Hella Brock

Hella Maria Brock (née Siegmund-Schultze; 3 October 191930 November 2020) was a German music educator, musicologist, and an internationally known Edvard Grieg scholar. Brock was professor of music and English studies at the Leipzig University. She was president, and honorary president of the in Leipzig until her death in 2020.

Life She was born Hella Maria Siegmund-Schultze in , now part of Jessen as the daughter of the lawyer and mayor of Schweinitz, Hans Siegmund-Schultze, and his wife, the teacher Ida née Böhme.

In 1959, she became the founding director of the Institute for Music Education at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, where she taught the methodology of music teaching, work analysis and music history. In Greifswald, she habilitated (completed postdoctoral research) in 1960 with a thesis, again with Reuter, on Inhalt und Funktion des deutschen Schulliederbuches von der Gründung des Deutschen Reiches bis zum Ende des 2. Weltkrieges (English: Content and function of the German school song book from the foundation of the German Reich to the end of World War II ) and was appointed professor for theory and methodology of music education in 1963. In 1972 she was appointed professor of cultural studies and German studies at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. Brock worked for many years on the commission for the development of study programs for music education in the GDR and was temporarily head of this commission. She retired at the end of the spring semester 1980. In 1985 she received permission to travel to Oslo for research purposes.

Under Brock's leadership, the association held two Grieg conferences with international participation in 2004 and 2008. She resigned from presidency in 2008, and became its honorary president.

Family Brock had a daughter (born 1953) and a son (born 1955). Her brother Walther Siegmund-Schultze was also a musicologist. Brock died in Dippoldiswalde at age 101 Unterrichtshilfen Musik. 7. und 8. Klasse (together with Herbert Zimpel), Verlag Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1970. Jugendlexikon Musik (edited together with Christoph Kleinschmidt), Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1983., Musik hören – Musik erleben. Verlag Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1985., Edvard Grieg. Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1990. Edvard Grieg im Musikunterricht. Betrachtungen unter interkulturellen und polyästhetischen Aspekten. Hildegard-Junker-Verlag, Altenmedingen 1995. Edvard Grieg. Briefwechsel mit dem Musikverlag C. F. Peters 1863–1907. (together with Finn Benestad), Edition Peters, Frankfurt Main 1997. Edvard Grieg als Musikschriftsteller. Hildegard-Junker-Verlag, Altenmedingen 1999. Griegs Musik zu Ibsens Peer Gynt. Bereicherung und Eigenständigkeit. Hildegard-Junker-Verlag, Altenmedingen 2001.