Franz Lehrndorfer
Franz Lehrndorfer ( born August 10, 1928 in Salzburg, † January 10, 2013 in Munich) was a German organist and music professor.
Life and work
Lehrndorfer grew up in Kempten and received his first music lessons from his father, who was choir director and musicologist. From 1948 to 1951 he studied Catholic Church Music in Munich. This was followed in 1952 Master Class Diploma for Organ.
After graduation, he worked as a music teacher at the cathedral choir under Domkapellmeister Theobald Schrems. 1962 began his career as a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, where he was head of Catholic Church Music until his retirement in 1993. Among his pupils was, among others, Roland Buchner, a follower of Schrems. From 1969 to 2002 Lehrndorfer knew also the post of organist at the Munich Frauenkirche. A particular focus of his artistic activity was the organ improvisation.
At the International Music Competition of the ARD Lehrndorfer 1957 won the first prize. In 1981 he was awarded the German Record Critics' Award for his recording of " organ music from the Munich Cathedral ".
In the summer of 2008, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, former students organized a great concert series in the Munich Frauenkirche.
In honor of Theobald Schrems composed Lehrndorfer the Missa in memoriam Theobald Schrems for four-part male choir. The premiere took place on 9 November 2008, the choir of the former cathedral choir held in the Regensburg Cathedral.
In addition Lehrndorfer designed several large organs, including 1980, the new organ of the Castle Church of St. Quirinus in Tegernsee with 33 registers, 3 manuals, pedals and mechanical grinding charge, not to mention 1993, the choir organ ( 36/III/P ) and 1994 the large organ ( 91/IV/P ) in the Munich Frauenkirche, which were manufactured by Georg Jann.