Erhard Egidi

Erhard Egidi ( born April 23, 1929 in Rheinberg ) is a German church musician. He was from 1972 to 1991 cantor of the New Town Church in Hanover.

Life

Egidi studied at the School of Church Music in Spandau Gottfried Grote, Ernst Pepping and Herbert Schulze. He was from 1954 to 1972 cantor at St. Lamberti, Hildesheim.

From 1972 he was cantor at the New Town Church and was appointed director of church music later. In his first concert with the choir of St. John's, he conducted Bach's Mass in A and Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore. He played concertos for keyboard instruments, such as Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord, clavichord music for like a Sonata by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, and Bach's Clavier-Übung III and his wife Maria of two organs. Every fall, he undertook with the choir on a concert tour with an A cappella program. In 1980 he gave a concert in the Market Church in Wiesbaden, Leonhard Lechner's motet O with God, you do I complain, Bach's motet The Spirit helps our infirmities and Dona nobis pacem Pepping's Missa. Other destinations have included Copenhagen ( 1972), Paris ( 1973), Strasbourg ( 1979) and Vaduz ( 1987), but especially small towns without choirs.

Egidi founded the Chamber Orchestra of St. John, which consisted mainly of teachers and students of the Musikhochschule Hannover, to participate in choral concerts and for his own concerts. On June 11, 1983, he conducted Bach's B Minor Mass for the Church. In 1986, he led on Stravinsky's Canticum sacrum and A German Requiem by Brahms composed, in 1988, he conducted Stravinsky's Cantata with Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor. In November 1990, he led the funeral music of the first organist of the New Town Church, Johann Anton Coberg, on which had been lost 300 years. He exhibited the rediscovered score Material ago and joined the music in concert on 25 November 1990, Bach's motet Come, Jesus, come, his cantata Sleepers awake uns die Stimme, BWV 140, and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. In the last choir concert before retirement in 1991 Bach's St. Matthew Passion conducted Egidi, with Dante Diwiak as an evangelist, Anselm judge as Vox Christi, Monika Frimmer, Ralf Popken and Joachim Gebhardt. The meeting of Hugo Thielen emphasized dramatic verve and a concentrated performance.

Egidi composed choral works for church services, some of which are published by Carus -Verlag.