Schönfelder Ilse (1951)
Germany
Guitarist and composer, was born in Lipsia (Saxony).
English
Composer, guitarist and pedagogue, born in Lipsia (Saxony). /
She spent her childhood in Lipsia, moved in 1960 with her family to Jena (Thuringia). Actually, she wanted to learn piano, which her parents disagreed with. In 1967 she came to the guitar by the model of a cousin. With the desire for lessons she was rejected at the music school Jena, because she was already 16 years old. She finally found a private music teacher with Margarete Teichmann. She made rapid progress, and so the teacher had her in the second year of teaching the “Alhambra” of Tárrega practice. The premature tremolo game, however, had a permanently insufficient technique of the right hand result. After seven years, the lesson ended with a lecture on the Mozart Variations by Fernando Sor. After that she occasionally performed publicly with various chamber music partners. Since there was a lively demand for guitar lessons, the chairman of the Jena Music Teachers Association, Heinrich Funk, gave her the first students, including Annegret Hucke (married Kneip, remarried Lavin). Hicke fled several years later in the Federal Republic of Germany and published in 2008 the book „Ein schwarzes Schaf: Tagebuch einer DDR-Flucht” (extended edition of 2018). In 1981 Ilse Schönfelder was given the opportunity, in view of the planned but then unrealized establishment of music teaching cabins at the music schools, to complete an apprenticeship as an instrumental teacher in the secondary occupation at the Gera District Music School. As part of this training, she got with the help of guitar teacher Heide Döhler also the upper school degree, which the private music teachers were not allowed to give. She finished her instrumental course in 1984 successfully. At that time, however, the main occupation and family imposed certain restrictions on private teaching. From 1993 to 1997 she gave group lessons for beginners for a private music school, as well as private lessons for advanced students. She trained a total of 45 guitar students. Since 1995 until today she plays in the mandolin and guitar ensemble “Lautengilde Jena”, which regularly gives concerts. Since the beginning of the seventies Ilse Schönfelder began to compose for her instrument, though she did not have any training for that. She created quite a few works - especially for guitar solo. The “Six Pieces”, published in 1980 by Werner Pauli (in “Gitarre 7”, Verlag Neue Musik Berlin), was her first and so far only printed composition.
Ilse Schönfelder studied physics and worked full-time 1973-1991 as a scientific-technical employee in the VEB Carl Zeiss Jena. From 1997 to retirement in 2016, she was a laboratory engineer at the University of Applied Sciences (later Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule) in Jena. (Rainer Stelle)
She spent her childhood in Lipsia, moved in 1960 with her family to Jena (Thuringia). Actually, she wanted to learn piano, which her parents disagreed with. In 1967 she came to the guitar by the model of a cousin. With the desire for lessons she was rejected at the music school Jena, because she was already 16 years old. She finally found a private music teacher with Margarete Teichmann. She made rapid progress, and so the teacher had her in the second year of teaching the “Alhambra” of Tárrega practice. The premature tremolo game, however, had a permanently insufficient technique of the right hand result. After seven years, the lesson ended with a lecture on the Mozart Variations by Fernando Sor. After that she occasionally performed publicly with various chamber music partners. Since there was a lively demand for guitar lessons, the chairman of the Jena Music Teachers Association, Heinrich Funk, gave her the first students, including Annegret Hucke (married Kneip, remarried Lavin). Hicke fled several years later in the Federal Republic of Germany and published in 2008 the book „Ein schwarzes Schaf: Tagebuch einer DDR-Flucht” (extended edition of 2018). In 1981 Ilse Schönfelder was given the opportunity, in view of the planned but then unrealized establishment of music teaching cabins at the music schools, to complete an apprenticeship as an instrumental teacher in the secondary occupation at the Gera District Music School. As part of this training, she got with the help of guitar teacher Heide Döhler also the upper school degree, which the private music teachers were not allowed to give. She finished her instrumental course in 1984 successfully. At that time, however, the main occupation and family imposed certain restrictions on private teaching. From 1993 to 1997 she gave group lessons for beginners for a private music school, as well as private lessons for advanced students. She trained a total of 45 guitar students. Since 1995 until today she plays in the mandolin and guitar ensemble “Lautengilde Jena”, which regularly gives concerts. Since the beginning of the seventies Ilse Schönfelder began to compose for her instrument, though she did not have any training for that. She created quite a few works - especially for guitar solo. The “Six Pieces”, published in 1980 by Werner Pauli (in “Gitarre 7”, Verlag Neue Musik Berlin), was her first and so far only printed composition.
Ilse Schönfelder studied physics and worked full-time 1973-1991 as a scientific-technical employee in the VEB Carl Zeiss Jena. From 1997 to retirement in 2016, she was a laboratory engineer at the University of Applied Sciences (later Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule) in Jena. (Rainer Stelle)
Composizioni (23)
Presente in antologie
- GITARRE 7 — SECHS STÜCKE