Johannes Piersig

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Johannes Piersig (born November 24, 1907 in Geestemünde ; † April 26, 1998 in Wedel , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German cantor , lecturer in organ playing, music education and music theory and later in 1979/80 rector of the Free University of Hamburg .

biography

Piersig studied singing and organ playing at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . After several concert tours, he took up the position of cantor at the Elisabeth Church in Wroclaw in 1932 . In 1941 he became KMD at the local university and at the same time taught as a lecturer at the University Institute for Music Education.

As the war ended, Piersig had to flee west in May 1945. He returned to his university town and became cantor of the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig , an office in which he remained until 1959. Just one year after the end of the war, he also received a position as a lecturer for organ playing at the Leipzig University of Music . Here he also taught his future successor as church music director at St. Nikolai Wolfgang Hofmann .

On April 1, 1947, he was appointed university music director and lecturer for music theory at the Martin Luther University in Halle ad Saale , where he also took over the management of the Robert Franz Singing Academy as successor to the royal music director Alfred Rahlwes. From 1956 he also taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In the same year Piersig received his doctorate. phil. at the University of Halle-Wittenberg with his dissertation The worldview of Heinrich Schütz . Supported by the members of the Spirituskreis , he received a professorship with a teaching position for musicology in 1948.

After the attacks on the Spirituskreis by the SED regime in the GDR , Piersig fled a second time, this time to the Federal Republic, and a year later began to work as a church musician in Hamburg-Blankenese . In 1978 he was given a position as a lecturer at the Free University of Hamburg ( renamed the Free University of Northern Germany after moving to Seevetal ) and in 1979 and 1980 he was rector of this non-governmental, Christian university.

meaning

Piersig's musicological research focused primarily on baroque church music (including European organ music , 1958). In addition, he worked on various research assignments on music history.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Heinrich Schütz's worldview (dissertation, 1947)
  • European organ music (1958)
  • Contributions to a legal sociology of church music (1972)
  • The Progress Problem in Music at the Turn of the Century (1977)
  • At most, that's how it went (memoirs from the estate, 2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ catalogus-professorum-halensis.de: Johannes Piersig.
    Reinhard Scheerer: Confessing Christians in the Protestant Churches in Germany 1966-1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Piersig, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cantor, lecturer in organ playing, music education and music theory as well as rector of the Free University of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Geestemünde
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1998
Place of death Wedel , Schleswig-Holstein