Kurt Johnen (music teacher)

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Kurt Johnen (born January 3, 1884 in Burtscheid , † February 26, 1965 in Quedlinburg ) was a German pianist , music teacher and music writer.

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Kurt Johnen attended grammar school in Aachen and from 1904 studied musicology at the University of Berlin and piano with Rudolf Maria Breithaupt . From 1908 to 1911 he was Rudolf Maria Breithaupt's assistant and studied at the University of Music . He then worked as a music teacher and piano accompanist . From 1922 to 1924 he also taught in Amsterdam and in 1925 began a scientific activity at the psychotechnical laboratory of the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In 1927 he was awarded a PhD with his work New Paths to the Energetics of Piano Playing. phil. PhD . He then did research at the Psychological Institute of the University of Berlin. In his scientific work he mainly dealt with occupational diseases of pianists, the psychology of music and in particular with the connection between rhythm and phrasing and physiological processes such as breathing and pulse .

In 1927 Kurt Johnen founded a music teacher training college, which he directed until 1945. In 1942 the seminar was merged with the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory . Kurt Johnen's students in Berlin included Marian Anderson (1931) and, on the piano, Beate Albrecht and Curt Sachs .

In 1945 Kurt Johnen moved from Berlin to Quedlinburg . There he and his wife founded a municipal conservatory in the Grünhagen house from their own resources , which in 1949 became the State Conservatory of Saxony-Anhalt . One of his students in Quedlinburg was Tilo Medek (1959 to 1962). From 1952 he had a teaching position for music at the Hochschule für Musik Halle and from 1955 a teaching position for the treatment of occupationally ill pianists at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin .

One of Kurt Johnen's best-known works is General Music , which first appeared in 1937. Several editions have been published since then. The 11th edition appeared in 1964 shortly before his death, from the 12th edition it was first edited and edited by Eberhardt Klemm , the 15th edition was revised by Carlferdinand Zech . The 24th edition was published in 2018.

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  • New ways to energetic piano playing. Dissertation. University of Berlin 1927. HJ Paris, Amsterdam 1927, DNB 574143165 .
  • General music theory. Reclam, Leipzig 1937, DNB 580294943
  • with Hildegard Städing: The beginning of piano playing. Rhythmically arranged play material built up. 2nd Edition. Mitteldeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Halle (Saale) 1948, DNB 1003454372 .
  • Paths to the energetics of piano playing. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1950, DNB 740496107 .
  • Dances from Bach's time from Gregorio Lambranzi's dance school. Furnished by Kurt Johnen and Gertrud Wierzejewski. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1950, DNB 1003454887 . New editions: Hofmeister, Leipzig 1973, 1978, 1982, 1986.

Editions

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : Sonatas. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1951, DNB 1000350274 .
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Six Sonatinas for Piano. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1951, DNB 350689636 .
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Six Sonatas. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1951, DNB 1000351955 .
  • with Gertrud Wierzejewski: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Twelve two- and three-part small pieces (1770). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1953, DNB 1000341461 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Registration of Kurt Johnen on the website of the University of Rostock
  2. ^ Isabelle Putnam Emerson: Five centuries of women singers. Praeger, Westport 2005, ISBN 0-313-30810-1 , p. 253 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ The East Prussian pianist and piano teacher Margot Mahler-Kohnert on her 70th birthday. In: Ostpreußenblatt . February 16, 1991, p. 9 (PDF; 15.7 MB).
  4. ↑ On the death of Gertrud Rowinski. In: Ostpreußenblatt. April 20, 1991, p. 6 (PDF; 16.1 MB).
  5. ↑ Jared Rutter: Marian Anderson. Holloway House Publishing, Los Angeles 2008, ISBN 978-087067589-8 , p. 70 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ Marian Anderson with Her Coach, Prof. Kurt Johnen, in Berlin, 1931 on allposters.de (with picture by Kurt Johnen)
  7. ^ History on the website of the Harz School of Music
  8. ^ Bildungshaus Carl Ritter: Kreismusikschule Harz, Quedlinburg area on the Harz district website
personal data
SURNAME Johnen, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, music teacher and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Burtscheid
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1965
Place of death Quedlinburg