Gottfried Kluttig
German Kantor and Kirchenmusikdirektor
About Gottfried Kluttig
Lived 1913 – 2004 (aged 90). Gottfried Kluttig was a German kirchenmusikdirektor and music educator.
Gottfried Kluttig (1 September 1913 – 14 March 2004) was a German Kantor and Kirchenmusikdirektor.
Life Kluttig was born in near Frauenstein, in the then Kingdom of Saxony. After elementary school
After graduating in 1937, he entered the full-time kirchenmusikalische Ministry. He began his career at the in Dresden-Pieschen as successor to the church musician Alfred Zimmer. In the 1950s, he initiated the renovation of the Eule organ damaged by the air bombing of Dresden. In the parish he abolished the separation of boys' and girls' choirs and established a mixed Children's Choir, the Kurrende Radeberg. At the same time he became Kirchenmusikdirektor (KMD) in the .
He took the regional church music director Alfred Stier as a model in his music pedagogical work and published a two-volume singing school in 1970. In addition, he was involved in Catholic catechesis training at the Amalie-Sieveking-Haus in Radebeul and as a lecturer for choir and children's choir direction at the Dresden Regional Church Music School. His son Christian Kluttig (born 1943) became a conductor.
Kluttig died in Dresden 2 volumes: Einführung und Arbeitshilfen für den Kantor and Fibel für den Chorschüler. Kirchenchorwerk der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Sachsens, Dresden 1970.
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Who was Gottfried Kluttig?
German Kantor and Kirchenmusikdirektor
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Gottfried Kluttig was born on 1 September 1913 in Friedersdorf.
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Gottfried Kluttig died on 14 March 2004 in Dresden.
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Gottfried Kluttig was a kirchenmusikdirektor and music educator.
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Gottfried Kluttig was German.
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