Manfred Schlenker (composer)

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Manfred Schlenker (born March 15, 1926 in Berlin ) is a German church musician and composer .

Life

Manfred Schlenker was born the second of six children to a city missionary and a singer and received a variety of musical suggestions as a child. He soon grew into the ecclesiastical musical environment and began composing melodies at an early age. He received early training in piano, organ and music theory from Walter Scharwenka, among others .

In 1943 Schlenker obtained an exemption from service as an Air Force helper and used the time to study the piano and clarinet as well as to take counterpoint and composition lessons with Paul Höffer . Towards the end of the war he was drafted into the military and was taken prisoner by the Soviets.

After his release, Schlenker studied at the church music school in Halle (Saale) and in 1952 took over the management of the student curriculum . In 1954 he married his fellow student Ursula geb. Becker from Erfurt. The marriage resulted in five children, including Niko Schlenker .

In 1956 Schlenker became cathedral choirmaster in Stendal and church music director (KMD). Beyond the boundaries of his community, he worked as the provost church music warden of the Altmark, as head of the Altmark choir and as chairman of the church choir.

From October 1974 to 1988 he succeeded Hans Pflugbeil as cantor at Greifswald Cathedral , from March 1975 as director of the Greifswald Church Music School (today the Institute for Church Music and Musicology at the University of Greifswald ) and then as Regional Church Music Director of the Greifswald Bach Week and the Cathedral Choir in Greifswald.

From 1988 he lived freelance in Stolpe and since 1999 in Hohen Neuendorf near Berlin . He was a member of the ecumenical lyricists and composers group of the Werkgemeinschaft Musik eV and the AG Musik in der Ev. Jugend eV, today the lyricists and composers group TAKT . In 2017 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Works (selection)

Spiritually

  • Three Cantica (Magnificat - Benedictus - Nunc dimittis) for solos, choir and orchestra
  • Three Christmas Suites
  • Thirty Junctim movements for double wind choir
  • Three-part choral music
  • Five song motets
  • Lord you search me Psalm 139 for 8-part. according to Choir
  • New heaven, new earth
  • Psalm 90 - Duets for alto and alto and keyboard instrument (for Alexander Seidel)
  • Sing freshly and cheerfully - cantata for solos, choir, children's choir and strings about the Christmas story

Hymns

Schlenker created the melodies of eight hymns included in the Evangelical Hymnal (EG) :

Hymns in supplementary hymn books

  • My search, my questions , in: Where we praise you, new songs grow - plus . Strube-Verlag 2018

Worldly

  • The day of the forest - sound for four alphorns
  • Three romantic choir ballads (Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck - Kehraus - Departure) for according to choir a cappella
  • In the forest, in the bright sunshine
  • Six Mörike choir songs for mixed Choir (Let it begin in him - question and answer - insatiable love - an hour before day - think it, o soul û at midnight)
  • Four seasons suite
  • Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten û Singspiel for monophonic choir and piano and / or string quartet (Berlin 2009)

literature

  • Christfried Brödel, in: Composers and songwriters of the Evangelical Hymnal. Ed. Wolfgang Herbst (Handbuch zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch, Vol. 2), Göttingen, 1999, pp. 275–276, ISBN 3-525-50318-0
  • Siegfried Lange: From Cape Arkona to the Oder - insights into the Greifswald regional church. Greifswald 1984

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Manfred Schlenker
  2. a b c d http://www.manfred-schlenker.de/werkliste.html
  3. Where we praise you, new songs grow - plus , Munich 2018, Strube Verlag VS 4049, ISBN 978-3-89912-211-4 , no. 179
  4. www.berliner-chormusik-verlag.de ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 14, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-chormusik-verlag.de