Holger Hantke

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Holger Hantke (born January 31, 1951 in Lübeck ) is a German musician , composer and music teacher in Northern Germany .

As a conductor , organist and composer, Holger Hantke helped shape the church music of the New Apostolic Church in Germany. He worked as a music teacher until 2014 and is still active as a band leader and composer in Hamburg today (2019) .

Life

Since 1958, Hantke was an extraordinary student at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Academy and the North German Organ School in Lübeck, where he not only learned to play the piano and organ (with Silva Brenner and Manfred Kluge ), but also lessons in organ improvisation (with Uwe Röhl ) and Choir direction (with Kurt Thomas ) received.

After graduating from high school, Hantke studied language and education at the University of Hamburg from 1970 to 1975 as well as school and church music at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . His teachers included Ferry Gebhart (piano), Martin Günter Förstemann and Gerhard Dickel (organ), Christoph Hohlfeld (music theory), Hans-Peter Reinecke (musicology) and Hermann Rauhe (music education). Hantke also received composition lessons from Günter Fork and Felicitas Kukuck . In 1977 Hantke won a 2nd prize at the International Organ and Improvisation Competition in Haarlem .

In 1980 Hantke took part in a jazz summer seminar with Peter Herbolzheimer and Jiggs Whigham .

Hantke had been organist since 1964 and choirmaster in the New Apostolic Church in Lübeck and Hamburg since 1970 . In 1985 he began building a church chamber orchestra. In this context, recordings and more than 60 church music commissioned compositions (new compositions and arrangements) for choir , organ , chamber music ensemble and orchestra were made .

Since 1975 Hantke has worked as a high school teacher in Hamburg (music and French), with one of his main areas of focus being on popular music (building big bands , musical performances). In addition, Hantke was active as a cantor and organist at Protestant and Catholic churches in the Hamburg area and led various choirs. In addition, Hantke gave concerts as an organist and pianist in Germany and abroad and worked as a studio musician. In 2009 Hantke and others founded the Hamburg big band 'WESTEND JAZZ', of which he is also the musical director.

Hantke has been retired since August 2014, but still musically active.

Works

  • Since around 1965 numerous new compositions and arrangements for church music practice, initially primarily for the New Apostolic Church . Typical instrumentations are choir and organ, chamber music instrumentation (for example with recorders) and orchestra. These works corresponded to the practical requirements of the church music of the New Apostolic Church of that time. In their simplicity they are resourceful and rarely stereotypical. Hantke carefully enriches traditional harmony and counterpoint with elements of classical modernism (fifths parallels, quarters, dissonant ostinati , extension of the harmony based on the characteristics of the voice) or jazz harmony. The focus is on the vocal guidance of the individual voices.
  • Since 1989 arranging musicals for his own school use.
  • The Christmas story for children. Oratorio for solos, children's choir, recorder quartet, transverse flute, string quartet and obbligato organ (first performance 1999)
  • Peter's Confession of Christ (first performance 2001)
  • Little children and Jesus (First performance 2001)
  • It is good to praise the Lord (Psalm 92) (first performed 2001)
  • Little children and Jesus (The Blessing of Children) for SATB, flute, piano, bass and drums (ad lib.), Möseler Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 2006
  • A pure heart, Lord, create in me and praise the gentlemen, o my soul in: GospelChoräle, Zebe Publishing, Berlin 2006
  • Psalm 90, 10 (version for cantor and one-part schola or for cantor and four-part choir SATB and instruments), Edition Punctum Saliens , Bielefeld 2010
  • 7 Partitas for organ ( A ship is coming , loaded ; You children, come ; How lovely is May ; Go out, my heart, and look for Freud ; We plow, and we scatter (all good gifts) ; You know how many little stars standing ; the moon has risen ), Edition Punctum Saliens, Bielefeld 2010
  • How shall I receive you (O how shall I receive Thee) Partita for organ, Edition Dohr, Cologne 2018

literature

  • Friedhelm Deis , Klaus Michael Fruth , Holger Hantke, Hermann Ober (editor): Organ preludes . 2 volumes (Volume I manualiter , Volume II pedaliter ), Verlag Friedrich Bischoff, Frankfurt am Main

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personal data
SURNAME Hantke, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck