Winfried Heurich

Winfried Heurich
Born (1940-02-13) 13 February 1940
Neuhof, Hesse
Occupation
  • Organist
  • Composer
Organization Liebfrauen, Frankfurt

Winfried Heurich (born 13 February 1940) is a German organist and composer.

Career

Born in Neuhof, Hesse, Heurich was from 1962 to 2000 the church musician of Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main. In 1973 he composed songs titled Ganz nah ist dein Wort, with new texts by Huub Oosterhuis and Lothar Zenetti. From 1978, he composed many songs on lyrics by Eugen Eckert.

From 1974 to 2000 he led the Arbeitskreis Kirchenmusik und Jugendseelsorge im Bistum Limburg. He lectured at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt from 1986.

His song "Der Herr wird dich mit seiner Güte segnen" was the most successful entry to an international competition of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied in 1983 in Rome. He also comosed the official song of the Katholikentag 1998 in Mainz, "Schnee schmilzt" (Snow melts) on a text by Eckert).

Compositions

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