Martin Metz
Martin Metz (born May 7, 1933 in Darova , Kingdom of Romania ; † November 16, 2003 in Schönaich , Germany ) was a Romanian-German church musician and composer .
Life
Metz received his first music lessons from the pastor of his home parish and in 1945, at the age of twelve, composed the songs Aus Elend Not und Leiden and Mutter der Heimatlosen under the impression of Romanian Germans being deported to the Soviet Union ; the former was used as a hymn in the Banat Swabian communities at the time. Metz was a church musician at the Catholic parish church in Lugoj for more than thirty years . With his church choir he organized church services far in the region and accompanied the pilgrimages to Maria Radna , which were forbidden by the communist regime of Romania . For his services to church music in the Timișoara diocese , Bishop Martin Roos awarded him the Saint Gerhards Gold Medal in 2002 . In 1989 Metz left for Germany and worked as a church musician in Schönaich until his death. In addition to hymns such as the song of St. Rita (1967) and the Martinus song, Metz composed the Banat Community Mass and a Short German Mass .
Martin Metz is the father of the musicologist Franz Metz .
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| SURNAME | Metz, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian-German composer and church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darova , Kingdom of Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 2003 |
| Place of death | Schönaich |