Klaus Martin Ziegler

Klaus Martin Ziegler (born February 23, 1929 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † September 22, 1993 in Kassel ) was a German choir director , organist and Protestant church musician ( church music director ).

He completed his Kapellmeister exam from 1948 to 1950 at the Badische Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe . This was followed by studies at the Heidelberg Church Music Institute from 1950 to 1952 as a student of Wolfgang Fortner , Hermann Meinhard Poppen and Gerhard Nestler. Professional stations were 1952–54 as a cantor in Karlsruhe-Rüppurr and 1954 to 1960 as a cantor at the Christ Church in Karlsruhe . In 1957 he became head of the church music department at the Badische Hochschule für Musik. In the same year he accepted a teaching position at the Karlsruhe University of Education. From 1960 to 1993 he was cantor at the Martinskirche in Kassel . There he founded the Vocal Ensemble Kassel in 1965, with which he appeared at the Donaueschinger Musiktage . In 1967 he was appointed church music director. In 1968 he became artistic director of the Evangelical Church Music School in Schlüchtern . From 1970 to 1981 he held a teaching position for new music and choral conducting . At the same time he was director of the choir choir at the Westphalian Church Music School in Herford . From 1981 to 1987 he directed the Südfunk-Choir Stuttgart . He gave this choir a new artistic profile by engaging in new music for composers such as Luciano Berio , Dieter Schnebel , Mathias Spahlinger and Adriana Hölszky . With the establishment of the Kassel Music Days with the surtitle “New Music in the Church”, which emerged from the post-Easter “Week for Sacred Music of the Present”, he made Kassel a center of new sacred music. Numerous sacred works were premiered under his direction, including “We have a hope” by Dietrich von Bausznern (1965 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage) and the mass “Prayer of the poor soul” by Giselher Klebe (1966 at the Kasseler Musiktage).

literature

• Kantorei an St. Martin Kassel (Ed.): Twenty-five years of the Kantorei an St. Martin-Vocalensemble Kassel (1985)
• Helmut Fleinghaus , Uwe Karsten Groß and Lebrecht Schilling (eds.): 40 years of the Westfälische Landeskirchenmusikschule Herford 1948–1988 (1988)
• Alain Pâris: Classical Music in the 20th Century (1997), pp. 62–63
• Heiko Bockstiegel: Gentlemen, do you know the piece? Memories of German-speaking Choir Conductors of the 20th Century (1999), pp. 286–92
• Heiko Bockstiegel :  Ziegler, Klaus Martin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1578-1581.

Web links

• Works by and about Klaus Martin Ziegler in the catalog of the German National Library