Helmut Barbe

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

Barbe studied at the Berlin School of Church Music (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 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.
  3. René Frank (2003). Adaption von Gospelgesängen. p. 54. ISBN 978-3-8288-8573-8. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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