The (Spandau school of church music) was a music academy in

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, Germany. Founded in 1929, it was housed in the in Spandau and was closed in 1998. The schools choir appeared and recorded as the Spandauer Kantorei. It was located in today's Berlin-Hakenfelde, and is also known as Berliner Kirchenmusikschule. Students of the formed the base of the (Spandau chorale), a mixed choir which presented numerous concerts and radio broadcasts in Berlin. Notable teachers included composers

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, Winfried Radeke and

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, his wife

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, the organists

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and Karl Hochreither, and the conductor

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(until 1966). The last director was

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, who published a ' (manual for choral conducting). The school was suggested for university status in 1990 because of its excellent reputation, but instead it was dissolved in 1998 and became part of the Musikhochschule Berlin.

Directors

* 1929–1935

Gerhard Schwarz Gerhard Schwarz (22 August 1902 – 13 October 1995) was a German church musician, organist and composer. Life Born in Rusinowa (near Waldenburg), Silesia, Schwarz studied church and school music, philosophy and musicology in Berlin. On 1 Nov ...

* 1935–1955

Gottfried Grote Gottfried Grote (15 May 1903 – July 1976) was a German church musician. Born in Oberfrohna, Grote was from 1926 to 1935 organist and choir director of the Bach-Verein (Bach association) in Wuppertal, which later was named ''Wupperfelder Kantorei ...

* 1955–1963

Hanns-Martin Schneidt Hanns-Martin Schneidt (6 December 1930 – 28 May 2018
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* 1963–1976

* 1976–1998

References

External links

Spandauer Kantorei
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''Die gottesdienstliche Musik als theologisches Problem: dargestellt an der kirchenmusikalischen Erneuerung nach dem ersten Weltkrieg''

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