13 Facts About Alfred Koerppen

Alfred Koerppen was a German organist, music pedagogue, composer and academic teacher.

Alfred Koerppen taught composition and music theory at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hannover from 1948 to 1991.

Alfred Koerppen's compositions focus on choral music with and without accompaniment, but he wrote symphonies, chamber music and stage works.

Alfred Koerppen received his first music lessons at the age of six.

Alfred Koerppen attended the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt for especially musically gifted children from all over Germany, from 1939 to 1945; he was trained in composition and music theory by Kurt Thomas.

Alfred Koerppen studied at the same time as Heinz Hennig, Paul Kuhn, Clytus Gottwald and Siegfried Strohbach.

In 1948, Alfred Koerppen became a lecturer at the Landesmusikschule Hannover,.

In 1983, Alfred Koerppen received the Lower Saxony State Prize for culture.

Alfred Koerppen retired from teaching in 1991, having educated many students who became notable composers, conductors, church musicians and pedagogues.

Alfred Koerppen wrote his last work, a cantata In Paradisum to the text from the Requiem, in 2021 at age 94.

In 1960, Alfred Koerppen married the violinist Barbara Alfred Koerppen, nee Boehr.

Alfred Koerppen died on 5 July 2022, at the age of 95, at the hospital of the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover after a brief serious illness.

Alfred Koerppen wrote chamber music for strings and piano, among others, organ works, Lieder, numerous choral works a cappella and with accompaniment.