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Gregor Willmes (born 30 March 1966) is a German musicologist, music writer and cultural manager.


Life and career

Born in
Wanne-Eickel Herne () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen. History Like most other cities in the region, Herne (ancient Haranni) was a tiny village until the ...
, Willmes took private piano, organ and
music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...
lessons with Matthias Kreuels. He studied musicology, philosophy and art history at the
University of Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...
. Willmes has been writing about music for daily and music magazines since 1989. In addition, he writes programmed texts for major music festivals, booklet texts for major record labels and musical essays. Willmes was a volunteer at the '' Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung''. Since 1997 he was editor and from 2003 to 2008 chief editor of the music magazine '. He is co-author of the work ''PianistenProfile - 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings''. Since 2008 Willmes has been working as cultural manager for the Berliner Klavierfabrik C. Bechstein Pianoforte Aktiengesellschaft. Since 2000 he has been a member of the jury for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in the piano category. In 2017 he was appointed to the board of the Carl-Bechstein-Stiftung.Stifter und Vorstand Carl-Bechstein-Stiftung
retrieved 13 July 2020 Willmes was
lecturer Lecturer is an List of academic ranks, academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. T ...
for piano music history and literature at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Dortmund.


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Willmes, Gregor 1966 births Living people People from Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists