Siegfried Reda (27 July 1916 – 13 December 1968) was a German composer and pipe organ player.
[1] Born in Bochum, Reda studied with Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler[2] at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule and was an organist in Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and Berlin.
In 1946 he became director of the Institute for Protestant Church Music at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, and also served as a professor of organ and composition.
In 1953 he became church music director at the St.-Petri-Kirche in Mülheim an der Ruhr.
[5] Reda is regarded as one of the most active forces in the renewal of Protestant church music after the Second World War.