Horst Gehann

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Horst Gehann

Horst Gehann (born November 27, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 21, 2007 in Kludenbach ) was a German conductor , composer , concert organist , harpsichordist and music publisher .

Due to the origin of his parents ( Transylvanian Saxons ), who returned to Romania in 1937 , Horst Gehann spent childhood and youth mainly in Transylvania . He received his musical training at the music school in Reichenberg ( Sudeten ), then with FX Dressler (a student of the Thomaskantor Karl Straube ) in Sibiu , V. Bickerich (a student of F. Heitmann) in Kronstadt , composition in Bucharest with M. Jora ( a student of Max Reger ). He passed the soloist examination for organ in 1955 in Bucharest. He preferred to play on the mostly originally preserved Baroque organs from Transylvania. In addition to his concert activities, he taught church music at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Bucharest. During the Ceauşescu dictatorship, he was exposed to a wide range of political discrimination. He could not work in his profession for a few years, so he thought of emigrating. In 1972, Gehann was able to move to the Federal Republic of Germany with the help of Federal President Gustav Heinemann . In Darmstadt he took on a teaching position for church music at the Adventist Theological Seminary in Marienhöhe in Darmstadt, to which his daughter Angela Gehann-Dernbach succeeded in 1984 .

As part of his international activities as a concert organist and conductor, he made numerous radio and vinyl recordings. He was a member of the German Composers' Association and GEMA .

In 1980 Horst Gehann founded the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, Darmstadt , and in 1981 the Bach Choir Darmstadt , with which he regularly performed oratorios in collaboration with various symphony orchestras , mainly from Eastern Europe, in addition to the Bach works cycle (up to 2005: 107 concerts) In the sense of cross-border maintenance of the common European cultural heritage. In 1987 he founded the Gehann-Musik-Verlag, whose focus is on the music of German composers from Southeast Europe . In 2006, for health reasons, he handed over the leadership of the Bach Choir and the Pro Musica chamber orchestra to his daughter Angela Gehann-Dernbach .

He was chairman of the Baußnern Society and deputy chairman of the Society for German Music Culture in Southeastern Europe and was also chairman of various other musical institutions.

Gehann composed chamber music, works for a cappella choir, organ, piano and voice. His works have been published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Hänssler, Saatkorn- und Advent-Verlag and his own Gehann Musik Verlag.

Horst Gehann succumbed to cancer on June 21, 2007 in Kludenbach. He left a wife and two children. The children continue to run the publishing house.

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  1. ↑ Karl Teutsch: Contributions to the music history of the Transylvanian Saxons III, Vita Gehann p. 81 and 189f ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.suedost-musik.de
  2. ↑ Klaus Trapp: In the spirit of Bach. Obituary: On the death of Horst Gehann: organist, composer as well as founder and director of the Bach Choir Darmstadt ( memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); Darmstädter Echo, June 25, 2007

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SURNAME Gehann, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor, organist, harpsichordist, music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2007
Place of death Kludenbach