Johannes M. Schröder

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Johannes M. Schröder (born October 3, 1991 in Hachenburg ) is a German organist , composer and Roman Catholic church musician .

Life

He received his first piano, composition and composition lessons at the age of 12, followed by his first organ lessons a year later. From 2009 to 2012 he received lessons in liturgical and concert organ improvisation from cathedral organist Stefan Schmidt (Würzburg), and from 2011 also in literary play. He also received lessons from Peter Domjak (Essen) and Frédéric Blanc (Paris).

From 2011 to 2017 he studied Catholic church music and concert organ in the bachelor's and master's degree at the Cologne University of Music and Dance (literary play and improvisation with Johannes Geffert and Thierry Mechler, composition with Johannes Schild). In 2011 he was accepted as a scholarship holder by the “DEY Foundation” of the Limburg diocese .

Johannes Schröder has been a full-time church musician at the parish church of St. Bonifatius in Wirges since May 2014 .

His concert activities have taken him to the cathedral churches of Cologne, Limburg, Riga and Speyer, as well as to the Cologne Philharmonic. As a composer and arranger, he works for Carus-Verlag , B-Note Musikverlag and Dehm Verlag .

His young company "WestWood Sounds" is rooted primarily in the areas of elementary music education and music education.

He has been doing a doctorate in music theory at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2019 .

Works

Schröder composed choir and organ works, including chorale preludes to praise God . His oratorio “Beati Pauperes. Blessed are the poor before God ”from 2019 is a composition commission from the Limburg diocese to mark the anniversary of the canonization of Maria Katharina Kasper . The “Elberfelder Requiem” is also a commissioned work in which the songs of All Souls Day are set to music in a contemporary way.

  • Choral preludes for organ to praise God
  • Missa simplex for choir (SATB) and organ. B-Note Musikverlag, Hagen im Bremischen, ISMN 979-0-5021-8546-6.
  • “Elberfelder Requiem” for choir (SATB), violoncello and organ. B-Note Musikverlag, Hagen im Bremischen 2012, ISMN 979-0-5021-8679-1.
  • “Beati Pauperes. Blessed are the poor before God. ”Oratorio for solos, choir, children's choir and orchestra. Dehm-Verlag, Limburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-943302-57-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Peter Metternic: Westerwälder composes oratorio. In: Rhein-Zeitung from April 15, 2019, accessed on November 23, 2019.
  2. ^ Diocese of Limburg: Education and Spirituality belong together , accessed on November 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Church music at the Westerwald Cathedral , accessed on November 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Carus-Verlag: Johannes Schröder , accessed on November 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b c B-Note Musikverlag: Editions and works by Schröder, Johannes (1991–) , accessed on November 23, 2019.
  6. ^ Dehm Verlag: Johannes Schröder , accessed on November 23, 2019.
  7. ↑ Internet presence westwoodsounds.de/ , accessed on November 23, 2019.
  8. ↑ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Current doctoral students , accessed on November 23, 2019.
  9. ^ Valeska von Dolega: Open churches with a premiere . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of October 28, 2012, accessed on November 23, 2019.
  10. ↑ “Beati Pauperes” on dehm-verlag.de , accessed on November 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Johannes M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröder, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachenburg