Ernst Pepping's lyrics & chords

German composer.(b Duisburg, 12 Sept 1901; d Berlin, 1 Feb 1981). On leaving school he went, in 1922, to study at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, where his composition teacher was Gmeindl. His early music was immediately well received: he was awarded the Mendelssohn Prize in 1926, and works of his were performed at the 1927 Donaueschingen Festival and the 1928 Baden-Baden Festival. After a temporary job as an arranger of film scores, he worked as a freelance musician in Mülheim from 1930, and in 1934 he moved to a post at the Kirchenmusiksc...read more