Hermann Stern (church musician)

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Hermann Stern (born November 8, 1912 in Abetifi , Ghana ; † January 9, 1978 in Hohengehren ) was a Protestant church musician , composer and the first regional church music director in the history of the Evangelical Church of Württemberg.

Life

Hermann Stern grew up as the child of a missionary from the Basel Mission in Ghana. Stern then learned the teaching profession in Stuttgart, but from 1936 worked as a church musician (organist and choir director) in Ebingen , from where he traveled to the Sudetenland on his motorcycle with Martin Friedrich Jehle (director of the Ebingen music house Johannes Jehle) in June and July 1938 , traveled to Prague and on to Romania.

On April 1, 1940, he went to Stuttgart as a regional youth singing warden , where he later worked as chairman of the Association of Protestant Church Choirs and as church music director in Württemberg. Most recently he was regional church music director of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg , the first to be awarded this title in 1973.

His overview of Bible text settings from 1972 gave an overview of all essential settings of Bible words.

Works

  • Through the church year. Sentences for small singing circle ; Ebingen: Johannes Jehle [1947 at the earliest] (with French occupation authorization), 28 pp.
  • Sing and play. Chorales for individual voices and instruments ; Ebingen: Johannes Jehle [1947 at the earliest] (with French occupation authorization), 20 pp.
  • Small choir booklet ; Ebingen: Johannes Jehle [1948] (with French occupation authorization), 22 pp.
  • The 23rd Psalm. Sacred concert for 2 voices ; Ebingen: Johannes Jehle [1948] (with French occupation authorization), 8 pp.
  • The chorale in the canon ; Ebingen: Johannes Jehle 1948, 14 pp. + Inserted text sheet
  • Hymn in canon. Movements for 3-part choir and instruments ad lib. ; Stuttgart-Hohenheim: Hänßler 1963, 80 pp.
  • Song book for the 1953 Girls' Day in Württemberg. Compiled by Hermann Stern. Published by the Evang. Girls' work in Württemberg. Obtainable through the defeat of the Evang. Jugendwerk, Stuttgart, 14 p .; Contains 18 numbered songs and canons, 17 of which are numbered, movements 12, 13, 15 and 16 are by other composers (Hans-Arnold Metzger, Walter Kiefner, Paul Ernst Ruppel and Erich Gruber), the remaining 14 movements and canons by Hermann Stern
  • The hymn in small cast ; Stuttgart-Hohenheim: Hänssler Verlag 1967 (building blocks for the divine service series XIX, issue 5), 40 pp.
  • Developed church song. Hymn sets for open congregational singing ; Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler Verlag 1975 (Hänssler Edition HE.19.803), 48 pp.

Textbooks and reference books

  • Hermann Stern: Bible text settings. Liturgical choral service ; Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1972
  • Hermann Stern (Ed.): Guide to Basic Training in Protestant Church Music ; Stuttgart-Neuhausen 1969; ISBN 3-7751-0022-9

Editions

  • Herbert Nitsche and Hermann Stern (eds.): Melchior Vulpius . German Sunday Gospel sayings from Advent to Trinity 1612 , Stuttgart-Hohenheim 1960 (Sacred Choral Music II, Die Junge Kantorei 12)
  • Herbert Nitsche and Hermann Stern (eds.): Andreas Raselius . German Sunday Gospel Proverbs , in: Choral works for old masters; Stuttgart-Hohenheim 1964

Essays

  • Church musicians and trombone choir , in: The friend. Journal for the Swabian Evangelical Young Team (Stuttgart), 42nd year November 1938, p. 156.

Settings

  • Thank the Lord ( EG Pfalz / Baden-Elsass-Lothringen 599; EG Hessen 605)
  • The Lord is my shepherd (EG Bayern-Thüringen 595; EG Pfalz / Baden-Elsass-Lothringen 599; EG Nordelbien 575; EG Württemberg 599)
  • You gave life to the world (EG Württemberg 668)
  • May it bless and keep us (EG 174)
  • Sing and play to the Lord (EG Pfalz / Baden-Elsass-Lothringen 627; EG West / Reformiert 642)

literature

  • War chronicle of the Protestant parish Ebingen for the period 1933–1948. Written by pastor [Edmund] Jahn (pp. 1–42 and pp. 52–56) and church caretaker Maute (pp. 43–51). Ebingen 1948 [unprinted]
  • Biogram of the Evangelical Hymnal, Württemberg edition, p. 1619
  • Memorial booklet for regional church music director Hermann Stern. November 8, 1912 - January 9, 1978. Publisher: Evangelical Church Music in Württemberg - Association of Choirs and Church Musicians - e. V. Special print from “Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik” 36th year [1979] No. 2. Editing: Regional Church Music Director Rudolf-Günther Läpple, Stuttgart. Dean Herbert Nitsche, Kirchheim unter Teck. Church music director Hermann Rau, Heilbronn, 72 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Everyone should sing - memories of regional church music director Hermann Stern, Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg, issue 46/2012, p. 29

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Stern, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Abetifi , Ghana
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1978
Place of death Hohengehren