Hatto Ständer (14 January 1929 – 10 August 2000) was a German church musician, academic, concert organist and composer. He was a professor of organ and choral conducting at the Dortmund University for three decades, and director of its department Catholic church music. His compositions are mostly sacred music, but he also wrote piano music and chamber music. He served as an advisor to organ builders for notable organs in

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Career

Born in

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, Ständer showed musical talent early. He played the organ in church liturgies at age nine. At age 13, he became a pupil of the ''Musisches Gymnasium'', a school specialising in music and arts, in

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, where he was inspired by Kurt Thomas who taught counterpoint, composition and conducting. Ständer studied piano and composition at the

Folkwang Hochschule The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in ...

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. He was accepted to the piano master class of Carl Seemann at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, and won a prize at the Deutscher Hochschulklavierwettbewerb. He completed his studies of organ and church music at Dortmund University, where he taught from 1960 to 1992 organ, choral conducting,

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and composition (''Tonsatz''). He was appointed

Kirchenmusikdirektor Kirchenmusikdirektor (KMD, director of church music) is a German title for professional church musicians (' who have responsibility for not only a parish but a larger region, in both Protestant and Catholic church music. The title is also sometimes ...

and director of the department of Catholic church music in 1971, and professor in 1974. Most of Ständer's compositions are dedicated to sacred music. He gave concerts in Germany and beyond, and made recordings with broadcasters. He was an advisor to organ builders, such as for the organ of the Propsteikirche in

, built by Siegfried Sauer. He designed an all-purpose instrument with French sound concepts in mind. He played the opening concert on 23 October 1988. He was instrumental in the concept for the organ at the

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, built by

Klais Orgelbau Orgelbau Klais is a German firm that designs, builds and restores pipe organs. It is a family run company, founded in 1882 by Johannes Klais senior and is now run by his great-grandson Philipp Klais. The firm is based in Bonn, Germany, and has ...

, but did not live to see it built. He died in Dortmund in 2000.

Work

The publisher

Verlag Dohr Verlag Dohr is a publishing house for music in Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 1990 by Christoph Dohr in , which moved to in 1992 and to in Bergheim in 2010. It publishes a quarterly magazine of music, ''fermate'', sh ...

has printed Ständer's complete works, which includes besides his well-known sacred compositions also early piano and chamber works written in student years when he still considered a career as a composer. Most of these are first prints, based on the last autographs from his ''nachlass''. His sacred music is focused on a renewal of Catholic church music after the

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. Sacred vocal music * ''Auferstehungslied'' (Erich Przywara; 1950) * ''Cantate Domino'' (1985) * ''Deutsches Proprium vom ersten Ostertage'' (1971) * ''Deutsches Proprium vom Ostersonntag'' (1966) * ''Deutsches Proprium zum Fest Mariae, Mutter vom guten Rate'' (1967) * ''Deutsches Proprium zum Pfingstsonntag'' (1988) * Missa in E major, Op. 4 (1947) Secular vocal music * ''Neun Lieder'' (1946–1954) Organ music * Chorale Suite (1966) * Fanfare (1992) * ''Toccata und Fuge in D'' (1959) Piano music * ''Fantasie'' in F minor, Op. 8 (1942) * ''Impressionen am Lake Almanor'' (1981) * Piano Sonata IV in B-flat major, Op. 12 (c. 1942) * ''Variationen und Fuge über ein eigenes Thema'' (1946) Chamber music * ''Kleine Weihnachtsmusik'' (1943) * Sonata in D minor (1943) * Trio, Op. 1 (1945)

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(in Dutch) blokmuz.nl * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stander, Hatto German classical composers German male classical composers Academic staff of the Technical University of Dortmund German classical organists 1929 births 2000 deaths People from Witten 20th-century German organists 20th-century German male musicians German male classical organists