What follows in my third post are excerpted score examples of Schroeder’s style as demonstrated on the organ. This discussion is necessarily musical and somewhat technical. The enjoyment of the previously posted music is not contingent on reading these notes, but for the curious musician they might be of interest. While his early compositional development is strongly influenced by composers of the late Romantic period, such as Max Reger (1873 - 1916), Schroeder’s style is gre

Biography: Early Caree Schroeder grew up in a Catholic household with musical parents. When he was eleven he began receiving piano and organ lessons. For what we might today consider his undergraduate studies, Schroeder studied theology at the seminary of the Jesuits Canisianum in Innsbruck from 1923 to 1926, earning a degree in philosophy and musicology. From 1926 to 1930 he studied sacred music at the Cologne Musikhochschule. During this time, he was heavily influenced by h

Over the past year, I have become appreciably interested in the music of a lesser known German composer, Hermann Schroeder (1904 - 1984). While renowned in Germany, Schroeder is relatively unknown amongst composers in the United States. His most widely regarded pieces are Kleine Praeludien und Intermezzi Op. 9 (1932) (Six Short Preludes and Intermezzos) and the chorale prelude Schoenster Herr Jesu (1933) (Fairest Lord Jesus), both rather early works in his oeuvre. Considering