Paul Schneider (organist)

Paul Schneider (born December 2, 1920 in Alfter near Bonn , † June 30, 2002 in Saarbrücken ) was a German organist and university professor.

Life

Schneider came from a Rhenish family of organists. As a schoolboy he played the organ in his home parish in Alfter. He studied at the State University of Music in Cologne . His most important teacher in organ playing was the later Cologne cathedral organist and university professor Josef Zimmermann .

In 1946 Schneider became organist at the Christkönig Church in Saarbrücken . He carried out this task until 1990. In 1947 he was appointed professor for organ and organ improvisation at the newly founded Hochschule für Musik Saarbrücken , where he established a style-forming organ class. With his almost 40 years of teaching activity, he shaped several generations of organ students. In 1985 he retired , but kept a teaching position for another seven years.

For some new organs, Schneider designed the disposition with organ builders and colleagues , for example the Mayer organs in St. Ludwig (Saarlouis) and St. Crispinus and Crispinianus (Lisdorf) as well as the renovation and expansion of the large Klais organ of the Saarbrücken Christkönig Church . He invited the organists Marcel Dupré , Gaston Litaize , Marie-Claire Alain , Michael Schneider and Jeanne Demessieux to the organ concerts there . He cultivated a collegial bond with Albert Schweitzer , Michael Schneider and Daniel Roth . His students include Andreas Rothkopf , Dominique Sauer, Klaus Fischbach , Johannes Bruckmann, Helmut Deutsch , Karl-Ludwig Kreutz, Rainer Oster , Bernhard Leonardy , Klaus-Ewald Fischbach and Andreas Arand.

Web links

• Franz Ronig : Saarbrücken: Professor Paul Schneider has died , trierer-orgelpunkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ From the Conservatoire to the University , Saar University of Music
2. ↑ Thomas Krämer : The university mourns Prof. Paul Schneider , in: alla breve . Magazine of the Saarland University of Music and Theater ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Volume 7, No. 2 - October 2002, p. 24 
3. ^ The Mayer organ , church music in St. Ludwig Saarlouis
4. ↑ The Friends of the "Klingende Kirche" Saarlouis-Lisdorf eV ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , orgel-information.de 
5. ^ Matthias Thömmes, Gero Kaleschke: Orgeln in Rheinland-Pfalz and in Saarland , Paulinus-Verlag, Trier 1981, ISBN 3-7902-0137-5 , p. 202