Peter Becker (music teacher)

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Peter Becker (born May 15, 1934 in Glatz , Lower Silesia Province ; † June 5, 2018 in Hanover ) was a German music teacher and from 1993 to 1997 President of the Hanover University of Music and Drama .

Life

Becker actually wanted to become a pianist, which was not possible in the post-war period. He studied school music, composition, philosophy, pedagogy and German studies in Cologne from 1954 to 1960 (music academy, university) and was then a teacher. After completing his legal clerkship at the study seminar in Göttingen , from 1962 he was a music and German teacher at the Lower Saxony home school in Iburg . In Bad Iburg he also worked as an organist at the Castle Church of St. Clemens , as the director of a choir and as a piano accompanist (for the cellist Othello Liesmann). From 1970 he was senior student councilor at the University of Music in Hanover, where he became professor for music education in 1975 and was the spokesman for the school music course from 1978 to 1993. In 1990 he became vice president of the university under its founding president Richard Jakoby and from 1993 to 1997 he was president.

He published on musicology (especially contemporary music) and music education as well as an interdisciplinary connection between music, visual arts and literature. He composed choral works based on texts by Angelus Silesius , Joseph von Eichendorff (both from Silesia, like him ) and Wilhelm Busch .

The Musikhochschule's sponsorship group has been awarding the Peter Becker sponsorship award for outstanding master's theses since 2013. From 2001 to 2007 he was chairman of the Hermann Schroeder Society (Hermann Schroeder was one of his teachers in Cologne) and in 2008 it was an honorary member.

He was married to the music teacher Bärbel Becker, with whom he had three sons. His son Markus Becker is a pianist and professor at the Hanover Music Academy, his son Stefan Becker is the spokesman for the Sparkasse Hannover and his son Michael Becker is director of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf.

Fonts (selection)

  • Finis. Non finis…: from Schütz to Kagel; Texts on music and its communication. Schott 2009 (collection of articles)
  • Schumann's song cycles: A musical work guide. CH Beck 2006
  • Contributions to 100 years of records. From Hanover into the world. Exhibition catalog, Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hanover, 1987
  • Editor with Horst Ruprecht: To see clearly. Gift of friend for Horst Ruprecht on his 80th birthday. Institute for Music Education Research, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, 2nd edition, Hanover 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Arndt: The pulse generator . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , June 7, 2018, p. 23 (obituary).
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Glatz , Lower Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 2018
Place of death Hanover