Wilhelm Ehmann was a German musicologist, editor, church musician and conductor.
15 Facts About Wilhelm Ehmann
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Wilhelm Ehmann founded the choir Westfalische Kantorei that toured internationally and made many recordings.
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Wilhelm Ehmann was a cofounder and director of the later Hochschule fur Kirchenmusik Herford.
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Wilhelm Ehmann worked first as an assistant at the university and Gauchormeister of Baden.
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Wilhelm Ehmann worked for the department of organ music at the Reichsjugendfuhrung From 1940 to 1945, he was the head of the institute of musicology at the University of Innsbruck.
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Wilhelm Ehmann was a lecturer for church music at the University of Munster.
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Wilhelm Ehmann was on the boards of national and international institutions of church music, including the Arbeitskreis fur Haus- und Jugendmusik from 1951, the Internationaler Arbeitskreis Musik from 1951, the Internationale Heinrich-Schutz-Gesellschaft from 1956, and Deutscher Musikrat from 1959.
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Wilhelm Ehmann focused on performing choral sacred music and pursued historically informed performance early, recording works by Dieterich Buxtehude, Heinrich Schutz and Johann Sebastian Bach, among others.
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Wilhelm Ehmann conducted works by more recent composers such as Hugo Distler and Ernst Pepping.
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Wilhelm Ehmann founded the Westfalische Kantorei which became known internationally.
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Wilhelm Ehmann published introductions to choral conducting, such as Die Chorfuhrung in 1968.
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Wilhelm Ehmann inspired historically informed performance for brass ensembles, leading to reproductions of historic instruments.
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Wilhelm Ehmann published tutorials for brass music such as Die Blaserfibel from 1951, and music for brass such as Alte Spielmusik fur Blaser.
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Wilhelm Ehmann toured in Europe, the Near East and Far East, Africa and the US.
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Wilhelm Ehmann taught choral conductors in master classes, especially in the US and St Moritz, Switzerland.