Bernd Riede


Bernd Riede is a German music educator, author of several textbooks and director of studies at the in the Reinickendorf borough of Berlin.

Life

Riede studied school music, musicology, political science, philosophy and Italian. In 1985 he was awarded a doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on Luigi Nono in musicology. He was a teacher and from 1992 to 2018 head of the music department at the Friedrich-Engels-Gymnasium Berlin-Reinickendorf.
Since 1980 he has also been teaching music theory at universities. Since 1993 he has been a member of framework plan commissions several times. His texts for music lessons, especially in the upper school, are used nationwide.

Publications