Günter Bust

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Günter Bust (born July 12, 1930 in Großottersleben , today Magdeburg ; † May 27, 2005 in Schönebeck ) was a German music teacher and composer .

Life

Günter Bust first attended the 23rd Magdeburg Community School, then from 1941 to 1945 the Musisches Gymnasium Leipzig . After the air raids on Leipzig in 1943/44 the school was evacuated to Nossen . At the end of the war he was in Zschopau .

After graduating from the Domgymnasium Magdeburg he studied school music from 1949 to 1953 with Fritz Reuter and Slavic studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . On the occasion of the Germany meeting of young people in East Berlin in 1950, he founded the “Central Choir”. This is considered to be the forerunner of the Halle University Choir "Johann Friedrich Reichardt".

Bust then worked as a teacher in Halberstadt and Dessau . From 1956 to 1963 he was head of the music department at the Institute for Teacher Training in Weißenfels. He then taught at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Oberschule in Schönebeck.

From 1967 to 1995 he was the director of the Georg-Philipp-Telemann-Musikschule Magdeburg , where he taught music, practical school play and viola . He also chaired the local youth symphony orchestra. At the music school he set up a secretariat for the “Georg Philipp Telemann” working group. This became the center of Telemann care and research in 1985 . Bust also installed a musical pre-school education. He also made Magdeburg the venue for the GDR chamber music competition. In 1976 he created a composer class at the music school.

In 1974 he initiated the GDR's first new carillon on the tower of Magdeburg's town hall . In 1978 he helped set up the Magdeburg branch of the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . From 1990 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Music at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg . He taught practical school play, figured bass and score playing . He was also a co-founder of the Association of Music Schools of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, the State Music Council Saxony-Anhalt , the State Association of German Musicians Saxony-Anhalt and the State Music Festival Saxony-Anhalt.

Bust was the violist of the King's String Quartet in Magdeburg. He also played in the Magdeburg Chamber Orchestra and in the Academic Orchestra of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, which he directed from 1997 to 2001. He was also active as an arranger, arranger and composer.

In 2005 he was awarded the Telemann Cup of the Telemann working group.

literature

  • Kerstin Hansen: Bust, Günter , in: Online portal Musikkoffer Sachsen-Anhalt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Telemann-Pokal , telemann.org, accessed: February 24, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Bust, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Großottersleben , today Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2005
Place of death Schönebeck