Hella Brock

Hella Maria Brock (née Siegmund-Schultze; 3 October 1919 – 30 November 2020) was a German music educator, musicologist, and an internationally known Edvard Grieg scholar.

From 1940 to 1942 she studied musicology, music pedagogy, piano and English literature at the University of Breslau.

[1] She then pursued studies of English language and literature at the University of Breslau until the war-related evacuation in 1945.

From 1946 she worked as a teacher at schools in Halle and Merseburg, and from 1947 as a lecturer in English and German at the Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Fakultät [de] of the University of Berlin.

In 1952, Brock began an aspirancy (research assistantship) at the Institute for Music Education of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, where she was awarded a doctorate in 1955 with a dissertation on the Dramaturgy of the Schuloper of the 20th century, supervised by Fritz Reuter [de].

[5] Brock was significantly involved in the preservation of the former place of work of Edvard Grieg in Leipzig.

In October 1998 the association Grieg-Begegnungsstätte [nl] (Grieg Meeting Place) was founded in Leipzig, to establish a memorial and meeting place for the composer[5] in the house built in 1874 by Otto Brückwald for the Edition Peters publishing house.