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    August Hugo Distler (24 June 1908 – 1 November 1942) was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer. Born in Nuremberg, Distler attended...
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  • Distler is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hugo Distler (1908–1942), German composer Jacques Distler (born 1961), American...
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    Hugo Distler was an Austrian figure skater who competed in men's singles. In 1928 he won a bronze at the world championships. He also earned a European...
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  • voice and orchestra by Thomas Adès Totentanz (Distler), a 1934 composition of 14 motets by Hugo Distler Totentanz (Liszt), an 1849 composition for piano...
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    Totentanz (Danse Macabre), Op. 12/2, is a composition of 14 motets by Hugo Distler which he composed in 1934 for Totensonntag. The work was inspired by...
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    by Baroque composers, Peter Cornelius, Felix Mendelssohn, Max Reger, Hugo Distler, Ernst Pepping, Mauricio Kagel and Naji Hakim. Nicolai wrote the text...
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    Karg-Elert (1877–1933) Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) Ernst Pepping (1901–1981) Hugo Distler (1908–1942) Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) George C. Baker (b. 1951) Chorales...
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  • notation. Some composers use dashed or dotted bar lines; others (including Hugo Distler) have placed bar lines at different places in the different parts to...
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  • and director of the Berlin Hugo-Distler Choir 1953-1989. He was the older brother of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. The Hugo-Distler Chor Berlin was founded by...
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  • 1883) 1938 – Charles Weeghman, American businessman (b. 1874) 1942 – Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1908) 1952 – Dixie Lee...
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    deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms. Other settings include those by Hugo Distler, Johann Hermann Schein, Gottfried Scheidt, Karl Piutti, Carl Philipp...
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    Schoenberg The Green Table, 1932, ballet by Kurt Jooss Totentanz, 1934, by Hugo Distler, inspired by the Lübecker Totentanz "Scherzo (Dance of Death)," in Op...
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    1991 – Hugo Distler - Mörike-Chorliederbuch Vol. 1 1993 – Hugo Distler - Mörike-Chorliederbuch Vol. 2 1995 – Chormusik im 20. Jahrhundert 1997 – Hugo Distler...
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  • Weihnachtsgeschichte (The Christmas Story), Op. 10, is an oratorio by Hugo Distler, composed in 1933. He set Biblical texts about the nativity of Jesus...
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    Stanford, Edmund Rubbra, Lennox Berkeley, Morten Lauridsen, Edward Elgar, Hugo Distler, F. Melius Christiansen, Ernst Krenek, Michael Finnissy, Karl Jenkins...
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  • Diller Erwin Ding-Schuler Erich Dinges Hugo Dingler Artur Dinter Herbert von Dirksen Oskar Dirlewanger Hugo Distler Paul Dittel Heimito von Doderer Eugen...
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  • Jakobi, a post he was to hold until 1972. The very next year he met Hugo Distler, who took up the position of organist at the church in 1931 through the...
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    Moore, piano, on the EMI label Schütz St Matthew Passion SWV 479 Berlin Hugo-Distler Chor, dir. Klaus Fischer-Dieskau Archiv LP 1961 Shostakovich, Suite on...
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  • composer (d. 1986) May 27 – Harold Rome, US songwriter (d. 1993) June 24 – Hugo Distler, organist and composer (d. 1942) June 29 – Leroy Anderson, US composer...
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    Nepomuk David composed a toccata on the melody. The German choral composer Hugo Distler produced a popular arrangement of the hymn for a cappella chorus, as...
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    (1894–1979) Felix Otto Dessoff (1835–1892) Albert Dietrich (1829–1908) Hugo Distler (1908–1942) Ramin Djawadi (born 1974) Johann Friedrich Doles (1715–1797)...
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    Willy Böckl Otto Preißecker Georges Gautschi 1927 Vienna Willy Böckl Hugo Distler Karl Schäfer 1928 Troppau Willy Böckl Karl Schäfer Otto Preißecker 1929...
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    the American Institute of Musicology. A few modern composers (such as Hugo Distler, whose vocal music is reminiscent of Renaissance vocal polyphony) have...
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    Fritz Kauffmann. Ignaz Lachner set to music his opera Die Regenbrüder. Hugo Distler composed 48 settings of Mörike's poetry in his Mörike-Chorliederbuch...
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  • 572–573. ISBN 3-423-04080-7. Nachrichten aus dem Hugo-Distler-Archiv, Ausgabe 3 (in German). Hugo-Distler-Kuratorium. 2011. p. 64. ISBN 978-3-8423-1188-6...
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    choral arrangement of the hymn in 1925, titled "Wake, Awake" in English. Hugo Distler composed an organ partita based on the hymn in 1935 (Op. 8/2). The following...
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  • 1907 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (d. 1989) 1908 – Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1942) 1908 – Alfons Rebane...
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  • 30 August — Martin Kirschner, German surgeon (born 1879) 1 November — Hugo Distler, German composer (born 1908) 3 December — Henner Henkel, German tennis...
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  • October 31 – Emilio Caldara, Italian politician (b. 1868) November 1 – Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908) November 2 – Elihu Grant, American scholar...
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  • (1889–1949) Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954) Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554 – after 1610) Hugo Distler (1908–1942) Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799) Antonius Divitis...
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