Peter Gülke
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Peter Gülke
Peter Gülke, born in Weimar in 1934, is a composer and one of the leading musicologists and authors on music. He has held numerous positions, including chief conductor in Weimar and Wuppertal and professor in the discipline of conducting in Freiburg im Breisgau. He is currently the chief conductor of the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Gülke is the author of numerous books on Rousseau, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner and Dufay, among others. For his oeuvre Gülke has received numerous awards including the Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1994, the Karl-Vossler Prize in 1998, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 2004 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2014. He has also been awarded an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Peter Gülke, born in Weimar in 1934, is a composer and one of the leading musicologists and authors on music. He has held numerous positions, including chief conductor in Weimar and Wuppertal and professor in the discipline of conducting in Freiburg im Breisgau. He is currently the chief conductor of the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Gülke is the author of numerous books on Rousseau, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner and Dufay, among others. For his oeuvre Gülke has received numerous awards including the Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1994, the Karl-Vossler Prize in 1998, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 2004 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2014. He has also been awarded an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Year of Publication: 2019
Peter GülkeYear of Publication: 2019
My Weimar
Weimar – »Athens on the Ilm« and »Goethe City« with the neighbouring town of Buchenwald. In this book, composer, musicologist and writer Peter Gülke, descendant of the Vulpius family, recalls the defining experiences of his life: the childhood in the city »the Führer« liked to visit so much; adolescence in the Stalinist GDR; the musical profession in the controlled state; the...