Heinz Rudolf Meier

Heinz Rudolf Meier (born November 9, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German organist and choir director .

Life

From 1959, Heinz Rudolf Meier studied at the Institute for School Music at the Frankfurt University of Music , choosing piano, cello and organ as instrumental subjects, in the latter subject being taught by Wilhelm Baither, so that he became a grandchild of Helmut Walcha . He passed the state examination for artistic teaching at grammar schools in 1964, but had also taken German, theology and especially musicology with a view to his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt am Main , which he studied at the University of Zurich with Kurt von Fischer in 1964/65 deepened. Externally, Heinz Rudolf Meier passed the B-examination for church musicians at the church music school Schlüchtern in 1965 and immediately afterwards took over his first cantorat at the Thomaskirche in Hofheim am Taunus , from here he regularly commuted to Frankfurt, around 1966 his German studies with the scientific examination for to complete the teaching profession. In the years that followed, he wrote his dissertation under Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht on the subject of "Type and function of choral movements in Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorios" and obtained his doctorate in philosophy in 1971 with the subjects of German and theology.

After working as a church musician and university assistant, the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau commissioned him in 1974 to succeed Dieter Kurz as head of the Laubacher Kantorei , a boys' choir with boarding school based on the model of the Leipzig Thomaner and Dresden Kreuzchor. Heinz Rudolf Meier led this choir for 5 years before he took over the musical direction of the Wuppertal Kurrende in 1979 . In 2005 he was replaced by Martin Lehmann .

Web links

• Westdeutsche Zeitung : Heinz Rudolf Meier: Three decades for music , November 8, 2010
• Schwelm-Gevelsberger Organ Autumn, September 26th to October 10th, 2004