Michael Schneider died on November 26, 1994, in Cologne, Germany. Born in Weimar on March 4, 1909, he studied church music at the Weimar Musikhochschule and the Leipzig Institute of Church Music, musicology at the universities of Jena and Munich, and received a doctorate in 1940 at Cologne University He served as organist at the "Herder" Church in Weimar and lecturer at the Musikhochschule 1931-34. Later he was principal organist and cantor at St. Matthew's Church and conducted the university chorus in Munich. After World War II, he studied with Marcel Dupré, and was appointed professor of organ at the Nordwestdeutsche Musik-Akademie in Detmold, Lippe. In 1958 he was appointed professor of organ at the Berlin Musikhochschule, and from 1958-65 was organist of the Kirche zum Heilsbronnen, Berlin. In 1965 he returned to the Cologne Musikhochschule, where he taught until retirement. In 1955 Schneider was a visiting professor at Yale University, and thereafter made several tours in the U.S
