Peter Gülke
Peter Gülke, born in Weimar in 1934, was a composer and one of the leading musicologists and authors on music. He has held numerous positions, including chief conductor in Weimar and Wuppertal and professor in the discipline of conducting in Freiburg im Breisgau. He was the chief conductor of the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Gülke was the author of numerous books on Rousseau, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner and Dufay, among others. For his oeuvre Gülke has received numerous awards including the Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1994, the Karl-Vossler Prize in 1998, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 2004 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2014. He has also been awarded an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Peter Gülke died on 26 April 2026 in Weimar.
Peter Gülke, born in Weimar in 1934, was a composer and one of the leading musicologists and authors on music. He has held numerous positions, including chief conductor in Weimar and Wuppertal and professor in the discipline of conducting in Freiburg im Breisgau. He was the chief conductor of the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Gülke was the author of numerous books on Rousseau, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner and Dufay, among others. For his oeuvre Gülke has received numerous awards including the Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1994, the Karl-Vossler Prize in 1998, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 2004 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2014. He has also been awarded an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Peter Gülke died on 26 April 2026 in Weimar.