Composer class Halle
The Halle composer class is a composition training class for particularly talented children and young people in the Halle area .
After four years of preparatory work in schools, circles and private lessons, the Halle composer Hans-Jürgen Wenzel founded the composer class in 1976 . From the beginning, she was at the Conservatory "George Frideric Handel" in Hall settled and was to turn in 1989 with funds from the Cultural Fund of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR financed. In addition to Hans-Jürgen Wenzel, the class originally also taught the composers Gerd Domhardt , Thomas Müller and Günther Eisenhardt . From 1982 Wenzel also taught students in Dresden, since 1991 the composer Silke Fraikin has taught the Dresden class, which has existed independently since 2007.
The aim of the class is to encourage and train children and young people with the special talent of composing. You will receive weekly lessons in composition , composition , ear training , music analysis , instrumentation and music history . Particular emphasis is placed on promoting creativity and inventing your own music. Summer courses take place twice a year, after which the composers bring their newly created works to a wider audience in annual concerts.
Composers and musicians such as Michael Flade , Karsten Gundermann , Uwe Krause , Annette Schlünz , Sebastian Stier and the conductor Roland Kluttig emerged from the composer's class .
The class has been led by Karoline Schulz since 2007 . The composer and music theorist Jens Marggraf is chairman of the class’s association .