Paul Manz<\/p>\n
(1919-2009)<\/p>\n
Inducted 2011<\/p>\n
Paul Manz enriched the world of sacred music in a wide variety of ways. Organist, teacher, composer, lecturer, conductor, scholar, and undoubted enthusiast. Manz was Chairman of The Concordia University Music Program in St. Paul from 1957 through 1976. For 37 years (1946-83) he was Director of Christian Education and Music at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. Manz was an inspirational guide for generations of aspiring musicians, and his enthusiastic advocacy of hymnody did much to nurture and develop this most ancient of traditions. Manz, a Bach enthusiast, proved a persuasive interpreter of his own music as an organ recitalist. A splendidly natural technique provided him with a perfect platform to entertain, be it amid the vastness of the The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., or the intimacy of a small country church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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