Johannes Vetter (church musician)

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Johannes Vetter (* 1952 ) is a German church musician .

Life

Vetter studied church music at the Folkwang University in Essen. His teachers included Gisbert Schneider and Gerd Zacher . He passed his A exam in 1977. From 1991 to 2006 he was cantor of the Von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel . In 2002 he was appointed church music director . From 2006 to 2008 he was cantor at the Kreuzkirche and Marktkirche in Essen. He is currently working as a freelance musician, funeral orator and publicist.

Publications

  • When the music loses its gravity . About the 2nd Viennese School. Lecture on January 15, 2010 at the University of Bamberg (modern German literature)
  • Goethe, Bach and Buchenwald . About the performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Lecture on April 6, 2009 in Heidelberg (Heilig-Geist-Kirche).
  • About crying . Comments on Bach's St. John Passion. Lecture on March 11, 2008 in Remscheid (Evgl. Stadtkirche)
  • From the love song to the Good Friday anthem . To the story of " O head full of blood and wounds ". Lecture in Essen's Kreuzeskirche on September 22, 2007 as part of the conference “Go out of my heart and seek Freud”, organized by the Cultural Studies Institute Essen and the Forum Kreuzeskirche Essen
  • Jewish music in the 3rd Reich - forbidden, forgotten… . Lecture on October 24, 2005 in Remscheid (Evgl. Stadtkirche) on the occasion of the performance of the children's opera "Brundibar" by Hans Krasa
  • “Inapproachably near” or “It is He who gave and it is He who took. His name be blessed. ” Lecture on the sacred in music on October 9, 2004 in the parish hall of the Melanchthon Church in Bochum as part of a Messiaen seminar
  • About the transcendental homelessness . Lecture on June 22, 2003 in the Melanchthon Church in Bochum. Published in: M. Geuting (ed.), Horizonte des Hörens. Gerd Zacher on his 75th birthday, Saarbrücken 2006
  • A chorale is viewed . Now all praise God's mercy. In: "Church in rural areas", edition 2/2002, Altenkirchen 2002
  • Church music in the light of the Christian-Jewish dialogue . In: “God did not repudiate his people”, main draft for the regional synod of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, Bielefeld 1999
  • The Elias Project . Minutes of a church choir work; with contributions by Johannes Vetter (eds), Antje Vollmer, Johannes Busch, Hans Prolingheuer and others. a .; Bielefeld 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.kmd-johannes-vetter.de , accessed on August 23, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Cousin, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1952