Wolfgang Wünsch

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Wolfgang Wünsch (born June 18, 1926 in Halle ; † April 17, 2020 in Bremen ) was a German music teacher and composer .

Life

After his return from captivity, he first studied church music in Berlin from 1950 , with Ernst Pepping among others , and from 1957 natural sciences in Freiburg. Since 1963 he has been a teacher of natural sciences at the Uhlandshöhe Waldorf School in Stuttgart and from 1964 a music teacher at the Marburg Waldorf School. In 1971 he co-founded the Free Waldorf School in Bonn and worked there for many years as a teacher of music and natural sciences. Since 1988 he has mainly been active in teacher training, as a music lecturer at the Institute for Waldorf Education in Witten and as a guest lecturer in many teacher training centers in Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

Act

Wünsch was a distinguished music teacher within the Waldorf school movement. His achievements include the development of an improvisational exercise path leading through the grades to an active understanding of musical elements, forms and styles. His book Human Education through Music , published in 1995, is the first comprehensive monograph on music teaching in Waldorf schools. His compositional work, which is mainly focused on music education, includes numerous songs, song sets and small choral pieces as well as several children's operas. He was active as a lecturer and course leader until the last year of his life, increasingly focusing on his thoughts on a fundamental reorientation of education, first published in 2007 . The fundamental change in pedagogy that he warned is also the subject of his last publication, Es ist An der Zeit , which was completed a few weeks before his death .

Publications

Fonts

  • Education through music. The music lessons at the Waldorf School. Stuttgart 1995.
  • Do we understand the children's message? Plea for a reorientation in education. Weilheim / Teck 2007.
  • Musical improvisation. Rediscovering the past, searching for the future in the present creative experience of music. Stuttgart 2012.
  • It is time. A young generation is looking for a new relationship with creation. Weilheim / Teck 2020.

Compositions

  • Harmony 1 - children's songs. Weilheim / Teck 2015.
  • Harmony 2 - songs and choral movements for equal voices. Weilheim / Teck 2016.
  • Harmony 3 - song sets and small choral pieces for mixed voices. Weilheim / Teck 2014.
  • Spring game. Weilheim / Teck 2018.
  • Children's operas: The King's Profession (2002), Tair and Dshafira (2006), The Devil's Mother-in-Law (2009), Albolina and the Bregostena (2014).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Wünsch: It is time. Weilheim / Teck 2020
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Wünsch: Human education through music. Stuttgart 1995
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Wünsch: Do we understand the children's message? Weilheim / Teck 2007
personal data
SURNAME Wish, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 2020
Place of death Bremen