Nina Gorter

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Nina Gorter (born November 5, 1866 in Wormerveer ; † October 18, 1922 in Berlin ) was a Dutch-German music teacher , pioneer of rhythmic-musical education and closest collaborator to Émile Jaques-Dalcroze .

Live and act

She was the youngest of three children of the editor-in-chief and later Mennonite preacher Simon Gorter and his wife Jo, geb. Lies. When she was three years old, her father died. After attending secondary school for girls, Nina Gorter studied piano , singing and harpsichord in the Netherlands . In 1866 she moved to Berlin, where she finished her studies. She then worked as a pianist , piano teacher and director of a children's choir. In 1902 Nina Gorter engaged the composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze for a performance of his children's songs in Berlin, which he conducted himself . The latter invited her to Geneva to teach her his method of rhythmic gymnastics . A year later, Nina Gorter went to Geneva and became the first and most loyal employee of Jaques-Dalcroze . She translated Jacques Dalcroze's children's songs into Dutch and staged the six Chansons de Gestes, opus 58 , with him .

In 1910 she accompanied Émile Jaques-Dalcroze to Hellerau and worked there at his side as a teaching and organizing force until 1914 . After she returned to Berlin in 1915, Nina Gorter founded a training seminar there based on the Jaques-Dalcroze method. She described her unfavorable work situation as follows:

I have a study and next to it an empty room where we do rhythm. It is impossible to give two lessons at the same time. The course is organized as follows: some lessons are given here and others with colleagues .

Despite her tuberculosis disease, Nina Gorter was committed to the spread and state recognition of rhythmic education until shortly before her death:

Already marked by illness and weakness, she drafted a syllabus and examination plan, thus paving the way for the inclusion of rhythm as a subject in the private music training examination in Prussia .

Works

  • Education for and through rhythm, in: Neue Musikzeitung 1907, pp. 143–146.
  • Rhythm and language. A study, Berlin 1915.
  • Who is musical ?, in: Elfriede Feudel (Hrsg.): Theory and practice of physical-musical education, Munich 1926, pp. 54–56.

literature

  • Elfriede Feudel : Obituary for Nina Gorter , in: Hellerauer Blätter, H. III./IV., March 1923, p. 79.
  • Songrid Hürtgen-Busch: The pioneers of rhythmic-musical education in Germany , Frankfurt / Main 1996, pp. 101–141.
  • Reinhard Ring / Brigitte Steinmann: Lexikon der Rhythmik, Kassel 1997, pp. 103-104.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Feudel 1923, p. 79.
  2. ↑ Hürtgen-Busch 1996, p. 102.
  3. ↑ cit. n. Huertgen-Busch 1996, p. 128.
  4. ↑ Hürtgen-Busch 1996, p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Gorter, Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-German music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Wormerveer
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1922
Place of death Berlin