Gunild Keetman

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Gunild Keetman (born June 5, 1904 in Elberfeld ; † December 14, 1990 in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee ) was a German composer and music teacher who became particularly well-known for the " Orff-Schulwerk " developed in collaboration with Carl Orff .

Life

Gunild Keetman was born in Elberfeld in 1904 as the daughter of a wealthy family; Keetman House, demolished in 1981, was her childhood home. Together with four siblings she received musical training at an early age.

After two semesters of study in Bonn and Berlin, she went to Munich, where she studied the connection between music and movement at the Günther School. The "Günther School Munich - Training Center of the Federation for Free and Applied Movement e. V. ”was founded in 1924 by Carl Orff together with Dorothee Günther as a training center for gymnastics, rhythm, music and dance. Orff himself headed the music department. In cooperation with him, Gunild Keetman developed the "Orff-Schulwerk" as a new model for music and movement education. The basis of their work was the idea of ​​developing the musical-rhythmic feeling out of movement. The children should also find themselves through musical education - an approach that is still used in curative education today.

In 1936 she directed the youth orchestra of the "Günther School" for the Telefunken recording of the Orff piece Einzug und Reigen der Kinder , which was performed at the opening of the Olympic Games in Berlin.

In 1949 Keetman began to teach the “Orff-Schulwerk” through children's courses at the Mozarteum in Salzburg , later the courses were also offered to students. At the Orff Institute in Salzburg she was responsible for practical movement work. From 1950 to 1954 she edited five volumes of music for children together with Orff , a new version of the Orff school work. Keetman was involved in the music for children with a large proportion of his own compositions, especially instrumentals. She also represented the Orff-Schulwerk at specialist conferences and contributed significantly to its dissemination. In 1970 her book Elementaria appeared as a didactic guide for the first use of the Orff school work. In the later years of her life, Gunild Keetman increasingly withdrew from practical work and, together with Minna Ronnefeld, devoted herself to the publication of numerous works for recorder.

Gunild Keetman died in late 1990 at the age of 86 and was buried on January 3, 1991 in the Breitbrunn cemetery on Chiemsee . The photographer Peter Keetman was her brother.

Works (selection)

  • Gunild Keetman: Pieces for flute and drum . Musikverlag Schott, Mainz (Schott ED 3625)
  • Gunild Keetman: Pieces for flute and drum H . Musikverlag Schott, Mainz (Schott ED 6587)
  • Carl Orff, Gunild Keetman: Musica Poetica - Orff Schulwerk 1-5 and 6-10 . Record documentation by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Gunild Keetman, Minna Ronnefeld: Elementary recorder playing . Musikverlag Schott, Mainz 1980
  • Gunild Keetman, Minna Ronnefeld: Singing and playing at Christmas . Musikverlag Schott, Mainz 1981–1985
  • Gunild Keetman, Minna Ronnefeld: Contra dances from "The English Dancing Master" by Lohn Playford . Music publishing house Schott, Mainz
  • Gunild Keetman, Minna Ronnefeld: Old French dances . Musikverlag Schott, Mainz 1991

literature

  • Werner Thomas: Musica Poetica, shape and function of the Orff school work . Tutzing 1977
  • Carl Orff: Schulwerk, elementary music . Tutzing 1976

Web links

  • Biography. In: Orff-Schulwerk-Informations , No. 47, Summer 1991 (PDF; 3.8 MB) pp. 4–11
  • Biography. orffinstitut.at

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Orff-Schulwerk-Informations , Issue No. 47, Summer 1991 (PDF; 3.8 MB) pp. 4–11; Retrieved January 11, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d e orffinstitut.at accessed on January 11, 2013
  3. ^ Entry and dance of the children
personal data
SURNAME Keetman, Gunild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1990
Place of death Breitbrunn am Chiemsee