You
can probably now imagine easily why I am extraordinarily delighted that a
classical composer takes creative care of this legacy and puts highest attention
to the fact that medical experts scientifically objectivate the effects of
such music-scientific compositions on man's organism.
The cooperation of a classical composer and medical experts seems to me a
very lucky alliance for health and also for music, and I am convinced that
with the Medical Resonance Therapy Music you found a new (and at the same
time age old) promising path for the medical application of music.
In
Wiesbaden I learned furthermore, that African members of government asked
you to find ways and means to preserve the rich music tradition of that continent
and that you now think about collecting those healing elements of the different
music traditions of the world and make them accessible to scientific research.
This
seems to me a very good idea because in this manner the best musical-medical
ethnic traditions can approve their practical value and find their seat of
origin in the objective medicine. I wish I had known about your works twenty
years before.
Today I am pensioned off and my possibilities to take part in your activities
are unfortunately very restricted. I am sure that there are enough practising
colleagues who would like to associate with you and that there are enough
supporters and foundations that would make the support of your activities
for health to their own concern. Your publisher, Alfred Tils, was so kind
to leave me several copies of some documentation on your work, which I sent
to different colleagues.
Should you therefore get some interested requests that use my name as reference, this explains it. I wish you further good luck and much support in your activities and would be happy if you could keep me informed about the proceedings of your findings and developments. If I can assist you with my possibilities I will like to do it. With the best greetings.
Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Hans Schadewaldt
Univ. Prof. Dr. med.
Hans SchadewaldtPRESIDENT of the
NORTH-RHINE-PALATINATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE,
and SPECIALIST
IN ANCIENT
GREEK MUSIC-THERAPY
Univ.
Prof.
Dr. med.
Hans Schadewaldt
PRESIDENT of the NORTH-RHINE
PALATINATE ACADEMY OF
SCIENCE, and SPECIALIST IN
ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC-THERAPY
in a letter to the composer:
Dear Mr. Huebner,
on
a medical conference in Wiesbaden I learned about your research and development
in the field of application of the natural harmony laws of the microcosm of
music for medicine.
As a former director of the 'Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Universitaet
Duesseldorf
(Institute of
history in Medicine ' but also as president of the 'Rheinisch-Westfaelische
Akademie der Wissenschaften' again and again I was concerned with the medical
application of healing music - even my farewell lecture at the Academy of
Sciences early this year I dedicated to the theme of the ancient Greek music-medicine
which is also your theme concerning Pythagoras.