Karl Heinrich Ehrenforth

Karl Heinrich Ehrenforth (born November 13, 1929 in Breslau ; † March 26, 2017 in Reinbek ) was a German musicologist and music teacher .

Life

Ehrenforth studied school music / music education, German literature, German literature, musicology and theology in Hamburg from 1951 to 1958 . In 1961 he received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a musicological thesis on Arnold Schönberg's George songs.

From 1956 to 1972 he worked as a high school teacher in Hamburg. As a part-time church musician, he led the Reinbeker Kantorei. From 1972 to 1993 Ehrenforth held the chair for music education and music didactics as well as the head of the school music department at the Detmold University of Music . From 1990 to 1992 he was visiting professor at the University of Rostock and was a member of the founding senate of the University of Music there.

Ehrenforth worked in national and international bodies such as the German Music Council and the International Society for Music Education (ISME), as well as in the research commission of the “Working Group on Music Education and Music Maintenance” of the German Music Council.

Since 1976 he has held the post of policy officer of the Association of German School Musicians (VDS) and became its national chairman in 1981. He held this office until 1990. Since 2003 he has been honorary chairman.

Karl Heinrich Ehrenforth lived from 1992 to 2017 as an emeritus in Reinbek near Hamburg . He was married and had three children.

theory

Ehrenforth

• developed an anthropologically and lifeworld-phenomenologically founded aesthetic hermeneutics of music following Hans-Georg Gadamer
• presented a “history of musical education” as a cultural, social and intellectual history in 40 stations from ancient high cultures to the present
• discussed historiographical problems of music education, music theological issues, among other things, from an educational perspective
• founded the concept of “family concerts” as a further development of “children's concerts”.

Liturgical science

As the Prior of the Ansverus Community, Ehrenforth provided impulses for church services, daily prayers and psalm chanting. His psalm settings borrow from the austere clarity of Gregorian chant and the meditative Taizé chants . He resolutely called for an evangelical practice of the requiem in the form of a communion as part of the Protestant funeral culture .

Fonts

• Karl H. Ehrenforth: Expression and form: Schönberg's breakthrough to atonality in the George songs, OP. 15 . Bouvier, 1963
• Karl H. Ehrenforth: School music education and music culture . Schott Music, 1983, ISBN 3-7957-2644-1 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth among others: Topicality and historical awareness in music education . Schott Music, 1973, ISBN 3-7957-1708-6 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth, Bernhard Waldenfels, Jürgen Vogt: Music - our world as others . Königshausen & Neumann, 2001, ISBN 3-8260-2003-0 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth: History of musical education . Schott Music, 2005, ISBN 3-7957-0502-9 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth, Joachim Grube: The bird of paradise. The story of creation - retold for children . Hildegard Junker, 2006, ISBN 3-937628-08-8 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth (Ed.): Humanity - Music - Education . Schott Music, 1981, ISBN 3-7957-0064-7 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth (Ed.): Within limits - beyond limits . Schott Music, 1992, ISBN 3-7957-2660-3 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth (Ed.): Work - Leisure Time - Festival . Schott Music, 1987, ISBN 3-7957-2650-6 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth (Ed.): Medieninvasion . Schott Music, 1985, ISBN 3-7957-2649-2 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth (Ed.): Music education as a challenge of the present . Schott Music, 1981, ISBN 3-7957-2643-3 .
• Karl H. Ehrenforth among others: Sense and Contradiction of Musical Education . Katzbichler, 1993, ISBN 3-87397-483-5 .

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Karl Heinrich Ehrenforth at perlentaucher.de
• Ehrenforth's profile on the Schott Musikverlag website
• About the Ansverus community
• "We understand each other in sound" - Interview u. a. with former prior Karl H. Ehrenforth

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mourning for Karl Heinrich Ehrenforth. March 30, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017.
2. ^ Obituary notice Karl Heinrich Ehrenforth In: FAZ . April 1, 2017.
3. ^ Karl H. Ehrenforth: Ansverus Psalter. 2nd Edition. Aumühle 1995, p. 8.