Diether de la Motte

Composer from Germany
1928, March 30th in Bonn, Germany - 2010, May 15th in Berlin, Germany

Diether de la Motte (30 March 1928, Bonn - 15 May 2010, Berlin) was a German composer, music theorist and teacher, whose textbooks shaped the teaching of music theory in German-speaking countries for decades. He studied composition with Wilhelm Maler, choral conducting with Kurt Thomas and piano at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in Detmold (1947-1950). He then taught composition, theory and piano at the Landeskirchenmusikschule in Düsseldorf (1950-1959), wrote music criticism for the Rheinische Post from 1955, and worked as an editor at the publisher Schott in Mainz (1959-1962). In 1962 he joined the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, where he became professor in 1964; he later taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover (from 1982) and was professor of music theory at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (1988-1996). His books, among them Harmonielehre (1976), Musikalische Analyse (1978), Kontrapunkt (1981), Melodie (1993) and Wege zum Komponieren (2001), became standard references. As a composer he wrote in almost every genre, from stage works to orchestral, vocal, chamber and experimental music. His pupils included Manfred Trojahn, Detlev Glanert, Charlotte Seither and Clemens Kühn. He was married to the musicologist Helga de la Motte-Haber. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Diether de la Motte
Alternative Spellings Diether de la Motte, Diether de LaMotte, Diether De la Motte, D. de La Motte, Dieter de La Motte, Dietrich De La Motte
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Relationships is the pupil of Kurt Thomas
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