Kinder optimal fördern – mit Musik

What do they all have in common – the universal scholar Hildegard von Bingen, the pianist Clara Schumann, the Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein, the violinist of the century Yehudi Menuhin, the German ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and the actress Katja Riemann? They all have experienced how active music-making can enhance the quality of life – Isolated examples? No! A six-year long-term study with children aged between six and twelve years scientifically substantiates: Music-making children and young people

- improve their social behaviour

- enhance their IQ

- get good grades at school

- compensate for their lack of concentration, etc.

 

In the present paperback, Professor Hans Günther Bastian, head of the research project, summarizes major results of the 700-page scientific study Musik(erziehung) und ihre Wirkung and provides convincing arguments in favour of the demand for music education to take up a central position at general-education schools.

This book helps parents, teachers, music teachers, the young people themselves and politicians on a federal and länder level to see the potential that exists in music and music education.