Norbert Linke

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) 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 Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium (Hamburg) [de], 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 Deutsche Johann Strauss Gesellschaft [de] and has been its honorary member since 2013. The Wiener Institut für Strauss-Forschung (WISF) also elected him as an honorary member in 2020.

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

Publications

Compositions

References

  1. 1 2 "WISF | In memoriam Univ.-Prof. Dr. Norbert Linke". www.johann-strauss.at. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  2. ↑ The Singspiel Der Nachtwächter was reported in the Cellesche Zeitung on 10 and 14 March 1952.
  3. ↑ "WISF | In memoriam Univ.-Prof. Dr. Norbert Linke". www.johann-strauss.at. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  4. ↑ "WISF | In memoriam Univ.-Prof. Dr. Norbert Linke". www.johann-strauss.at. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  5. ↑ "In Memoriam Univ.-prof. Dr. Norbert Linke". johann-strauss.at. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  6. ↑ Musik zwischen Konsum und Kult : eine kritische Studie zum Musikleben in der Bundesrepublik on WorldCat
  7. ↑ Neue Wege in der Musik der Gegenwart on WorldCat
  8. ↑ Philosophie der Musikerziehung on WorldCat
  9. ↑ Wertproblem und Musikerziehung on WorldCat
  10. ↑ Robert Schumann : zur Aktualität romantischer Musik on WorldCat
  11. ↑ XELFER, sprachklanggitter 1995–2001 on WorldCat