Wolfgang Lüderitz (composer)

Wolfgang Lüderitz (10 August 1926 – 7 September 2012) was a German composer of choral music.

Lüderitz was born in the village of Dudweiler in the territory of the Saar Basin, however he grew up in Wickrathberg near Mönchengladbach in Germany.

[2] From 1956 until his death in 2012 he lived in the neighborhood of Porz in Cologne, where he was active as a choirmaster and church musician.

[1][3] The first compositions by Wolfgang Lüderitz were published in 1954, but his works became more popular in Germany in the 1960s.

[1] In the mid-1980s, he had already published about 170 original compositions and derivative works of both secular and religious music, ranging from simple stanzaic songs to symphonic cantatas.