Martin Gotthard Schneider

Martin Gotthard Schneider (born April 26, 1930 in Konstanz ; † February 3, 2017 ibid) was a German church musician , church music director and regional cantor .

Life

Schneider studied Protestant theology and church music in Heidelberg , Tübingen and Basel . From 1958 he worked in Freiburg, initially as vicar at the Ludwigskirche , from 1960 to 1970 as a religion teacher at the Kepler grammar school . During these years he already began to build up a wide range of church music work. At times he held part-time church music positions at the Christ Church and Paul Church and was district cantor in the Freiburg church district. In 1958 he was awarded a prize at the International Improvisation Competition in Haarlem . In 1961 he founded the Heinrich Schütz Kantorei in Freiburg, which he headed until 2009. In 1970 Schneider was appointed church music director. From 1970 to 1995 he took over the full-time position of cantor at the Ludwigskirche and Pauluskirche, and from 1973 to 1995 the office of regional cantor for southern Baden. From 1963 to 1997 he taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg (first organ improvisation , later also liturgy , hymnology , community singing , theological information). In 1980 he was appointed professor.

Martin Gotthard Schneider died on February 3, 2017 at the age of 86 in Konstanz.

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Martin Gotthard Schneider's compositional work is oriented towards church music practice and includes choral and organ music. Schneider emerged especially as the author of new sacred songs . In 1961 he received the 1st prize in the song competition of the Evangelical Academy Tutzing for his song Thank you for this good morning . His song A ship that calls itself a community is also known (2nd prize 1963). In 1975 his song book I would like to have Seven Lives was published . Organ improvisations and choral music with Martin Gotthard Schneider are published on CDs. The Evangelical Hymn book (EG) contains six songs by Schneider.

Award

• 1996: Merit Cross on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Gotthard Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Martin Gotthard Schneider  in the German Digital Library
• Martin Gotthard Schneider . Portrait of the choir director on the website of the Heinrich Schütz Cantorei in Freiburg, January 20, 2013, accessed on February 4, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} “Thank you” composer Martin Gotthard Schneider is dead . RP Online , February 4, 2017, accessed February 4, 2017.
2. ↑ Composer of the hymn "Thank you" died , faz.net, message from February 5, 2017.
3. ↑ His "Thank You" song became known worldwide. Hymn composer Martin Gotthard Schneider turns 80. ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2017 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. epd article on the website of the Evangelical Church in Germany from April 19, 2010.