Nuremberg, Germany
Studied at Leipzig Conservatory
1927 - 1931
Leipzig Conservatory
1927 1931
1942 Ends his life after being asked to join the German Army
Orgelbewegung
The Organ Reform Movement
German Romantic Organ
Sauer Organ at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
The Walcker Organ in
Congress Hall, Nuremberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W33Nn0jRd7Y
Paul Hall Organ
Neo-Baroque Organ Building
Cadet Chapel (Air Force Academy), Colorado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X3LGTo0L-I
Distlers Music
Distlers Music
Polyphonic (contrapuntally
Inspirations: Schtz, Lechner independent), melismatic
Neo-Baroque: Reinvention of old Angular, yet graceful
forms Dissonant within a strong tonal
Nazis: degenerate art too modern, framework (Martin Anderson)
too dissonant, too Lutheran 2 Harpsichord Concertos, Organ
Pentatonic scale works, Choral works (both secular and
sacred)
Es ist ein Ros Entsprungen, Op.
10
Lo, how a Rose ever blooming (from The Christmas Story) 1933
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gaUIaOfyK8
Konzert fr Cembalo und
Streichorchester, Op.14
Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra 1935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0uU8ZXDvAo&t=124s
Degenerate Music
Dissonant
Too modern
Not grand like Wagner
Too religious
Too out there