Helmut Fleinghaus

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Helmut Fleinghaus (* 1958 in Wuppertal ; † November 5, 2020 ) was a German church musician and musicologist as well as a university professor and rector.

Life

Fleinghaus received his first organ lessons from Joachim Dorfmüller . From 1977 to 1983 he studied school music , musicology , philosophy , pedagogy and evangelical church music as well as organ at the University of Cologne and at the Cologne University of Music . His teachers included Clemens Ganz , Henning Frederichs and Heinrich Hüschen . He passed the A-exam and the artistic school-leaving examin the subject organ. In musicology he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the music conception of the Erasmus of Rotterdam . He completed his legal clerkship in Hagen and Schwelm. In 1986 he passed the second state examination for teaching at upper secondary level.

Since 1985 he has taught at the University of Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , initially as a lecturer in form studies, instrument and literature studies and the organ, and from 1991 as a professor . In 2007 he was elected rector of the university after having been deputy rector since 1995. He succeeded Rolf Schönstedt .

From 1987 to 2005 Helmut Fleinghaus worked as an organ expert for the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

He was engaged as a concert performer and speaker in Europe and the USA. He has published numerous academic articles as well as records and CDs from radio and television recordings.

Fleinghaus lived in Bad Oeynhausen , was married and had two children.

Audio documents

  • Musique française (1984)
  • Henning Frederichs : De Tempore
  • The Becker organ in the Stephanuskirche in Bielefeld-Gadderbaum (2002)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach : Sonatas BWV 525-530
  • Widor, Dupré, Alain - Helmut Fleinghaus - Musique Française (LP, Dig)
  • Bach, Mendelssohn, Laufer - Helmut Fleinghaus - Sonatas (LP, Album)

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Individual proof

  1. Rector of the College of Church Music suddenly dies. In: New Westphalian . November 6, 2020, accessed November 6, 2020 .