Hans Christoph Karl Friedrich Naumilkat (9 December 1919 – 13 February 1994) was a German composer and music educator.
Life
Born 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 ...
, Naumilkat passed his
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 ...
in 1938 and subsequently studied music and
music education
Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as primary education, elementary or secondary education, secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a rese ...
in Braunschweig, Berlin and Halle.
After the Second World War, Naumilkat headed the folk music department, the music department of
children's radio
Children's radio is a term used to refer to both Radio program, radio series and Radio format, formats designed specifically for Child, children. It has existed as far back as the beginning of Radio broadcasting, broadcasting in the 1920s, and surv ...
and the children's choirs of the
Berliner Rundfunk, which were founded in 1950. He worked as a freelance composer and from 1957 as a music teacher.
In 1966, he was appointed as professor and from 1968 to 1974, he directed the "Ensemble Etkar André" at the in Berlin. From 1974, he was choirmaster and music teacher at the .
Hans Naumilkat
on AllMusic
Naumilkat composed mainly vocal works for his choirs, for school practice and for the GDR pioneer organisation; the lyrics of many of his songs were written by his wife Ilse, who also worked as a choir director. Through inclusion in school books, radio broadcasts, television productions with the choirs he conducted and live performances up to the act of state, his songs achieved wide distribution.
Naumlkat died in Berlin at the age of 74.
Compositions
* Cantatas
** ''Die Brücke''
** ''Deutschland, du liebe Heimat''
** ''Vom Trümmerstein zum Bauprogramm'', 1952
** ''Wir wollen aufrecht gehen durch dieses Leben'', 1958
** ''Über unserer Heimat scheint die Sonne'', 1959
** ''Jeder neue Morgen bringt uns ein neues Glück'', 1966
** ''Junge Saat unterm Bohrturm'', 1978
* ''Weihnachtslied''
* '' Vorfreude, schönste Freude'' (text: Erika Engel-Wojahn)
* ''Kinder- und Pionierlieder''
** ''Fröhlich sein und singen''
** ''Unsere Heimat
"" (Our Homeland) was a popular song in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), where it was sung by the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation
The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation (), consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälm ...
''
** ''Wir haben Ferien und gute Laune''
** ''Soldaten sind vorbeimarschiert''
** ''Das Fernsehturmlied''
** '' Bummi-Lied (Kam ein kleiner Teddybär)''
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German composers
1919 births
1994 deaths
People from Schönebeck