Ernst Pepping was a German

Germany

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 of classical music

Classical music

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Professional career

Pepping studied composition at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik with Walter Gmeindl between 1922 and 1926. In 1934 he was appointed a teacher for music theory

Music theory

Music theory is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods...

 and composition at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule in Spandau

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, where he remained for much of his life. Among his many students was Helmut Barbe. Pepping taught also at the Berliner Hochschule from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1947 to 1968 as a professor of church music

Church music

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 and composition.

Pepping received honours for his compositions, an honorary doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1961 and the Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin in 1971.

Compositions

• Three symphonies (recorded on cpo) 1932, 1942 (F minor), 1944 (Die Tageszeiten).
• A piano concerto (1950)
• Variations for orchestra (pub. 1949)
• Zwei Orchestertücke über ein Chanson des Binchois (1958)
• Masses
  Mass (music)
  The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy to music...
  
  , Motet
  Motet
  In classical music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions.-Etymology:The name comes either from the Latin movere, or a Latinized version of Old French mot, "word" or "verbal utterance." The Medieval Latin for "motet" is motectum, and the Italian...
  
  s and other works for liturgical use including
  • Deutsche Choralmesse (1931)
  • Deutsche Messe (1938)
  • Missa Dona nobis pacem (1948)
  • A setting of the Te Deum
    Te Deum
    The Te Deum is an early Christian hymn of praise. The title is taken from its opening Latin words, Te Deum laudamus, rendered literally as "Thee, O God, we praise"....
    
     (1956)
  • A setting of the 23rd Psalm (published 1962)
• Organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
   works (a CD of which was released by cpo in 1992, including his second concerto for organ, the Chorale Partita, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
  Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
  Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern , BWV 1, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the feast of the Annunciation and first performed it on 25 March 1725....
  
  , four fugues, and the partita Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig)
  • Organ sonata (pub. 1958), other works
  • Three Fugues on BACH (pub. 1949)
  • Grosses Orgelbuch I: Advent & Christmas (pub. 1941)
  • Grosses Orgelbuch II: Passion (pub. 1941)
  • Grosses Orgelbuch III: Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Michaelmas (pub. 1941)
  • Kleines Orgelbuch (pub. 1941)
• Piano works
  • Sonatine (1931)
  • Sonata for piano (pub. 1937)