Ludger Edelkötter

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Ludger Edelkötter (born December 26, 1940 in Bockum-Hövel ) is a German composer , music teacher and publisher .

Life

The freelance composer and music teacher Ludger Edelkötter, who lives in Pulheim , first studied the oboe and flute as an orchestral instrument. As the composer of Neuer Geistlicher Lieder he became internationally known through numerous new creations. With the canon Lord, give us your peace (EG 436) Edelkötter was included in the supraregional part of the Evangelical Hymnal .

After several years of collaboration with Peter Janssens , Edelkötter founded his own music group "Impulse", with which he appeared for many years in the "NGL scene" of the new sacred hymn which has been developing since the 1960s. The group traveled through Germany with musicals such as On the Road to the Land of Promise (text Alois Albrecht ), Franz von Assisi (text Wolfgang Poeplau ) or Love is Duty (about Vinzenz von Paul , text by Josef Reding ) through Germany, and sang at church and Catholic days and shaped the musical landscape in the Catholic and Protestant Church.

In 1985 Edelkötter composed the musical Wagnis und Liebe about the life of the founder of the Schoenstatt Movement and developer of the Kentenich pedagogy, Father Josef Kentenich . He worked with the copywriter Wilhelm Willms . Edelkötter is a member of the lyricists and composers group TAKT .

Ludger Edelkötter comes from a family of musicians. His brother Norbert Edelkötter (1937–2015) was the director of the music schools in Goslar and Hamm . He had the idea of ​​the multi-level orchestral school, which was a model for numerous music schools in Germany.

Since 2014 he has been the managing director of Kinder Musik Verlag GmbH (KiMu), through which he sells his books.

Honors

Compositions

  • Small mustard seed hope (Text: Alois Albrecht )
  • What matters when it comes ("Now is the time"; Text: Alois Albrecht)
  • Can the bread be so small (Text: Wilhelm Willms )
  • Do you know where the sky is (Text: Wilhelm Willms)
  • All the buds jump up (Text: Wilhelm Willms)
  • Walk with us on our way (Text: Norbert Weidinger )
  • When the mind stirs (Text: Norbert Weidinger)
  • When someone dreams alone (Text: Dom Hélder Câmara )
  • Lord give us your peace (Canon, 1976)
  • When someone starts to talk (Text: Raymund Weber )
  • Hold on to me, good God (Text: Rolf Krenzer )

literature

  • Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , pp. 83–84 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ awarded on March 13, 2014 in Warendorfer Kreishaus, Westfälischer Anzeiger from March 15, 2014, Drensteinfurt district, Cross of Merit for Edelkötter, award for musical commitment
personal data
SURNAME Edelkötter, Ludger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bockum-Hövel