Günter Bust

Günter Bust (12 July 1930 – 27 May 2005) was a German music educator and composer. Life Born in , today Magdeburg, Bust first attended the 23rd Magdeburg Community School, then the from 1941 to 1945. After the Bombing of Leipzig, the school was evacuated to Nossen in 1943/44. At the end of the war, he stayed in Zschopau. After the Abitur at the , he studied school music with Fritz Reuter and Slavic studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1949 to 1953. On the occasion of the in East Berlin in 1950, he founded the “Central Choir” which is considered the forerunner of the “Johann Friedrich Reichardt” in Halle. Bust then worked as a teacher in Halberstadt and Dessau. From 1956 to 1963, he was head of the music department at the in Weißenfels. Afterwards, he taught at the Käthe Kollwitz secondary school in Schönebeck. From 1967 to 1995 he was head of the , where he taught music theory, practical school play and viola. He also presided over the youth symphony orchestra there. At the music school, he set up a secretariat for the “Georg Philipp Telemann” working group. This became the centre of Telemann care and research in 1985. Bust also installed a musical pre-s