Günter Bust (12 July 1930 – 27 May 2005) was a German music educator and composer.

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Born in , today Magdeburg, Bust first attended the 23rd Magdeburg Community School, then the from 1941 to 1945. After the Bombing of Leipzig, the school was evacuated to Nossen in 1943/44. At the end of the war, he stayed in Zschopau. After the

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at the , he studied school music with

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and Slavic studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1949 to 1953. On the occasion of the in East Berlin in 1950, he founded the "Central Choir" which is considered the forerunner of the "Johann Friedrich Reichardt" in

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. Bust then worked as a teacher in Halberstadt and

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. From 1956 to 1963, he was head of the music department at the in Weißenfels. Afterwards, he taught at the Käthe Kollwitz secondary school in Schönebeck. From 1967 to 1995 he was head of the , where he taught

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, practical school play and viola. He also presided over the youth symphony orchestra there. At the music school, he set up a secretariat for the "Georg Philipp Telemann" working group. This became the centre of Telemann care and research in 1985. Bust also installed a musical pre-school education. Furthermore, he made Magdeburg the venue for the chamber music competition of the GDR. In 1976, he created a composer class at the music school. In 1974, he inaugurated the first new

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in the GDR on the tower of the . In 1978, he was involved in setting up the Magdeburg branch of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. From 1990 onwards, he was a

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at the Institute of Music at the

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg The Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg () (''OvGU'') was founded in 1993, making it one of the youngest universities in Germany. The university is located in Magdeburg, the Capital city of Saxony-Anhalt and has about 13.000 students in nine ...

. He taught practical school playing,

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and score playing. He was also a co-founder of the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Music Schools, the , the Saxony-Anhalt Association of German Musicians and the Saxony-Anhalt State Music Festival. Bust was violist of the König String Quartet Magdeburg. He also played in the Magdeburg Chamber Orchestra and the Academic Orchestra of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, which he conducted from 1997 to 2001. He was also active as an arranger and composer. In 2005 he was awarded the Telemann-Pokal of the Telemann-Arbeitskreis.Telemann-Pokal.
telemann.org; retrieved 17 January 2021. Bust died in

Schönebeck Schönebeck (), officially Schönebeck (Elbe), is a town in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, approx. southeast of Magdeburg. For much of the twentieth century it was noted ...

at the age of 74.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bust, Gunter German music educators German choral conductors German music arrangers 20th-century German composers 20th-century classical composers German violists 1930 births 2005 deaths Musicians from Magdeburg 20th-century violists

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