Joachim Riepen
Joachim Riepen (* 1941 in Cologne ) is a German organist . He studied church music in Cologne and took master classes with Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini in Bologna, among others .
He worked as a deanery church musician until 1979 and then hit the headlines when he was widowed, married a divorced woman and was excluded from church service. Der Spiegel criticized, for example, that a church musician who (quote) “belongs to the organist elite in the Federal Republic” was denied any church position as a cantor .
From 1979 Riepen worked as a teacher for music in higher education and was also a lecturer for piano and organ at the University of Dortmund from 1977 to 1983 . In addition, he gave concerts in Germany and abroad, accompanied silent films (including in the German Film Museum , Frankfurt am Main ) on the cinema organ and worked as a freelancer for Deutsche Welle . Today Riepen is a church musician in the parish of St. Ludgerus in Weseke .
Web links
Website by Joachim Riepen. Retrieved October 16, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unyielding, unteachable, excessive. (pdf) Der Spiegel, January 7, 1980, accessed January 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Internet presence of the parish of St. Ludgerus in Borken-Weseke.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riepen, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |