Herbert Eimert

Herbert Eimert

Herbert Eimert

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Herbert Eimert

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German composer and musicologist Herbert Eimert was one of the founders of the WDR electronic music studio in Cologne and the senior statesman of electronic music in Germany. Born to a family of East Prussian origin, Eimert was mobilized into the German Army in September 1914 and miraculously managed to survive until his discharge in February 1919. Afterward, he entered Cologne Conservatory, where he studied with Hermann Abendroth, among others, and wrote the book Atonale Musiklehre (1923), one of the first theoretical textbooks to deal with the subject of atonality, although ...
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