Death of the singing teacher Ernst Waldemar Weber
Ernst Waldemar Weber, distinguished school music and cultural politician and author of books such as "Schafft die Hauptfächer ab!" and "Die vergessene Intelligenz. Musik im Kreis der menschlichen Anlagen" died in Bern at the age of 101.
Ernst Waldemar Weber, born in 1922, was a Bernese primary school teacher, secondary school teacher of music, singer with a teaching diploma and concert diploma, choirmaster and organist, member of the music and dance project groups of the Bernese teacher training program and lecturer at the University of Bern, voice coach and speech teacher, according to biographical information from Synergie-Verlag.
After a six-year pilot project with extended music lessons in Muri near Bern, he was coordinator of the National Fund project "Better education with more music" from 1988 to 1992 with 50 experimental classes. As co-founder and long-standing secretary of the Swiss Conference of School Music SKSM and the Coordination of Music Education Switzerland KMS, he launched "Youth+Music" and the music festival of the same name; he was also instrumental in the creation of the article on music education in the new Federal Constitution. In 2000, he initiated the founding of the Parent-Child Singing Association, which he headed until 2007.
