Johannes Driessler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johannes Driessler

German composer

Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1921

Place of Birth: Friedrichsthal, Saarland, Germany

Date of Death: 03-May-1998

Profession: composer, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Johannes Driessler

  • Johannes Driessler (26 January 1921 in Friedrichsthal, Saarland – 3 May 1998 in Detmold) was a German composer, organist, and lecturer. Driessler studied composition and organ in Cologne at the Musikhochschule from 1939 to 1940.
  • In November 1940, Driessler enlisted in the military; in 1944 he married Gertrude Ledermann.
  • After World War II, he became a teacher in 1945 in Schondorf am Ammersee.
  • In 1946, he became a lecturer at the Northwest German Academy of Music in Detmold.
  • Here he began writing much church music.
  • He left the academy in 1953 to focus on composition, but returned in 1954, becoming a professor in 1958 and Vice Chancellor in 1959, a post he would retain until 1972. He was awarded the Westphalian Music Prize in 1959; and in 1962 the Kunstpreis des Saarlandes.

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