Siegfried Strohbach was a German composer and conductor.
10 Facts About Siegfried Strohbach
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Siegfried Strohbach founded and directed choirs and the vocal ensemble Collegium Cantorum and is notable for the composition of choral music.
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Siegfried Strohbach was a conductor of major theaters of Lower Saxony and a professor of the Musikhochschule Hannover as well as a composer.
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Siegfried Strohbach began having piano lessons at the age of five.
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Siegfried Strohbach studied composition with its founder and director Kurt Thomas.
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From 1953 to 1966 Strohbach was a music teacher at the gymnasium St Ursula in Hanover, but continued to work as a freelancer at the theater Landesbuhne, which covers performances all over Lower Saxony, from 1951 to 1993.
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Parallel to teaching, Siegfried Strohbach was from 1967 to 1984 Kapellmeister of the Landesbuhne and conducted opera and concert at the festival "Musik und Theater in Herrenhausen" in the Baroque Herrenhausen Gardens, including works of Monteverdi, Mozart, and particularly Handel.
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Siegfried Strohbach composed numerous sacred and secular choral works for a variety of ensembles, chamber music, works for piano, songs, stage music, even Spanish folk music, among others.
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Siegfried Strohbach's works were published by Breitkopf and Hartel, Wiesbaden, Edition Ferrimontana, Frankfurt, Moseler Verlag, Wolfenbuttel, and Strube-Verlag, Munich.
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Siegfried Strohbach composed a program for the annual Advent concerts of the Knabenchor Hannover in 2011 in the Marktkirche, Freuen sollen sich die Himmel.