Siegmund Schmidt

Siegmund Schmidt (born July 7, 1939 in Stuttgart ) is a German composer and church musician .

Life

After graduating from high school in Stuttgart, Dillmann-Gymnasium, he was an organ student of Helmuth Rilling . He studied school and Protestant church music at the State University of Music in Stuttgart and musicology and German studies at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . After the church music A-exam , Siegmund Schmidt was cantor and organist in Stuttgart-Botnang and later assistant to University Music Director Siegfried Hermelink at the University of Heidelberg. In addition to his later teaching activities at the Evangelical-theological seminar in Schöntal and at the Hohenlohe-Gymnasium Öhringen, he took over the office of district cantor and organist at the collegiate church in Öhringen (Hohenlohe) in 1974 .

Siegmund Schmidt's compositional oeuvre includes motets , cantatas , a mass , a 12-part Sanctus , psalm settings , an oratorio , art songs , works for organ , piano , harpsichord , chamber ensemble , brass and woodwinds and orchestras .

Characteristic of Schmidt's compositional style are, in addition to modal techniques, free tonal, or polytonal , sporadically also atonal sound structures, some of which result from the polyphonic compositional technique. Classical development phases alternate - especially in the chamber music area - with collage-like sequences and tonal-punctiform structures, from which a diverse musical gesture results.

Siegmund Schmidt's works have been performed by the Stuttgart Chamber Choir under the direction of Frieder Bernius , the Württemberg Chamber Choir under the direction of Dieter Kurz , the vocal ensemble sirventes berlin, the Collegium iuvenum Stuttgart , the trombonist Armin Rosin , the Wartburg Choir from the USA, as well as in As part of festivals such as the Haller Bach Days in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Danube-Oberschwaben Music Festival, the German Choir Competition (Weimar; 2014) and the Hohenloher Kultursommer, as well as broadcast by radio ( SWR2 ).

Discography

• Composer portrait, works by Siegmund Schmidt (organum-classics)
• Concerto, Siegmund Schmidt: “What God does is well done” Partita for trumpet and organ - Matthias Beck, trumpet; Hildegundreiber, organ (organum-classics)
• Sounded! Siegmund Schmidt: “Wake up, the voice calls us” Triptych for two trumpets and organ - Matthias Beck and Vicente López, trumpets; Hildegundreiber, organ (organum classics)

Web links

• Siegmund Schmidt's website www.siegmundschmidt.de
• Works by Siegmund Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library