Ingo Harden (born 26 February 1928) is a German

music critic ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...

and writer.

Life

Born in

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

, Harden studied musicology with Heinrich Husmann and piano with Ilse Fromm-Michaels. From 1954 he worked first as an author and later as an editor for the then Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk. In 1964 he took over the editorial office of ' and headed the journal until 1976. From 1964 he was one of the jurors, later until 2000 managing secretary of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. From 1977 to 1991 Harden was the German representative of the International Record Critics' Award. After decades of work as a record critic for trade journals and daily newspapers such as '' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' and ''

Die Welt ''Die Welt'' ("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE. ''Die Welt'' is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group. Its leading competitors are the ''Frankfurter Allg ...

'', Harden is still active today as an author for radio and books.

Work

* ''Claudio Arrau : e. Interpretenportr.''. * ''Epochen der Musikgeschichte. Entwicklung und Formen der europäischen Musik''. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2007. * ''Kurze Geschichte in 5 Kapiteln: Klassische Musik''. Jacoby & Stuart, Berlin 2010. . * (together with Gregor Willmes:) ''Pianistenprofile: 600 Interpreten''.''Pianistenprofile: 600 Interpreten''
on WorldCat

Bärenreiter Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also ...

, Kassel 2008. .

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harden, Ingo 1928 births Living people Writers from Hamburg German music critics 20th-century German writers 20th-century German journalists