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First name: Kurt
Last name: Hessenberg
Dates: 1908-1994
Category: Quartet
Nationality: German
Opus name: Opus 10 in C (c.1935)
Publisher: Notenlager
Peculiarities: IMD;Anglo-American Music Publishers; https://www.notenlager.de/Kammermusik/Streich-und-Tasteninstrumente/Quartette/p104159/QUARTETT-C-DUR-OP-10-FUER-KLAVIER-UND-STREICHTRIO-STIMMEN.html?XTCsid=tj5caesh86915uu7c14cgv8324
Information: Kurt Hessenberg (August 17, 1908 – June 17, 1994) was a German composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main. Kurt Hessenberg was born on August 17, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as the fourth and last child of the lawyer Eduard Hessenberg and his wife Emma, née Kugler. Among his ancestors was Heinrich Hoffmann, whose famous children's book Struwwelpeter Hessenberg was to arrange for children's choir (op. 49) later in his life. From 1927–1931 Hessenberg studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. Among his teachers were Günter Raphael (composition) and Robert Teichmüller (piano). In 1933 Hessenberg became a teacher at the Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main, where he himself had taken his earliest music lessons. In 1940 Hessenberg received the "Nationaler Kompositionspreis" (national prize for composition), and in 1951 he was awarded the Robert-Schumann-Prize of the city of Düsseldorf for his cantata "Vom Wesen und Vergehen" op. 45. Hessenberg was appointed professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in 1953 and taught there until his retirement in 1973. Kurt Hessenberg died in Frankfurt am Main on June 17, 1994. Hessenberg's work contributed significantly to the repertoire of the Protestant churches in the 20th century.