Herbert Liedecke

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Herbert Liedecke (born July 19, 1912 in Stuttgart , † September 22, 1998 ibid) was a German organist , church musician and university professor .

life and work

The son of the architect Ernst Liedecke and his wife Elise attended the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and learned to play the piano, cello and organ as a teenager. From the 1930s he was an auxiliary organist in the Matthäuskirche in Stuttgart . After studying architecture for four semesters at the TH Stuttgart , he switched to the Stuttgart University of Music , where he studied organ and church music with Hermann Keller, among others . It was there that Liedecke met his future wife, the organist Eva Hölderlin († 2007). He later moved to the Academic University of Music in Berlin, where he studied with Fritz Heitmann and Kurt Thomas and also passed his exams in 1938.

In 1938 he received the post of cantor and organist at the Stadtkirche Stuttgart-Feuerbach . During the Second World War, as a Wehrmacht soldier, he was an "advanced observer" of the artillery. After the war he resumed his work at the city church in Feuerbach and continued it until 1958. Liedecke was a university teacher from 1947–1950 at the State University Institute for Music Education in Trossingen , from 1950 to 1977 at the Stuttgart University of Music (from 1963 as professor) and thus influenced several generations of church musicians from the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

In 1958 Liedecke succeeded Karl Gerok as organist at the Markuskirche in Stuttgart. From 1970 to 1978, again as Gerok's successor, he became organist at the Stuttgart collegiate church and thus held what is probably the most prestigious and public organist's office in the Württemberg regional church . In addition to his church offices, Liedecke often gave concerts at home and abroad and also recorded organ works for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk .

He worked as an organ expert in numerous new organs in the post-war period in Württemberg .

From 1957 to 1965 Liedecke was regional chairman of the Association of Church Musicians in Württemberg.

Liedecke found its final resting place in 1998 in the old cemetery in Stuttgart-Rohr .

student

literature

  • Elsie Pfitzer: “Hallelujah! To praise God remain my joie de vivre! ”Herbert Liedecke on his 100th birthday , in: Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik, ISSN  0177-6487 , issue 6/2012, p. 21f. (abbreviated; full version as PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

The article is mainly based on the essay by Elsie Pfitzer (2012).

  1. ↑ Life data according to LEO-BW
  2. ↑ see also Liedecke's obituary on Keller, online at hermann-keller.de ( memento from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Liedecke, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician, composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1998
Place of death Stuttgart