Walter Schönenberger (composer)

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Walter Schönenberger (* 1914 ; † 1994 ; based in the canton of St. Gallen ) was a Roman Catholic Swiss composer of hymns and liturgical music.

Life

Walter Schönenberger was (like e.g. Johannes Fuchs ) a teacher - either for voice training , for choir conducting or for church music practice - at the diocesan church music school St. Gallen .

Schönenberger, along with Paul Huber , Karl Peissner and others, is considered to be a composer who “ actively shaped the musical and liturgical upheaval after the Second Vatican Council ” in Switzerland .

Compositions

  • Devoted. Choir score. Hug & Co., Zurich 1956. Text by Georg Thürer .
  • When in hours I have to worry about ... choir score. Hug & Co., Zurich 1956.
  • I return home in the evening singing. Choir score. Based on a Croatian folk song. Hug & Co., Zurich 1956.
  • To my wife. Choir score. Hug & Co., Zurich 1956.
  • Hey, who's going there? Score. Hug & Co., Zurich 1959.
  • Missa populi. Score. Hug & Co., Zurich 1960.
  • Missa dominicalis: in honor of St. Niklaus von Flüe . Score. Hug & Co., Zurich 1962.
  • Ave Maria.
  • Domine convertere.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kath-buelach.ch/veranstaltung/2411
  2. ^ SUISA : Compositeurs suisses d'œuvres chorales. Hug, 1999, p. 302. ISBN 978-3-906415-70-3
  3. ^ A b c Gesänge zur Liturgie: Works by St. Gallen composers. 2006. Diocesan Church Music School St. Gallen .
  4. ↑ Domine convertere on Notendatenbank.ch
personal data
SURNAME Schönenberger, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer of liturgical music
DATE OF BIRTH 1914
DATE OF DEATH 1994
Place of death Canton of St. Gallen