Heinz Becker (musicologist)

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Heinz Becker (born June 26, 1922 in Berlin ; † September 20, 2006 ) was a German composer and musicologist .

career

Heinz Becker began his studies of conducting, composition, piano and clarinet as the main subject at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1945, which he completed in 1949. He was also a private student of the composer and music theorist Hermann Grabner . Further studies included musicology, art history and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin (1948–1951). In 1951 he received his doctorate on the subject of the problem and technique of musical finals. He then worked as a lecturer at the adult education center in West Berlin and from 1952 to 1955 headed the private music teacher seminar at the John Petersen Conservatory in Berlin-Zehlendorf. In 1956 he took on a position as a research assistant at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Hanover . There he completed his habilitation in 1961 with studies on the history of the development of ancient and medieval reed instruments. In 1966 he was appointed as the first full professor to the chair for musicology at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Becker specialized in research into the fields of timbre (wind instruments) and opera, particularly the French grand opéra . Becker was married to the musicologist Gudrun Becker geb. Weidmann, with whom he edited his edition of the Meyerbeer documentaries.

Honors

  • Festschrift Heinz Becker on the occasion of his 60th birthday on June 26, 1982 , ed. by Jürgen Schläder and Reinhold Quandt
  • Music theater in focus. Commemorative publication for Heinz Becker , ed. by Sieghart Döhring and Stefanie Rauch . [On behalf of the Meyerbeer Institute e. V.] Studio-Verlag, Sinzig. 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Becker: Becker, Heinz. In: Music in the past and present. Bärenreiter-Verlag 1986 ( digital library volume 60), p. 6415 (see MGG volume 15, p. 598 ff).
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Heinz Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 2006