Heinz Benker
Heinz Benker (born March 13, 1921 in Landshut , Bavaria ; † June 2, 2000 in Munich ) was a German composer and musician.
Live and act
From the age of 7 he received violin lessons , at the age of 9 he discovered the concert flute for himself. At the age of 10 he started playing the piano and organ , followed by the cello and double bass . The twelve-year-old made his first attempts at composition with the cathedral conductor Franz Geisenhofer .
After graduating from high school in Freising in 1940, he went to labor service on the Rhine, then to military service in the Afrikakorps (1941-43) and was taken prisoner of war in Africa and America (establishment and management of a male choir , the Louisiana prisoner symphony orchestra and a jazz band ) .
After his return to Germany in August 1945, he began his studies at the church music school in Regensburg (1947/48) and completed studies in school music and composition with Wolfgang Jacobi at the University of Music in Munich 1948–51 . In October 1951 he married the writer Gertrud Benker . He has two daughters with her.
From 1952 to 1964 Heinz Benker worked as a school musician in Regensburg and later as a seminar leader for music in Munich. He was honorary chairman of the Association of Bavarian School Musicians, a founding member and board member of the Bavarian Music Council until 1991.
Buried in Landshut.
Works
His catalog of works includes (approx. 250) sacred and secular choral works, orchestral works and concerts, chamber music , wind music, organ and music. Piano works, songs and stage music . Benker also created a number of plucked music . The musical legacy is in the German Composers Archive in the European Center for the Arts in Hellerau .
Awards
- 1964 Culture Prize East Bavaria
- 1980 Award of the composers' competition of the regional association of German amateur orchestras
- 1983 Composition Prize from the district of Uelzen
- 1983 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1985 Composition Prize of the Swabian-Bavarian Music Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar, Berlin 1954
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Benker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinz Benker in the German Composers Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benker, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landshut , Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 2000 |
| Place of death | Munich |