Hans Rudolf Zöbeley (27 May 1931 in

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– 5 December 2007 in

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) was a German composer, choral conductor and Lutheran church musician. The son of the Baden minister and hymn composer Rudolf Zöbeley (1901–1991) and Martha Bälz, he studied classical philology and medieval studies at the

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and musicology at the Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg. In 1955 he passed the state examination in Heidelberg, 1957, the ''A-Prüfung'' as a full-time church musician. In 1963 he completed his doctorate under Thrasyboulos Georgiades (1907–1977) in Munich with a thesis on the music of the

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. In 1962 he was appointed to the faculty at the

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in Munich, and in 1979 appointed music director of the

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. Zöbeley played a key role in three choirs: in 1960 he founded the Munich Motet Choir which he led almost forty years until his retirement in 1998. In addition, from 1962 to 1980 he was at the head of the choir of the

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. From 1969 to 2002 he was artistic and musical director of the Munich University Choir. He was also, from the summer of 1997, active as church music director at the Church of St. Matthew, Munich, the base of the bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. His son is the early music specialist and choral conductor Martin Zöbeley, leader of Gruppe für Alte Musik München.''Orlando di Lasso: 1594–1994 ; Renaissance in München'' Bernd Edelmann, Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte – 1994 "Ensemble Die Gruppe für Alte Musik München macht Musik vergangener Zeiten lebendig: Aus der Vokalgruppe, ... Martin Zöbeley wuchs in einer Musikerfamilie auf und genoß eine vielseitige musikalische Ausbildung (Klavier, Oboe, Dirigieren.."

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