Heiner Ruland

Heiner Ruland (6 April 1934 – 25 March 2017) was a German composer and music therapist. Life Born on 6 April 1934, in Aachen, Ruland studied chemistry after a humanistic secondary school education, then school music with harpsichord as main subject with Fritz Neumeyer in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1963 to 1974, he worked as a music teacher at the Waldorf School Benefeld, Lüneburg Heath. Based on Kathleen Schlesinger’s research and Rudolf Steiner’s suggestions, intensive musical-anthroposophical research work developed alongside teaching, as laid down in Ein Weg zur Erweiterung des Tonerlebens : musikalische Tonkunde am Monochord In the course of this musical-humanistic research, an extensive teaching and lecturing activity began. His work as a composer in an expanded tonal system became increasingly important. From 1976 to 2001, he continued to work full-time in the practice of Music therapy at the Öschelbronn Clinic, a hospital for internal diseases. Ruland died in Hamborn, on 25 March 2017, aged 82. Work Vocal music Sologesang * Lieder, Duette, Terzette * Liederzyklen auf Gedichte von Hölderlin, Morgenstern, Heimlander, Goethe, Droste-Hülshoff Choir * Die Tageszeiten * Steffen-Ch