Hans Thamm

Hans Thamm (* 1921 in Kamenz / Saxony, † 13 March, 2007 Barthelmes Herzogenaurach in Schwabach ) was a German choral conductor.

Career

Thamm received his first musical education at the Dresden Kreuz Choir, where he emerged as a soprano soloist and worked as a choir prefect later. The then Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger, as well as the cross church organist Herbert Collum and country church music director Alfred Bull were among his teachers. During World War II Thamm was three times severely wounded. On the consequences of the injuries he suffered life-long.

After the Second World War Thamm first took a job as a piano and organ teacher at the Institute of Sacred Music at the University of Erlangen, before he was appointed in March 1946 as a music prefect of the former parish orphanage and as a music teacher at the then Humanistic Gymnasium in wind stream. In the same year founded the Crucian at his new place of the choir, which will take place today as Windsbacher Knabenchor worldwide attention. Thamms artistic personality, paired with expert musicianship skills in the service of evangelical preaching, established the young orchestra in the early '50s in the series of major German boys' choirs. With regular appearances on Lorenzer motet in the main church of Nuremberg and Ansbach Bach Week and numerous concert tours at home and abroad (the Netherlands, Switzerland ) he consolidated the outstanding reputation of the Windsbacher. At over 30 's recordings, and countless radio and television productions his interpretations of sacred music at the highest level technically and musically are impressively documented.

Criticism

Opposite Hans Thamm 2010, the charges of child abuse was raised in a report of the news magazine Der Spiegel. Basically positive about Thamms management style report Ertel, Werner ( and others, eds ): Festschrift - The Other. For the 175th anniversary of the parish orphanage to wind stream (today Windsbacher boys' choir with Lutheran. Studienheim ). Privately printed January, 2013. 152 S.

Honors

Hans Thamm received as an acknowledgment of his 32 -year-old cantor time many awards and honors, as the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Bavarian Culture Prize. 1996 gave him the city Windenbach an honorary citizen.