events with special ideas. His set-up times for the young wind players in Jarmen and Stralsund and for the advanced players on Hiddensee were very popular. In 1968 he founded a youth singing week at the Zingsthof . The Zingster Singkreis emerged from it and still exists today. A special initiative in 1976 was the Christmas wind music by candlelight in St. Nikolai Cathedral (Greifswald) . It developed into an annual festival of trumpets with a steadily growing number of participants. His choir festivals combined choir meetings and trumpet days. Thousands of instrumentalists and choir members opened the 2004 choir festival in the production hall of the Volkswerft Stralsund with Haydn's creation . On a trip to Saint Petersburg , Novgorod and Moscow in May 2001 he initiated the first trombone choir in Russia with six wind players from Pomerania at the Saint Petri Church (Saint Petersburg) . When the trombone works in Pomerania and Mecklenburg merged, he advocated the further promotion of the trombone choir. On his 60th birthday (right after his trip to Russia) he was honored in St. Nikolai with large choirs, chamber music and hunting horn blowing. The 60 pieces were by Johannes Kuhlo or were related to him.

In recognition of his services to singing and trombone work, the Pomeranian Evangelical Church awarded him the title of Church Music Director in 2001 . In 2006 he retired. After a long and serious illness, he died at the age of 74. Martin Huss was his successor as state trombonist .

Works

Günther composed fanfares, choral movements and multi-choir works. His arrangement of the In dulci jubilo by Michael Praetorius and his Greifswald Christmas fanfare are well known .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Trumpet Factory
  2. ^ Elke Siekmeier: Obituary Hans-Peter Günther - a life for church music . Posaunenwerk Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, circular 3/2015, pp. 88–92
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician, trombone attendant in Western Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Plau am See
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2015
Place of death Greifswald