Pepping, Ernst (1901–1981)

German composer. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and devoted himself chiefly to the cultivation of Protestant church music, being appointed professor at the Kirchenmusikschule at Spandau in 1947.

Works Church music setting of the 90th Psalm; unaccompanied motets; a Te Deum; Spandauer Chorbuch (20 volumes for the whole ecclesiastical year), including vocal pieces for two–six voices (1934–38).

Other three symphonies (1939–44), piano concerto (1951), two organ concertos, four piano sonatas, chamber music, songs.