Karl-Heinz Sander (choir director)

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Karl-Heinz Sander (born April 28, 1917 - † August 10, 1987 ) was a German choir director .

Life

Karl-Heinz Sander sang in the church choir of the Schlosskirche Hannover at the age of 9 . At the Hanover Conservatory at the time, he underwent thorough training in music and singing as well as on the piano, before taking up his first engagement as a choir director with several choirs at the age of 20. Since then, Sander has taken on other choirs in quick succession.

After the Second World War , Sander and his choir community continued the tradition of workers' choirs in particular . With the approval of the British military government , he conducted a choir of working class singers with Kurt Schumacher in the gallery building of the Great Garden in Herrenhausen on November 25, 1945 during a cultural event of the SPD . During the celebrations on May 1, 1946, at which Kurt Schumacher also spoke in Herrenhausen, Sander conducted more than 1,000 singers from Hanover and the surrounding area at the invitation of the SPD and trade unions at the event, which became known as the "Song of the Thousand".

From 1948 onwards, Sander merged smaller choir groups to form the "Sander Choir Group", in which he combined up to 13 choirs that remained independent to form a large ensemble - similar to the Hannoversche choir community, which Wilfried Garbers started in 1952 . Despite these choir communities, the efficient amateur choirs led by Sander also kept their own club identity. Unlike the professional choirs in Hanover such as the Hanover Bach Choir or the Hanover Boys' Choir , Sander acted like Garbers with “a less academic and more practical choral approach, tailored to amateur choirs.” In this context, the intensive involvement of both choir directors in building up the regional group Lower Saxony seen in the German General Singers Association (DAS), today's Lower Saxony Choir Association . At the 2nd National Singers' Festival of the German General Singers Association, to which around 60,000 singers came to Hanover in 1954, the two Hanoverian amateur choir groups provided outstanding representatives of the Lower Saxony state group.

The choirs supervised by Sander include the Liedertafel Limmer , which he directed for more than 38 years, and the Teutonia Choir Hanover , which he directed for around 45 years .

On September 17, 1966, the Hanover 1897 Railway Men's Choir, conducted by Sander, made a guest appearance in Vienna , where it performed the first part of the concert with the choral society of Austrian railway officials, with works by mainly newer German choral composers.

Karl-Heinz Sander conducted several concerts with over 500 singers in the dome hall of the city ​​hall in Hanover . Among other things, The Flying Dutchman , the "Wach auf Chor" and the pilgrims 'choir from Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg were performed there . Always there, as part of the “Sander Choir Group”, was the men's choir of the Hanover Bakers' Guild , which Sander led from 1961 and also on its 100th anniversary in 1978.

Karl-Heinz Sander set standards in promoting and expanding the Hanoverian amateur choir. He conveyed the joy of singing to thousands of Hanoverians who sang under his guidance, "always friendly, but also critical" and even to choir newbies who were unfamiliar with notes. For his services, the music director was posthumously awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in October 1987 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e hms: In memory: Karl-Heinz Sander , obituary on the liedertafel-limmer.de page [ undated ], last accessed on February 24, 2020
  2. ↑ Herbert Obenaus , Hans-Dieter Schmid (Ed.): Post-war period in Lower Saxony. Contributions to the beginnings of a federal state (= Hannoversche Schriften zur Regional- und Lokalgeschichte , Vol. 12), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1999, ISBN 978-3-89534-245-5 and ISBN 3-89534-245-9 , p 168; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b Volker Christiansen (Red.): Workshop report Chorstadt Hannover , Ed .: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Kultur- und Schuldezernat, Hannover: Landeshauptstadt, 2015, passim ; as a PDF document from hannover.de
  4. ↑ Jürgen Schwarzien: A speech on the 140th anniversary of the Teutonia Chor Hannover on the page hallolindenlimmer.de on May 25, 2017, last accessed on February 24, 2020
  5. ↑ Austrian singer newspaper. Organ of the Austrian Singers Association , anthology 13-16 (1964), p. 179; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ August Stümpel: 100 Years of the Men's Choir of the Hanover Bakers' Guild 1878–1978 , [Isernhagen 1978], pp. 38, 46
personal data
SURNAME Sander, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choirmaster
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1917
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1987