Herbert Eimert

Herbert Eimert ( born April 8, 1897 in Kreuznach, † December 15, 1972 in Dusseldorf ) was a German composer, music theorist, and music journalist.

Life

Herbert Eimert was born in Bad Kreuznach, the son of a schoolteacher and a violin teacher. From the upper sixth of the grammar school, he was drafted in 1914 as a volunteer for military service. In 1919 he was released from captivity and was in February, the High School.

From 1919 to 1924 he studied music theory and composition at the Cologne Conservatory with Hermann Abendroth, Franz Bölsche and August of Othegraven. The publication of atonal music theory led to the dispute with Bölsche that settled a string quartet Eimert such direction of the audit and Eimert dismissed from his composition class. Eimert then left the Conservatoire in 1924 and started substitute the study of musicology at the University of Cologne, where he obtained his doctorate in 1931. From 1927 Eimert employee was at WDR and music magazines. In 1933 he left his position in the broadcasting and " wintered " as an editor at the Cologne Gazette. In such a manner unencumbered he was in 1945 the first employee of the NWDR. This position enabled it to continue its quest for renewal of the music. He founded in 1951 the world's first ibid. Studio for Electronic Music, whose management took over in 1963, Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1951 to 1957 he was also a lecturer at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. In 1965 he was appointed professor at the Cologne University of Music, where he taught composition and was ( until 1971 ) director of its electronic music studio. On the subject of electronic music, he also discussed a record that was used as a teaching tool in the West German education.

The musical direction Eimert examples reflects the onset of the Second World War extension of the ideas of twelve into serialism.

Works

Writings

  • Atonal Music Theory, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1924
  • Textbook of twelve-tone technique, Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1950 ISBN 3-7651-0015-3.
  • Fundamentals of musical serialism, Vienna: Universal Edition 1964
  • Essays, inter alia, in Melos
  • The series - discussion of serial music with Karlheinz Stockhausen, 8 booklets, 1955-1962
  • Introduction to Electronic Music, double LP, Wergo 1963
  • Encyclopedia of electronic music with Hans Ulrich Humpert, 1972

Compositions

  • String Quartet, 1925 ( first twelve-tone post)
  • The white swan for saxophone, flute and homemade noise instruments, 1926
  • String Quartet No. 2, 1939
  • Four pieces (along with Robert Beyer ), 1953
  • Structure 8, Electronic Music, 1953
  • Chime, Electronic Music, 1953
  • Etude on clay mixtures, 1954
  • Five Pieces, 1956
  • In honor of Igor Stravinsky, 1957
  • Selection I, 1960
  • Six studies, Electronic Music, 1962
  • Epitaph for Aikichi Kuboyama for speaker and speech sounds, 1962
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