studied Organ music with Franz Lehrndorfer and sacred and school music at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Munich. In 1971 he received the award of the ARD International Music Competition in the subject Organ music. He had been musical director at the Basilica of St Lawrence in Kempten, Germany, for three years, before he was made lecturer for Organ and Sacred Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Munich in 1974. Three years later he received the professorship for Organ music there. Since 1983 he has been professor for Organ music at the Academy of Music Detmold. He is also in charge of the Academy’s department for sacred music, and he has been director of the vocal soloist ensemble of the Academy’s baroque academy, which was founded by himself. Additionally, he is member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and member of the board of the Neue Bachgesellschaft, Leipzig.He has directed numerous national and international concerts; he repeatedly put on periodic performances of Bach’s complete organ œuvre; he produced various CD-recordings (among others the complete Organ œuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach played on historical instruments of the Bach age); he has gained awards for his recordings; he has been active as a juror on musical competitions; he published a considerable number of editions of organ and sacred music (among other things the complete organ œuvres of Johann Ludwig Krebs and Robert Schumann); and he published a monograph: “Zur Interpretation der Orgelmusik J. S. Bachs” (On the interpretation of J. S. Bach’s organ music).
