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Bernhard Heiden
Biography of composer, Bernhard Heiden
August 24, 1910 - April 30, 2000
As quoted from the printed program of his Memorial Concert
Indiana University School of Music - Auer Hall
Bloomington, Indiana - September 18, 2000
'Bernhard Heiden was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany on August 24, 1910 to Ernst and Martha (Heimer) Heiden.
He became interested in music at the age of five, and a year later composed his first pieces.
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When he began formal music instruction he studied piano, clarinet and violin, in addition to his lessons in theory and harmony. He was admitted to the Hochschule for Musik in Berlin in 1929, and studied composition under Paul Hindemith, whom he considered his principal teacher.
In 1933, his last year at the Hochschule, he was awarded the Mendelssohn Prize in Composition, and was married in 1934 to Cola de Joncheere, pianist and fellow student at the Hochschule.
'Bernhard and Cola came to the United States in 1935 and settled in Detroit, Michigan