Maria Schüppel (28 May 1923 – 27 June 2011) [1] [2] was a German composer, educator, pianist and pioneering music therapist who composed works for lyre and voice, and experimented with electronic music.[3][4]
Schüppel was born in Chemnitz. After her father’s death, her family moved to Görlitz, where she studied piano with Eberhard Wenzel. She later studied music in Dresden, Breslau, and Weimar, and passed her state examination in Weimar in 1945. She worked as a music teacher and at Weimar Radio, composing art songs and folk songs. In 1950, Schüppel found a job in East Berlin, where she gave harpsichord and clavichord recitals and studied the trautonium (an early electronic synthesizer) with Oskar Sala. She worked at the German University of Music (today the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin) until 1957 when she moved to West Berlin to focus on music therapy. She traveled throughout Europe and studied or collaborated with Hans-Heinrich Engel, Karl König, Anny von Lange, Hermann Pfrogner, Edmund Pracht, Gotthard Starke, and Rudolph Treichler.[2]
Together with Hildegard Prym,[2] Schüppel developed the anthroposophical music therapy (AnMt) training course in Berlin at the Musiktherapeutische Arbeitsstätte (Center for Music Therapy)[5] in 1963 and directed it until 1993.[4] AnMt was based on an approach developed by Rudolph Steiner to address the patient’s spiritual health as well as his or her physical health.[6] In 1994, the German Society of Music Therapy awarded Schüppel with honorary membership for her work in developing the field of music therapy.[2] Maria Schüppel died in Berlin.[2]
Schüppel’s compositions included:
Chamber
edit- Mercury Bath (lyre)[7][8]
- Music in Three Movements in the Baroque Style (lyre)[9]
- Suite (lyre)[10]
- Zweistimmige Fassung der Festmusiken (soprano and alto lyres)[10]
- Trio in C-Dur (soprano recorder, treble recorder and guitar), composed in 1953, edited by Bruno Henze in "Das Gitarrespiel", vol. 15a (Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag, Leipzig 1964)
Vocal
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- ^ a b c d e f g "Musiktherapie". www.musiktherapeutische-arbeitsstaette.de. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
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- ^ a b Intveen, Andrea; Edwards, Jane (2012-06-19). "The History and Basic Tenets of Anthroposophical Music Therapy". Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. 12 (2). doi:10.15845/voices.v12i2.646. hdl:10536/DRO/DU:30063088. ISSN 1504-1611.
- ^ Husemann, Armin (1994). The Harmony of the Human Body: Musical Principles in Human Physiology. Floris Books. ISBN 978-0-86315-380-8.
- ^ "Anthroposophic Health Association - Music Therapy". anthroposophichealth.org. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ Edwards, Jane (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-881714-7.
- ^ Intveen, Andrea (2007-11-01). "Musical Instruments in Anthroposophical Music Therapy with Reference to Rudolf Steiner's Model of the Threefold Human Being". Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. 7 (3). doi:10.15845/voices.v7i3.547. ISSN 1504-1611.
- ^ a b "Maria Schuppel". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ a b "The Lyre in America". Lyre Association of North America. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "HeartOpera | Projects: Sounding Blood, Heart Opera, Galaxy of NinthsProjekte: Sounding Blood, Stimme trifft Herz trifft Stimme, galaxie". www.heartopera.ch. Retrieved 2022-11-27.