The Eimert Estate

Herbert Eimert (1887-1972) was the founder of the world's first studio for electronic music, director of the Cologne radio program 'Musikalisches Nachtprogramm', with which a new musical aesthetic direction was developed for the first time in music history by a radio station, editor of the publication series 'die Reihe', author of fundamental books on twelve-tone and serial technique and gave impetus to the Webern renaissance. Using over 400 annotated original documents (Eimert's correspondence, which he bequeathed to the author in his will), the history of the origins and development of electronic and serial music as well as the Webern renaissance is critically presented from Eimert's perspective. The edition contains an original biographical preface and an appendix consisting of letters and documents. The original German edition is available at ISBN 9783756257690) or ISBN 9783756802951. Helmut Kirchmeyer, born in Düsseldorf in 1930. Studied musicology, German studies, philosophy and sociology in Cologne as well as law, criminology, psychology and church history in Cologne and Bonn. Studied music in Düsseldorf and Cologne (piano, composition, instrumentation). 1954 Doctorate at the University of Cologne, 1982 Habilitation in Music and Media Studies at the University of Düsseldorf. 1960-1982 worked at the Technical University of Aachen (musicology). 1961-1995 taught at the later Cologne University of Applied Sciences for Documentation. Since 1972 head of the Robert Schumann Conservatory, Robert Schumann Institute, Robert Schumann University Düsseldorf as director, dean, rector. Retired in 1995. Kirchmeyer is a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Translated from the German by Annekatrin Krätschmer-Grafton. Mrs. Grafton grew up in East Germany and studied Musicology at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle/Salle. She began her career as a Music Dramaturg at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar. After the fall of the Berlin wall she moved to England to join her future husband, and together the family settled in Wales with their three young children. There she completed a post graduate degree in education and worked as a German teacher at Ysgol Dewi Sant in St. Davids. Today she lives in Warwickshire and works as a German tutor and translator. In her free time she enjoys walking, gardening and singing.