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Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen

Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen (born 10 February 1954) is a German recorder player and composer. Life Horseshoe was born in a hotel room in ). His mother, a travelling saleswoman from the Allgäu, had kept the

Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen (born 10 February 1954) is a German recorder player and composer. Life Horseshoe was born in a hotel room in ). His mother, a travelling saleswoman from the Allgäu, had kept the pregnancy a secret. Two days after the birth, she abandoned her son; the hotelier found the infant under a bedspread. On 12 February 1954, the Youth Welfare Office took care of the foundling and brought him to a Catholic baby home in Lobberich. On Boxing Day, he was baptised Protestant with the name Hans-Jürgen; the mother had instructed a midwife to do this before she left. Hufeisen went to live with a foster mother and in 1957 to the Protestant children’s home Haus Sonneck of Neukirchen-Vluyn. There a governess discovered Hufeisen’s musical talent and taught him Christian evening songs and how to play the recorder. Hufeisen won prizes at regional competitions of “Jugend musiziert”; from 1972 to 1977 he studied recorder, music education and composition at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Meanwhile, from 1974 to 1978, he was employed as a lecturer at the International Children’s and Young People’s Book Fair in Duisburg, and from 1975 to 1977 as a lecturer at the Folkwang University

Era
Post-War
Lived
1954–present
From
Germany
Born in
Anrath
Known as
composer, conductor, music arranger, music teacher, recorder player, musician
Instruments
recorder

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.