Erhard Egidi [SEP] position held
Erhard Egidi
Erhard Egidi (23 April 1929 – 8 September 2014) was a German cantor, organist and composer of sacred music. He was "Kantor" at the Neustädter Kirche, Hannover, from 1972 to 1991, where he concentrated on music in church services, but also conducted concerts, with a preference for works of Johann Sebastian Bach and his own teacher Ernst Pepping. He was appointed "Kirchenmusikdirektor" (church music director), responsible for the church music of Hanover.
Career.
Born in Rheinsberg
received.
In 1934, Pepping accepted a position as teacher of harmony, and counterpoint at the of the Protestant in Spandau, where he lived until his death. Among his many students were Helmut Barbe and Erhard Egidi. Pepping also taught at the from 1935 to 1938 as a professor of church music and composition. He had ties to the Confessing Church and wrote a great deal of music on German texts. In 1938, after a 1937 Church Music Festival in which he participated, he composed a German mass, (