Martin Behrmann

Martin Behrmann (16 July 1930 – 5 January 2014) was a German choirmaster and university teacher. 

Life 
Born in Dessau, Behrmann was a grammar school pupil at the Katharineum in Lübeck and passed the Abitur at the Johanneum in Hamburg.  He studied church music at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and pipe organ with Walter Kraft.  He passed the A-examination at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. 

From 1957 to 1966 he was cantor at the St. Andreas Church in Hamburg.  He founded the Cappella Vocale Hamburg and was choir conducting teacher at the Hamburg University of Music until 1966.  In 1966 he followed the call to teach choir conducting at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule (KMS), whose director he was from 1976 to 1998.  He directed the Spandauer Kantorei for 29 years.  For his achievements he was appointed  Kirchenmusikdirektor.  

Behrmann was also involved with foreign church music associations such as the Sambalikhaan Foundation in the Philippines.  There, together with other renowned church music teachers, he participated in corresponding workshops. 

Behrmann died in Löningen in Oldenburger Münsterland at age 83. 

Publications 
 Chorleitung.  Musikverlag Carus, Stuttgart, 1984,  SCM Hänssler, 
 Festschrift Ernst Pepping: Allgemeine Kategorien der Interpretation. 

Recordings 
 Robert Schumann: German and Latin Masses.  Vox. 
 Franz Schubert: Messen Nr.  2, 3, 5, 6 (von Spandauer Kantorei und Bach-Collegium Berlin, Martin Behrmann), Membran International (SPV), Audio-CD 2003. 
 Passionsbericht des Matthäus (von Spandauer Kantorei und Capella Vocale Hamburg, Behrmann, und Ernst Pepping (composer)), Cad (Note 1), Audio-CD 2003. 
 Dramatische Evangelienmotetten (von Spandauer Kantorei Berlin, Cap. Vocale Hamburg, Behrmann, Franck (composer)), Hänssler, Audio-CD 1997. 
 25 Classical Christian Favorites.  Cameo. 
 Johann Hermann Schein: Israelsbrünnlein, Vox. 

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References 

Category:German choral conductors
Category:20th-century German non-fiction writers
Category:1930 births
Category:2014 deaths
Category:People from Dessau-Roßlau