The Erich-Thienhaus-Institute of the Detmold University of Music mourns the loss of its former lecturer Klaus-Dieter Harbusch, who passed away in Cologne at the age of 92.

From Oc­to­ber 1, 1991 to Decem­ber 13, 1994, Klaus-Di­eter Har­busch served as a lec­turer in mu­sic trans­mis­sion in the field of elec­tron­ic mu­sic at the Det­mold Uni­versity of Mu­sic. Dur­ing this time, he brought his ex­tens­ive pro­fes­sion­al ex­per­i­ence and great mu­sic­al sens­it­iv­ity in­to his teach­ing, provid­ing stu­dents with well-foun­ded in­sights in­to the prac­tic­al work of a Ton­meister.

Klaus-Di­eter Har­busch him­self stud­ied Ton­meister at the Det­mold Uni­versity of Mu­sic. After com­plet­ing his de­gree, he first gained sev­er­al years of prac­tic­al ex­per­i­ence as a sound en­gin­eer in the re­cord in­dustry be­fore work­ing for many years in broad­cast­ing as an artist­ic re­cord­ing dir­ect­or and Ton­meister. In this role, he con­trib­uted to nu­mer­ous mu­sic pro­duc­tions, shap­ing them through his re­fined mu­sic­al in­stinct and high level of pro­fes­sion­al­ism.

Former pro­fess­or and spokes­per­son of the Erich Thi­en­haus In­sti­tute, Wern­er Dab­ring­haus, met Klaus-Di­eter Har­busch dur­ing his in­tern­ship at WDR. Mr. Dab­ring­haus re­mem­bers him as one of the most in­flu­en­tial col­leagues of his time, someone who guided mu­si­cians to out­stand­ing res­ults with great re­straint and sens­it­iv­ity.

With the passing of Klaus-Di­eter Har­busch, the Det­mold Uni­versity of Mu­sic loses a former col­league who ex­em­plar­ily com­bined teach­ing and artist­ic prac­tice.

Klaus-Di­eter Har­busch gave an im­press­ive in­ter­view in Novem­ber 1978 for Stu­di­o­magazin about his work and about Ton­meister train­ing in Det­mold. It can be found here.