Authors
Wolfgang Möller has been acting as an organist in various Protestant and Catholic churches since he was 11 years old. After his C-examination in 1983 as a church musician and his university entrance diploma at the Modellschule Obersberg in Bad Hersfeld in 1987, he studied piano at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and graduated in 1995 with two diplomas (music teacher and pianist). He currently teaches piano, music theory and study preparation at the Kreismusikschule Bad Hersfeld-Rotenburg.
Wolfgang Möller has been conducting a choir since the age of 18 and is also a freelance pianist. Inter alia he has performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s entire Well-tempered Clavier and most of the sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms in public; with orchestra he played several piano concertos. In addition, he is very active as a chamber musician.
Wolfgang Möller is the author of the functional harmonic analysis of the chorales BWV 346 to BWV 438.
Leonhard Völlm studied Lutheran church music in Tübingen (A-examination in 2013). During his studies he was a church musician in Kornwestheim and worked as a pianist and arranger at the Alte Theater Heilbronn.
After his introductory phase at the Tübingen Collegiate Church as assistant to civic director of church music Prof. Ingo Bredenbach, Völlm worked as a church musician in Rottenburg/Neckar before being appointed cantor and organist at the Martinskirche in Stuttgart-Möhringen in 2014. Since 2016 Leonhard Völlm has also been an organ expert at the Evangelical State Church in Württemberg.
In 2016 his composition Wandel der Zeit for choir, solos, percussion and organ was premiered in Stuttgart. In the same year Völlm was a guest conductor of the school choir (Kurrende) of the Evangelische Studierendengemeinde (ESG) in Tübingen. In 2017, the Morello Consort Stuttgart was founded, primarily dedicated to the music of the 17th and 18th centuries.
On selected occasions Leonhard Völlm can be heard in Germany and Switzerland with chanson programmes by the Viennese author and composer Georg Kreisler.
In addition to extensive choir work, from children’s choirs to oratorio performances, Völlm’s main focus is currently on the complete performance of the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in concert and church service as well as on the arrangement of symphonic works for organ.
Leonhard Völlm has subjected the chorales BWV 253 to BWV 345 to a functional harmonic analysis.