Klaus Buhé

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Klaus Buhé (born January 5, 1912 in Berlin , † February 23, 1996 in Bremen ) was a German engineer , jazz guitarist , banjo player , saxophonist , freelance composer and music teacher . He is the son of the German painter and graphic artist Walter Buhe and the older brother of Thomas Buhé .

Life

Klaus Buhé moved to Leipzig with his family in 1921 because his father had received a professorship there. As a 15-year-old he built himself a tenor banjo, learned the instrument self-taught and soon took part in dance bands. This was followed by self-study of saxophone and clarinet and composition . From 1932 he completed an engineering degree with a focus on aircraft construction at the Leipzig Engineering School. From 1935 to 1937 he did an internship at the German Aviation Research Institute in Berlin-Adlershof , where he worked on military projects under the direction of Wernher von Braun . In addition, he worked as a musician in the Berlin dance music scene, from 1936 also for radio and record recordings in the Hot Club Berlin. Here he made friends with the doctor Hans Korseck , the old master of the plectrum guitar , who convinced him so much that he took lessons from him. In 1938 he became a design engineer at Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugbau GmbH in Bremen and relocated there. Outside of work, he continued to occupy himself with music and made further attempts at composition and instrumentation. In 1943 he was sent to the war front in Norway (there he was also an orchestral musician in an air force corps), and at the end of 1943 he was brought back to Vienna for research (for the production of the " wonder weapons " V1 and V2 under Otto Hahn and Wernher von Braun).

After the war, Buhé made music his profession. In 1945 he wrote compositions for the post-war cabaret Die Hinterbliebenen and in the following year he was employed as a permanent freelancer at Radio Bremen as an interpreter, composer and arranger. In 1952 the first edition of his tenor banjo school appeared and he began to publish his collection of international folklore in a large number of individual issues - mostly for singing with guitar accompaniment. In 1967 he began working as a lecturer for banjo and guitar in Bremen, first at the University of Education , later at the university and, since 1968, also at the Conservatory of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Many of his students became successful guitar soloists or guitar teachers.

student

Horst Memmen

Publications (selection)

  • Tenor banjo school. Schott publishing house, Mainz 1952.
  • Irish songs and ballads. For guitar solo, easily set. Verlag Schott, Mainz (= Edition Schott. Volume 6808).
  • Scottish songs and ballads. Schott publishing house, Mainz.
  • Folk songs from Scotland, Ireland and England. For wind instruments, stick instruments and percussion instruments, Merseburger Verlag, Kassel.
  • Guitars are playing. For high and medium voice and guitar. Issue 1–8. Schott publishing house, Mainz.
  • Auld lang Sygn. For voice and piano.
  • Deep river. Spirituals and folk songs. For banjo and guitar. Schott publishing house, Mainz.
  • Deep river. Spirituals and folk songs. For voice and guitar, Schott publishing house, Mainz.
  • Irish dances: Jigs - Reels - Hornpipes. Publishing house Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven.
  • European folk and dance tunes. For flute, 2 accordions, guitar or banjo, bass and drums. Schott publishing house, Mainz 1976.
  • Folk and dance tunes from America. For flute, 2 accordions, guitar or banjo, bass and drums, Verlag Schott, Mainz 1976.
  • English songs and ballads. For guitar solo, Verlag Universal Edition, Vienna 1981.

literature

  • Thomas Buhé: My kaleidoscope. Autobiography. Self-published, Leipzig 2004, revised 2007.
  • Rainer Stelle: Guitarists who left Berlin to work for the guitar. In: The classical guitar in the 20th century. Edited by Peter Ansorge and Helmut Richter. EGTA D, Volume 1, Oberhausen 2010, pp. 151–153.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Buhé: Letter of June 10, 2005 to Rainer Stelle
  2. ↑ Schlaggitarren.de - Miscellaneous. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ http://www.jazzfan24.de/JFS/JFSG09_2013.pdf Retrieved on February 5, 2019.
  4. ^ Sibylle Kynast - World Music⟩ World Music. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Buhé, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, interpreter and freelance composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1996
Place of death Bremen