Walter Blankenburg
Walter Blankenburg (31 July 1903 – 10 March 1986) was a German Protestant pastor, director of church music and musicologist, who focused in several publications on liturgy, hymnology, and on the sacred music of the early Baroque period, especially by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Walter Blankenburg
- Name
- Walter Blankenburg
- Born
- 31 July 1903
- Birthplace
- Emleben
- Died
- 10 March 1986
- Place of death
- Schlüchtern
- Education
- * University of Rostock
- Occupation
- * Pastor
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• Name — Walter Blankenburg • Born — 31 July 1903 • Birthplace — Emleben • Died — 10 March 1986 • Place of death — Schlüchtern • Education — * University of Rostock • University of Göttingen • Occupation — * Pastor • Musicologist
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Walter Blankenburg (31 July 1903 – 10 March 1986) is described as a musician, editor, musicologist, Protestant theologian and narrator in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Walter Blankenburg was born on 31 July 1903 and died on 10 March 1986.
Career
Career
Born in Emleben near Gotha, Blankenburg, the son of a pastor, studied theology, history and musicology at the University of Rostock. in Tübingen, Göttingen, Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin. He was promoted to Ph.D. in 1943 in Göttingen with a dissertation about Die innere Einheit von Bachs Werk. He was a member of the group preparing the Evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch from 1939 to 1949. He was director of the Kirchenmusikschule of the Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck in Schlüchtern from its foundation in 1947 to his retirement in 1968. He was from 1941 to 1981 editor (Schriftleiter) of the magazine Musik und Kirche (Music and church. He founded in 1976, together with Renate Steiger, the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für theologische Bachforschung In 1962, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of the University of Marburg. He died in Schlüchtern. An award of the Protestant Church is named after him.
Documentary record
For the birthplace of Walter Blankenburg, Emleben is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and Emleben bei Gotha, Allemagne by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Publications
• Kirche und Musik. Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Geschichte der gottesdienstlichen Musik, ed. Erich Hübner and Renate Steiger. Göttingen 1979. • Das Weihnachts-Oratorium von Johann Sebastian Bach Bärenreiter 1999 • Einführung in Bachs H-moll-Messe, mit vollständigem Text Bärenreiter 1957
Literature
• Gerard Kappner: Walter Blankenburg †. in: Quatember 1986, S. 124–125 • Renate Steiger: Walter Blankenburg. In: Musik und Kirche 3/1986 • Franz Ganslandt: Jugendmusikbewegung und kirchenmusikalische Erneuerung. Impulse, Einflüsse, Wirkungen dargestellt in Verbindung mit Leben und Werk Walter Blankenburgs, Munich 1997. • 100. Geburtstag von Walter Blankenburg am 31. Juli 2003, in: Quintett. Kirchenmusikalische Mitteilungen aus der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck 5/2003, pp. 8–9.
Documentary record
Walter Blankenburg died in Schlüchtern, Germany, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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- 1.Verband Alter Wingolfiten e.V. (Hrsg.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum, 17. Aufl., Lahr/Schwarzwald 1974, S. 98
- 2.Kirchenmusik der EKKW. Walter-Blankenburg-Medaille.
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