Roland Ploeger

Roland Ploeger (born January 8, 1928 in Oerlinghausen ; † December 21, 2004 in Lübeck ) was a German composer , organist and music professor .

Ploeger studied from 1949 to 1954 at the music college in Detmold , among others with Wilhelm Maler , Erich Thienhaus , Kurt Thomas , Johannes Drießler and Michael Schneider ; His studies focused on music theory , composition and the organ . He later studied philosophy in Frankfurt am Main , among others with Theodor W. Adorno .

Between 1959 and 1963 he worked as a freelance composer and music critic in Hamburg . In 1963 he began his work as a lecturer at the Lübeck University of Music . There he initiated the Musica viva concerts in 1964 , which he also directed until 1975. In 1974 he became head of the Institute for Music Education at the Lübeck University of Music, and in 1980 he was appointed professor.

From 1981 to 1988 he held the office of Vice President of the Lübeck University of Music. Even after his retirement in 1993, he remained active as a lecturer in music theory at the Lübeck University of Music until 1996 .

In 2003, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, a commemorative publication entitled Gegen die Zeit was published by the Lübeck Composers' Association, the Collegium Musica Nova Lubecensis .

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Ploeger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on copy-us.com