Ingo Harden

Ingo Harden (born February 26, 1928 in Hamburg ) is a German music critic and author .

Life

Ingo Harden studied musicology with Heinrich Husmann and piano with Ilse Fromm-Michaels. From 1954 he worked first as an author and later as an editor at what was then Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk . In 1964 he took over the editing of FONO FORUM and headed the paper until 1976. From 1964 he was one of the jurors, later until 2000 he was the executive secretary of the German Record Critics' Prize . From 1977 to 1991 Harden was the German representative of the International Record Critics' Award. After decades of record-critical activity for specialist magazines and daily newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt, Harden continues to work as a radio and book author.

Works (selection)

• "Epochs of Music History. Development and Forms of European Music". Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2007. ISBN 978-3-8369-2575-4
• Short story in 5 chapters: Classical music . Jacoby & Stuart, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-941087-96-5 .
• [add. with Gregor Willmes :] Pianist profiles: 600 performers . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008. ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ingo Harden in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography