Hans Uwe Hielscher is a German organist

Organist

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 and composer

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Hielscher studied church music

Christian music

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 at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold

Hochschule für Musik Detmold

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 (A

Church musician (Germany)

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), and carillon

Carillon

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 in Utrecht

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. From 1969 - 1973 he was church musician in Juist

Juist

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 and from 1973 - 1979 in Bielefeld

Bielefeld

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. He has been the organist and carilloneur at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden

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 since 1979. He created a series of weekly free recitals called Orgelmusik zur Marktzeit (organ music at market time) on Saturdays at 11:30 a.m., in which he and guest organists perform seasonal music, more than 1500 events in 2010. He has appeared in a regular concert on New Year's Eve together with his colleague at St. Bonifatius

St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

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, Gabriel Dessauer

Gabriel Dessauer

Gabriel Dessauer is a German cantor, concert organist and academic. He has been responsible for the church music at St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, since 1981. He is an internationally known organ recitalist and an organ teacher on the faculty of the Gutenberg University of Mainz...

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In 1985 he worked at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 in exchange with Samuel Swartz, and he has been teaching at the University of Redlands

University of Redlands

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 in California since 1986.

Hielscher is active as a concert organist and has played more than 2500 organ concerts worldwide.

Publications

• Alexandre Guilmant: Leben und Werk
• Berühmte Orgeln der USA
• Die Oberlinger-Orgel in der Marktkirche Wiesbaden
• Französische Orgelkunst der Spätromantik

Compositions

• California wine suite
• Variations sur „Frère Jacques“
• American folksongs
• Mosaik
• Weihnachtskantate

External links

• Hans Uwe Hielscher website
• Entries for Hans Uwe Hielscher on WorldCat
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