Martin Flämig

Flämig Martin ( born August 19, 1913 in Aue, † January 13, 1998 in Dresden ) was a German church musician, a Protestant regional church music director and cantor in Dresden.

Life

After his state examination as a church musician Flämig joined the succession of Franciscus Nagler to a cantor of the St. Matthew Church in Leisnig. From there he came first to chubs, before he was in 1948 as a successor to his former teacher Alfred bull cantor at the Dresden Church of Reconciliation. A year later, he founded the National Church Music School. In addition, since 1945, he served as professor and department head, the choral conducting at the Academy of Music and Theatre Dresden. 1953 he was appointed professor at the Dresden Academy of Music. In 1959 he took over duties as teacher at the conservatory in Bern and choir director of the church choir in the Engadine " Laudinella " in St. Moritz.

In order to allow him to risk further work in Switzerland and thus to receive him as a conductor, established members of the Berne Kantorei, the Basle Cathedral choir and the then Ostschweizer selection choir 1962, the Evangelical Singgemeinde and asked Martin Flämig as its first musical director of.

In addition, he worked as an organist in Bern, Thun and Effretikon as well as conductor of Thun Singkreis, the teacher Zealand Choral Society and the Zurich Radio choir until he was appointed in 1971 to the Dresden Kreuzkantor. He held until 1991 this office; In 1988 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Dresden. Flämig was a member of the Evangelical Brotherhood Michael.

Since 1991 Flämig lived in Tschingel in Gunten on Lake Thun in retirement. He died in 1998 and was buried in the Woodland Cemetery Weisser Hirsch in Dresden.