1. Peter Reulein was born on 1966 and is a German composer, organ improviser, academic teacher and church musician, from 2000 at the church Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main.
12 Facts About Peter Reulein
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Peter Reulein continued his studies of interpretations with Ludger Lohmann, Ewald Kooiman and Wolfgang Rubsam.
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Peter Reulein took master classes with choral conductors such as Eric Ericson and Helmuth Rilling.
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From 1991, Peter Reulein was the church musician at the Heilig Geist in Frankfurt-Riederwald, from 2000 he has held the position at Liebfrauen in the centre of Frankfurt.
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Peter Reulein was instrumental in having a new organ built which Karl Gockel completed in 2008.
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Peter Reulein is known for composing new songs for church services, many of them on texts by Eugen Eckert.
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Peter Reulein was from 2000 until 2005 the head of the Arbeitskreis Kirchenmusik und Jugendseelsorge im Bistum Limburg, caring about more appropriate church music for young people.
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Peter Reulein has been an instructor of liturgical organ playing and improvisation at the Frankfurt Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst from 2002.
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Peter Reulein was appointed Bezirkskantor for Frankfurt in 2008.
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In 2014, Peter Reulein recorded at Liebfrauen a CD of Franzosische Orgelsymphonik with works by Leon Boellmann, Camille Saint-Saens, Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor.
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Peter Reulein was commissioned to compose an oratorio to celebrate in 2016 the 50th anniversary of church music in the Catholic Diocese of Limburg, presenting different styles of church music.
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Peter Reulein scored the work for five soloists, children's choir, Choralschola, mixed choir, organ and orchestra.