Paul Gengnagel
Paul Gengnagel (born June 11, 1889 in Basrur , Mysore , today the state of Karnataka , India ; † September 26, 1978 in Geyersdorf ) was a church musician, choir director and music teacher in Rostock .
Life
Paul Gengnagel was born to a missionary couple from the Basel Mission . Ludwig Gengnagel was his older brother. He studied classical philology and German in Giessen and Munich. Because of the great impression that Albert Schweitzer's book about Johann Sebastian Bach had made on him in the winter of 1908/09, he moved to Strasbourg to study . Here he was looking for a personal encounter with Schweitzer. He heard Schweitzer's sermons and organ concerts. This shaped his later musical work. Gengnagel did not complete a direct study of music; after his employment in 1918 as a teacher at the Rostock large city school at the rose garden, he conducted private music studies. From 1918 to 1923 Gengnagel was the organist and choirmaster at the Holy Spirit Church .
In 1923 he founded the Rostock Bach Choir . With this he performed cantatas, the St. Matthew Passion and the B minor Mass by Bach, works by Heinrich Schütz , but also works by contemporary composers such as Hugo Distler , Ernst Pepping and Siegfried Reda . The singer in the Rostock Bach Choir was the later founder of the Rostock Motet Choir Hartwig Eschenburg from 1950 to 1953 . When the Bach choir was dissolved in 1961, Eschenburg took over the 17 choir members in the choir of the Johanniskirche .
The University of Rostock awarded Gengnagel an honorary doctorate .
literature
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 .
Web links
- Literature about Paul Gengnagel in the state bibliography MV
- Festschrift at www.heiligen-geist.de , accessed on June 18, 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ Hartwig Eschenburg: Chronicle of the St. Johannis Kantorei Rostock . Rostock, 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gengnagel, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German choir director, music teacher and church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basrur , Mysore |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1978 |
| Place of death | Geyersdorf |