Max Eham
Max Eham (born February 16, 1915 in Bergham , Miesbach ; † July 27, 2008 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic priest , cathedral music director , composer and university professor .
Life
Max Eham studied at the former Freising Philosophical-Theological University ; at the same time he studied music with Michael Dachs . On June 25, 1939, he was ordained a priest by Michael Cardinal Faulhaber . Until 1941 he studied composition with Joseph Haas , organ with Emanuel Gatscher and church music with Ludwig Berberich at the then Akademie der Tonkunst . In addition to organ and piano , Eham also played the violin , flute and horn .
Eham was from 1949 to 1969 as cathedral music director at the Freising Cathedral in Freising , from 1969 to 1990 at the Frauenkirche in Munich . From 1969 he taught score , figured bass , conducting and the history of Catholic church music at the Munich University of Music and Theater . In 1975 Max Eham was made an honorary professor.
Act
Max Eham was heavily involved in the renewal and revision of church music after the Second Vatican Council . In addition to a large number of masses , motets and Vespers ("Korbiniansvesper"), he composed four Requien .
Pope Paul VI appointed him for his services to church music . 1977 to the papal honorary prelate (monsignor). In 1986, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker honored him with the award of the Federal Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Web links
- Obituary Max Eham
- "Prelate Max Eham has reached 90 years of age"
- Max Eham in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- The Max-Eham-Edition of the Max-Eham-Archiv edited by Dr. Markus Eham and Dr. Florian Mayr
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| SURNAME | Eham, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic priest, cathedral music director, composer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergham , Miesbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 2008 |
| Place of death | Munich |