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Siegfried Reda
1916 - 1968
Germany
Siegfried Reda (27/07/1916 - 12/12/1968), a German protestant church musician and composer. He was born in Bochum. He studied church music in the Dortmund Conservatory and composition under Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler in the Berlin-Spandau church music school. From 1938 to 1941 he was an organist in Berlin. At the end of WW II he became a church musician in Gelsenkirchen and Bochum. In 1953 he became the church music director of the St. Petri-Kirche in Mülheim/Ruhr, he also lead the church music department of the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen from 1946, Herbert Callhoff and Wolfgang Hufschmidt being amongst his pupils. He died in Mülheim/Ruhr. Siegfried Reda was a leading personality of his time and especially significant with regard to organ music composition, interpretation and construction. He wrote songs, organ music and church music (e.g. motets).
Requiem vel vivorum consolatio
Requiem vel vivorum consolatio is a protestant requiem, for SATB choir, soprano and bariton soli and orchestra.
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