Günter Bust (12 July 1930 – 27 May 2005) was a German music educator and composer.

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Born in , today

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; ) is the Capital city, capital of the Germany, German States of Germany, state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is on the Elbe river. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archbishopric of Mag ...

, Bust first attended the 23rd Magdeburg Community School, then the from 1941 to 1945. After the Bombing of Leipzig, the school was evacuated to

Nossen Nossen (; , ) is a town in the Meißen (district), district of Meissen, in Saxony, Germany. It is located 80 km southeast of Leipzig. The town is dominated by a large Renaissance castle. Nossen is best known for its proximity to a motorway j ...

in 1943/44. At the end of the war, he stayed in

Zschopau Zschopau (), is a town in the Erzgebirgskreis district of Saxony, Germany. The town grew around the castle, which was built in the mid-12th century to protect the Salt Road, which crossed the Zschopau River here. Mining was also practiced from ...

. After the

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

at the , he studied school music with

Fritz Reuter Fritz Reuter (7 November 1810 – 12 July 1874; born as ''Heinrich Ludwig Christian Friedrich Reuter'') was a novelist from Northern Germany who was a prominent contributor to Low German literature. Early life Fritz Reuter was born at Stavenhage ...

and Slavic studies at the

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public university, public research university in the cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German State o ...

from 1949 to 1953. On the occasion of the in East Berlin in 1950, he founded the "Central Choir" which is considered the forerunner of the "Johann Friedrich Reichardt" in Halle. Bust then worked as a teacher in

Halberstadt Halberstadt (; Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian: ''Halverstidde'') is a town in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in central Germany, the capital of Harz (district), Harz district. Located north of the Harz mountain range, it is known for its old town ...

and

Dessau Dessau is a district of the independent city of Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the ''States of Germany, Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Until 1 July 2007, it was an independent ...

. From 1956 to 1963, he was head of the music department at the in Weißenfels. Afterwards, he taught at the Käthe Kollwitz secondary school in Schönebeck. From 1967 to 1995 he was head of the , where he taught

music theory Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "Elements of music, ...

, practical school play and

viola The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...

. He also presided over the youth symphony orchestra there. At the music school, he set up a secretariat for the "Georg Philipp Telemann" working group. This became the centre of

Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to be ...

care and research in 1985. Bust also installed a musical pre-school education. Furthermore, he made Magdeburg the venue for the chamber music competition of the GDR. In 1976, he created a composer class at the music school. In 1974, he inaugurated the first new

carillon A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a musical keyboard, keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are Bellfounding, cast in Bell metal, bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and Musical tuning, tu ...

in the GDR on the tower of the . In 1978, he was involved in setting up the Magdeburg branch of the

University of Music and Theatre Leipzig The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig () is a public university in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest univ ...

. From 1990 onwards, he was a

lecturer Lecturer is an academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. They may also conduct re ...

at the Institute of Music at the

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg The Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg () (Short: ''OVGU'') is a public research university founded in 1993 and is located in Magdeburg, the Capital city of Saxony-Anhalt. The university has about 13,000 students in nine faculties. The uni ...

. He taught practical school playing,

basso continuo Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing th ...

and score playing. He was also a co-founder of the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Music Schools, the , the Saxony-Anhalt Association of German Musicians and the Saxony-Anhalt State Music Festival. Bust was violist of the König String Quartet Magdeburg. He also played in the Magdeburg Chamber Orchestra and the Academic Orchestra of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, which he conducted from 1997 to 2001. He was also active as an arranger and composer. In 2005 he was awarded the Telemann-Pokal of the Telemann-Arbeitskreis.Telemann-Pokal.
telemann.org; retrieved 17 January 2021. Bust died in

Schönebeck Schönebeck (), officially Schönebeck (Elbe), is a town in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, approx. southeast of Magdeburg. For much of the twentieth century it was noted ...

at the age of 74.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bust, Gunter German music educators German choral conductors German music arrangers 20th-century German classical composers 1930 births 2005 deaths Musicians from Magdeburg 20th-century German violists

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