Herbert Eimert (8 April 1897 – 15 December 1972) was a German music theorist, musicologist, journalist, music critic, editor, radio producer, and composer.Contents1 Education 2 Career 3 Compositions (selective list) 4 Principal writings 5 ReferencesEducation[edit] Herbert Eimert was born in Bad Kreuznach. He studied music theory and composition from 1919–1924 at the Cologne Musikhochschule with Hermann Abendroth, Franz Bölsche (de), and August von Othegraven
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Music
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. The Oxford Companion to Music
Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory":The first is what is otherwise called 'rudiments', currently taught as the elements of notation, of key signatures, of time signatures, of rhythmic notation, and so on. [...] The second is the study of writings about music from ancient times onwards. [...] The third is an area of current musicological study that seeks to define processes and general principles in music — a sphere of research that can be distinguished from analysis in that it takes as its starting-point not the individual work or performance but the fundamental materials from which it is built.[1] Music
Music theory is frequently concerned with describing how musicians and composers make music, including tuning systems and composition methods among other topics
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Gottfried Michael Koenig
Gottfried Michael Koenig (born 5 October 1926 in Magdeburg) is a contemporary German-Dutch composer.Contents1 Biography 2 References 3 Further reading 4 External linksBiography[edit]Koenig at the WDR Studio for Electronic MusicKoenig studied church music in Braunschweig
Braunschweig at the Niedersächsische Musikschule Braunschweig (de), composition, piano, analysis and acoustics at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, music representation techniques at the Hochschule für Musik Köln
Hochschule für Musik Köln and computer technique at the University of Bonn. He attended and later lectured at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse
Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Darmstadt music summer schools)
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Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrari (February 5, 1929 – August 22, 2005) was a French composer of Italian heritage and pioneer in musique concrète and electroacoustic music.Contents1 Biography 2 Discography 3 CD and DVD releases 4 Recent book releases 5 Bibliography 6 External linksBiography[edit] Ferrari was born in Paris, and was trained in music at a very young age. He studied the piano under Alfred Cortot, musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen, and composition under Arthur Honegger. His first works were freely atonal. A case of tuberculosis in his youth interrupted his career as a pianist. From then on he mostly concentrated on musical composition. During this illness he had the opportunity to become acquainted with the radio receiver, with pioneers such as Schönberg, Berg, and Webern. In 1954, Ferrari went to the United States to meet Edgard Varèse, whose Déserts he had heard on the radio, and had impressed him
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Johannes G. Fritsch (27 July 1941 – 29 April 2010) was a German composer. At the age of seven, Fritsch found a violin in the attic of his uncle's house in Bensheim-Auerbach, Germany, and began lessons with a village music teacher named Knapp. When he was ten, his family moved to Cologne, and he began studying with the principal violist in the Gürzenich Orchestra (Schürmann 1976, 20). He studied music, sociology, and philosophy from 1961 to 1965 at the University and the Staatliche Musikhochschule in Cologne
Cologne with, amongst others, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Gottfried Michael Koenig. In the following years he applied himself to the most varied musical activities
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Rolf Gehlhaar (born 30 December 1943) in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), is an American composer, Professor in Experimental Music at Coventry University
Coventry University and researcher in assistive technology for music. Gehlhaar is the son of a German rocket scientist, who emigrated to the United States in 1953 to work at a rocket-development research centre in New Mexico (Montague 2001; Schürmann 1976, 20). Although he took an interest in music from the age of eight or younger, in the post-war years the family could not afford for him to learn an instrument, and so Rolf only began to play the piano at the age of fifteen, and at about the same time began to compose for fun (Schürmann 1976, 20). He took American citizenship in 1958 and studied at Yale University
Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley (Montague 2001)
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Karel Goeyvaerts (8 June 1923 – 3 February 1993) was a Belgian composer.Contents1 Life 2 Selected works 3 References 4 External linksLife[edit] Goeyvaerts was born in Antwerp, where he studied at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory; he later studied composition in Paris with Darius Milhaud and analysis with Olivier Messiaen. He also studied ondes Martenot with Maurice Martenot, who invented the instrument (Delaere 2001). In 1951, Goeyvaerts attended the famous Darmstadt New Music Summer School where he met Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen who was five years younger. Both were devout Catholics and found ways of integrating religious numerology into their serial compositions. They found themselves deep in conversation, and performed a movement from Goeyvaerts's "Nummer 1", Sonata for Two Pianos, in the composition course by Theodor Adorno there
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Hermann Heiss (29 December 1897 – 6 December 1966) was a German composer, pianist, and educator. Life[edit] Heiss was born in Darmstadt
Darmstadt and studied composition first in Frankfurt with Sekles in 1921, and then in Vienna with Josef Matthias Hauer
Josef Matthias Hauer from 1924 to 1926. After leaving Hauer's tutelage he returned to his native city to study the piano and compose. In 1928 he relocated to the island of Spiekeroog
Spiekeroog in the North Sea, where he taught music at the Herman-Lietz School until 1933. He then moved to Berlin where he unsuccessfully sought performances of his works. During the war he composed music for the Luftwaffe and for other military groups (Dubinsky 2001). He was also self-taught. Hauer dedicated his book Twelve-Tone Technique (1925) to Heiss, who later claimed to have collaborated with Hauer on its contents (Dubinsky 2001)
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York Höller (German pronunciation: [ˌjɔʁk ˈhœlɐ]; born 11 January 1944 in Leverkusen) is a German composer and Professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.Contents1 Biography 2 Honors 3 Works3.1 Compositions 3.2 Writings (selective list)4 Sources 5 Further reading 6 External linksBiography[edit] Between 1963 and 1970 Höller studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule: composition with Joachim Blume and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, piano with Else Schmitz-Gohr and Alfons Kontarsky, and orchestral conducting with Wolfgang von der Nahmer. In parallel to this he studied musicology and philosophy at the University of Cologne. He did further musical studies at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt with Pierre Boulez, and in 1967 sat his examination in music education. Höller was active for a short time as a répétiteur at the Staatstheater Bonn
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Maki Ishii (石井 眞木, Ishii Maki, b. May 28, 1936, d. April 8, 2003) was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music, and brother of composer Kan Ishii.Contents1 Biography 2 Selected works 3 Sources 4 Further reading 5 External linksBiography[edit] Born in Tokyo, Ishii studied composition privately (with Akira Ifukube and Tomojiro Ikenouchi) and conducting with Akeo Watanabe
Akeo Watanabe from 1952 to 1958 in Tokyo, then moved to Berlin, where he continued his studies under Boris Blacher
Boris Blacher and Josef Rufer
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David C. Johnson (born January 30, 1940 in Batavia, New York) is an American composer, flautist, and performer of live-electronic music. David Johnson studied, among other places, at Harvard University (M.A. in composition 1964), with Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and at the Cologne
Cologne Courses for New Music in 1964–1965, 1965–1966, and 1966–1967 (Stockhausen 1971, 198–204). In 1966–67 he was an independent collaborator at the Electronic Studio of the WDR, where he assisted Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen with the production of his electronic work Hymnen
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Mauricio Raúl Kagel (Spanish pronunciation: [mauˈɾisjo ˈkaɣel]; December 24, 1931, in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires – September 18, 2008, in Cologne) was a German-Argentine composer notable for developing the theatrical side of musical performance (Grimshaw 2009). He spent his last fifty years in Germany, dying after a long illness at the age of 76 (Nonnenmann 2008).Contents1 Biography1.1 As teacher 1.2 As composer2 Works2.1 For orchestra 2.2 Chamber music 2.3 Vocal works 2.4 Stage works 2.5 Film3 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksBiography[edit] Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family that had fled from Russia in the 1920s (Anon. n.d.). He studied music, history of literature, and philosophy in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires (Grimshaw 2009)
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Petr Kotik (surname originally Kotík) (born January 27, 1942, in Prague) is a composer, conductor and flutist living in New York City. He was educated in Europe (Prague Conservatory, graduated 1961; Vienna Music Academy, graduated 1966; AMU Prague, graduated 1969). From 1960 to 1963, Kotik studied composition privately with Jan Rychlík in Prague, and from 1963 to 1966 at the Music Academy in Vienna with Karl Schieske, Hans Jelinek, and Friedrich Cerha. In Prague, he founded and directed Musica Viva Pragensis (1961–64) and the QUAX Ensemble (1966–69). He came to the United States in 1969 at the invitation of Lukas Foss and Lejaren Hiller to join the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the University at Buffalo. Since 1983, Kotik has been living in New York City. Kotik is the founder and Artistic Director[1][2] of the S.E.M
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Musicology
Musicology (from Greek μουσική (mousikē), meaning 'music', and -λογία (-logia), meaning 'study of') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology
Musicology is part of the humanities. A scholar who participates in musical research is a musicologist.[1][2][3] Traditionally, historical musicology (commonly termed "music history") has been the most prominent sub-discipline of musicology. In the 2010s, historical musicology is one of several large musicology sub-disciplines. Historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and systematic musicology are approximately equal in size.[4] Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is the study of music in its cultural context. Systematic musicology includes music acoustics, the science and technology of acoustical musical instruments, and the musical implications of physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy and computing
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Włodzimierz Kotoński (23 August 1925 – 4 September 2014) was a Polish composer.Contents1 Biography 2 Compositions 3 Writings 4 References 5 External linksBiography[edit] Born in Warsaw, Kotoński studied there with Piotr Rytel and Tadeusz Szeligowski at the PWSM, graduating in 1951. In an initial period of activity he took an interest in folk music from the Podhale region in southern Poland. After attending the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1957–61, he adopted punctual serialism in works like Sześć miniatur ('Six Miniatures') for clarinet and piano of 1957 and Muzyka kameralna ('Chamber Music') for 21 instruments and percussion in the following year. This trend culminated in 1959 in Musique en relief for six orchestral groups (Thomas 2001). His Etiuda na jedno uderzenie w talerz ('Study on One Cymbal Stroke') was the first Polish piece of electronic music, created at Polish Radio's Experimental Studio
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Ernst Krenek
Ernst Krenek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkr̝ɛnɛk], August 23, 1900 – December 22, 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now (1939), a study of Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem (1953), and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music (1974). Krenek wrote two pieces using the pseudonym Thornton Winsloe.Contents1 Life 2 Completions of other composers' unfinished works 3 Musical style 4 Works 5 Decorations and awards 6 Bibliography 7 References 8 External linksLife[edit] Born Ernst Heinrich Křenek in Vienna
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Vienna (then in Austria-Hungary), he was the son of a Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. He studied there and in Berlin with Franz Schreker
Franz Schreker before working in a number of German opera houses as conductor
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