Eberhard Preußner

Eberhard Preußner (22 May 1899 – 15 August 1964) was a German music educator.

Life Born in Słupsk, Preußner was the second of three children of Oskar and Jenny Preußner. He spent his childhood and youth in Stettin, where his father was director of the Bismarck-Oberrealschule there. Eberhard Preußner attended the in Stettin. From 1916 to 1918, he served as a soldier in the First World War. After the war, he studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1924 with the dissertation Die Methodik im Schulgesang der evangelischen Lateinschulen des 17. Jahrhunderts. He dedicated himself to music education. In 1928, he became editor of the journal Die Musik and worked until 1934 with Leo Kestenberg at the Berlin Central Institute for Education and Teaching, and from 1930 to 1944, was editor of the music journal Die Musikpflege.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was a member of the Reichsmusikkammer. In 1939, Preußner went to the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he became lecturer and managing director and headed the city's concert office. Allgemeine Pädagogik und Musikpädagogik. Leipzig 1929. Die musikalischen Reisen des Herrn v. Uffenbach. Reisetagebuch 1712–1716. Kassel und Basel 1949. Allgemeine Musikerziehung. Heidelberg 1959. Wie studiere ich Musik? Heidelberg 1962.