Siegfried Bimberg

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Siegfried Bimberg (born May 5, 1927 in Halle (Saale) , † July 2, 2008 ibid) was a German composer , conductor and musicologist .

biography

Siegfried Bimberg completed his educational studies after his return from the war and captivity. After a short job at a one-class country school, he studied psychology , music education and musicology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . His teachers included u. a. Max Schneider , Kurt Prautzsch and Hans Ahrbeck . In 1953 he was with Fritz Reuter at the Pedagogical Faculty with the dissertation Investigations on the hearing and singing ability in major and minor. A PhD contribution to music theory and music psychology . In 1956 , Bimberg completed his habilitation with a thesis on singing the great third upwards. A contribution to music psychology and music aesthetics based on electro-optical investigations . At the same time, Bimberg worked as a publishing editor from 1953 to 1958. In 1957 he took over in Berlin a lectureship at the Humboldt University of Berlin , but returned in 1962 back to Halle, initially as a lecturer and since 1964 as a professor at the Martin Luther University to teach. From 1969 until his retirement in 1992, Bimberg held the chair for music education. However, his field included music aesthetics and music psychology. In 1981 he completed his habilitation again ( contrast as a music education category ).

Siegfried Bimberg has made a name for himself above all through numerous youth and children's songs, choral works and children's operas and arrangements for choir.

In 1963 he founded the Hallenser Madrigalisten Chamber Choir , of which he was conductor until 1980. With him he undertook a lively concert activity at home and abroad with both old and new choral music. In addition to record and CD productions, as well as productions for radio and television, Bimberg also organized workshops, studios and courses for choir directors.

In 1951, Bimberg established his own system for ear training , the basis of which is a relatively functional basis in close connection with absolute notation using the Jale syllables and tonic-do hand signs.

In 1968 he was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district .

Works

Cycles

  • We play through the year (1957)
  • Tomorrow the world can burn (1959)
  • Legend of the origin of the book Taoteking on the Laotse's path to emigration (1959)
  • Cantata from the Apple Tree (1966)
  • That the embers don't drive us away from the wind (1972)
  • We discover our country (1974)
  • Rügen Suite (together with Rolf Lukowsky ) (1978)
  • Picture Book Pages (1979)
  • The Feast of the Christmas Tree (1989)
  • The Roses Don't Sleep (1990)
  • Our life goes by without nature (1997)
  • Ruhrpott poems (1997)
  • Carried by the Wind (1997)
  • Four sayings for holding onto happiness (1997)
  • Verba nulla pretio emuntur (1998)
  • With sword and bassoon (2000)
  • De amicitia (2000)
  • Sun, Moon and Stars (2002)
  • Pretzscher Spectacle (2002)
  • Between the Nile and Nineveh (2003)

Children's operas

  • The Singing Horse (1961)
  • Eulenspiegel's Bridal Trip (1987)

Others

  • A time has come for us (sentence)
  • O Christmas tree (phrase according to folk tune)
  • Still, still, still, because the child wants to sleep (sentence)

Fonts

Bimberg's writings include a. experimental-psychological work on tonality research , in which he u. a. deals with the equivalence of major and minor in music, for perception (law of "relative constancy") or for the relation of different acoustic moods when singing intervals in Gregorian and harmonic orientation (law of "variable reagent"). In addition, he also dealt with music aesthetic and music pedagogical topics, such as B. with the basics of music reception (known as the position of "Dialogical Music Appropriation").

  • Introduction to Music Psychology (1957)
  • From singing to understanding music (together with F.Bachmann and Chr. Lange) (1957ff.)
  • Methodical and didactic foundations of music education (1968, 1973)
  • Handbook of Music Aesthetics (publisher and author) (1979ff.)
  • Contrast as a music aesthetic category (1981)
  • Handbook of Choral Conducting (editor and author) (1981)
  • Learn songs, sing songs (1981ff.)
  • Ferruccio Busoni: On the Power of Sounds (edition) (1983)
  • Music - Experience - Learn (1995)
  • Reverberation 1 and 2 (1996)
  • Musicology and Music Education, Perspectives for the 21st Century (together with Guido Bimberg) (1997)
  • Lieder von Wende zu Wende, the German community song in the 20th century (1998)

literature

  • Gabriele Sander: Siegfried Bimberg remembers. Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2007, ISBN 9783899241839 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Wegener: Bibliography Fritz Reuter . In the S. (Red. Ed.): Commemorative publication Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Social and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). P. I-VIII, here: P. VII.
  2. ^ Heinz Wegener: Bibliography Fritz Reuter . In the S. (Red. Ed.): Commemorative publication Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Social and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). S. I-VIII, here: S. VIII.
personal data
SURNAME Bimberg, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, choir director and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 2008
Place of death Halle (Saale)