Leo Langer

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Leo Langer (born September 28, 1952 in Waltrop ) is a German organist , conductor and composer . He is district cantor i. R. in the Archdiocese of Freiburg with headquarters in Bruchsal or Neureut (Karlsruhe) .

Life

Leo Langer first grew up in Antwerp before the family moved to Dormagen . There he attended elementary school and finally, as an external boarding school student , the Gymnasium Kloster-Knechtsteden , which he left in 1971 with the Abitur. At the age of ten he received violin lessons. At the age of twelve he began playing the piano and in 1970 he finally switched to the organ.

In 1972 he did his community service in a youth home. During this time he improved his skills on the organ under his teacher Hermann Max . In 1973 he successfully passed the entrance examination at the Cologne Music Academy and from then on studied school music, piano and viola. Through additional studies, he took the subjects of conducting with Johannes Hömberg and harpsichord with Hugo Ruf . In 1980 he also studied church music in Düsseldorf.

Leo Langer's first place of activity as a church musician was in Neuss Weckhoven until he became cantor in Ohligs ( Solingen ) in 1985 . When the office of district cantor in Bruchsal became vacant, he applied for this position. In 1991 he started his new service in the Archdiocese of Freiburg, where he led the three-year basic church music training (C course) with weekly organ and music theory lessons. He is also a long-time member of the Schwanen Salon Orchestra. In 1992 he also founded the “Freiburg Music Workshop” to give the New Spiritual Song a higher priority in the parishes.

As part of his work, he participated, among other things, in trips to Catholic days within Germany

After completing his studies, Leo Langer began to work as a composer on the side. His “Marienvesper” was premiered on March 18, 2018 in the Hofkirche Bruchsal to mark his retirement .

Catalog of works (selection)

Choir a-cappella

  • Missa da pacem (1985)
  • 2 booklets "Songs and canons for children and those who want to become" (1985–89)
  • "The Lord gave it" - for MLL (1986)
  • "A winter evening" (G. Trakl) - 1987
  • Prayer (2006) for priests, choir and congregation
  • Bagatelles for women's choir (2008) "And ..." - "Hope" - "Sea beach"
  • King David sings (2011) 10 psalms and cantica for female choir a cappella
  • 2 madrigals on Persian poetry by Omar Khayyam (2015)
  • "My young life" (2016)
  • Who Hears Butterflies Laughing (2015)
  • Das Marien-Leben (2012) for choir a-cappella (texts by RM Rilke)
  • Ite missa est / Keep us, God (2012)
  • CANTIQUA (2017) 5 madrigals after F. Petrarca                                                                                                   

Choir with instruments

  • 2 songs based on G. Trakl (1987) "Die Sonne", "Sommer"
  • Vespers of Mary (1988) small version
  • Laughing Song (2012) for Akk orchestra + choir
  • Lied des Hafez (2013) for Akk orchestra + choir
  • Missa in resurrectione (2010) Music for a church service
  • Vespers of Mary (2016) large version

Instruments

  • MADRIGAL (2016) for big band
  • Rondo (2017) for big band
  • "Danse" (2003) for salon orchestra (after Cl. Debussy)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Change in the district chancellery. Dominik Axtmann follows Leo Langer. In: www.kath-dekanat-bruchsal.de . Catholic Dean's Office Bruchsal, May 2018, accessed on November 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The Schwanen Salon Orchestra on merktour.de. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ New Spiritual Song - Freiburg Music Workshop. Website of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . Retrieved November 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ Bruchsal pastoral care unit: concert Marienvesper , accessed on November 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Langer, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and active as organist, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltrop