Norbert Linke Explained

Norbert Linke (5 March 1933 – 10 November 2020) was a German composer and musicologist.

Life and career

Linke was born in Ścinawa, Province of Lower Silesia on 5 March 1933. While at school in Celle, Linke composed the Singspiel Der Nachtwächter (after the farce by Theodor Körner)[1] and instrumental works. From 1952 to 1959 he studied composition at the State Academy of Music in Hamburg with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and Philipp Jarnach. During the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for Neue Musik (1962-1964) he received his "final touches" from Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1962 to 1972 he was a teacher at the, before he was a lecturer and professor in music teacher training at the FHS Darmstadt until 1976.

Linke became known mainly for chamber music, but also for vocal and orchestral music. Linke has received numerous composition prizes (Hilversum, Darmstadt, Hamburg several times, Hof, Munich, Bonn), including the 1977 Johann-Wenzel-Stamitz-Prize (Stuttgart). Since 1971 he has been a full member of the music section of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg. From 1976 until his retirement he taught as a full professor of music at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

From 1985 to 1991 Linke was 1st chairman of the and has been its honorary member since 2013.

His pseudonym was Aaron Aachen. Linke died on 10 November 2020, at the age of 87.[2]

Publications

Compositions

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Notes and References

  1. The Singspiel Der Nachtwächter was reported in the Cellesche Zeitung on 10 and 14 March 1952.
  2. Web site: In Memoriam Univ.-prof. Dr. Norbert Linke . johann-strauss.at . 5 February 2024.
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/257038771 Musik zwischen Konsum und Kult : eine kritische Studie zum Musikleben in der Bundesrepublik
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/611692471 Neue Wege in der Musik der Gegenwart
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/611692471 Philosophie der Musikerziehung
  6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/256614243 Wertproblem und Musikerziehung
  7. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/631977770 Robert Schumann : zur Aktualität romantischer Musik
  8. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248357746 XELFER, sprachklanggitter 1995–2001