Willi Maertens
Willi Maertens (born November 3, 1915 in Magdeburg ; † June 19, 2012 ) was a German music educator , musicologist and conductor .
Life
Maertens studied pedagogy at the College for Teacher Training in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1936 and from 1937 to 1941 in Berlin music education, English at the State College for Music Education and at the University of Music Education as well as music composition and conducting at the College of Music. In 1941 he passed the state exams for high school teaching , specializing in music education and English.
From 1946 to 1952 he was a teacher of music and English at the Berthold Otto School in Magdeburg and, from 1948, a district adviser and head of further training for music education. From 1951 to 1979 he worked at the Institute for Music Education at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg as a lecturer and since 1964 as a university music teacher . The Martin Luther University received his doctorate in 1975 with a dissertation on Georg Philipp Telemann's Hamburger Kapitänsmusiken ( Dr. phil.
Maertens was co-founder of the working group "Georg Philipp Telemann" Magdeburg e. V. in Magdeburg, which has been organizing the Magdeburg Telemann Festival since 1962 .
Awards
In 1989, Willi Maertens was awarded the Georg-Philipp-Telemann-Prize of the state capital Magdeburg for his "merits [...] to the scientific discussion and sound dissemination of the music of Georg Philipp Telemann and as a co-initiator of an institutionalized Magdeburg Telemann maintenance and research" .
In 1994 he was awarded the title of Associate Professor .
The Patriotic Society of 1765 in Hamburg awarded Maertens the Great Silver Medal in 1995.
Web links
- Works by and about Willi Maertens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolf Hobohm: On the death of Prof. Dr. phil. Willi Maertens. International Telemann Society V., June 19, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ^ Willi Maertens: Georg Philipp Telemanns so-called Hamburgische Kapitänsmusiken (1723-1765). (= Source catalogs for the history of music, vol. 21), Florian Noetzel, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1988, ISBN 3-7959-0520-6 .
- ↑ State capital Magdeburg: Previous winners of the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize, Prof. Dr. Willi Maertens.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maertens, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music educator and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 2012 |