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Norbert Linke
Norbert Linke (5 March 1933 – 10 November 2020) and instrumental works. From 1952 to 1959 he studied composition at the State Academy of Music in Hamburg with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and Philipp
Norbert Linke (5 March 1933 – 10 November 2020) and instrumental works. From 1952 to 1959 he studied composition at the State Academy of Music in Hamburg with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and Philipp Jarnach. During the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for Neue Musik (1962-1964) he received his “final touches” from Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1962 to 1972 he was a teacher at the , before he was a lecturer and professor in music teacher training at the FHS Darmstadt until 1976. Linke became known mainly for chamber music, but also for vocal and orchestral music. Linke has received numerous composition prizes (Hilversum, Darmstadt, Hamburg several times, Hof, Munich, Bonn), including the 1977 Johann-Wenzel-Stamitz-Prize (Stuttgart). Since 1971 he has been a full member of the music section of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg. From 1976 until his retirement he taught as a full professor of music at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 1985 to 1991 Linke was 1st chairman of the and has been its honorary member since 2013. The Wiener Institut für Strauss-Forschung (WISF) also elected him as an honorary member in 2020. His pseudonym was Aaron Aache