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Jacques Berthier
1923 - 1994 Hymnal Number: I2 Author of "Freuet euch im Herrn" in Kantoj el Taizé Jacques Berthier (b. Auxerre, Burgundy, June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) A son of musical parents, Berthier studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, Berthier is best known as the composer of service music for the Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. Influenced by the French liturgist and church musician Joseph Gelineau, Berthier began writing songs for equal voices in 1955 for the services of the then nascent community of twenty brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew, Berthier continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. In the past two decades this repertoire has become widely used in North American church music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions.
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Jacques Berthier
Bernhard Eichkorn
b. 1934 Editor of "" in Kantoj el Taizé F. Bernhard Eichkorn is a Roman Catholic priest who served several parishes in southern Germany from his ordination in 1960 to his retirement in 2003. Having learned Esperanto in 1975, he became an active leader of the ecumenical Esperanto movement, collaborating with Protestant pastor Adolf Burkhardt, beginning in 1985, in the revived ecumenical commission of KELI and IKUE, a commission in which he remains active.
In 2002, together with Adolf Burkhardt and Albrecht Kronenberger, he received the FAME Prize (Aalener Esperanto-Kulturpreis of the FAME Foundation). On Dec. 7, 2007, German President Horst Köhler awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande). The award was formally presented on May 20, 2008.
Among the publications in which he has actively participated, often as an editor, are Eta Sabat-Dimanĉa Breviero (Meßkirch 1985), the magazine Ökumenisches Esperanto-Forum (1991-2003), a three-volume edition of Tero kaj Ĉielo Kantu (1995-98), Ulrich Matthias's 1999 book Esperanto - das neue Latein der Kirche, Liturgio de la Preĝ-Horoj: Legaĵoj (second annual cycle, Advent, Villingen 2001), Adoru: Ekumena Diserva Libro (2001), "Esperanto en la servo de la ekumena movado", in Esperante kaj ekumene, p. 41-67 (2004), the 2006 edition of the Esperanto Bible (incorporating the Deuterocanonical Books), and La kompletorioj de la semajno (Villingen-Schwenningen 2008). Beginning in 2007 he has been compiling an Esperanto lexicon of Christian terminology, based initially on a translation of Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche.
[The main source of the foregoing is the articles in the German and Esperanto Wikipedias]
Bernhard Eichkorn
Albrecht Kronenberger
b. 1940 Hymnal Number: I1 Author of "Jubilate Deo (rondkanto 1)" in Kantoj el Taizé Albrecht Kronenberger, born January 21, 1940, in Würzburg, Germany, was one of the three editors of ADORU - Ekumena Diserva Libro. As a youth, lived in Pirmasens and Germersheim; studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Eichstätt (Bavaria), Frankfurt (Hesse), and Speyer, where he was ordained a priest in 1966. After serving as vicar in Frankenthal and Bellheim, he worked from 1969 to 2002 as a Gymnasium (secondary school) teacher of religion in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, where he has remained in his retirement.
Not long after learning Esperanto in the late 1980s, he began to be active in teaching Esperanto in his school and in celebrating Esperanto-language masses in connection with Esperanto conventions and in the cathedral of Speyer (every other month since 1991). In 1991 he also cofounded the Working Union of IKUE in the Speyer diocese, which was officially acknowledged and approved by the bishop.
Albrecht Kronenberger edited the 1,472-page ADORU together with Adolf Burkhardt and Bernhard Eichkorn. He typeset all its texts and music on his computer, as well as writing many texts and some melodies himself. The three editors were awarded the FAME Prize (a cultural prize of the city of Aalen and of the FAME Foundation) in 2002.
In the first few years of the third millennium, Kronenberger edited the new edition of the Esperanto Bible, which appeared in 2006. Beginning in 2007, he put all of the hymns of the Latin Breviary, many of them his own translations, into Vikifonto (the Esperanto version of WikiSource). He initiated and arranged "Kantoj post ADORU", a hymnal supplement published as a special issue (No. 1-3/2009) of Espero Katolika. Since 2009, in collaboration with Marius Gibbels, he has been working on a project (Projekt Deutsch-Esperanto) that aims to produce a truly complete online German-Esperanto dictionary.
The German-language church songbook "Gotteslob" contains one of Albrecht Kronenberger's compositions, a Gloria (#455).
(main source: Esperanto Wikipedia)
Albrecht Kronenberger
Adolf Burkhardt
1929 - 2004 Hymnal Number: I2 Translator of "Freuet euch im Herrn" in Kantoj el Taizé Evangelical German pastor, writer, translator (largely of religious songs), ecumenical activist, and one of the most influential and prolific hymnal compilers in Esperanto. He was a member of the editorial committee responsible for the 1971 Protestant hymnal Adoru Kantante, the sole compiler of the ten-installment Tero kaj Ĉielo Kantu (later republished in three volumes), and one of the three members of "Kloster Kirchberg", the editorial board that produced the 2001 ecumenical Esperanto hymnal Adoru - Ekumena Diserva Libro.
Burkhardt was honored in a 368-page Festschrift, Esperante kaj Ekumene, Fest-libro por la 75a naskiĝ-tago de Adolf Burkhardt. With the other members of Kloster Kirchberg, he shared in the 2002 FAME-foundation's Aalener Esperanto-Kulturpreis.
Articles in the Esperanto and German Wikipedias.
Adolf Burkhardt
