Johannes Beyreuther

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Johannes Beyreuther (born January 1, 1921 in Breitenbrunn in the Saxon Ore Mountains ; † November 3, 2010 ) was a German music teacher and inventor .

He ran a music school in Kolbermoor and taught there on 6-plus-6 keyboards . He advocated a reform of musical notation . Developed by him honeycomb keyboard was on 29 February in 1968 under the patent number 1,247,826 at the German Patent Office patents .

Life

Johannes Beyreuther completed secondary school and then two compulsory years of basic training in the military. He was called up during World War II and was taken prisoner by the French at the end of the war.

Based on the method of the music theorist Hugo Riemann , Beyreuther developed a modulation scheme based on the regular arrangement of the keys that is equally easy to use for all keys. He designed a notation to match the new keyboard in order to create a simple optical transmission option. In Canada he had the first instrument made with a 6 plus 6 keyboard and in 1959 a first version of his notation system was patented there. In Germany he invented a keyboard in a honeycomb system, for which he also received a patent.

Beyreuther's developments have been reported in international specialist publications and have been presented several times at international conferences of the Music Notation Modernization Association MMA, for example in 1991 in St. Louis , 1994 in Rotterdam and 1997 in Cebu City in the Philippines .

He was politically active in the NPD , for which he ran unsuccessfully in the 1969 federal election in the Altötting federal constituency and on the Bavarian state list. At times he was also the NPD district chairman in the Mühldorf am Inn district , but resigned from this office in early 1967 for personal reasons.

Specialist publications and lectures

  • Johannes Beyreuther: Making music without obstacles - The new way to music . Kolbermoor, 1985.
  • Johannes Beyreuther: The big error . In: Music notation news. The journal of the Music Notation Modernization Association . tape 9 , no. 3 , 1999, ISSN  0258-963X , p. 3-6 .
  • Johannes Beyreuther: We cannot expect help from anybody . In: Second MNMA conference proceedings, 1991, Saint Louis, USA: With test drive the new notation systems . Notation Research Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9638849-0-5 , pp. 13-18 .
  • Johannes Beyreuther: The 6 to 6 notation (demonstrated on a 6 to 6 instrument) . In: Third MNMA conference proceedings, 1994, Rotterdam, Netherlands . 1999, ISBN 0-9638849-3-X , pp. 135-148 .
  • Johannes Beyreuther: The teaching experience in the six-six system . In: Fourth MNMA conference proceedings, 1997: Cebu City, Philippines . 2000, ISBN 0-9638849-4-8 , pp. 11-14 .

Awards

Johannes Beyreuther received several honors in connection with the development of 6-plus-6 instruments, including the honorary award of the German Federal Minister for Science and Research at the Vienna Inventors' Fair in 1971.

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Individual evidence

  1. Untitled by Johannes Beyreuther, 1959. The Music Notation Project, accessed on May 7, 2017 (First and later withdrawn version of the notation developed by Johannes Beyreuther. Patented in Canada in 1959 under the name "Musical Staff", Canadian patent no. 568746).
  2. Biography of Johannes Beyreuther. Beyreuther music system 6: 6. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  3. Beyreuther, Johannes . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Baack to Bychel] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 101 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 568 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  4. The festival hall is open to sports clubs. In: Upper Bavarian Volksblatt . January 12, 2017, Retrieved May 7, 2017 (newspaper reports from the week 50 years ago).
  5. Beyreuther Musiksystem 6: 6. Honors. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .