Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Westerkamp, Hildegard, 1946-
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1946-
History
Hildegard Westerkamp is a German and Canadian composer of "electroacoustic" music. Westerkamp was born in Osnabrück, Germany and she emigrated to Canada in 1968. Her education includes the Conservatory of Music in Freiburg from 1966 to 1968 where she studied the flute and piano, and the University of British Columbia from 1968 to 1972 where she received her Bachelor of Music degree. In the 1970s, Westerkamp joined the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University. In the 1980s, she was a professor in the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University. Westerkamp has broadcasted and performed her compositions in many parts of the world. Her compositions deal with elements of the acoustic environment, showcasing rural and urban environments, voices of people, combined with silence or noise, music or media sounds.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, 2nd Edition.
Status
Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Some information was retrieved from Hildegrad Westerkamp's website: http://www.sfu.ca/~westerka/bio.html
Subject Heading: Library of Congress
Subject Heading: Library of Congress