Klaus Reiners

Klaus Reiners (* 1934 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German church musician . From 1966 to 2014 he was artistic director of the Birnauer Kantorei .

biography

Klaus Reiners already worked as an organist at St. Willehad Church during his school days at the grammar school in Wilhelmshaven until he graduated from high school. From 1957 to 1966 he was organist at St. Nikolaus in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. Reiners received lessons from cathedral organist Siegfried Hildenbrand in St. Gallen from 1958 to 1962 . From 1962 to 1968 he then studied church music at the State University of Music in Stuttgart with an A-exam for full-time church musicians. From 1966 to 1972 he was a cantor and church music consultant for the general Catholic church maintenance department in Friedrichshafen and an organ expert for the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. From 1972 to 1999 Reiners had a teaching position at the Rupert-Neß-Gymnasium in Wangen im Allgäu . From 1974 he was cantor at the parish church of St. Ulrich in Wangen im Allgäu. In 1966 he was co-founder and until 2014 artistic director of the Birnauer Kantorei .

During this time he gave regular concerts with works from different epochs of music history in the pilgrimage church Birnau , in the Minster St. Maria and Markus in Reichenau-Mittelzell and in the Minster zu Salem . In addition to appearances in the Federal Republic of Germany, he made guest appearances with the Kantorei in Rome , Prato near Florence , Bordeaux , Kecskemét and Budapest . He conducted several concerts as part of the Lake Constance Festival and the Hohenems Schubertiade . In addition to appearances on radio and television, the Kantorei also released numerous long-playing records, music cassettes and compact discs. From 1992 to 1999 he gave concerts as a guest conductor with the Chorverein (concert and festival choir) in Bad Hersfeld , as well as with the Hungarian Radio Choir in Budapest in 1994 and with the Kodály Choir in Debrecen in 1999 . Since 1999 Klaus Reiners has been a voice trainer in the only Carthusian monastery in Germany in Marienau near Bad Wurzach.

For songs based on poems by Joseph von Eichendorff and melodies by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , he composed several choral movements for a four-part mixed choir.

Awards

For his services Reiners was founded in 1986 by German President Richard von Weizsacker , the Federal Cross of Merit awarded. On April 29, 1995, Prime Minister Erwin Teufel awarded him the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit .

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