Johannes Dickert

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Johannes Dickert, church music director and cathedral cantor in Wurzen (photo from 2014)
30 years of the youth choir of Wurzener Dom - anniversary concert on May 28, 2016 with current and former choir members and with choir director and founder Johannes Dickert

Johannes Dickert (born June 21, 1953 in Grüna ) is a German cantor , organist and conductor . He worked in Wurzen for 33 years and shaped the cultural and church music life of the region. From 1986 to 2013 he was the church music director in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony . He conducted his last concert as cantor of the Wurzen youth choir on December 11, 2019 in Dresden.

Professional and musical career

Johannes Dickert comes from a Christian family. At the age of eight he received his first piano lessons from his great uncle, a private music educator, cantor and organist. When he was 15, Dickert received organ lessons at the Chemnitz Castle Church . His career aspiration at the time was organ builder, after graduating from school he learned the trade of cabinet maker . He then studied church music in Dresden and completed additional pedagogical training in catechetics , religious studies and Christian teaching in Potsdam . From 1977 to 1986 he was a cantor of the Hartha parish .

In 1986 Dickert became cantor and organist of the St. Wenceslai town church and the medieval St. Marien cathedral in Wurzen , where he worked until 2019. In the same year he was appointed church music director for the church districts Wurzen, Grimma and Leipziger Land (until 2013).

1986 Dickert founded the youth choir of the Wurzen cathedral . From 1987 he headed the annual youth week of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, until 2015 in Schönburg (Saale) near Naumburg (Saale) in the Burgenland district and from 2016 in the Schönburg conference center in the St. Michaels House in Roßbach near Naumburg .

At the end of 2013, the then 60-year-old resigned from his position as church music director in the Leipzig region (he was also the longest-serving church music director in Saxony) on the grounds that he wanted to “concentrate more on community work”.

Dickert paid particular attention to the church music development work, organ building and playing. Concerts on this instrument have taken him to various churches in Germany , Switzerland and Denmark .

Johannes Dickert's successor was Kaoru Oyamada (35) from Japan, who studied church music in Leipzig and was previously interim cantor in Taucha. On August 18, 2019, she was officially introduced to her position as cantor.

Choir and orchestra conductor and cantor

Johannes Dickert was responsible for church music life in Wurzen in a variety of ways. He led the Domkantorei St. Mary's , the youth choir of the cathedral Wurzener , the brass choir Wurzen that Wurzener carolers and their Domsingschule , the Chamber Choir Capella Sancti Wenceslai and the Chamber Orchestra of St. Wenceslai .

As a cantor, Dickert regularly played the Jehmlich organ in Wurzen Cathedral (on which he also plays concerts) and the owl organ in Wurzens Stadtkirche St. Wenceslai .

Honorary positions

Dickert has been cathedral choirmaster since 2009 and canon of St. Mary's Cathedral in Wurzen since 2010 . He was also an appointed citizen in the committee for culture, youth, schools, sport and social affairs of the city of Wurzen and a representative of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in the working group of Christian churches in Germany .

Private

Johannes Dickert is married to Christine Dickert; the couple have two grown children and live in Wurzen.

Discography

Under the direction of Cantor Johannes Dickert, the following five CD releases were made with the Wurzen Youth Choir :

  • 1998: Shout to the Lord all over the world - choir and organ music from St. Mary's Cathedral in Wurzen. cross stand .
  • 2004: Cantate Domino. Dipps o-ton. ( live CD )
  • 2006: Christmas in St. Marien Cathedral in Wurzen. cross stand.
  • 2010: Evening was, soon the night will come - evening songs from St. Marien Wurzen Cathedral. With Wolfgang Seifen . cross stand.
  • 2019: Magnificat - Marienmusik from the Protestant Cathedral of St. Marien zu Wurzen . Published by the Querstand label.

literature

  • Wulf Skaun: Dickert & Co. ad portas - Wurzens cathedral cantor pulls out all the stops not only at home. In: Wulf Skaun: Lauter Leben - story (s) from the Wurzener Land . Wurzen 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050519-5 , pp. 342-345.
  • Friends of the Wurzen Museum (ed.): Cathedral Choir St. Marien Wurzen 1580–2005. Wurzen 2005, ISBN 3-933124-24-7 .

Newspaper articles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friends of the Wurzen Museum (ed.): Cathedral Choir St. Marien Wurzen 1580–2005. Wurzen 2005, ISBN 3-933124-24-7 , p. 45.
  2. ↑ http://www.singewoche.de/
  3. ↑ Dickert no longer church music director. See page 8 in: Der Sonntag , January 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Alexander Wiechowski: Change in church music. Gemeindeblatt April – May 2019, p. 9. Accessed April 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Haig Latchinian: Japanese Kaoru Oyamada becomes new church musician in Wurzen - The Japanese Kaoru Oyamada will take up her post as the new Wurzen cantor and organist on August 1st. On August 18, 2019, 10 a.m., she is to be solemnly introduced to her office with a service in the cathedral. She succeeds Johannes Dickert. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, April 27, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Roger Dietze: Kaoru Oyamada introduced as the new cantor of Wurzen Cathedral - In Japan's capital she studied music history and sang Bach: Now Kaoru Oyamada has been introduced as the new cantor in Wurzen Cathedral. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, August 18, 2019. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ http://www.domkantorei-wurzen.de/html/chore.html
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.domkantorei-wurzen.de
  9. ↑ http://dom-zu-wurzen.de/domkapitel.html
  10. ↑ https://querstand.de/artikeldetails/ategorie/geistliche-musik/artikel/magnificat.html - accessed on June 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Dickert, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cantor, organist and church music director
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Grüna