Marga Wilden-Hüsgen

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Marga Wilden-Hüsgen (* 17th February 1942 in Roetgen ) is a German mandolinist , retired high school teacher and music researcher.

Life

Marga Wilden-Hüsgen was born in Roetgen in the Eifel in 1942. She received her first mandolin lessons at the age of ten. She completed her professional artistic training on this instrument with Vinzenz Hladky in Vienna and with Konrad Wölki in Berlin . She received international recognition for her research on the history of the mandolin, for the conception of a modern instrumental pedagogy for this instrument as well as for the rediscovery and dissemination of forgotten baroque and early classical playing techniques for the mandolin. This Wuppertal technique first led to a changed sense of style and the spread of a new sound ideal among almost all well-known mandolinists and plucked orchestras in the Federal Republic of Germany and far beyond .

Act

In 1979 Marga Wilden-Hüsgen received a teaching position for the mandolin major at the Cologne University of Music ( Wuppertal Department ). In 1992 she took over the world's first full-time professorship with a full professorship for the mandolin major at the same university . Under her leadership, the Wuppertal mandolin class developed into one of the world's leading training centers for professional mandolinists. Some of the most renowned artists on this instrument emerged from the class of Marga Wilden-Hüsgen.

As part of her research, Marga Wilden-Hüsgen has rediscovered numerous lost or forgotten original works for plucked instruments , researched the authors' biographies and researched the playing techniques practiced in the respective historical context. Many of these works were then edited, commented on and published by publishers such as Vogt & Fritz , Trekel and Grenzland . In order to pass on the rediscovered playing techniques from the baroque and early classical periods, she developed an instrumental teaching concept and wrote her own mandolin school and a technical compendium. Both became standard works in modern mandolin training. Marga Wilden-Hüsgen also worked as an executive artist. She was a member of the German Plucked Orchestra under the direction of Siegfried Behrend , worked from 1979 to 2009 as concertmaster in the Landeszupforchester North Rhine-Westphalia and for several years looked after national plucked orchestras of the Federation of German Plucked Musicians (BDZ) . From 1971 to 2005 she was director of the Aachener Zupfmusikkreis ensemble . In 2005 she founded the lute consort Capella Aquisgrana . In addition, Marga Wilden-Hüsgen was also active in numerous specialist committees and in the federal and regional music management of the Association of German Plucked Musicians. In 2007 Marga Wilden-Hüsgen retired. Her successor as head of the chair in Wuppertal was her former student Caterina Lichtenberg .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Mandolin school . Schott, Mainz 1986. ISMN M-001-07603-6
  • Technical studies for mandolin . Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt 1985. V&F 10

Discography (selection)

  • Il Ballarino . Ensemble Capella Aquisgrana .

literature

  • Theo Hüsgen: The "grande dame" of the mandolin is leaving Wuppertal . In: Concertino 2/2007, pp. 77-78. Reprinted in: BZVS news No. 18 (2007), pp. 6-8. See also weblink

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://capella-aquisgrana.eu/musiker/
  2. ↑ a b c Concertino 2/2007. See literature
  3. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilden-Hüsgen, Marga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mandolinist, music researcher and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Roetgen