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Rolf Schweizer

Rolf Schweizer (14 March 1936 – 6 June 2016 ) was a German composer, choirmaster and church music director, who was based primarily at Pforzheim. Schweizer was part of the movement Neues Geistliches

Rolf Schweizer (14 March 1936 – 6 June 2016 ) was a German composer, choirmaster and church music director, who was based primarily at Pforzheim. Schweizer was part of the movement Neues Geistliches Lied, and his compositions, several of which appear in the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG), were heavily influenced by contemporary secular music, especially jazz. Life Schweizer was born in Mundingen (now a suburb of Emmendingen). His first musical instruction was as a member of the local brass band. He studied Protestant church music at the Evangelische Kirchenmusikalischen Institut in Heidelberg, with Wolfgang Fortner, , Wolfgang Dallmann, Heinz Werner Zimmermann and others. From 1956 to 1966 he was choirmaster of St John’s in Mannheim. In 1966 he became district choirmaster of Pforzheim, a position he retained until his retirement. In 1969 he was promoted to Kirchenmusikdirektor (church music director), and in 1975 he became state choirmaster (Landeskantor) for Mittelbaden. The couple has three daughters. One of the daughters, Constanze Schweizer-Elser is currently the church choir director at Selb in north-eastern Bavaria. and the second daughter, Felicitas Schewize

Era
Post-War
Lived
1936–2016
From
Germany
Born in
Emmendingen · died Selb
Known as
composer, Kirchenmusikdirektor, conductor, choir director, editor, music arranger

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.