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Michael Dartsch
Prof. Dr Michael Dartsch first worked at music schools, among other places. He earned his doctorate in education and has held a professorship for music education at the Hochschule für Musik Saar since 1996. There he also teaches violin didactics, elemental music pedagogy (EMP) and educational science. He received the State Prize for University Teaching and recorded a CD with Haydn’s violin sonatas. His publications include Der Geigenkasten (a violin method, three volumes; Breitkopf & Härtel, 2020 [3rd ed.], 2020 [2nd ed.], 2007) as well as Mensch, Musik und Bildung (Breitkopf & Härtel, 2010), an introduction in music pedagogy (Musik lernen – Musik unterrichten, Breitkopf & Härtel, 2020 [2nd ed.]), the Handbuch Musikpädagogik (co-editor; Waxmann, 2018), Didaktik künstlerischen Musizierens (Breitkopf & Härtel 2019) and most recently the double-volume EMP kompakt (lexicon und handbook of EMP, with Meyer and Stiller, Helbling 2020). He was chair of the Early Childhood Music Education working group in the European project ‘Strengthening music in society’, is spokesperson for the EMP Germany working group and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Music in Early Childhood.
Contact: Hochschule für Musik Saar, Bismarckstraße 1, 66111 Saarbrücken, Germany.
