He was natural around Nuremberg and is known mostly for his church choral music. He attended Leipzig Conservatory 1st when a conducting student sustaining piano as his secondary subject, however changing late, on the advice of his teacher, to composition & organ. He became organist at St. Jacobi within Lübeck in 1931. He as well taught at a School for Church Music within Spandau, and became the prof of religious music around Stuttgart in 1940.

Becoming progressively depressed from either a demise of friends, aerial attacks, job pressures, & a constant threat of selective service into a German army, he committed suicide inside Berlin at the age of 34.

His function is polyphonic & typically melismatic, often according to a pentatonic shell. Because one characteristics, his function wwhen stigmatized per Nazis as "degenerate art."