Johann von Gardner (Composer)
Born: 22nd December 1898, Sevastopol, Russia
Died: 26th February 1984, Munich, Germany
Nationality: Russian
Johann von Gardner or in Russian Ivan Alekseevich Gardner Иван Алексеевич Гарднер was a Russian-born Slavic musicologist, best known in the English language for his published work on Russian church singing.
Von Gardner was born into a family of Scottish ancestry on the family estate near Sevastopol, Crimea. He graduated Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade, after that he worked for a while as teacher in the Seminary of Cetinje and later on he took monastic vows and was given the name Filipp. In 1931 he was ordained priest serving in the Eastern part of Slovakia, between 1934 and 1938 he was the head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. After his return he served a few years as parish priest in Berlin before he was consecrated bishop for the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile (ROCOR) in June 1942.
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