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Christian Bahrens
1958 -
Germany
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Christian Bährens (Baehrends) (1958), a German Christian Bährens is a choir director, composer and music educator in his hometown of Berlin. Here he studied music, then attended master classes with Heinz Hennig and Laszlo Heltay and founded the Wilmersdorf chamber choir and the vocal ensemble Cantico Nuovo. He has also directed the Matthäuskantorei Steglitz and the Great Choir of the Beethoven-Gymnasium for many years.
| Source: | https://www.christian-baehrens.de/vita-und-repertoire |
Deutsches Requiem
| Period: | 21st century |
| Composed in: | 2018 |
| Musical form: | free |
| Text/libretto: | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Boris. Pasternak, Psalm 23, Proverbs |
| In memory of: | the composer's brother-in-law: Jan Zellmer |
Deutsches Requiem for Choir a cappella (2016-2018). In the spring of 2016, my brother-in-law Jan Zellmer died unexpectedly at the age of 42. After
At the atmospheric funeral service I decided to hold a requiem in his memory
compose. I first chose texts that had been read or sung at the celebration
(Bonhoeffer, Pasternak, Psalm 23 and Wisdom of Solomon) supplemented this collection
then with poems by Eichendorff, Gothe and Storm and got to work.
| Author: | Christian Bährens |
| Source: | https://www.christian-baehrens.de/system/files/15449/original/Requiem_Texte.pdf?1562093655 |
Lux aeterna
| Period: | 21st century |
| Composed in: | 2018 |
| Musical form: | motet |
| In memory of: | dedicated to EMBLA in Trondheim. |
Lux aeterna (2018) for female choir (SSAA) is dedicated to EMBLA in Trondheim.
| Source: | https://www.christian-baehrens.de/en/kompositionen-arrangements/lux-aeterna |