Magdalene Schauß-Flake

Magdalene Schauss-Flake (25 July 1921 – 24 September 2008) was a German composer and organist who gave recitals throughout the United States and Europe.

Biography Schauss-Flake was born in Essen, where she studied church music at the Folkwang School while working as a jazz musician in bars. Her teachers included Hans Chemin-Petit, Siegfried Reda, and Ludwig Weber. She married a minister named Schauss and they had three children. Schauss-Flake taught at a music academy in Szczecin, Poland, and worked as a church musician in Germany in Anklam, Essen-Altendorf, and Essen-Kupferdreh. She gave organ recitals throughout the United States and Europe. She is buried in Burgsponheim, Germany. Suite in G (brass and woodwinds) Variationen ueber das Lied ‘es ist ein Schnitter (trombone and narrator) “Jauchzet, ihr Himmel” “Nun lasst uns Gott, dem Herren” Ohren gabst du mir (choir; text by Paul Ernst Ruppel)