Magdalene Schauss-Flake


Magdalene Schauss-Flake was a German composer and organist who gave recitals throughout the United States and Europe.

Biography

Schauss-Flake was born in Essen, where she studied church music at the Folkwang School while working as a jazz musician in bars. Her teachers included Hans Chemin-Petit, Siegfried Reda, and Ludwig Weber. She married a minister named Schauss and they had three children. Schauss-Flake taught at a music academy in Szczecin, Poland, and worked as a church musician in Germany in Anklam, Essen-Altendorf, and Essen-Kupferdreh. She gave organ recitals throughout the United States and Europe. She is buried in Burgsponheim, Germany.
Schauss-Flake’s works have been recorded commercially on LPs by Capella 3 ; Carus-Verlag; Lauda; and MDG. Her compositions are published by Carus-Verlag, Presto Music, Strube Musikverlag, and Tezak Verlag. Her works include:

Chamber

  • Serenade
  • Suite in G
  • Variationen ueber das Lied ‘es ist ein Schnitter
  • ''Variationen ueber ein Thema von Anton Dvorak''

    Vocal

  • “Befiehl dem Herrn deine Wege”
  • Der Morgensternn ist aufgedrungen
  • “Du meine Seele singe”
  • “Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt”
  • “Jauchzet, ihr Himmel”
  • “Nun lasst uns Gott, dem Herren”
  • ''Ohren gabst du mir''