Beata Ziegler

Beata Ziegler (born March 4, 1885 in Ulrichsberg (Grafling) , Deggendorf ; † March 19, 1959 in Bad Aibling ) was a German music teacher ( piano ).

Life

The father was originally a miller, later a station director. Beata Ziegler was given as a pupil in the teaching order of the Congregatio Jesu in Passau . There she received lessons in violin, piano and singing. In a fall, she was so badly injured that she suffered from hearing loss from then on. In 1904 she entered the order as a sister. A few years later she passed her state examination in music. In 1919 she entered the Niedermünster monastery in Passau. Because of a vocal cord paralysis, she came to Bad Aibling for a cure in 1920 and spent the rest of her life in the local institute of the English Misses . She gave lessons in violin and piano and took on church music assignments.

In 1928 she published her first work Das Innere Hören as the basis of a natural piano playing technique . In 1933 her three-volume piano school work, Das Innere Hören, was published . It became a widely used piano school . In later years the Nazi rulers revoked her permission to teach, which she then continued illegally. The further printing of their works was made impossible. Even after the Second World War , she no longer found the recognition she deserved. She spent the rest of her life in the monastery, where only a few students found access. In 1951, Das Innere Hören was relocated.

Long after her death, there was also an edition in Japanese. In 1954 and 1955, the first edition of Inner Hearing was reissued in a different way, with a continuation of Thoughts on Inner Hearing . In 1959, Beate Ziegler died of cancer at the age of 75. Her student Friedrich Rabl felt committed to her tradition, founded the German Beata Ziegler Society and initiated the magazine "Pianistika" with Ivo Csampai in 1997. A Beata Ziegler Society was also founded in Japan in 1979 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of her death . Her student Werner Brüger published the 4th volume of the piano school, which contains concertante etudes that are intended to practice the "basic pianistic movements" demanded by Beata Ziegler.

Works (selection)

• Inner hearing as the basis of a natural piano playing technique . Max Hieber, Munich 1928
• Inner hearing thoughts . Max Hieber, Munich 1955
• Hear the inside . Max Hieber, Munich 1933 (3 volumes)
• Hear the inside . Max Hieber, Munich 1954 (4th volume)

literature

• Kürschner's German musician calendar . Berlin 1954, p. 92.
• Friedrich Rabl: Beata Ziegler (1885-1959). The piano teacher of inner hearing. A necessary reminder. Munich 1982.
• Beata Ziegler: Inner hearing - thoughts on inner hearing . Edition Hieber in Allegra Verlag, Frankfurt 2010 (improved re-edition of the two booklets by the piano nun Beata Ziegler with a foreword by Ivo Csampai and an afterword by Hans-Josef Irmen ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Beata Ziegler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pianistika - trade journal of the Beata-Ziegler-Gesellschaft magazine for pianists and piano teachers (Flash plug-in required)