Willy Träder

Willy Träder , also Willi Träder (born March 24, 1920 in Berlin ; † November 12, 1981 in Hanover ) was a German music teacher , conductor , choir director , author , editor and composer .

Life

Born in the capital of the young Weimar Republic , the young Willy Träder studied in Berlin during the Nazi era from 1939 to 1942, in the middle of World War II , school music at the Berlin University of Music Education , with Hans Chemin-Petit , among others .

After the studies interruption by the war studied Träder 1945-1946 compositions for Paul Höffer in the western sector of the later West Berlin nearby International Music Institute . Subsequently, Träder worked at various folk music schools.

After the currency reform of 1948 Willy Träder beginning founded Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 two singing circles ; in Berlin the Rupenhorner Singkreis and in the Lower Saxony state capital , which had been almost 50 percent destroyed by the air raids on Hanover , the Lower Saxony Singkreis , which has since become known primarily for its "open singing".

Also in Hanover, Willy Träder, together with the founding board members Ernst-Lothar von Knorr and Heinz Lauenroth , initiated the founding of the Hanoverian youth music school on April 23, 1953 , which later became the music school of the state capital Hanover , which he himself directed until 1958. In 1958 he was given a teaching position as a lecturer in general music education and choral conducting at the University of Music and Theater , where he was appointed professor in 1964 .

A few years before his death, Willy Träder, together with Hans W. Berg and Diethard Wucher , published the manual for music school teaching .

Works (selection)

• Hans W. Berg, Willi Träder, Diethard Wucher (eds.): Handbook of music school lessons (= Bosse-Musik-Paperback , Vol. 15), Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7649-2193-5 .

literature

• Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Vol. 10, p. 67.
• Hugo Thielen : TRÄDER, Willy. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 362; online through google books .
• Hugo Thielen: Träder, Willy. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 626.

Web links

• Literature by and about Willy Träder in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Hugo Thielen: TRÄDER (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 694f.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Hugo Thielen: Träder ... (see literature)
5. ^ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Träder In: Hannover Chronik , passim ; online through google books