Erich Thienhaus

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Erich Thienhaus (born August 30, 1909 in Lübeck , † March 22, 1968 in Detmold ) was a lecturer in acoustics and instrumentation .

Life

He completed his first studies in physics and mathematics in 1932 with a diploma. As a result, he pursued intensive investigations of the instruments sound item , the sound transmission and the room acoustics and musical studies underwent in organ (with his brother Hugo Distler ), Instrumentation and score reading . He got to know a number of the most famous baroque organs in Germany and studied their tonal properties as well as the technical and structural features. He received his doctorate in Berlin in 1935, worked as a scientist, helped pave the way for the modern long-playing record in 1943 , carried out sound studies on over 300 church bells and taught at the Berlin Conservatory .

On October 1, 1946, he was appointed to the newly founded Northwest German Music Academy , today's Detmold University of Music , as a lecturer for acoustics and instrument studies in Detmold . Here he founded the first German musical and acoustic institute for the training of sound engineers , now called the Erich Thienhaus Institute . The course he set up was absolutely new and formed the first sound engineering institute in Europe.

Between 1949 and 1963, Thienhaus held six international sound engineer conferences in Detmold, which crowned - and concluded - his tireless work in the field of music transmission. His early death in 1968 prevented him from relocating to the new premises he had planned next to the newly built concert hall (Neue Aula) of the university in 1969.

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  1. ↑ Dictionary of German Biography
  2. ↑ ETI History. EIT, accessed July 12, 2020 .
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SURNAME Thienhaus, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, mathematician and lecturer in acoustics and instrument science
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1968
Place of death Detmold