Martin Flämig (19 August 1913, in
Aue – 13 January 1998, in
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
) was a German church musician, and the cantor of the
Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1971 to 1991.
Biography
Martin Flämig studied since 1934 in Dresden with
Alfred Stier and in Leipzig at the ''Kirchenmusikalisches Institut des Leipziger Konservatoriums'' with
Karl Straube
Montgomery Rufus Karl Siegfried Straube (6 January 1873 – 27 April 1950) was a German church musician, organist, and choral conductor, famous above all for championing the abundant organ music of Max Reger.
Career
Born in Berlin, Straube stu ...
,
Günther Ramin, and
Johann Nepomuk David. He was since 1948 cantor at the Versöhnungskirche in Dresden and premiered there
Willy Burkhard's oratorio ''Das Gesicht des Jesaja'' (The Vision of Isaiah),
Ernst Krenek
Ernst Heinrich Krenek (, 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including ''Music Here and Now'' (1939), a study of Johannes Ock ...
's ''Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae'' and
Johannes Drießler's ''Dein Reich komme''.
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Sächsische Biographie (Saxonian Biography, in German)
In 1953 he was appointed professor of the
Hochschule für Musik Dresden. He was a teacher at the Bern Conservatory since 1959. In 1971 he was appointed Dresdner Kreuzkantor as the successor of
Rudolf Mauersberger and held the post until 1991.
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on Bach Cantatas, 2007
References
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German choral conductors
German male conductors (music)
Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber
1913 births
1998 deaths
20th-century German conductors (music)
20th-century German male musicians