Heinrich Lemacher (26 June 1891 – 16 March 1966) was a German composer and music educator.
Life
Born in
Solingen, Lemacher studied from 1911 to 1916 at the Cologne Conservatory and at Bonn University, where he received his doctorate in
musicology in 1916. From 1925 to 1965 he taught composition, theory and music history at the
Hochschule für Musik Köln, where he had been professor since 1928.
Important students of Heinrich Lemacher were
Heinrich Weber,
Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and his long-time colleague at the Cologne Academy of Music
Hermann Schroeder, who was also co-author of his most important teaching works.
Lemacher died at the age of 74 in a Cologne hospital. He was widowed by Maria Augusta Horst, whom he had married in Cologne in 1927.[1]
Writings
125 Jahre Gürzenichchor, Köln Chronik d. Jahre 1927-1952 z. 125-jährigen Jubiläum d. Gürzenichchors u.d. Kölner Concertgesellschaft.[2]
J. Dahlberg, Studien zur geistlichen Chormusik Heinrich Lemachers (Kölner Beiträge zur Musikforschung, Band 131), Regensburg 1983 (with complete catalogue of works)
Karl Laux; “Musik und Musiker der Gegenwart”, 1949. Verlag Dr. W. Spiel K.G., Essen