Herbert Eimert

Herbert Eimert (1897-1972) was a German composer, theorist and radio producer, born in Bad Kreuznach. He wrote early textbooks on atonality and twelve-tone technique, worked for Cologne radio from 1927 to 1933 and again after the war, and in 1951 founded the studio for electronic music of the Cologne broadcaster (later WDR), which he directed until 1962. Eimert set up the studio with Werner Meyer-Eppler and co-edited the journal die Reihe from 1955 to 1962.