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Hans-Joachim Krumpfer
Hans-Joachim Krumpfer is one of the architects of this development in East German instrumental training, which is based not only on traditional, purely musical pedagogical criteria but also on scientific physiological and psychological data.
His teaching career began in Berlin in 1956. He very soon specialised in instrumental teaching with children and obtained remarkable results. In 1976 he was appointed head of the wind department at the specialised “Hanns Eisler” College of Music and became professor there in 1982.
It is his teaching that has enabled many musicians to take key jobs throughout the country.
He has published many educational works (through the Deutscher Verlag für Musik and Hofmeister in Leipzig) and his articles on scientific research in instrumental teaching are regarded as authoritative.²
Anyone involved and interested in teaching brass instruments will benefit from contact with this man who has acquired extraordinary experience over the years.
Prof. Hans-Joachim Krumpfer, Hönower Str. 17, DDR-1144 Berlin. ☎ 37-5-27 73 81.
¹ H.-J. Krumpfer was born in Elsterwerda, near Dresden, in 1928 and studied at the Dresden College of Music, where his trumpet teachers were Eduard Seifert and Wilhelm Simon (then solo trumpet at the Staatskapelle). From 1954 to 1956 he was solo trumpet at the Halle Philharmonic and from 1956 to 1967 1st solo trumpet at the Berlin Symphony. He made many solo appearances, especially on piccolo trumpet. In 1962 he received the highly respected German title of Kammervirtuos. He sits on many competition juries in the GDR and abroad.
² BRASS BULLETIN will publish the most interesting passages shortly.
Brass Bulletin 60, IV / 1987 pages 45–46
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