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Helmut Barbe

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Helmut Barbe (28 December 1927 in Halle - 18 April 2021) was a German composer.[1]

Barbe studied at the Berlin School of Church Music [de] (Berliner Kirchenmusikschule) where he was taught by Gottfried Grote and Ernst Pepping. Between 1952 and 1975 he was the Cantor at the church St. Nikolai [de] in Berlin's Spandau quarter. After this he took a post as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts in what was at that time West Berlin.

In 1956 Barbe premiered his musical "Hallelujah Billy"[2] at the German Evangelical Church Assembly in Frankfurt am Main. This led commentators to identify him as a pioneer of contemporary worship music, in German Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL, literally: new spiritual song).[3]

References

  1. ^ "Helmut Barbe". Tagesspiegel Trauer. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  2. ^ Prof. Ernst Lange. "Halleluja, Billy Ein christliches Musical in 5 Akten von Ernst Lange, mit Songs von Helmut Barbe. Textliche Bearbeitung: Klaus Stolzmann" (PDF). Theater am Lindenhofe e.V., Hannover. Retrieved 3 June 2015.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ René Frank (2003). Adaption von Gospelgesängen. Tectum Verlag, Marburg. p. 54. ISBN 978-3-8288-8573-8. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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