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Ernst Pepping (Ernst Heinrich Franz Pepping) was born on 12 September, 1901 in Duisburg, Germany, is a German composer. Discover Ernst Pepping's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

Popular As Ernst Heinrich Franz Pepping
Occupation Composer Academic teacher
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 12 September, 1901
Birthday 12 September
Birthplace Duisburg, Germany
Date of death 1 February, 1981
Died Place Spandau, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1901

Ernst Pepping (12 September 1901 – 1 February 1981) was a German composer of classical music and academic teacher.

He is regarded as an important composer of Protestant sacred music in the 20th century.

Pepping taught at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule and the Berliner Hochschule für Musik.

His music includes works for instruments (three symphonies), the church (the motet Jesus und Nikodemus, the Missa Dona nobis pacem), and collections including the Spandauer Chorbuch (Spandau choir book) and the three volume Großes Orgelbuch (Great Organ Book), which provides pieces for the entire liturgical year.

Born Ernst Heinrich Franz Pepping in Duisburg, Pepping first studied to be a teacher.

1922

From 1922 to 1926 he studied composition at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik with Walter Gmeindl, a pupil of Franz Schreker.

1926

In 1926 his works Kleine Serenade für Militärorchester (Little serenade for military band) and Suite für Trompete, Saxophon und Posaune (Suite for trumpet, saxophone and trombone) were premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage.

He received the composition award of the Mendelssohn Foundation.

1928

Pepping composed mostly instrumental music until 1928.

1929

In 1929 his Choralsuite (Chorale suite) was first performed in Duisburg and well received.

1930

In the 1930s he wrote more compromising music, including a Deutsche Choralmesse in 1931, a setting not of the Order of Mass, but a series of chorales related to the functions in the liturgy of the service, comparable to Schubert's Deutsche Messe and in 1938 a German mass, Deutsche Messe: Kyrie Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (German Mass: Kyrie God Father in Eternity) for a six-part mixed choir.

1934

In 1934, Pepping accepted a position as teacher of harmony, Partiturspiel and counterpoint at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule of the Protestant Johannesstift Berlin in Spandau, where he lived until his death.

Among his many students were Helmut Barbe and Erhard Egidi.

1935

Pepping also taught at the Berliner Hochschule from 1935 to 1938 as a professor of church music and composition.

He had ties to the Confessing Church and wrote a great deal of music on German texts.

1938

In 1938, after a 1937 Church Music Festival in which he participated, he composed a German mass, Deutsche Messe: Kyrie Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (German Mass: Kyrie God Father in Eternity), which stressed the German nation, and which also followed the Party line.

During World War II, even during its final phase, Pepping was included in the Gottbegnadeten list of artists deemed crucial to the art of the Third Reich, and was therefore exempted from military service.

1943

On 30 October 1943 his Symphony No.2 in F minor was performed to great acclaim by the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler, in Berlin.

Pepping's Symphony No. 2 in F minor was recorded live in Berlin on 30 October 1943 by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, remastered and reissued in 2007 by the Russian label Melodiya-Edition, the Soviets having taken the original tapes to Moscow in 1945.

1947

Pepping taught again at the Berliner Hochschule from 1947 to 1968.

1948

Pepping composed no more church music until 1948, when he wrote the Missa Dona nobis pacem, possibly as a "personal plea".

The musicologist Sven Hiemke who analyzed the work in a book on Pepping's mass compositions notes that the work can be understood as Bekenntnismusik (confessional music) even if the composer would disagree.

Pepping's works were published by Schott.

They are kept in the archive of the Berliner Akademie der Künste (Berlin Academy of the Arts).

His Nachlass is held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

1961

Pepping received honorary doctorates from the Freie Universität Berlin (1961) and the Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin (1971).

He was a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

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1968

He retired in 1968 and also stopped composing.

He died in Spandau and is buried in Berlin's Friedhof Heerstraße Cemetery.

Pepping is regarded as one of the most important composers of Protestant church music in the 20th century.

His sacred works for choir a cappella included masses such as the Missa Dona nobis pacem, motets and chorales, for example the collection Spandauer Chorbuch (Spandau choir book).

He also composed secular vocal music, organ music, orchestral works including three symphonies, and chamber music.

1990

In 1990, organist Wolfgang Stockmeier played Orgelwerke (Organ works).

1992

The Passionsbericht des Matthäus (Passion report of Matthew) was performed in 1992 by the Danish National Radio Choir, conducted by Stefan Parkman.

2002

In 2002 the Sächsisches Vocalensemble performed the song cycle after Goethe Heut und Ewig.

Liederkreis nach Goethe-Gedichten (Today and eternally).

2005

More Orgelwerke were recorded in 2005 by George Bozeman.

2016

Pepping based his church music on Protestant hymns, the vocal polyphony of the 16th and 17th century and modal keys.

Pepping first wrote severe works with "uncompromising dissonance".