Norbert Linke (5 March 1933 – 10 November 2020) was a German composer and
musicologist.
Life
Linke was born in
Ĺšcinawa,
Province of Lower Silesia. While at school in
Celle
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, Linke composed the Singspiel ''Der Nachtwächter'' (after the farce by
Theodor Körner) and instrumental works. From 1952 to 1959 he studied composition at the State Academy of Music in Hamburg with
Ernst Gernot Klussmann
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Surname
* Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
* Anton Ernst (1975-) ...
and
Philipp Jarnach. During the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for Neue Musik (1962-1964) he received his "final touches" from
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music.
Born in Mont ...
,
György Ligeti and
Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1962 to 1972 he was a teacher at the , before he was a lecturer and professor in music teacher training at the FHS
Darmstadt
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until 1976.
He has become known mainly for
chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...
, but also for vocal and orchestral music. Linke has received numerous composition prizes (Hilversum, Darmstadt, Hamburg several times, Hof, Munich, Bonn), including the 1977
Johann-Wenzel-Stamitz-Prize (Stuttgart). Since 1971 he has been a full member of the music section of the
Freie Akademie der KĂĽnste Hamburg
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. From 1976 until his retirement he taught as a full professor of music at the
University of Duisburg-Essen.
His pseudonym is Aaron Aachen.
From 1985 to 1991 Linke was 1st chairman of the and has been its honorary member since 2013.
Publications
* ''Musik zwischen Konsum und Kult''. Wiesbaden 1974 (1976 3rd edition): Gesamtschau des Musiklebens in der BRD unter Auswertung des Springer-Archivs
* ''Neue Wege in der Musik der Gegenwart''. Wolfenbüttel 1975: Unterrichtskonzepte zur Anregung des Musikalisch-Schöpferischen bei Schulkindern
* ''Philosophie der Musikerziehung''. Regensburg 1976: First paper under this title; authoritative work on the appointment to the chair of the University of Duisburg
* ''Heilung durch Musik?''. Wilhelmshaven 1977: First paper with didactic handouts on music therapy
* ''Wertproblem und Musikerziehung''. WolfenbĂĽttel 1977: Establishment of a value didactics of music in empirical studies according to the psychoanalytical AWADUK principle in the investigation of a basic principle of musical values (K-S-T-Modell)
* ''Robert Schumann – Zur Aktualität romantischer Musik''. with Gustav Kneip. Wiesbaden 1977: Ein Komponistenporträt als Unterrichtsreihe
* ''Musik in der sozialen Schule'' – Beiträge zu einer individual-psychologisch begründeten Musikdidaktik. Wilhelmshaven 1981: Über Alfred Adlers Anregungen zur Förderung der kindlichen musikalischen Kreativität
* ''Die Tätigkeit des Musiklehrers an allgemeinbildenden Schulen unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Langzeitplanung 1920–1980''. Opladen 1982
* ''Johann StrauĂź (Sohn)''. Rowohlt Bildmonographie rm 50304, Reinbek 1982 (mehrere Nachauflagen, Ăśbersetzungen ins Ungarische und Chinesische)
* ''Kein schöner Land''. Niedernhausen/Taunus 1983 (numerous new editions): Historically accurate first releases of 100 of the most famous German folk songs with proof of origin, such as "
Kein schöner Land
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"; drawings by Brian Bagnall; worldwide sales of 300,000 copies with 30 million folk song adaptations by N.L.; in several cases first-time research on the real authors
* ''Musik erobert die Welt – oder Wie die Wiener Familie Strauß die "Unterhaltungsmusik" revolutionierte'', with a preface by Hans Weigel. Vienna 1987.
* ''Es musste einem was einfallen'' – Untersuchungen zur kompositorischen Arbeitsweise der "Naturalisten". Tutzing 1992.
* ''Franz Lehár''. Rowohlt Bildmonographie rm 50427, Reinbek 2001.
* ''XELFER, sprachklanggitter 1995–2001''.
''XELFER, sprachklanggitter 1995–2001''
on WorldCat Essen 2001: Collected poems
* ''Einzug: Vor allem Chansons aus 2002''. Essen 2008
* ''GEMA Malaise. Public Epistle über die fragwürdige Rechtsfähigkeit eines Vereins - kraft staatlicher Verleihung?''. Essen 2009
* ''Studien zur Entwicklung der Kommerziellen Unterhaltungsmusik.'' Vienna 2013. (Druck i. V.)
Compositions
* 1952–1959: ''Indonesische Szenen'' (piano & Violin), Triptychon für Orgel
* 1960–1972: ''Polyrhythmika I, II und III'' (piano), Konkretionen 2 (String quartet), Lyrische Symphonie (1969 1. Preis beim Sinfoniewettbewerb des Bayrischen Rundfunks), Strati für Orchester, Organ Pops, Violencia (violin solo)
* 1972–1976: ''Konzert für Violine und Orchester, Konkretionen V für Kammermusikensemble'', Diri Dana (Folklore cantata for soprano, alto, bass & tenor), Czech songs, Zugstücke for piano
* 1976–2012: ''Bagatellen'' (Akkordeon-Orchester), Rumbabagatelle (Klaviertrio), ...und tausend Gedanken bind’ ich (Gesang), Dort im anderen Lande (Chor), ...denn ihr werdet Gott schauen (Orgel), Elegie über das Leiden der Menschen (Orgel), Inseln ünner den Wind (Kantate für Chöre und Orchester), Die Borchert-Lieder, Nachklänge aus Mähren, Nachklänge aus Wien, Ein kurzes Leben (Zyklus Meerbaum-Eisinger), Rilke-Lieder, Erinnerung an Czernowitz f. Orchester, Concentus (Orgel)
References
External links
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Website von Norbert Linke
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1933 births
Living people
People from Lubin County
German composers
20th-century classical composers
20th-century German musicologists