Johannes Haas (musician)

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Johannes Haas (* 1931 in Becke ; † 2004 ) was a German musician , composer , editor and choir director .

Life

Johannes Haas was born in what is now the Becke district of Gummersbach . As an adolescent he began to conduct and give concerts with singers and instrumentalists at the age of 15. 1958 John Haas founded as a leisure activity of the mission organization Youth for Christ and in cooperation with the then newly emerging Christian music labels Gospel in song the Youth for Christ Choir . For more than ten years he led this first in the singing camps with subsequent sound recording for the publishing house and later Christian radio stations such as the Evangeliums-Rundfunk , but increasingly also on concert tours through Germany. In this position he acted often asTranslator of English-language songs and composed choral pieces , especially for the gospel songs . The positioning of the record label proved to be very successful within the musically still very conservative Christian customer community, so that Johannes Haas finally published a series of music books of the same name in the then music publisher Hänssler . His translations of well-known works include B. Joy To The World , traditionally attributed to George Frideric Handel .

From this work his activity as a producer and promoter of new Christian musicians and singers and formations developed. As a medical student in Nuremberg, he directed the Nuremberg baker's trombones there and enabled the trombone choir, which was successful decades later, to have its first singles. The Gospel Quartet and the Derschlag youth singing group , as well as the contralto Renate Lüsse and his younger sister Doris Loh, also became famous under his leadership .

After intensive production and development work in the 1950s and 60s, Johannes Haas handed over the management of the Youth for Christ Choir to Klaus Heizmann in 1969 and also retired as a music producer for several years. At the beginning of the 1980s, however, he finally created a national project choir again. In the singing group Happy Message , he gathered former singers from the Youth for Christ Choir , from the Derschlag parish choir and befriended singers and played music concepts of all kinds over many years, from challenging complete recordings and composer portraits to classical chorals and motets all the way back to simple gospel song . After his death in 2004, his sister Doris Loh continues the choir work.

Johannes Haas worked full-time as a doctor; In the early 1970s he was chief physician at the Bong Mining Hospital in Monrovia , Liberia . After returning to Germany he worked at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine and was a university professor for tropical diseases and occupational medicine.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.singkreis-frohe-botschaft.de/
  2. ↑ Daniel Scheufler: Online ( Memento from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Diploma thesis submitted and defended at the "Carl Maria von Weber" University of Music in Dresden, submitted on September 30, 2007 (PDF file, 10.8 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer, editor and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Becke (Gummersbach)
DATE OF DEATH 2004