Hatto Ständer (14 January 1929 – 10 August 2000) was a German church musician, academic, concert organist and composer.
He was a professor of organ and choral conducting at the Dortmund University for three decades, and director of its department Catholic church music.
At age 13, he became a pupil of the Musisches Gymnasium, a school specialising in music and arts, in Frankfurt, where he was inspired by Kurt Thomas who taught counterpoint, composition and conducting.
He was accepted to the piano master class of Carl Seemann at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, and won a prize at the Deutscher Hochschulklavierwettbewerb.
[1] The publisher Verlag Dohr has printed Ständer's complete works, which includes besides his well-known sacred compositions also early piano and chamber works written in student years when he still considered a career as a composer.