Erhard Egidi
| Erhard Egidi | |
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Neustädter Kirche, Hannover, where he was responsible for the Protestant church music of Hannover, 2009
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| Born |
23 April 1929 Rheinsberg, Germany |
| Died | 8 September 2014 (aged 85) Hannover, Germany |
| Education | Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule |
| Occupation | Kantor |
| Years active | 1954–1991 |
Erhard Egidi (23 April 1929 – 8 September 2014) was a German cantor, organist and composer of sacred music. He was Kantor at the Neustädter Kirche, Hannover, from 1972 to 1991, where he concentrated on music in church services, but also conducted concerts, with a preference for works of Johann Sebastian Bach and his own teacher Ernst Pepping. He was appointed Kirchenmusikdirektor (church music director), responsible for the church music of Hanover.
Born in Rheinsberg, he studied in Berlin at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule (Spandau academy of church music) with Gottfried Grote, Ernst Pepping and Herbert Schulze. He was cantor at St. Lamberti, Hildesheim from 1954. He included contemporary music, for example in 1957 a concert for Trinity Sunday with works by Willy Burkhard, Johann Nepomuk David and Pepping's setting of the Gospel for the Sunday, Jesus und Nikodemus from the Gospel of John, and a setting of the Epistle, "O welch eine Tiefe des Reichtums".
From 1972 Egidi was cantor at the Neustädter Kirche, Hannover, later appointed Kirchenmusikdirektor (church music director), responsible for the church music of Hanover. His first concert with the chorale Kantorei St. Johannis presented Bach's Missa in A and Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore. As a keyboard player, he performed works for harpsichord, such as Bach's Goldberg Variations, and for clavichord, for example a sonata by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust. He performed Bach's Clavierübung III with his wife Maria on two organs in 1986. Each autumn, the choir toured with an a cappella program. In 1980 it included a concert at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden, with Leonhard Lechner's motet Ach Gott, Dir tu ich klagen, Bach's motet Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 and Pepping's Missa Dona nobis pacem. Destinations have included Copenhagen (1972), Paris (1973), Straßburg (1979) and Vaduz (1987), and small towns that do not support choirs.
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