THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF MEDICAL RESONANCE THERAPY MUSIC®
Medi­cal Me­dia Group: This means, that from your Is­rael visit al­ready two great de­vel­op­ments in re­gard to Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic® have de­vel­oped: the in­ves­ti­ga­tions in the states of the for­mer So­viet Un­ion and the big sci­en­tific in­ter­est in the USA?

Peter Hübner: And the in­ter­est in Ger­many; be­cause it was from the “In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Pre- and Peri­na­tal Medi­cine“ in Je­ru­sa­lem that I was in­vited to the con­gress in Tübingen, on which I came across the lead­ing hor­mone re­search­ers of the world. In this re­spect there is also a di­rect line from Je­ru­sa­lem to Ger­many, but also an­other line from Je­ru­sa­lem via the for­mer states of the So­viet Un­ion to Ger­many.

Noam Sheriff
Noam Sheriff
In a public recommendation

belongs to the most important composers and conductors of Israel.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1935,
he studied composition with
Paul Ben-Haim in Tel Aviv, with
Boris Blacher in Berlin and
Igor Markevitch in Salzburg.
At the age of 22 he became world famous through the premier of his work “Festival Prelude” with Leonard Bernstein and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.



ZUBIN MEHTA
ZUBIN MEHTA
writes about Peter Hübner’s project
‘most busy conductor of the world’, MUSIC DIRECTOR of the ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE ORCHESTRA DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FLORENTINO
in Florence



Prof. Dr. Zvi Rothenberg
Prof. Dr. Zvi Rothenberg
judging on Peter Hübner's music

renowned violinist and music pedagogue, founder of the
HAIFA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
for 28 years DIRECTOR of the
MUSIC CONSERVATORY of HAIFA – probably the most important music therapist in Israel



Prof. Dr. Herzl Shmueli
Prof. Dr. Herzl Shmueli
In a letter to Peter Hübner

CHAIRMAN
INSTITUTE FOR MUSICOLOGY
of the UNIVERSITY TEL AVIV
Medi­cal Me­dia Group: Did some­thing else come up in Is­rael?

Peter Hübner: Yes, a lot. Firstly I met there quite a few lead­ing per­son­ali­ties from the field of clas­si­cal mu­sic, and I think here in par­ticu­lar of the in­ter­na­tion­ally re­nowned com­poser and pre­sent di­rec­tor of the Rubin-Acad­emy of Mu­sic of the Uni­ver­sity of Tel Aviv, Noam Sher­iff, who, as is known, was for a long time also mu­sic di­rec­tor and prin­ci­pal con­duc­tor of the Is­rael Sym­phony Or­ches­tra.

But sec­ondly I also met vari­ous con­duc­tors – I think here of Zubin Mehta, prin­ci­pal con­duc­tor of the Is­rael Phil­har­monic and dur­ing his career prin­ci­pal con­duc­tor and mu­sic di­rec­tor of many other great clas­si­cal or­ches­tras in the whole world like in Los An­geles and New York and at pre­sent also in Munich, and I think of Ronly Riklis, con­duc­tor of the Je­ru­sa­lem Sym­phony Or­ches­tra, and of Stanley Sperber, prin­ci­pal con­duc­tor of the Haifa Sym­phony Or­ches­tra and of the Is­rael Na­tional Choir.

Fur­ther­more I met the fa­mous phi­loso­pher Yeshayahu Leibovitz and had a very long, in­ten­sive con­ver­sa­tion with him, and I met the proba­bly most sig­nifi­cant mu­sic thera­pist of Is­rael, Prof. Dr. Rothenberg, who gave me the most im­por­tant in­spi­ra­tions, which you can wish to get from an ex­pert for your ac­tiv­ity.

Medi­cal Me­dia Group: He spoke about your mu­sic at vari­ous oc­ca­sions.

Peter Hübner: But his most im­por­tant in­spi­ra­tion proba­bly was the very firm, un­per­turbed ad­vice, to let my­self, by no means, be in­flu­enced by the sci­en­tific method of dif­fer­en­tiat­ing by fac­ul­ties, so usual to­day, in or­der to de­velop then, as a re­sult, spe­cial mu­sic for the dif­fer­ent medi­cal dis­ci­plines and dis­eases – an ad­vice that had been given to me by ex­perts over and over again and about which I had asked him.

He said I should con­tinue to con­cen­trate on noth­ing else than on the sphere of uni­ver­sal­ity, for this would be the strik­ing unique po­ten­tial at our dis­posal with clas­si­cal mu­sic.

This se­ri­ous and un­com­pro­mis­ing word of this im­por­tant man – he had founded the Haifa Sym­phony Or­ches­tra and had di­rected the con­ser­va­tory of Haifa for 28 years – I have not for­got­ten un­til to­day. And al­ways, when the “highly mod­ern” as­pect of dif­fer­en­tia­tion is brought up to me, then think­ing of this meet­ing sup­ports me in my clear “no” to dif­fer­en­tia­tion, or to split­ting re­spec­tively, and in my in­ner “yes to uni­ver­sal­ity” and “unity”.

Medi­cal Me­dia Group: Fur­ther­more you met Prof. Shmueli, the di­rec­tor of the musi­co­logi­cal de­part­ment at the Uni­ver­sity of Tel Aviv.

Peter Hübner: Next to my plan of cre­at­ing a new mu­sic fac­ulty of the fu­ture I spoke with him also about that an­cient plan of Pythagoras of in­ter­con­nect­ing the most di­verse fields of knowl­edge by us­ing the na­ture-given link of the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic, where sub­jec­tiv­ity and ob­jec­tiv­ity meet – simi­larly how we know this, in a lim­ited way, from mathe­mat­ics.

As a re­sult Prof. Shmueli or­gan­ized meet­ings with heads of other fac­ul­ties of Tel Aviv Uni­ver­sity, and I met with great reso­nance there with these con­sid­era­tions, and in fur­ther talks we con­tin­ued look­ing into this matter.

Medi­cal Me­dia Group: Prof. Sperling, di­rec­tor of the medi­cal fac­ulty, for in­stance, or­gan­ized a meet­ing with medi­cal doc­tors from the dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines of his fac­ulty.

Peter Hübner: Af­ter my return to Ger­many, how­ever, my other ac­tivi­ties as well as a whole lot of trav­el­ing abroad ab­sorbed me so much, that to this very day I did not find the time to look into this matter any fur­ther – but now I want to de­vote my­self to it more in­ten­sively again.

Medi­cal Me­dia Group: So Is­rael played an im­por­tant role in the de­vel­op­ment of this new branch of medi­cine?

Peter Hübner: If you start from the “here” and “now” and dis­re­gard the as­pect of con­scious­ness, dis­re­gard my ear­lier re­search into the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic and, last not least, dis­re­gard the works of Pythagoras 2.500 years ago and in con­se­quence, the many eco­nomic and tech­ni­cal de­vel­op­ments con­nected to it un­til to­day – on which, next to other things, also the de­vel­op­ment of de­moc­racy was bound, in Europe and else­where –, then I would say: yes, in Is­rael the es­sen­tial prac­ti­cal fun­da­men­tals were laid to make this new branch of medi­cine avail­able in­ter­na­tion­ally.