Rudolf Konrad (musician)

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Rudolf Konrad (born December 9, 1922 in Königsberg ; † November 8, 2009 in Hanover ) was a German musician and composer. He was also an important representative of rhythm and taught rhythmic-musical education as a professor at the Hanover University of Music and Theater and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna .

Life, education and teaching

Rudolf Konrad was born on December 9, 1922 in Königsberg. Coming from a humble background, he enjoyed a very simple musical education as a child and adolescent in the Königsberg town band. Various commitments made him an accomplished pianist. He was later promoted to the position of first flutist in the infantry music corps. His military service took him to France and Russia during World War II , where he was taken prisoner in 1944. He also survived this by succeeding in founding an orchestra, building missing instruments and writing, arranging and composing well-known music.

While he was a prisoner of war, Rudolf Konrad also met Botho Lucas ( Botho Lucas Choir ), with whom he worked closely and in a life-saving manner and with whom he had a lifelong friendship.

After his liberation in 1949, Rudolf Konrad studied music in the subjects of flute and composition at the Braunschweig Conservatory and the Berlin University of Music. In addition, he took the subject "Rhythmics - Music and Movement" and graduated with a diploma.

Rudolf Konrad initially worked mainly as a resident composer and flautist at the Braunschweig State Theater . In 1956, at the insistence of doctors and psychotherapists, he opened the first private institute for rhythm in the FRG.

In 1970 Rudolf Konrad was appointed head of the rhythmics course at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover, where he was appointed professor in 1975. In later years, 1981–1983 and 1988–1989, he accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Rudolf Konrad was married. The first marriage had four children, and a later one had another son. In retirement he devoted himself to painting. Rudolf Konrad died on November 8, 2009 in Hanover.

Act

Rudolf Konrad had made it his business to reform the method of rhythmic-musical education. This was still taught at the beginning of the 1970s, despite the influence of Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman, for example, in close association with their founder Émile Jaques-Dalcroze . Konrad oriented himself on various theories and philosophies from all over the world, which endeavor to develop body awareness and the development of the mind.

In his book "Attempting a Theory of Rhythmics" he presented the difference between ideology-free rhythmics and rhythmic education and these other methods, as well as the demarcation from music education in general. Here he distinguished 5 fields, which understand themselves as fields of action or action and in practice are intertwined: sensorimotor skills, interaction, socialization, aesthetics, multimedia situation.

Both in his private practice in Braunschweig and as a professor at the universities, it was his goal to develop and promote the individual creativity of people in movement and musical activity. In doing so, he referred to the profitable medium of music to be used here, which he himself let speak through his abilities.

In his book publications he systematically and in detail listed the possibilities of the musical means and related them to movement. He researched the effect of music on people in this context.

Works

  • Rhythmic education, attempting a systematics, Wolfenbüttel 1969
  • I - we - where to? Differentiation of human behavior through rhythm, Braunschweig 1974
  • Rhythm - Meter - Form, Frankfurt a. M. 1979
  • Educational area of ​​rhythm. Draft a theory. Regensburg 1984
  • Compendium of piano improvisation, Vienna 1992
  • Sokologorovka School. A musician in war and captivity, Frankfurt a. M. 1992
  • The exam, Roman, Hanover 2001
  • Numerous essays in music and education and rhythm in education

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The School of Sokologorowka. A musician in war and captivity , Frankfurt a. M. 1992 ISBN 3-89228-884-4
  2. ↑ Education in Rhythmics - Drafting a Theory . Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1984 ISBN 3-7649-2269-9
personal data
SURNAME Konrad, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2009
Place of death Hanover