Walter Gieseler

Walter Gieseler (born October 3, 1919 in Hanover ; † April 28, 1999 in Kleve ) was a German music teacher , musicologist and composer .

After graduating from high school in 1938, Gieseler did military service from 1939 to 1945. From 1945 he studied musicology, German literature and school music in Göttingen and Cologne. In 1949 he completed his studies with a doctorate (on the subject of harmonics with Brahms) in Göttingen and went to school (legal clerkship in Göttingen, from 1951 in Kleve). In Kleve he founded the local Collegium Musicum and the Klever Singgemeinde; Gieseler directed both ensembles for several decades. In 1963 he was appointed lecturer at the Pedagogical University of the Rhineland , Cologne department, where he received a professorship in 1970 and took over the management of the Institute for Music and its Didactics. Gieseler was a strong advocate of contemporary music, and he and his students supported Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the premiere of the opera The Soldiers in 1965 .

Walter Gieseler left behind more than 65 compositions (vocal music, orchestral works and chamber music). He has also published on the topics of music education and new music, including the books Composition in the 20th Century (1975), Instrumentation in the Music of the 20th Century (together with Luca Lombardi and Rolf-Dieter Weyer , 1985) and Harmonik in der Musik des 20th century (2 volumes, 1996).

In 1982 Gieseler received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. In 1995 he was awarded the Johann Moritz Culture Prize of the City of Kleve.

literature

Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Ed.): Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon , 2nd volume. Schott Mainz, Piper Munich, 3rd edition 1989, ISBN 3-7957-8302-X

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personal data
SURNAME	Gieseler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music teacher, musicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1999
Place of death	Kleve