Otto Burkert

Otto Burkert (born October 12, 1880 in Brieg , † 1944 in Breslau ) was a German organist and choir director .

After graduating from high school, Otto Burkert studied church music with Paul Hielscher (cantor of the Brieger Nikolaikirche ) and at the Leipzig Conservatory . From 1901 to 1912 he was the organist of the second largest organ in Moravia in the German House in Brno . From April 1912 he went to the Eleven Thousand Virgins Church in Breslau as organist and cantor , where he was appointed chief organist. In 1913 he took care of the organ in the Wroclaw Centennial Hall . Together with Gerhard Zeggert and Gerhard Bremsteller , they initiated regular summer organ concerts on this important instrument. With Max Regerhe was bound by a close friendship. He performed his chorale fantasy “Don't punish me in your anger” and many other works, and the composer thanked him by dedicating his Twelve Pieces for Organ Opus 80 in 1904 to Otto Burkert. With Johannes Piersig and Gerhard Bremsteller he set up “Musical Vespers” in St. Elisabeth . He was commissioned to revise Bernhard Kothes “Guide to Organ Literature” for a new edition. This came out in 1909 and was supplemented in 1931. At the suggestion of Max Schneider and as his successor, he was given the management of the Evangelical Church Music School of Silesia , founded in 1927, in 1928 . The appointment as church music director followed .

Works

• Bruno Weigl : Handbook of the organ literature: Complete revision of the guide through the organ literature. Systematically arranged list of solo compositions and instructive works for organ ... / Compiled, provided with critical explanations and information on the degrees of difficulty, ed. by Bernhard Kothe , Theophil Forchhammer , Otto Burkert; published by FEC Leuckart, 1931, Leipzig
• Hymns as an appendix to the Silesian hymn book

literature

• Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler-Lexikon , Heinrichshofen's Verlag Wilhelmshaven, 15th edition (1936), ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 , p. 87.
• Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon, Volume 1. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1 , p. 161.