Hans Pflugbeil

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Memorial plaque for Hans Pflugbeil on the building of the Institute for Church Music, Bahnhofstr. 48/49 in Greifswald

Hans Pflugbeil (born July 4, 1909 in Ostritz ; † June 16, 1974 in Greifswald ; full name: Johannes Christoph Pflugbeil ) was a German church musician and founder and long-time director of the Greifswald Bach Weeks .

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After graduating from high school in Chemnitz , Hans Pflugbeil studied church music at the Conservatory for Music in Leipzig , especially with its director Karl Straube . He was first cantor and organist in Schneeberg and in 1937 came to the St. Nikolai Cathedral in Greifswald in the same position . He rebuilt the cathedral choir and had the Buchholz organ from 1832 changed by E. Kemper and Son in line with the organ movement .

Drafted into military service in 1939, Pflugbeil was seriously wounded and lost his right arm. Nevertheless he was able to return to his old office; at the same time he was given the management of the "Seminar for Protestant Church Music" from October 1, 1946, which was founded in 1938 by Heinrich Laag in Stettin-Finkenwalde and was rebuilt in Greifswald after 1945 within the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

Building of the church music school Greifswald , today the institute for church music and musicology

From this institution, the "Greifswald Church Music School" emerged in 1952, which received the approval of the church administration to take the B-examination for church musicians. As regional church music director , he also had other tasks outside of Greifswald in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church. After 1989 the church music school became a university institute for church music and musicology at the University of Greifswald .

In 1947 Hans Pflugbeil married the harpsichordist Annelise Deutsch, b. Buss , who had taught at the Stettin Church Music School since 1941 and who now became his closest colleague. Sebastian Pflugbeil is their son.

With the support of his wife, Hans Pflugbeil organized an annual church music festival from 1946, which soon bore the name Greifswalder Bachwoche and is now the oldest music festival in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

He could no longer experience the 28th Bach Week in June 1974 that he was still preparing. It was opened with a funeral service, at which six students, who had become important cantors themselves in the meantime, carried the coffin of Hans Pflugbeil, who had died a few days earlier, from Greifswald Cathedral.

Hans Pflugbeil was buried in the Inselfriedhof in Hiddensee .

Works

  • Philip Dulichius : Glory to the Father. Edited with comments by Hans Pflugbeil. Berlin: Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt 1951 (Merseburger Collection 24)

Discography

  • Dietrich Buxtehude : Cantatas. (Cantate CAN 57 601) Kassel: Bärenreiter 1993 (recordings from 1957 to 1967), in it With Fried and Freud I am going there (BuxWV 76) and command the angel to come (BuxWV 10) with Johannes Künzel, bass; Greifswald Cathedral Choir; Bach Orchestra Berlin; Head: Hans Pflugbeil
  • The Complete Sinfonias from Bach's Cantatas. The Berlin Bach Orchestra, Hans Pflugbeil, conductor

literature

  • Matthias Schneider (Ed.): Bach in Greifswald. On the history of the Greifswald Bach Week 1946-1996. Frankfurt a. M. etc .: Lang 1996 (Greifswald contributions to musicology; Vol. 3) ISBN 3-631-30357-2
in particular: Dietrich W. Prost : The work of Hans Pflugbeil.
  • Siegfried Lange: From Cape Arkona to the Oder - insights into the Greifswald regional church. Greifswald 1984

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other sources, born on September 4, 1909 in Chemnitz!
personal data
SURNAME Pflugbeil, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pflugbeil, Johannes Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician, organist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 4, 1909 or September 4, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostritz or Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1974
Place of death Greifswald