Heinz Lau (composer)
Heinz Lau (born September 9, 1925 in Stettin ; † June 21, 1975 in West Berlin ) was a German composer and university teacher .
Born in Stettin as the son of a businessman , he attended the Ernst Moritz Arndt Middle School in Stettin. In 1942 he went to the teacher training institute in Lunden , but became a flak helper in 1943 , then joined the Reich Labor Service and then became a soldier. He was wounded and ended up in American captivity in Bavaria .
After the war, when his hometown Szczecin came to Poland , he studied at the Hamburg Academy of Music from 1948 , then from 1953 to 1955 at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold and from 1955 with Paul Hindemith at the University of Zurich .
From 1963 he taught improvisation and composition at the Pedagogical University in Berlin , first as a lecturer, then from 1971 as a professor.
He composed numerous instrumental pieces, chamber music, songs and choral works, including a Christmas story premiered in Hamburg in 1952. In the choir books Ars Musica there are some compositions by Laus as representatives of contemporary choral music at the time the song books were written.
literature
- Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 305–307.
Web links
- Works by and about Heinz Lau in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lau, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1975 |
| Place of death | Berlin |