Siegfried Reda

Siegfried Reda (born July 27, 1916 in Bochum ; † December 13, 1968 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German composer and organist .

Life

Reda studied with Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler at the church music school in Berlin-Spandau and was organist in Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and Berlin . In 1946 he became head of the Institute for Evangelical Church Music at the Folkwang University in Essen , and at the same time professor for organ and composition. In 1953 he became church music director at the St. Petri Church in Mülheim an der Ruhr. His students include Herbert Callhoff , Gisbert Schneider , Wolfgang Hufschmidt and Matthias Kern .

In 1996 a square in Mülheim an der Ruhr was named after him.

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Reda is considered to be one of the most active forces in the renewal of Protestant church music after the Second World War . Accordingly, he mainly wrote music with a liturgical reference, including three choir concertos for organ (1946–1952), psalm book for solos and a cappella choir (1948–1949), The Christmas story for tenor solo, speaker and 5-part choir (1949), Ecce homo for 4-part choir (1950), Easter story for solos and a cappella choir (1951), Marienbilder for organ (1955), organ sonata (1960) and Requiem vel vivorum consolatio for solos, choir and orchestra (1963).

literature

• Siegfried Bergemann: Choral Music for the Year of the Church . In: Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik , 83rd year 2016, Issue 1, pp. 8-14
• Volker Bräutigam: A departure from tradition. Siegfried Reda (1916–1968) . In: Ulrich von Brück (Ed.): Credo musicale. Composer portraits from the work of the Dresden Kreuzchor . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1969, pp. 177-195
• Rudolf Faber, Philip Hartmann (ed.): Handbook of organ music . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar, 2002. ISBN 3-7618-2003-8 .
• Elisabeth Reda: Church music as a place of remembrance. Siegfried Reda on his 100th birthday . In: Forum Kirchenmusik , 67th year 2016, issue 6, pp. 3–10 (the author is a granddaughter of the composer)

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