Heinz Hennig

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Heinz Hennig (born May 25, 1927 in Burg (near Magdeburg) , † January 29, 2002 in Hanover ) was the founder of the Hanover Boys Choir and its director from 1950 to the end of 2001 as well as a university professor .

Life

Heinz Hennig went to boarding school at the Musisches Gymnasium in Frankfurt at the age of twelve . One of his most important teachers was the conductor Kurt Thomas , in whose boys' choir Heinz Hennig participated and in which he was able to gain formative experience for his later activities.

At the end of the 1940s, Heinz Hennig began studying music in Hanover, where he founded the Hanover Boys Choir as a 23-year-old student advertised in a newspaper in 1950 . Other ensembles that are still renowned today also owe their creation to Heinz Hennig's musical pioneering spirit - above all the Hannover Girls Choir (1951) and the Hannover Young Symphony Orchestra (JSO) (1961), which were also founded by him. The JSO together with Barbara Koerppen and Erwin Wolf .

Heinz Hennig achieved particular importance through recordings of numerous cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in his choir in close collaboration with Gustav Leonhardt , published in the complete recording "Das Kantatenwerk" ( Teldec ). Hennig is considered to be one of the pioneers of the historical performance practice of early music in the present, especially with numerous and award-winning radio, record and CD productions of the works of Heinrich Schütz and Andreas Hammerschmidt . The first performance of the Opus Ultimum ( swan song ) by Heinrich Schütz and the first complete recording of the "Sacred Choral Music 1648" in historical performance practice set standards for Schütz interpretation to this day. In addition, he devoted himself to the interpretation of contemporary compositions through numerous world premieres such as the works of Alfred Koerppens .

In addition to his work as director of the Hanover Boys Choir, Heinz Hennig taught from 1962 to 1992 as a professor of choral conducting at the Hanover University of Music and Theater . For decades he directed the college's chamber choir and was its vice-president from 1970 until his retirement.

After more than half a century of internationally recognized concerts and teaching generations of young singers, Heinz Hennig handed over the Hanover Boys Choir to his successor Jörg Breiding at the end of 2001 .

A few weeks later, Heinz Hennig died on January 29, 2002.

Awards

In 1978 Hennig received the Lower Saxony Prize for Culture, which was awarded for the first time that year .

literature

  • Boys' Choir Hannover 1950 - 1990 , program booklet, Hannover 1990
  • Burkhard Wetekam : Der Knabenchor Hannover , Hannover: Buchdruckerwerkstätten Hannover, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89384-040-3
  • Peter Schnaus : Professional vocal youth work. Boys 'Choir Hanover - Girls' Choir Hanover , in Günter Katzenberger , Stefan Weiss (Ed.): Music in and around Hanover. Peter Schnaus on his 70th birthday (= IfMpF monograph . No. 14). Institute for Music Education Research at the Hanover University of Music and Drama, Hanover 2006, ISBN 3-931852-74-1 , pp. 108–126
  • Hugo Thielen : Hennig, Heinz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 286.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1961. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 251f .; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle (near Magdeburg)
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2002
Place of death Hanover