Helmut Peters (musician)
Helmut Peters (born August 24, 1938 in Hinsbeck ) is a German church musician , cathedral organist , concert organist and music teacher .
biography
education and study
At the age of 9, Helmut Peters began taking piano lessons with Victor Hormes in Kaldenkirchen . His father, Ernst Peters, organist and choirmaster in Leuth (Nettetal) , gave him his first organ lessons in 1949. In 1951, Cantor Bernard Korte from Nettetal-Breyell took over the piano and organ playing and musical theory instruction. In April 1956 Helmut Peters was with Marcel Dupré in Meudon and in St. Sulpice in Paris .
In 1958 he passed his organist and choir director exam (B exam) at the Robert Schumann University of Düsseldorf (then Robert Schumann Conservatory). His lecturers were Heinrich Neuss, Jürg Baur , Anton Dewanger, Walter B. Tuebben, P. Anno Kreuzkamp. In 1961 he obtained the A-exam at the Cologne University of Music and Dance , then the artistic maturity examination in organ (with distinction) and the concert exam diploma in organ. His professors and lecturers included Josef Zimmermann , Kaspar Roeseling, Heinrich Lemacher , Hermann Schroeder , P. Wilhelm Lueger, Adolf Wendel and Hans Hulverscheidt .
Church music offices
From 1950 he represented organists in various parishes in Nettetal . From 1958 to 1960 Helmut Peters was organist and choirmaster in St. Anna in Düsseldorf-Niederkassel . He also worked as a cantor in the parish church of the Holy Spirit in Cologne-Zollstock from 1960 to 1963. From 1963 to 1979 he was cantor in the old town parish of St. Pantaleon in Cologne . He also set up the concert series “Church Music in St. Pantaleon, Cologne”, where he himself played the entire organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in 15 concerts. In 1979 Peters was appointed cathedral organist at the High Cathedral in Paderborn , where he performed all of Bach's organ works in 1984/1985. he retired in 2003. In addition, he was an organ expert for the Archdiocese of Paderborn until 2003 and was a co-planner of the new Paderborn cathedral organs , the Wuppertal town hall and advice on various cathedral organs.
Teaching posts
From 1960 to 1979 he was a music teacher at the then Catholic Vocational School for Women’s Professions, Cologne Sachsenring (today the Archbishop’s Vocational College of the Archdiocese of Cologne). He worked as a lecturer for organ, piano and organ literature at the St. Gregorisushau in Aachen from 1974 to 1979. At the University of Paderborn he was a lecturer for organ from 1980 to 1994. He was also a lecturer for Gregorian chant at the Archbishop's seminary from 1979 to 2003 .
Sound recordings, concerts and sound carriers
Helmut Peters made numerous radio recordings with WDR , ORF , Poland and Radio Madrid. He played organ concerts in Germany and in almost every country in Europe, Russia, Japan and South Korea.
Sound carrier
- Helmut Peters plays the organs in Paderborn Cathedral. (Polyphonia, POL 63008, 1984)
- The works of Johann Sebastian Bach (Polyphonia)
- Works by Max Reger , Opus 127 and Choral Preludes Opus 79b and Variations and Fugue on the English National Anthem (Musicom)
- Works by Bach, Guilmant , Karg-Elert and Willan . (Musicom)
- Libori festival music. (Musicom)
- In dulci jubilo. (Musicom)
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Dewanger. In: Austrian Academy of Science. Retrieved November 3, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d erzbistum-paderborn.de: Brief Vita , December 11, 2018.
- ↑ Bach organ cycle 2018 - Soli Deo Gloria , accessed on December 5, 2018.
- ^ Christian Hölscher: Farewell concert by cathedral organist Helmut Peters - Catholic parish of St. Alexander, Iggenhausen - news. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
- ↑ After waiting for 18 years . In: DER DOM - church newspaper for the Archdiocese of Paderborn . April 29, 2016 ( derdom.de [accessed March 30, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peters, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church musician and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hinsbeck |