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Otto Abel
Otto Abel (24 October 1905 – 21 September 1977) was a German organist, Cantor (church), Kantor, composer, Verlagslektor und evangelischer . Life Born in Berlin, von 1930 bis 1970 Abel was Cantor (church), Kantor and organist at the Immanuelkirche (Berlin), Immanuelkirche in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. From 1959 also Regional Church Music Director for the Eastern Region of the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia and from 1956 Church Music Editor at the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt in East Berlin. Abel composed several church songs and works for the organ. He died on a journey in Tettnang, Baden-Württemberg. Some compositions * ''Angels We Have Heard on High'' (translation from French) (Evangelisches Gesangbuch, EG 54, 418) * ''Von guten Mächten treu und still umgeben'' (Melody and movement 1959, texte by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1944) (Evangelisches Gesangbuch, EG 65, Gesangbuch der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirchen der deutschsprachigen Schweiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantor (church)
In Christianity, the cantor, sometimes called the precentor or the protopsaltes (; from ), is the chief singer, and usually instructor, employed at a church, with responsibilities for the choir and the preparation of the Mass or worship service. Generally, a cantor must be competent to choose and conduct the vocals for the choir, to start any chant on demand, and to be able to identify and correct the missteps of singers placed under them. A cantor may be held accountable for the immediate rendering of the music, showing the course of the melody by movements of the hand(s) (''cheironomia''), similar to a conductor. Western Christianity Roman Catholicism Before and after the Second Vatican Council, a ''cantor'' in the Roman Catholic Church was the leading singer of the choir, a ''bona fide'' clerical role. The medieval cantor of the papal Schola Cantorum was called ''Prior scholae'' or ''Primicerius''. In medieval cathedrals, the cantor or precentor directed the music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
