Zimmerman, Heinz Werner

(11 August 1930, Freiburg, Germany)

   From the late 1950s, he took an interest in the movement to renew Protestant church music in Germany; from 1963–1976, he was director of the Berliner Kirchenmusikschule in Spandau. Zimmerman has composed motets and chorale fantasias for unaccompanied chorus and a larger number of sacred works for chorus with instruments. His style combines sacred idioms from chorales and spirituals with secular elements, e.g., Missa Profana (1977), a Latin mass for five soloists, chorus, electronic sounds, sirens, Dixieland band, and orchestra.