Eva-Maria Houben

Eva-Maria Houben (born 15 January 1955) is a German composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and university lecturer.

Life Born in Rheinberg, Houben grew up in Kamp-Lintfort. Her mother worked as a special education teacher, her father was a machine steiger and presbyter in the Protestant village church of . There, Houben provided the organ service during her secondary school time. After her Abitur she studied school music at the Folkwang University of the Arts (1974–78) Her teachers at the Folkwang Hochschule also included Mauricio Rosenmann Taub (music theory) and Ludger Maxsein (piano).

From 1978 to 1982 Houben was organist at the Evangelische Stadtkirche Dinslaken and applied to German Studies and musicology at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

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Publications Violeta Dinescu. Musikalische Praxis als Lebensform : Sinnfindung und Wirklichkeitserfahrung beim Musizieren. Die Aufhebung der Zeit : zur Utopie unbegrenzter Gegenwart in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gelb : neues Hören; Vinko Globokar, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Adriana Hölszky. Jürg Frey : Werkbetrachtungen, Reflexionen, Gespräche.