Konrad groom

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Konrad Bräutigam (born August 26, 1924 in Drößnitz ) is a German church musician and composer .

Life

From 1947 to 1951 Konrad Bräutigam studied at the institute for church music at the Musikhochschule Weimar , a. a. with Johannes Ernst Köhler . He received his first job as a church musician at the Stadtkirche von Stadtilm , Thuringia. From 1952 to 1984 he worked at the Margarethenkirche in Gotha . In 1953 he took over the direction of the Bach choir there. After the completion of the new Schuke organ in the Margarethenkirche in 1961, in the planning of which he played a major role, he initiated a new series of concerts for organ recitals , which continues to this day. As an interpreter he won well-known organists such as B. Johannes Ernst Köhler, Gábor Trajtler, David Pizarro, Guy Bovet , Hans Martin Corrinth . In June 1966 Konrad Bräutigam was appointed church music director for the organ days . From 1967 he directed the Gotha Trombone Choir, of which he is an honorary member.

From 1985 to 1995 he worked as a copyist for music at the Komische Oper Berlin .

Bridegroom composed various pieces that he understood as "music for use" for the community groups available to him, such as the choir or the trombone choir. One of his important compositions is the "Bläsermesse", which premiered in 1980 during the Dresden Wind Festival. It was performed in Weimar in 1999 as part of the festival program of the European Capital of Culture and in Gotha in 2007.

Groom is widowed, has three children and lives in Berlin.

Works (selection)

  • "... they hung it on the wood" (1960)
  • "Advent Mass" (1966)
  • "Psalm Sonata 71"
  • "Psalm 139"
  • "Father, in your hands" (1974)
  • "Bläsermesse" (premiere of the Dresden Bläsertage 1980)
  • "The Wind Blower's Night Prayer" (1982)
  • "Luther Choral" (for the Luther year 1983)
  • "Dance of Death" (1984)
  • "Grant us peace" (UA Tranemo / Sweden, 1993)

Discography

  • Music for funerals, Johann Walter choir and organ, video and audio tape section of the Evangelical Lutheran. Church Thuringia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Bach Choir Gotha Website of the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Community of Gotha. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  2. ^ History of Church Music Website of the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Community of Gotha. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  3. ^ Moving reunion at the gala concert of the Gotha Trombone Choir. In: Thüringer Allgemeine, September 23, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Hanke: Church music in the GDR. A first inventory. Volume 219 of: Booklets from Burgscheidungen. Secretariat of the main board of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, 1983, p. 39.
  5. ↑ 111 years of the Kreuzkirche Weimar. Festschrift of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation Weimar, p. 11.
  6. ^ City Hall Courier. Official Journal of the City of Gotha, No. 6/2007, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Groom, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Drößnitz