Theophil Rothenberg

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Theophil Rothenberg (born June 13, 1912 in Solingen - Gräfrath , North Rhine-Westphalia , † September 29, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant church musician and editor.

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Teophil Rothenberg grew up in a family who loved singing and was influenced by the singing movement (Walther Hensel, Fritz Jöde, Richard Gölz). He was the brother of Samuel Rothenberg . He studied from 1931 to 1936 at the church music school in Berlin-Spandau. From 1936 he was cantor, first in Berlin-Köpenick, then until 1994 in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. He belonged to the Confessing Church . From 1952 he was a state attendant for Berlin. From 1952 to 1991 he was a music lecturer at the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin. He was also a lecturer at the Paulinum Preacher School in Berlin. With his adaptations and publications he contributed to the popularity of Negro Spirituals in the church sector in the German-speaking area, for example with “Go tell it on the mountain” - “Go call it on the mountain”.

His grave is in the Mahlsdorf forest cemetery .

Compositions, song arrangements

  • Does the angel hear bright songs (three-part movement) EG 54.
  • Everything is vain, but you stay , canon for three voices based on a text by Gerhard Fritzsche, 1942, community song book 714, Die Mundorgel 37
  • The snail has her house , text to the nursery rhyme.
  • You are the path on which we walk , Catholic Church Hymns 207 (Switzerland), Reformed Hymnal.
  • Everything that breathes , Catholic Church Hymns 581 (Switzerland).

Publications (selection)

  • Praise the Lord, you young choirs. Canon Collection. 1956.
  • The young choir song. 1961, 6th edition 1981.
  • God loves this world. Neue Lieder, Volume I - V, 1967–1982 (up to 7 editions).
  • Come on, we're going to Bethlehem . (283) Songs for Christmas, 1983, new edition under the title The big book of Christmas carols. 1997, ISBN 978-3-7751-2873-5 .

References

  • Evangelical hymn book
  • Wolfgang Herbst: Who's who in the hymn book.
  • Gerhard Krause, Gerhard Müller: Theologische Realenzyklopädie, Volume 18
  • Wilhelm Kosch, Carl Ludwig Lang, Konrad Feilchenfeldt: German Literature Lexicon: the 20th century: biographical ...

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personal data
SURNAME Rothenberg, Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant church musician and editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen -Gräfrath, North Rhine-Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2004
Place of death Berlin