Hartmut Bietz

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Hartmut Bietz (born August 16, 1942 in Cottbus ; † March 9, 2020 ) was a German composer . He wrote the melody of the hymn Singt das Lied der Freude ( EG 306).

Life

Hartmut Bietz was born in Cottbus as the third child of his parents and grew up first in Cottbus, then in Eberswalde . After grade 10, he attended the primary school for music, majoring in trombone, which is affiliated with the "Hanns Eisler" music college in Berlin. He studied at the church music school in Halle (Saale) .

In 1969 he became cantor in the Confessional Church in Berlin-Treptow. At the same time, he trained as a nurse and worked 1976–1980 with severely disabled young people at the Ulmenhof in Berlin-Wilhelmshagen.

In 1980 he became a lecturer at the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (EVA) in Berlin and from 1990 at Strube-Verlag , which had taken over EVA.

Hartmut Bietz was married and has two children.

Works

Compositions:

  • Now all thank God . Festival music
  • You command your ways - Prelude and Passacaglia
  • Chorales for organ and wind instruments

Melodies too

  • our father in Heaven
  • Sing the song of joy

Song sets in Traveling Together, songs and texts on ecumenism

  • The noise subsides
  • Let there be hope
  • You are the bread
  • Holy, holy, holy, God

Song books

  • Small song book for singing in the community of the Evangelical Church of the GDR (publisher)
  • Goodnight songs ( ISBN 3374008763 )

literature

  • Christian Finke in: Composers and songwriters of the Evangelical Hymnal. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Verlag, Göttingen 1999. ISBN 3-525-50318-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish of Kamenz