Adolf Lohmann (10 January 1907 – 19 October 1983) was a German music educator and a composer of sacred music. Several of his hymn melodies are part of the Catholic hymnal ''

Gotteslob ''Gotteslob'' ("Praise of God") is the title of the hymnbook authorized by the Catholic dioceses in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, Luxembourg and Liège, Belgium. First published in Advent 2013, it is the current official hymnal for German-speaki ...

''.

Career

Born in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...

, Lohmann worked there as a music teacher and ''Fachberater für Schulmusik'' (advisor for school music). In 1937, he was moved to

Goch Goch (; archaic spelling: Gog, Dutch: Gogh) is a town in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated close to the border with the Siebengewald in Netherlands, approx. south of Kleve, and southeast of Nijmegen. Hi ...

by the Nazi ''Kultusbehörde''.Adolf Lohmann
Goch He returned to Düsseldorf in 1949. Lohmann conducted several choirs, including youth choirs. He organizes continued education in music and training of choral conductors, often at

Haus Altenberg Haus Altenberg is a house for education and meetings of young people (''Jugendbildungsstätte'') of the Diocese of Cologne, located in Altenberg, now part of Odenthal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was the centre of the Katholische Jugendbe ...

. He composed melodies for several hymns by

Georg Thurmair Georg Thurmair (7 February 1909 – 20 January 1984) was a German poet who wrote around 300 hymns, a writer, journalist and author of documentary films. Career Born in Munich, he took commercial training and worked from 1926 as a secretary at the ...

, which contradicted the Nazi ideology by a focus on Jesus and the church. He was in 1938 one of the publishers of '' Kirchenlied'', an attempt to create a common hymnal for German-speaking Catholics. He worked for the Christophorus-Verlag, publishing several song books and choir books. He composed 150 songs, 30 canons and about 450 settings for choir or orchestra.

Hymn in ''Gotteslob''

* Dein Lob, Herr, ruft der Himmel aus, paraphrasing a 1659 hymn by

Albert Curtz Albert Curtz (''Curtius'' in Latin; 1600, Munich – December 19, 1671, Munich), was a German astronomer and member of the Society of Jesus. He expanded on the works of Tycho Brahe and used the pseudonym of ''Lucius Barrettus''. Background The L ...

after Psalm 19

Melodies in ''Gotteslob''

* "O Herr, aus tiefer Klage" GL 271 * " Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied" GL 409 * "Wir sind nur Gast auf Erden" GL 505 * "Dein Reich, o Herr, wird kommen" regional * "Herz Jesu, Gottes Opferbrand" GL 371, text by * "Macht weit die Pforten in der Welt" GL 360 * "

Nun, Brüder, sind wir frohgemut "" (Now, brothers, we are cheerful) is a German Catholic hymn. It was written by Georg Thurmair as both a pilgrimage song and a Marian hymn. The melody was composed by Adolf Lohmann, who wrote a choral setting in 1936. Related to youth pilgrimage ...

" regional

Literature

* Wilhelm Schepping: ''Der Kirchenliedkomponist Adolf Lohmann (1907–1983). Zur Bedeutung seines musikalischen Nachlasses'', in: ''Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch'' 80 (1996), pp 9–31.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lohmann, Adolf German music educators German composers 1907 births 1983 deaths Musicians from Düsseldorf