Gottfried Grote

Gottfried Grote ( born May 15, 1903 in Oberfrohna; † in July 1976 in Berlin) was a German church musician.

Grote was from 1926 to 1935 organist and choir director of the Bach Society Wuppertal, the predecessor of the Wupper choir Kantorei fields at the Old Fields Church Wupper in Wuppertal. In 1935 he became head of the School of Church Music in Spandau. Grote also became a professor at the Berlin Conservatory. He led from 1955 the Heads of State and Cathedral Choir Berlin. He was known primarily as the editor of the clergyman choir song ( " The Grote ").

Grote was a special admirer of Heinrich Schütz. He arranged in his fields Wupper time the 3rd Heinrich Schütz Festival in Germany.

Pupil of Gottfried Grote were among others in his time Wupper fields Ewald Müller village, father of organist Joachim Müller village, as well as in the Spandau time Heinrich Poos, Helmut Barbe and Dietrich W. Prost.

Publications

• Alfred Bull: The bright tone. Oak cross, Wuppertal -Barmen 1932.
• Alfred Taurus: A new song. Burckhardt Haus, Berlin, 1933.
• Alfred Bull: Young sergeant songs. Young Guard, Wesermünde -Lehe 1937.
• Sacred choral song. 1949th 5th edition: Merseburger, Berlin 1959.
• Adam Adrio, Gottfried Grote (ed.): Bach: Choral singing. Evangelical publishing house, Berlin 1950.