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Hans-Joachim Trappe

org, *1954 DE, Castrop-Rauxel
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Hans-Joachim Trappe, German organist and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Director of the Med. Univ.-Klinik II Marienhospital at Herne – Ruhr-Universität Bochum Hans-Joachim Trappe was born 17th October 1965 in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany. He spent his childhood and youth in Duderstadt, a city in the southern part of Lower Saxony. After achieving his A-levels at a grammar school for boys and girls in Duderstadt in 1973 he went on to study medicine at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, from 1973 to 1979, where he achieved the title “doctor of medicine” in 1981. After working in the central hospitals “St. Jürgenstrasse” and “Links der Weser” in Bremen and in the Town Hospital of Hildesheim, Dr. Trappe was employed in the department of cardiology at the Hanover Medical School from 1983 to 1996. During the period 1985 to 1986 he was awarded a grant to work with the German Research Group of Bonn, in the department of cardiology at the University Hospital of Maastricht, University of Limburg, The Netherlands. In 1994 Dr. Trappe was appointed as extraordinary professor of medicine at the Hanover Medical School and in 1996 he was appointed professor of cardiology and angiology at the Ruhr-University of Bochum and became head of department of cardiology and angiology at the University Hospital Marienhospital in Herne. Professor Trappe is a member of several national and international societies for cardiology and intensive care medicine. Already in the age of nine years he began taking piano lessons from Mrs. Gertrud Brodmann, Duderstadt. Then from 1966 he took organ lessons for many years, leaded by Josef Jung, organist at St. Cyriakus in Duderstadt. Further organ activities were deeply influenced by the cathedral organists Fritz Soddemann, Hildesheim, and Professor Clemens Ganz, Cologne. Since 1969 Hans-Joachim Trappe has been working as organist at St. Cyriakus, Duderstadt, at the cathedrals in Hildesheim and Münster and at the St. Joseph Abbey in Gerleve in his spare time. He has played in several national and international organ concerts, i.e. at the Cologne Cathedral, at the Salzburg Cathedral, at the Basilika “Onze lieve vrouwe” in Maastricht, at the St. Hedwigs’ Cathedral in Berlin, at the “Ulmer Münster” and at the Pauls Church in Frankfurt. He has played on television church services for the ARD and ZDF, and has given organ contributions for WDR and NDR television stations. Multiple CD records have been made, i.e. on the Klais-organ at the Cathedral of Hildesheim, on the great Silbermann-organ at the Cathedral of Freiberg, on the Arp-Schnitger organ at St. Jacobi Hamburg or on the Riepp-organs at the Basilika Ottobeuren. Professor Trappe is a member of several national and international organ societies. Source: http://www.hans-joachim-trappe.de/

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