Berlin guitar school

Berlin memorial plaque for Bruno Henze

The Berlin Guitar School is a movement in classical guitar music that goes back to the Berlin guitarist Bruno Henze (1900–1978) . It is considered one of the most important guitar schools in the German-speaking area.

history

Bruno Henze, who lives in West Berlin , published his seventeen-volume textbook Das Gitarrenspiel in 1950 , which became the standard work of guitar pedagogy in the GDR. His father Carl Henze was influenced by the so-called New Spanish Guitar School Francisco Tárrega at the turn of the century . He learned from Auguste Zurfluh , a student of Miguel Llobet , in Paris. Bruno Henze formed the Berlin guitar quartet together with Erich Bürger , Willi Schlinske and Gerhard Tucholski in the 1930s and 1940s .

His music education work paid off in the training of capable guitarists, especially Erich Bürger (1902–?) And later Dieter Rumstig . Dieter Rumstig and Bürger's student Werner Pauli played a key role in the development of the guitar teaching subject at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin . Rumstig and his wife Barbara Richter taught the jazz guitarist Uwe Kropinski and the new music guitarist Thomas Blumenthal . One of Pauli's students is the musician Klaus Feldmann , who performed in a duo with his brother Rainer Feldmann . The Italian guitarist and composer Carlo Domeniconi , also a student of Erich Bürger, worked at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Henze's influence went beyond the national borders. His pedagogy established itself not only in East and West Germany, but also in the Netherlands, where his student Hans-Lutz Niessen promoted the guitarists Pieter van der Staak and Mijndert Jape at the Maastricht Conservatory .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Libbert : The guitar on the move. Musikverlag Ricordi, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-9803090-2-9 , p. 299 ff.