1. Erhard Egidi was a German cantor, organist and composer of sacred music.
13 Facts About Erhard Egidi
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Erhard Egidi was Kantor at the Neustadter Kirche, Hannover, from 1972 to 1991, where he focused on music in church services, but conducted concerts, with a preference for works of Johann Sebastian Bach and his own teacher Ernst Pepping.
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Erhard Egidi was appointed Kirchenmusikdirektor, responsible for the church music of Hanover.
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Erhard Egidi was cantor at St Lamberti, Hildesheim from 1954.
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Erhard Egidi included contemporary music, for example in 1957 a concert for Trinity Sunday with works including works by Johann Nepomuk David, Burkhard's Die Sintflut, and Pepping's setting of the Gospel for the Sunday, from the Gospel of John, and a setting of the Epistle, "O welch eine Tiefe des Reichtums".
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From 1972 Egidi was cantor at the Neustadter Kirche, Hannover, later appointed Kirchenmusikdirektor, responsible for the church music of Hanover.
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Erhard Egidi performed Bach's Clavierubung III with his wife Maria on two organs in 1986.
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Erhard Egidi founded a chamber orchestra Kammerorchester St Johannis, mostly of teachers and students of the Musikhochschule Hannover, to play with the choir and perform instrumental concerts.
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Erhard Egidi performed in 1979 Handel's Messiah, with soloists Ute Fruhhaber, Renate Naber, Lutz-Michael Harder and Heiner Eckels.
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On 11 June 1983 Erhard Egidi conducted Bach's Mass in B minor for the "".
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Erhard Egidi prepared the parts from the score and combined the work in concert on 25 November 1990 with Bach's motet and cantata, and Stravinsky's.
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Erhard Egidi kept playing concerts for historic keyboard instruments, such as a program for clavichord on 13 October 2001.
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Erhard Egidi composed works for use in the church, some were published by Carus-Verlag.