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Nico Schüler
Nico Schüler (born 5 May 1970) is a German-American music theorist, musicologist, composer, and university professor, whose scholarly work has been reviewed in peer-reviewed journals. He is listed in the Biography and Genealogy Master Index, in ''Who's Who in America''arquis™">''Who's Who in America''® [Marquis™ 58th edition, 2004. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 2003. ''Who's Who in America''® [Marquis™ 59th edition, 2005. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 2004. and in ''Who's Who of Emerging Leaders''.''Who's Who of Emerging Leaders''® [Marquis™ New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 2006. Life Born in Roßlau, in the Bezirk Halle of East Germany, Schüler grew up in Greifswald and studied music education, musicology, philosophy, and computer science at the University ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roßlau
Rosslau (in German orthography: Roßlau) was until 30 June 2007 a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, belonging to the district Anhalt-Zerbst. After a fusion with the town of Dessau it became eponym of the newly founded town of Dessau-Roßlau and a quarter of it. Rosslau is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, here crossed by two railway bridges, 3 mi. by rail N. of Dessau and 35 mi. S.E. of Magdeburg. It has a ducal residence, an old castle, a handsome parish church, and manufactures of machinery, paper, sealing-wax, wire goods, sugar, bricks and chemicals. Rosslau became a town in 1603. Town merger On 1 July 2007 the town ''Rosslau (Elbe)'' was consolidated with the town ''Dessau''. Together they are named Dessau-Roßlau. The mayor of the new town is Klemens Koschig, who was elected on 22 April 2007. History The town “Rozelowe“ was first documented in 1215. In 1359 “Dat borchlen zu Rozlau” was mentioned. The name is of Dutch heritage and suggests the foundation a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Education
Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do original research on ways of teaching and learning music. Music education scholars publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals, and teach undergraduate and graduate education students at university education or music schools, who are training to become music teachers. Music education touches on all learning domains, including the psychomotor domain (the development of skills), the cognitive domain (the acquisition of knowledge), and, in particular and the affective domain (the learner's willingness to receive, internalize, and share what is learned), including music appreciation and sensitivity. Many music education curriculums incorporate the usage of mathematical skills as well fluid usage and understanding of a secondary language or cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Births
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Burkhard Meier
Burkhard Meier (2 July 1943 – 17 January 2001) was a German music educator and composer. Life Born in , Meier studied choral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin and music education and German at the University of Greifswald. He received further lessons from , Günter Kochan and Ruth Zechlin. From 1976 to 1979 he studied composition with Wolfgang Hohensee at the "Hanns Eisler" Music Academy. From 1967 he taught music theory and ear training in Greifswald and was appointed professor in 1989. In 1990 he became director of the Institute for Musicology and Music Education at the University of Greifswald. From 1997 he was professor of school-practical piano playing, and music composition at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre The Rostock University of Music and Theatre (short HMT, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock in German) is a college of music in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany. It opened in 1994 and is situated in a former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Schwaen
Kurt Schwaen (June 21, 1909 in Katowice – October 9, 2007 in Berlin) was a German composer. Professional career Schwaen studied piano, organ and composition under Fritz Lubrich. From 1929 to 1933 he studied at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, where his teachers included Curt Sachs and Arnold Schering. In 1930 he met Hanns Eisler who had a profound impact on his compositional style. After becoming active in an anti-fascist student group, he joined the Communist Party of Germany; from 1935 to 1938 he was imprisoned because of his political views. After the war he returned to Berlin and spent much of his time working to rebuild the musical culture of that city by writing compositions for amateur music groups, choirs, music schools and chamber ensembles, publishing and serving as a musical advisor. Between 1953 and 1956 he worked with Bertolt Brecht who had a profound impact on his future compositions. He also worked with Ernst Busch. He composed in several genres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanning Schröder
Hanning Schröder (born Hans Schröder 4 July 1896 – 16 October 1987) was a German composer and violist. From 1927, he worked in Berlin as a violist in orchestras for opera, radio and film, and in the Havemann String Quartet of his teacher Gustav Havemann. He formed the Harlan Trio with his wife and violinist Peter Harlan, performing Renaissance and Baroque music as pioneers of historical instruments. Due to his wife's Jewish descent, he had to stop working under the Nazi regime from 1935. They hid a Jewish couple in the house in Berlin that they left for safety reasons, earning them a Righteous Among the Nations recognition. As a composer, Schröder is known for chamber music, especially a string quartet based on the song of the Moorsoldaten from the Börgermoor concentration camp. Biography Hans Schröder was born in Rostock, the son of a captain. He grew up in a music-loving family, learning to play the violin at a young age. He became leader of the family's "Schröder Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dietrich Erdmann
Dietrich Erdmann (20 July 1917 – 22 April 2009) was a German composer and university lecturer. Life Erdmann was born in Bonn. His father was the publicist and trade union official Lothar Erdmann, his mother Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, the painter August Macke's widow. Erdmann had lived in Berlin since he was eight years old. His childhood was characterised by a family environment with a strong cultural interest. He received his first piano lessons at the age of nine. Already during his school days at the Humanistisches Gymnasium In Berlin, he paid visits to the composers Paul Hindemith, Ernst-Lothar von Knorr and Harald Genzmer. In 1931, he began his cello lessons with Pál Hermann. From 1934 to 1938, Erdmann studied choir conducting and musical composition with Kurt Thomas and conducting with Walter Gmeindl at the Universität der Künste Berlin. He completed his studies with the in choral conducting and the private music teacher examination in musical composition. Erdman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace King
Wallace King was an African American blackface minstrel performer from the 19th century. He played with Callender's Georgia Minstrels, and in 1882 was second to only Billy Kersands in pay and popularity. King was a "Sweet Singing Tenor" and known for his emotional, romantic ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...s. King came to London, England, in 1881 with Haverly’s Coloured Minstrels. He was described as “a gentleman with a very dark complexion and a long black beard to match”. The public loved the sentimental songs he sang in his powerful tenor. This troupe toured Britain, then went back to America in 1882. King returned to Britain in April 1884 with a company made up from the amalgamation of Haverly’s company and another called Callender’s Colour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Kersands
Billy Kersands (c. 1842 in Baton Rouge, Louisianaa – 30 June 1915 in Artesia, New Mexico) was an African-American comedian and dancer. He was the most popular black comedian of his day, best known for his work in blackface minstrelsy. In addition to his skillful acrobatics, dancing, singing, and instrument playing, Kersands was renowned for his comic routines involving his large mouth, which he could contort comically or fill with objects such as billiard balls or saucers. His stage persona was that of the dim-witted black man of the type that had been popularized in white minstrel shows. Modern commentators such as Mel Watkins cite him as one of the earliest black entertainers to have faced the dilemma of striking a balance between social satire and the reinforcement of negative stereotypes. Career Kersands began performing with traveling minstrel troupes in the early 1860s. As black minstrelsy gained popularity, Kersands became its biggest star. In 1879, he earned about $15 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hyers Sisters
The Hyers Sisters, Anna Madah (ca. 1855 – 1929) and Emma Louise (ca. 1857 – 1901), were singers and pioneers of black musical theater. With Joseph Bradford and Pauline Hopkins, the Hyers Sisters produced the "first full-fledged musical plays... in which African Americans themselves comment on the plight of the slaves and the relief of Emancipation without the disguises of minstrel comedy." Their first play was ''Out of Bondage'' (also known as ''Out of the Wilderness''). Life Their father, Samuel B. Hyers, came west to Sacramento, California with their mother, Annie E. Hyers (née Cryer), after the Gold Rush. He made sure his daughters received both piano lessons and vocal training with German professor Hugo Sank and later opera singer Josephine D'Ormy and they performed for private parties before making their professional stage debut on April 22, 1867 at Sacramento’s Metropolitan Theater. Anna was a soprano and Emma a contralto. Under their father’s management, they e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Lucas
Sam Lucas (August 7, 1840 – January 10, 1916) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and songwriter. Sam Lucas's exact date of birth is disputed. Lucas's year of birth, to freed former slaves, has also been cited as 1839, 1841, 1848 and 1850. His career began in blackface minstrelsy, but he later became one of the first African Americans to branch out into more serious drama, with roles in seminal works such as ''The Creole Show'' and ''A Trip to Coontown''. He was the first black man to portray the role of Uncle Tom on both stage and screen. James Weldon Johnson described him as the "Grand Old Man of the Negro Stage". Despite his beginnings in minstrelsy, he was vocal about liberating himself from the minstrel profession, and was the only composer of spirituals of his time to present them consistently within the context of jubilee concerts. Early career Lucas was born Samuel Mildmay Lucas (or Samuel Lucas Milady) in Washington Court House, Ohio to free black parents. He sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob J
Sir Robert Raphael Hayim "Robin" Jacob, PC (born 26 April 1941) is a former judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Personal life Jacob's father was Sir Jack Jacob, a Senior Master of the High Court who is well-known for editing the White Book on civil procedure in the UK. Education and professional career He read Natural Sciences (physics) at Trinity College, Cambridge (1960-1963) and law at the London School of Economics (1963-1967). He was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1965 (Treasurer 2007). From 1976 to 1981, he was the Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and for Government departments in intellectual property. He took silk in 1981. In 1993, he was appointed a High Court judge (a designated Patent Judge) and to the Court of Appeal in 2003. His primary area of expertise is intellectual property rights. He was admitted to the IP Hall of Fame in 2006. He was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in IP award by MIP in 2012. The position he held be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
