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Stefan Viegelahn, born in 1979, received his first piano and organ lessons in his hometown of Schlüchtern. He studied organ, piano, Protestant church music, school music and history in Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart and Hamburg.


His formative teachers were Martin Lücker, Bernhard Haas, Ludger Lohmann and Wolfgang Zerer (organ) as well as Hans Martin Corrinth and Jan Ernst (improvisation). He completed his studies in 2007 with several awards.

He has received several sponsorship prizes and is a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. He was awarded first prize in the competition for organ improvisation in Heidelberg in 2003.

After working as a church musician in Stuttgart, Hamburg and Ahrensburg, he taught artistic organ playing and improvisation at the Church Music Institute of the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig from 2007 to 2009.

From 2008 to 2017 he was district cantor in Landau in der Pfalz. In this position he led the musical ensembles at the collegiate church and was organist on the Rieger organ. From 2012 to 2017 he taught artistic organ playing at the University of Church Music in Heidelberg.

In 2016 he was appointed professor of church music with a focus on organ improvisation at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. There he is the director of training for the church music course.


Works by J.S. Bach, S. Karg-Elert, L. Vierne and M. Duruflé


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September 2024
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