Johannes Petzold

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Johannes Petzold (born October 24, 1912 in Plauen , Vogtland , † May 19, 1985 in Eisenach ) was a German church musician , composer of several hymn book songs and lecturer at the Thuringian church music school.

Johannes Petzold, 1983

Life

Johannes Petzold, son of a draftsman in the lace and curtain industry in his hometown, studied pedagogy in Leipzig from 1932 to 1935, majoring in music. One month after his matriculation, he became a member of the "New Saxon Teachers' Association" (May 30, 1932). As a result of the coordination of the teachers 'associations, he belonged to the National Socialist teachers' association from May 1, 1933 . On July 7, 1933, he joined the SA . After graduating, he worked as a primary school teacher in small villages in the Vogtland and Ore Mountains . As a "young teacher" he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party with effect from May 1, 1937 (membership number 5.816.055, dated June 15, 1938).

Even at the beginning of his studies he came into contact with the singing movement and took part in singing weeks with Alfred Stier and Hugo Distler . The lifelong friendship and collaboration with Samuel Rothenberg began in autumn 1932 with a joint choir tour through Saxony. Petzold's early compositions and texts were self-published until 1945.

On March 26, 1940, he married the community assistant Hiltrud Schaale. She belonged to the Confessing Church and had come into conflict with the authorities and the Gestapo several times in connection with her work. Both had a technical and creative relationship with music. She also composed and wrote poems, some of which he set to music.

As early as February 1940 he was called up for active military service, took part in the war in Belgium and France as a soldier, but was released on July 29, 1941 because of tuberculosis as a "shooter of the reserve". For the same reason, his teaching career ended in March 1942.

Petzold spent the following years in hospitals and sanatoriums again and again, until he was able to work to a limited extent after a successful thorax operation and in 1952 became cantor in Bad Berka / Thuringia. At the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt he took as a guest student classes in music theory at Johann Cilenšek part and formed in the organ on. In 1957 he was given the title of church music director .

In November 1961 he was appointed to the Thuringian church music school in Eisenach as a lecturer for composition, music history and ear training. In addition to his teaching activities, he took on numerous singing services at singing weeks, choir meetings and community events. In 1977 he retired.

His son Dietrich Petzold (* 1954) is a violinist, composer and audio book director.

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Johannes Petzold has composed numerous melodies, canons, choir and wind parts, organ preludes, motets and cantatas . Most of them are contained in collections, for example in song sheets of the Christian Singers Association . Evangelical, Catholic and Free Church hymn books in Germany, Austria, Japan, Switzerland and Scandinavia contain his melodies. One of his best-known works is the melody to Jochen Klepper's Advent song “ The night has advanced ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 5538
  2. ↑ Frieder Schulz: 16 - The night has advanced . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 2 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50321-0 , p. 11–16 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Werner Merten: 208 - God the Father, you have your name . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 8 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-50331-8 , pp. 16–19 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Alexander Völker: 236 - You gave me ears . In: Wolfgang Herbst , Ilsabe Seibt (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch . No. 14 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-50338-6 , p. 44–48 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Joachim Stalmann: 270 - Lord our ruler, how wonderful you are . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 13 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-50337-9 , pp. 60–62 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Petzold, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician, composer and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen , Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1985
Place of death Eisenach