Rehmann, Theodore Bernhard

Life

Born: Feb. 9 1895 Essen

Died: Oct. 4, 1963 Schleiden, Eifel / region, Germany

Biography

After serving in World War I , he studied theology in Münster and Bonn and musicology with Ludwig Schiedermair .On February 18, 1923, he was ordained a priest in Cologne Cathedral . After a short pastoral assignment as a chaplain in Düsseldorf-Wersten , he began studying church music in Regensburg and Munich and passed the final exam with Eberhard Schwickerath . In 1925 he became vicar and Kapellmeister at the Aachen Cathedral and in 1945/46 acting music director of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra . With the reestablishment of the diocese of Aachen in 1930, Rehmann became cathedral conductor . He held this position until his death in 1963. He was noted for moving the repertoire away from Caecilianism, toward the works of Joseph Haas and Heinrich Lemacher, and toward the contemporary Flemish school of ere of activity of the Aachen Cathedral Choir internationally. He developed a special relationship with the contemporary Flemish music scene and cultivated the oeuvre of the composers Hendrik Andriessen, Flor Peeters, Arthur Meulemanns, and Julius van Nuffel.

List of sacred works

• Dei alma mater Drei Mariengesänge für Gemischten Chor und Orgel, op. 8 Schwann, Düsseldorf, [c.1954]
• Drei Festtagsoffertorien, Op 27 SATB org Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1953 (Tui sunt coeli, Terra tremuit, Confirma hoc)
• Tantum ergo, RW 41 SATB Edition SINFONIA SACRA e.V, Aachen, 2015
• 5 lateinische Motetten über deutsche Weisen, SATB, Böhm, Augsburg, ca. 1940
• Laetamini : ein Motettenkranz für 4- bis 6-stimmigen gemischten a-cappella-Chor L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1901

(Nr. 1: Laetamini (Allerheiligen), für 6-stimmigen Chor Nr. 2: Quae est ista (St. Maria), für 4-stimmigen Chor Nr. 3: Ite ad Joseph (St. Joseph), für 4-stimmigen Chor Nr. 4: Puer, qui natus est nobis (St. Johannes), für 6-stimmigen Chor Nr. 5: Tu es Petrus (St. Petrus), für 4-stimmigen Chor Nr. 6: Una autem Sabbatti (St. Maria Magdalena), für 6-stimmigen Chor Nr. 7: Elegerunt Apostoli (St. Stephanus), für 5-stimmigen Chor Nr. 8: Cantantibus organis (St. Cäcilia), für 6-stimmigen Chor Nr. 9: Sancte Michael Archangele (St. Michael), für 4-stimmigen Chor Nr. 10: Magna et mirabilia (Christus König), für 5-stimmigen Chor

• Missa cantantibus organis, SATB org, Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1948
• Oremus pro pontifice L. Schwann, Musikverlag, Düsseldorf, 1936
• Preces ecclesiasticae : ad 4-8 voces inaequales L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1901 (Oremus pro Pontifice Oremus pro Antistite, Salvum fac populum)
• Proprium Coena Domini Willy Müller, Süddeutscher Musikverlag, Heidelberg, 1962
• Proprium Missae Christmatis, Willy Müller, Süddeutscher Musikverlag, Heidelberg, 1962

Publications

Wikipedia (German)

External links

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