Walter Blankenburg

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Walter Blankenburg (born July 31, 1903 in Emleben near Gotha ; † March 10, 1986 in Schlüchtern ) was a German Protestant pastor , church music director and musicologist who, in numerous publications, dealt with questions of liturgy , hymnology , the sacred music of the and early baroque , but mainly occupied with the work of Johann Sebastian Bach .

Life

Walter Blankenburg, son of a pastor, studied Protestant theology , history and musicology in Rostock, Tübingen, Göttingen, Freiburg and Berlin. In 1943 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with a dissertation on the inner unity of Bach's work . During his studies he became a member of the Rostocker (1922) and Erlanger Wingolf .

From 1939 to 1949 he was a member of the preparatory committee for the Evangelical Church Hymnal . From its foundation in 1947 until his retirement in 1968 he was director of the church music school of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in Schlüchtern, until 1973 regional church music director . From 1949 to 1968 he headed the directors' conference of Protestant church music training centers in Germany and helped shape the modern professional profile of church musicians. From 1941 to 1981 Blankenburg was editor of the magazine Musik und Kirche . In 1976 he founded the International Working Group for Theological Bach Research with Renate Steiger . In 1962 he received an honorary theological doctorate from the University of Marburg .

In his musicological work, it was particularly important to him to make the correspondence of form and message and thus to make the composer recognizable as the herald of the Gospel . Blankenburg belonged to the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood .

Publications (selection)

  • Introduction to Bach's B minor Mass , Kassel 1974.
  • Church and music. Collected essays on the history of worship music , ed. by Erich Hübner and Renate Steiger, Göttingen 1979.
  • Johann Walter . Life and Work , Höchst 1991.
  • Musical genres in individual representations. Vol. 2: The fair , Kassel 1991.
  • The Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach , Kassel 1999.

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literature

  • Gerard Kappner: Walter Blankenburg †. in: Quatember 1986, pp. 124-125
  • Renate Steiger: Walter Blankenburg . In: Music and Church 3/1986
  • Franz Ganslandt: youth music movement and church music renewal. Impulses, influences, effects presented in connection with the life and work of Walter Blankenburg , Munich 1997. ISBN 3-921946-35-2
  • 100th birthday of Walter Blankenburg on July 31, 2003 , in: Quintett. Church music communications from the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck 5/2003, pp. 8–9 ( PDF ; 1.1 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Verband Alter Wingolfiten eV (Ed.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum , 17th edition, Lahr / Schwarzwald 1974, p. 98
personal data
SURNAME Blankenburg, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman, musicologist and Bach researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Emleben
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1986
Place of death Schluechtern