Hölting, Max 12/05/1874 - 06/28/1950

Max Hölting (* December 5, 1874 in Görlitz; + June 28, 1950 in Berlin) was a New Apostolic church musician.

Hölting studied organ, piano and violin in Berlin as well as composition and counterpoint. He then worked as a piano tuner. From 1904 beginning in his early thirties, he slowly and irreversibly went blind. This may have led to the very special impressions that can be found in his works.

Despite his visual impairment, he was active as a musician, conductor and composer. In the years 1916 to 1928 he conducted the choir of the ''Moon'schen Blindenverein'' (association for the blind). Max Hölting gave lectures for the blind in the 1920s which could be heard in the popular radio program ''Funkstunde''.

Hölting maintained his own publishing firm in ''Berlin SO 36'' from 1927 to 1938 and arranged for the engraving and printing of music at the company ''Rokodruck SW 68'' in Berlin.

Beginning in the 1930s he was the conductor of the then newly founded "Berlin School Choir", which aimed to unify the choral singing of the New Apostolic Church in the then district of District Apostle Martin Lax. More than sixty musical works can be traced back to his involvement, eight of them for male choir and four for female choir. Hölting died on June 28, 1950 in Berlin.

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