Erhard Mauersberger
Erhard Mauersberger ( born December 29, 1903 in Mauerberg; † 11 December 1982, Leipzig ) was a German organist, music teacher and choir director. He served as cantor of St. Thomas after 14 Johann Sebastian Bach.
Life
Erhard Mauersberger was born on December 29, 1903 as the son of the cantor of the Erzgebirge mountain community wall. He is the younger brother of Rudolf Mauersberger, the cantor of the famous and famous by their choral tradition Cross School in Dresden. He was from 1914 to 1920 a member of the St. Thomas Boys Choir under choirmaster Gustav Schreck and students at St. Thomas School in Leipzig. He studied organ with Professor Karl Straube at the Leipzig Conservatory.
In 1925, Mauersberger succeeded his brother Rudolf's choir director, organist and Artistic Director of the Aachen Bach Society, before he moved from 1928 to 1930 as a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Mainz. At the same time he was organist and choirmaster at Christ Church of Mainz.
1930 followed Mauersberger again his brother as a cantor at the Church of St. George in Eisenach. At the same time the management of the newly established School of Church Music in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia, he was assigned. From 1935 he worked there as a Church Council and from 1942 as the national director of church music. He founded and led the Bach Choir Eisenach. In 1932, he was also a lecturer and in 1946 professor of choral conducting at the University of Music in Weimar.
Since 1939, Mauersberger belonged to the staff of the Institute for Research and elimination of Jewish influence on the German church life. Mauersberger conducted since 1950, the Thuringian church music school in Eisenach.
In a politically and artistically difficult time he took over in 1961 as the successor to Kurt Thomas the post of choirmaster. He helped the choir during the period of political isolation, which was characterized by the wall between the two German states and by the socialist cultural doctrine in the GDR, to keep them in his church musical bonds. At times, he also led the Gewandhaus Choir. From 1963 to 1982 he was president of the Bach - committees in the GDR. Record and broadcast recordings show him as a keeper of the tradition of his teacher. In his later years Mauersberger composed for the St. Thomas Choir a cappella works that have proven themselves with late Romantic habit in the repertoire.
His departure from office in 1972 was preceded by a umschatteter of mysterious circumstances accident. Officially, from the city of Leipzig Council, Department of Culture, asserted the choirmaster Prof. Mauersberger was " a slice fell on my head ," which had him heavily injured. This rumor contradicted Mauersberger repeated the familiar circle. In fact, Mauersberger was a realignment of the GDR cultural policy in the way. In this context, followed by a wave of purges that led to the removal of Thomas cantor Mauersberger, but also the rector of the St. Thomas Boys', Nöbert, and the two teachers of the Thomas School and inspectors of Thomanerchores, Görne and chard.
On December 11, 1982 Mauersberger died at the age of 78 years in Leipzig. He was buried in the South Cemetery Leipzig (XVII department).
The journalist, film producer and author Helga Mauersberger Erhard Mauersberger 's daughter.
Honors
In 2001, a street in the district of Leipzig Stötteritz by Mauersberger named ( ' Mauersberger road '). He was honored three times with the Patriotic Order of Merit.
Works
(mostly church music - a cappella motets )
- The healing of the blind man of Jericho. Large Evangelienmotette
- Stay with us, Lord, for it is toward evening. Evangelienmotette
- Domine dirige me
- Christmas: In the dark tret ' I like addition (1974 ) for solo voice and nine voice choir.
Choral songs
- From the high heaven, O angels comes
- Wax, nightingale, wake up
- The time you have in your hands
- Who called his name
- O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace