Siegfried Bauer (church musician)

Siegfried Bauer (* 1944 in Weissach im Tal ) was a Protestant regional church music director in Stuttgart and university teachers for church music in Tübingen . At the same time he was municipal music director in Ludwigsburg .

Career

After studying school music, pedagogy and musicology , Bauer worked from 1968 first as a cantor and organist in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt , then from 1971 taught among other things music pedagogy at Karlshöhe Ludwigsburg . He was appointed church music director in 1982 ; In 1989 he was appointed regional church music director of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . In 2009 he retired. His successor was the regional church music director Bernhard Reich .

activity

Until 2009, Bauer headed the office for church music in the Stuttgart Higher Church Council of the Evangelical Regional Church in Württemberg as regional church music director . At the same time he taught church music and orchestral conducting at the Tübingen University of Church Music and was appointed professor there in 2004.

The city of Ludwigsburg awarded Siegfried Bauer the Culture Prize and in 2006 the title of City Music Director in recognition of the services he had earned through the 40-year-old orchestral leadership of the City of Ludwigsburg Symphony Orchestra (1976-2016) and the Youth Symphony Orchestra (1983-2006). In 1971 he founded the Kantorei der Karlshöhe Ludwigsburg, which he directed until 2001, and was choirmaster of the men's choir 1825 eV, Ludwigsburg. In 1995 he founded the Jewpatoria Chamber Orchestra in Ludwigsburg's twin town. In 2010 he started the project “Sing along!”.

Honors

The orchestral projects in Ukraine and its musical activities in France, Israel, Poland, Sweden, South Africa and Wales have contributed significantly to increasing Germany's reputation abroad. On May 24, 2000, on the proposal of the Prime Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the Federal President awarded Bauer the “Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany” . For his musical activities in Ludwigsburg's twin town Evpatorija , Crimea, he received the "Mayor Duwan Order" and was made an honorary citizen. In 2011 he was awarded the Benemerenti Papal Medal of Merit for his services to church music and ecumenical cooperation . The Ludwigsburg Symphony Orchestra , which he directed from 1976 to 2016, made him honorary conductor on December 21, 2016. Previously, after the final concert on October 22, 2016 in Ludwigsburg, he was awarded the Staufer Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

Works

Bauer has made a name for himself as the editor of various sheet music editions and church music textbooks:

• Sacred choral music of the romantic era , choir booklet 16, ed. by Siegfried Bauer, Stuttgart 1989
• A little melody. The choir book for sociability , ed. by Siegfried Bauer with the collaboration of Dieter Kurz and Josef Michel , Strube-Verlag (Edition 1080) Munich 1989
• Sing with me. Easy canons for the songs of the Evangelical Hymnal , ed. by Siegfried Bauer, Strube-Verlag (Edition 1320) Munich 1993
• Try and study. Textbook for basic training in Protestant church music , ed. by Siegfried Bauer and Ingo Bredenbach , Strube-Verlag (Edition 9024) Munich 1996, ISBN 3-921946-29-8
• Sing and say. Choir booklet to the intermediate texts in the Evangelical Hymnal , ed. by Siegfried Bauer, Lothar Friedrich, Reinhold Meiser and Eberhard Kienast, Munich 2001, ISMN M-2009-2752-8
• Keyboard games. The piano book for the Protestant hymn book , ed. by Siegfried Bauer, Strube-Verlag Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89912-037-X
• Our core songs - 33 songs from the Evangelical Hymnal , ed. by Siegfried Bauer, Strube-Verlag Munich 2008

Web links

• University of Church Music in Tübingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Significant figures in the middle of our society , press release of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese, December 16, 2012.