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Claudia Spahn

Claudia Spahn

Claudia Spahn (*1963) is a German musician's medicine specialist and director of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine. She is a leading researcher in the development of music physiology and musicians' medicine, particularly in the field of stage fright and performance anxiety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhl921PGzyo Claudia Spahn has received artistic training in recorder as a solo instrument, piano and violin since childhood. With the recorder and piano, she has won several Read more [...]
Reinhold Merten

Reinhold Merten

Reinhold Merten dirigiert 1926 bei einer Radio-Liveübetragung Bild © hr-Archiv Reinhold Adolf Merten (June 6, 1894 in Wiesbaden; August 19, 1943 in Munich[1][2]) was a German conductor and physician. Coming from a family of musicians, Merten initially attended the conservatory in Wiesbaden, but then studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, and served as a medical officer in World War I. After the war, he received Read more [...]
Wolfram Hackel

Wolfram Hackel

Wolfram Hackel (born April 25, 1942) is a German physician and organ researcher. Hausorgel von Dr. Wolfram Hackel in Dresden/Plauen Wolfram Hackel studied medicine. In 1967, he received his doctorate from the Medical Academy in Dresden. He then ran a urology practice in Dresden-Plauen as a specialist. Wolfram Hackel has published works on organs and churches since the 1970s. He soon became one of Saxony's most important organ researchers. Wolfram Hackel is a long-standing member Read more [...]
Gerhard Aumüller

Gerhard Aumüller

2nd from bottom: Gerhard Aumüller Gerhard Aumüller (born November 19, 1942 in Arolsen) is a German physician and was a professor of anatomy and cell biology at the Philipps University of Marburg. He has also distinguished himself as an organ historian. Aumüller has also researched historical organ building and published primarily on classical organ building in Hesse and Westphalia. He has been a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse since 2000 and was elected to the advisory board Read more [...]
Anton Neumayr

Anton Neumayr

Hofrat University Professor Dr. Anton Neumayr Junior (* December 6, 1920 in Hallein; † March 18, 2017 in Vienna) was a specialist in internal medicine, chamber musician, and researcher. As a historian, he studied the medical histories of famous musicians. He also hosted the television program "Diagnosis" from 1987 to 1994 and published numerous specialist publications. Born in 1920 as the son of Mayor Anton Neumayer, he was distinguished from his early youth by his high intelligence Read more [...]
Klaus Zehnder-Tischendorf

Klaus Zehnder-Tischendorf

On this day, Klaus Zehnder-Tischendorf (*22. Januar 1957 in Cologne, died 14. November 2014 in Cologne) and others founded the "Norbert Burgmüller Society e.V. Düsseldorf" was founded in the Düsseldorf City Museum. The driving force behind the project is the pianist Tobias Koch, Düsseldorf, and the Burgmüller researchers Dr. Klaus Martin Kopitz, Berlin, and Dr. Klaus Zehnder-Tischendorf, Cologne. The management is taken over by the Dirk Franke Concert Agency, Düsseldorf. Also present at Read more [...]
Georg Hörmann

Georg Hörmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSGv1Y5jZO8 Georg Hörmann (born November 13, 1946 in Ulm) is a German psychologist, physician, psychotherapist, and retired professor of education at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg. After graduating from the Humboldt-Gymnasium Ulm in 1965, Hörmann studied secondary school teaching (philosophy, Latin, theology, and education), musicology (master's degree), psychology (diploma), and human medicine. He earned the degrees of choirmaster (C-exam) at Read more [...]
Eli Newberger

Eli Newberger

For more than 30 years, Dr. Newberger's consolation at the end of stressful workdays was his weekly gigs as tuba player for the New Black Eagle Jazz Band. As he left the clinic and entered Boston's jazz scene, he moved from a world filled with misery to one teeming with creative energy. "At five I leave the clinic and forty-five minutes later I pull into a parking lot outside Coffee, Tea, and Melody, the pub the Black Eagles have been playing since 1995," he wrote in Doctors Afield. "I take Read more [...]