Herbert Collum
Herbert Collum (18 July 1914 − 29 April 1982) was a German organist, harpsichordist, composer and Conducting, conductor. Life Born in Leipzig, Collum received high school education between 1921 and 1929. He continued from 1930 to 1934 at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Church Music Institute in Leipzig, where he studied Organ (music), organ with Karl Straube and Günther Ramin, piano with Carl Adolf Martienssen, choral conducting with Kurt Thomas (composer), Kurt Thomas, and musical composition with Johann Nepomuk David and Fritz Reuter (composer), Fritz Reuter. Already by 1927 he had become deputy organist at the St. Matthew, Leipzig, St. Matthäikirche Leipzig. From 1932 to 1935 he served as assistant to Ramin, Thomaskantor at the Thomaskirche. His appointment in 1935 as principal organist, "Kreuzorganist", at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden signalled the beginning of his creative period; he remained in that post until his death in April 1982 at the age of 67. His suc ...
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