HOFMANN, HEINZ (, Zwickau, Germany–, Helsinki), conductor and molder of the Cantores Minores Boys' Choir (see CANTORES MINORES) of the Helsinki Cathedral for twenty-five years.
Hofmann started out as a boy soprano in Zwickau, Germany, and as a student of theory and organ. From 1946 he was cantor at Markus Church in Zwickau and completed his church music studies at the Karl Maria von Weber Music School in Dresden in 1952. At the Markus Church he...