17 Facts About Wolfgang Steinecke

Wolfgang Steinecke was a German musicologist, music critic, and cultural politician.

Hans Wolfgang Steinecke was born in Essen, to Kathe and Hugo Wolfram Steinecke.

Wolfgang Steinecke's father was a full-time Reichsbahn inspector, a music critic for well-known Essen daily newspapers, and a choral conductor.

Already as a child, Steinecke wrote poems and a play.

Wolfgang Steinecke first completed practical music studies at the Folkwangschule in Essen with Ludwig Riemann and Felix Wolfes.

Wolfgang Steinecke then studied musicology with Ernst Bucken, art history, theatre and literature and philosophy at the University of Cologne and the University of Kiel.

Wolfgang Steinecke worked as a music and theatre critic for the Rheinisch-Westfalische Zeitung in Essen until 1939.

Wolfgang Steinecke then moved to Darmstadt to work as the editor for southwestern Germany for the Dusseldorf theatre newspaper Der Mittag.

Wolfgang Steinecke worked as a correspondent for several daily newspapers.

Also at a later time Wolfgang Steinecke was not subjected to a denazification procedure.

Wolfgang Steinecke received a salary in the rank of a government councillor.

Wolfgang Steinecke founded a municipal chamber music series and organized the first art exhibitions.

Wolfgang Steinecke is particularly remembered for initiating the Darmstadter Ferienkurse, which began in 1946 as International Summer Courses for New Music, and which were later managed by the Kranichstein Music Institute.

From 1950, Wolfgang Steinecke devoted himself exclusively to the Darmstadter Ferienkurse.

Wolfgang Steinecke succeeded in bringing many composers, performers and philosophers to meeting in Darmstadt, where the Darmstadt School was born.

Wolfgang Steinecke was married to the photographer Hella Wolfgang Steinecke nee Dahm.

Wolfgang Steinecke died as a result of a car accident in Darmstadt on 23 December 1961 at the age of 51.