Joachim Black

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KMD Joachim Schwarz 1982

Joachim Schwarz (born January 25, 1930 in Stolp , Pomerania Province , † October 2, 1998 in Faßberg ) was a German deacon , composer, cantor and church music director .

life and work

In 1950 he passed his exams as cantor and organist at the Lübeck Music Academy ; 1951 followed the exam as a deacon in Rickling . Schwarz was cantor and organist at Glücksburg Castle and the collegiate church in Elmshorn . In addition to this activity, he studied at the Hamburg University of Music with Hans Friedrich Micheelsen and Otto Brodde, among others . From 1961 to 1973 he was regional youth choirmaster at Koppelsberg in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1972 he was appointed church music director (KMD). From 1973 to 1978, Schwarz worked as a lecturer at the Brothershaus Rickling School and from 1978 to 1993 in the office for worship and church music of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover in Hanover ( Department of Education and Training for Church Musicians). From 1992 to 1998 he worked on an ecumenical basis in West Pomerania (Poland).

Joachim or Jochen Schwarz, as he called himself as a composer and editor in the first phase of his work, was one of the protagonists of the New Spiritual Song genre . In 1963 he took over the management of the so-called composers' group of the Music Working Group in the Ev. Youth. As the editor of the series “ Baussteine ​​für den Gottesdienst” (building blocks for church services) published by Hänssler-Verlag , he was responsible for the distribution of choral versions of these songs. As chairman of the working group music in the Ev. Jugend eV, he and the Catholic hymnologist Johannes Aengenvoort initiated a non-denominational collaboration between lyricists and composers, which led to many of the new songs finding their way into the hymn books of the two large churches and the free churches. Shortly before his death in 1997, he and others re- formed the lyricists and composers group TAKT .

Since 1961 publication of various settings of new sacred songs in hymn books (including EG / EM ), supplements, documentations, song books, choir and band arrangements among others by the publishers Strube-Verlag (Munich), Hänssler Verlag (Stuttgart), Singende Gemeinde ( Wuppertal) ), the German Evangelical Church Congress ( DEKT ) ( Fulda ), the Carus-Verlag and the Mechthild-Schwarz-Verlag. In 1967 he was the editor of the song book (K) Notenpunkt Möseler-Verlag , in 1972 of supplement 83 to the Evangelical Church Hymn Book EKG - Lower Saxony edition. His best-known song is the canon exit and entrance , which is found in almost all Christian hymn books.

Schwarz was a member of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK). He took part in their 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly, which took place in Prague in 1961 .

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SURNAME Black, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Black, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deacon, church musician, composer, church music director, editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolp , Pomerania Province
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1998
Place of death Fassberg