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It is said often that doctors are musical. But an astonishing number of double talents are as well professional doctors as musicians and have done a full musical diploma. Some prominent examples are Albert Schweitzer, doctor, musician, composer and minister Alexander Borodin from Moskau, the conductors and doctors Giuseppe Sinopoli and Zubin Metha. All music doctors cary "two souls in their breast"
cannot easily decide for one of their talents during the studies. Medicine is a
jealous lover said Sauerbruch and also music wants everything..... In many big cities there are doctors orchestras, also all over the world: like "Barcelona doctors orchestra" (Orquestra Ars Medica) und das PCOT (Physicians Chamber Orchestra of Taiwan). You can see a dentist in a film! See also Orchestra Medicus Japan! In Germany for example in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Heidelberg, Augsburg, Hannover, Jena, "MusicaMedica-Orchester", the german-pediatrics-orchestra under the violin professor Eduard Melkus from Vienna, the Bavarian-doctors-orchestra, the german-doctors-orchestra under Dr.med. Dieter Pöller from Munich.
Many doctors give whole solo programs. Dr.medl Wolfgang Stadler from bad Windsheim, former guest student of Nurnberg conservcatory plays on his Cello being accompanied by a lady pianist, the wife of a medical colleague. He remarks that medicin is an art like music, and with both you can make "Kunstfehler" (mistakes). Of course there are also Jazz musicians and bands from entertainment music up to rock bands. The orthopedic doctor Dr.med. Peter Wehling always plays with his colleague Dr.med. Jens Hartmann as a Jazz piano duo at congresses of the Orthopedic Association. Dr.med. Rassweiler has a unique Urologist Pop band which has edited several CDs. Also the Orthopedical singing quartett around Prof.Dr.med. Neumann from the University of Magdeburg gives recitals with humoristic own arrangements with medical themes and naturally some of the Comedian Harmonists and have produced a CD. Dr.med. Walter Krick, doctor for internal medicine from Ludwigshafen should have become baritone according to his singing teacher. After years of decision-battles he decided for medicine. He would do this again looking back, although he has done TV-performances and produced several CDs and sold them thousandwise. Another solution came out for the Oboist Dr.med. Andreas Schneider from Hamburg: 50/50 as freelance doctor and as freelance musician! With a piano diploma and the medical degree in his pocket Wolfgang Ellenberger got also the "concert exam" with Prof. Conrad Hansen, later decided for music and is travelling with his Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand (290 cm, 630 kg) as a hand luggage around Europe. Since 1991 he gives piano master classes (up to now over 30 week-ends) which are mostly visited by medical doctors. One participant has the record with 10 classes visited! It is the general practitioner Dr.med. Peter Schnepp from Freiensteinau for whom the few days of the master class is like relax holiday from the stress in the country office with more than 100 patiens a day and non-stop presence around the clock. In his workshops Ellenberger teaches his "Relativity formula of piano playing" with most modern equipment like computer piano ailent systems for practising all around the clock and there were also live-recitals in the Internet. As a contact media he offers a world-wide musician doctors register (now around 400 contacts) and there shall be an always actual calendar of music doctors recitals online on this homepage. The link-list will show also interesting links. Ask for being inserted in this lists. The intention of Ellenberger is to offer a central international contact service for music and arts doctors and for all free time hobbies of doctors! The pharmaceutic industry is doing something but not what
they should really do.... The modern possibilities let you experience a different, a
creative aspect of the "half-gods in white": Just ask for a
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