About the composer Kurt Mederacke is unfortunately very little or nothing mentioned in the relevant music encyclopedias. He is best known by his quintet "Bohemian Suite" has become op.43, which was published in 1948 in Leipzig publishers Hofmeister Today it is an integral part of the wind quintet literature.
Mederacke was born in 1910 in Leipzig. He received his training from 1927 to 1935 at the State Conservatory of Music in Leipzig. He first studied violin with Charles Munch, later majoring in bassoon with Prof. Carl Schaefer. In the 30 years up to around 1942, he was 3. / 1. Bassoonist in Chemnitz. From this period of his compositions are two printed works, a New Germany-March of 1933, and "Seaside" Opus 4 - a salon piece for piano or orchestra room, which appeared in Leipzig Verlag Otto Gaumer.
After WW2 the already named publisher Hofmeister published a few volumes of orchestral studies for bassoon, who edited Kurt Mederacke.
Mederacke found a job as principal bassoonist in the Brunswick State Orchestra, and lived after his retirement in Braunlage in the Harz Mountains, where he died 1983.
Thisfirst editionhasas a templatean originalmanuscriptofMederacke,whichhaskeptone of his students.
