Maler, Wilhelm

Born: 21.06.1902
Died: 29.04.1976
deutscher Komponist und Musiktheoretiker

Wilhelm Maler was born in Heidelberg in 1902, where he received composition and music theory lessons from Hermann Grabner at an early age. In addition to a wide range of piano literature, his compositional worklist includes the oratorio; Der ewige Strom"; (The Eternal Stream) and a currently unpublished three-movement work for bassoon and string quartet. Maler became known for his book on theory of harmony, which appeared in 1931 and which is still in use at many German music academies.

From 1925 until the outbreak of the war, Maler taught music theory at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and at the University of Bonn. After the war Maler was significantly involved in the foundation of the Nordwestdeutschen Musikakademie (today's Musikhochschule)Detmold, where he taught as a professor for composition and also chaired its rector. Since 1959 Maler lived in Hamburg, where he was director of the Musikhochschule Hamburg until 1969 and where he died in 1975.

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