Das Te Deum Deutsch Herr Gott, Dich loben wir
Das Te Deum Deutsch 'Herr Gott, Dich loben wir' for 12-part mixed Chorus a cappella (SSMezMezAATTBarBarBB).The Te Deum in the translation of Martin Luther 1529. Heinz WernerZimmermann (born 11 August 1930 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German composer. Zimmermann had his first composition instruction from 1946 to 1948 with Julius Weismann and studied from 1950 to 1954 in Heidelberg withWolfgang Fortner as well as at the Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg (Institute for Church Music) there. After passing his examinations at the Freiburg Conservatory under Harald Genzmer, he became Fortner’ssuccessorin Heidelberg. Here he maintained close contacts with the musicologist Thrasyboulos Georgiades, whose rhythm and language studies influenced him the most, along with his occupation with American spirituals and jazz. From1963 to 1976 Heinz Werner Zimmermann was director of the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule (Spandau school of church-music) in Spandau, and then from 1975 to 1996 as successor to Kurt Hessenberg as composition teacher at theFrankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (Brusniak 2001). Zimmermann’s best-known works are his sacred motets with plucked Double Bass, his Organ psalms, and his 'Prosalieder'. Among his chief worksare his Missa profana, the sacred oratorio The Bible of Spirituals as well as his Symphonia sacra. Amongst other honors, Zimmermann has been awarded the Music Prizes of the cities of Stuttgart and Berlin, a VillaMassimo Stipend in 1965/66, and received in 1982 the Johann Sebastian Bach Prize. The American Wittenberg University in Springfield bestowed upon him an honorary doctorate, Zimmermann wrote three American theses, including one atthe Stanford University in California. (Source: Wikipedia)
