Aleks Pontvik

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Aleks Pontvik (born July 21, 1909 in Breslau , German Empire , † October 10, 1979 in Colonia Valdense , Uruguay ) was a Swedish music therapist .

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“Just as Hans Kayser researched the connection between the universe and tone scales in the Pythagorean sense before him, Pontvik believed in a connection between the order in music and the human mind.” Pontvik began his music therapy work in 1940, which later became “Swedish music therapy” " was called. He experimented with classical music , mainly by Johann Sebastian Bach , "and looked for its healing influence on people". He "called his work psychorhythmy". In 1944 he founded the first music therapy institute.

In 1955, he described how Helen Keller discovered for herself at the beginning of the 20th century how the sense of touch can replace the sense of hearing . He was associated with CG Jung's depth psychologist and opposed approaches to viewing music as a drug whose effects could be measured using statistical methods.

Rudolf Steiner's eurythmy , Émile Jaques-Dalcroze's eurythmy and Heinrich Jacoby's instrumental pedagogy are comparable to Pontvik's work .

In Uruguay he devoted himself to the research of medicinal plants and from 1963 he was head of an experimental station for the acclimatization of medicinal plants in Uruguay and wrote the foreword to Aleíjo's work on the history of green tea .

Fonts (selection)

  • Basic thoughts on the psychological healing effects of music. Rascher, Zurich 1948.
  • About healing music psychorhythmy. Swiss Music Education Association, Zurich 1954.
  • Healing through music. Rascher, Zurich 1955.
  • The sounding person: Psychorhythmy as aural and mental education Rascher, Zurich 1962 (2nd edition 1996 G. Fischer, Stuttgart).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Elena Fitzthum : Formative aspects and influences on the way to institutionalized music therapy in Vienna from 1945 to 1960. Subchapter "After World War II: The Swede Aleks Pontvik." Music therapy: Austrian professional association of music therapists, 2005.
  2. ↑ Alex Ster: History of Music Therapy / Music Medicine after 1945 in Germany. In: Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt , Eckhard Weymann .: Lexicon Music Therapy . 2nd Edition. S. 144 Hogrefe 2009 ISBN 978-3-8017-2162-6 .
  3. ↑ Aleíjos, Aleks Pontvik: T'u-ch'uan, green wonder drug tea. Fate a medicinal plant in five millennia. Braumüller, Vienna 1975 ISBN 370-0-30155-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Pontvik, Aleks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish music therapist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Breslau , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1979
Place of death Colonia Valdense , Uruguay