Ingo Schmitt (composer)

Ingo Schmitt (* 1933 ) is a German composer and was a university lecturer until his retirement in 1999 . He was the founding dean of the Wuppertal site of the Cologne University of Music and Dance .

From 1953 to 1957 he studied composition, piano and musical aesthetics and was a student of the composer Frank Martin at the Cologne University of Music, where he was awarded the university prize for composition in 1955 and was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation. From 1957 he was a teacher, from 1964 head of the Bergisches Landeskonservatorium , which was supported by the cities of Wuppertal , Remscheid and Solingen , as well as by the Rhein-Wupper district and the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district .

In 1959 he received the sponsorship award of the Von der Heydt Culture Prize of the city of Wuppertal. In 1966 he founded a municipal music school in Wuppertal, which he later combined with the Bergisches Landeskonservatorium .

After all municipal conservatories in the Federal Republic of Germany were dissolved in 1972, the Wuppertal music education was connected to the Rhineland State University for Music , under whose roof the Rheinische Musikschule and the music institutes in Wuppertal, Aachen and Düsseldorf were united. Schmitt became the founding dean of the Wuppertal Institute. The university was then renamed the Cologne University of Music and Dance in 1987 .

In addition to his teaching activities, Schmitt composed numerous vocal and instrumental works. Ulrich Leyendecker was known by his students as a composer and university lecturer.

Awards

• 1955: University Prize for Composition
• 1959: from the Heydt Culture Prize of the city of Wuppertal

Web links

• Ingo Schmitt's private homepage