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Hugo Distler

Composer | Organist | Conductor


Distlers Life
Born June 24, 1908

Nuremberg, Germany
Studied at Leipzig Conservatory
1927 - 1931
Leipzig Conservatory
1927 1931

1) Conducting & Piano


2) Composition (Hermann Grabner) & Organ (Gnther Ramin)

First two works published as a student


1931 Organist & Director of Music
St. Jacobs Church, Lbeck
1933

Married Waltaut Thienhaus


Reluctantly joined the Nazi Party
Becomes head of Chamber Music at Lbeck Conservatory
1935 Organ Restoration at St.
Jacobs Church 1940 Moves to Berlin to teach at the
Conservatory
1937 Appointed Lecturer in Stuttgart
1942 Named conductor of the Berlin
1940 Appointed Professor in State and Cathedral Choir
Stuttgart

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

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