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Hanns Eisler Prize
The Hanns Eisler Prize was an East-German music award, named after the composer Hanns Eisler. It was awarded by Radio DDR – with advisory participation of the music section of the Akademie der Künste der DDR in Berlin (East) and the (VDK) – and on the occasion of his 70th birthday on 6 July 1968, the first time in the ballroom of the . The Hanns Eisler Prize was endowed with 10,000 marks and was one of the most renowned music prizes in the German Democratic Republic. Statute The statutes stated: "The Hanns Eisler Prize shall be awarded for new compositions and musicological works which make outstanding contributions to the socialist musical culture of the GDR". Thus, one or more composers (in the category "composition") and musicology were honoured (from 1971 in the category "scientific papers"). The prize-winning pieces were then premiered in a special concert. Among the first prize winners in 1968 were Peter Dorn, Gerhard Rosenfeld and Ruth Zechlin. The composers Rein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Award
A music award is an award or prize given for skill or distinction in music. There are different awards in different countries, and different awards may focus on or exclude certain music. For example, some music awards are only for classical music and include no popular music. Some music awards are academic, some are commercial and created by the music industry. Major music award #Grammy Awards #Juno Awards #The BRITs International music awards *Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards – an annual awards program bestowed by ''Classic Rock'' *Ernst von Siemens Music Prize *Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod *Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition * Herbert von Karajan Music Prize (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden) *Léonie Sonning Music Prize (Léonie Sonning Music Foundation) *MTV Video Music Awards (MTV) *Polar Music Prize – for International recognition of excellence in the world of music * Rolf Schock Prize in Musical Arts * Sibelius Prize *Winter Music Conference (el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Matthus
Siegfried Matthus (13 April 1934 – 27 August 2021) was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. Some of his operas, such as '' Judith'', were premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin in East Berlin. In 1991, he founded the chamber opera festival Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and directed it until 2018. In 2005, he composed a Te Deum for the reopening of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Matthus is considered one of Germany's most often performed contemporary composers. Biography Matthus was born in , East Prussia. His father was a farmer and played for entertainment and dancing. His father made sure that the son received piano lessons. In 1944, his parents fled with him to in the Ruppin district. Matthus attended secondary school in Rheinsberg, followed by studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. After graduating, he continued his studies in composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and Hanns Eisler, and was shortly thereafter made the younges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Focke
Willy Focke (born 1949) is a German composer. Life In 1973, Focke received a 3rd prize at the Dresden Weber Competition. In 1976, he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize by Radio DDR. In the same year, he received the 1st prize at the Chamber Music Competition of the GDR Music Days. His works are published by Edition Peters and have been performed among others by the String Quartet of the Komische Oper Berlin and at chamber music evenings of the Staatskapelle Dresden. In addition, he received commissions from the .''Musik und Gesellschaft'' 27 (1977), . Work * ''Concerto for Basset Horn and Orchestra'' * ''String Quartet I with Baritone solo'' on a poem by Johannes R. Becher, op. 13 * ''String Quartet II'' * ''Fünf Duos für Bratsche und Klarinette'', Op. 3.''Musik und Gesellschaft'' 24 (1974), . * ''Drei Sonette von Francesco Petrarca'' for one voice and harpsichord. * ''Epitaph für Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Schenker
Friedrich Schenker (23 December 19428 February 2013) was a German avant-garde composer and trombone player. Life Born in the German town of Zeulenroda, Schenker learned trombone and piano as a child and made his first compositional attempts at the age of 10. At the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin he studied trombone from 1961 to 1964 with Helmut Stachowiak and music composition with Eisler's student Günter Kochan. During his studies he taught himself the technique of dodecaphony and played in a jazz band. After the instrumental Staatsexamen in 1964 he was employed as principal trombonist in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig until 1982. He continued his composition studies in evening classes at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig until in 1968 with Fritz Geißler. In 1970 he founded the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler with the oboisten Burkhard Glaetzner and six other musicians from the ''Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester'' and the Gewandhaus orchester in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winfried Höntsch
Winfried Höntsch (9 June 1930 – 30 January 2022) was a German musicologist and venue director. Life and career Born in Dresden, Höntsch studied musicology at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". From 1956, he worked in the music department of the Ministry of Culture (GDR) in Berlin. In 1962, he became first dramaturge at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. In 1968 he took over the artistic direction of the Kulturpalast. From 1970 to 1976, he worked in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies section of the Technical University of Dresden and received his doctorate in 1975. From 1976 to 1991, he was director of the Dresden Music Festival. Höntsch died on 30 January 2022, at the age of 91. Awards * 1975: Hanns Eisler Prize Publications * editor: ''Hanns Eisler. Eine Auswahl von Reden und Aufsätzen''. 2nd edition, Reclam, Leipzig 1961. * ''Richard-Strauss-Ehrung der Staatstheater Dresden. Aus Anlaß des 100. Geburtstages des Komponisten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank-Volker Eichhorn
Frank-Volker Eichhorn (13 December 1947 – 17 January 1978) was a German composer. Life Eichhorn studied mathematics and physics to become a teacher.'' Musik und Gesellschaft '' 28 (1978) 3, . He also worked as a teacher for two years, but began studying at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" on the side. He eventually gave up his teaching job as a maths and physics teacher and devoted himself entirely to music, becoming a ''Meisterschüler'' of Günter Kochan at the Musikhochschule and a teacher of composition there. He founded the concert series ''Kammerstudio'' at the Haus des Lehrers in Berlin. In 1975, he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize. In 1978, he received a first prize in the chamber music competition of the Dresden Music Festival. His compositions were published by Edition Peters and were performed among others by the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. In January 1978, he was killed in a car accident at the ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Joachim Schulze
Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 3 December 1934) is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who served as the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 1992 to 2000. With Christoph Wolff, he was editor of the ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' (Bach yearbook) from 1975 to 2000. He published an introduction to all cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in 2006. Career Born in Leipzig, Schulze studied musicology and German studies at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1952 to 1954, and at the University of Leipzig from 1954 to 1957. He worked at the Bach Archive in Leipzig as its director from 1992 to 2000. He achieved a Ph.D. at the University of Rostock with studies of the history of Bach tradition in the 18th century (Studien zur Bach-Überlieferung im 18. Jahrhundert). He was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize in 1973 for the ''Dokumente zum Nachwirken Johann Sebastian Bachs 1750–1800'' (Documents of the legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach 1750–1800), which he edited. In 1993, Schulze was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainer Kunad
Rainer Kunad (24 October 1936, Chemnitz – 17 July 1995, Reutlingen) was a German conductor and composer, especially of opera. Life Kunad studied choir and ensemble conducting at the Dresden Conservatoire from 1955 to 1956 and then, until 1959, composition with Fidelio F. Finke and Ottmar Gerster at the Musikhochschule in Leipzig. From 1960 to 1974, he directed theatrical music at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, and 1971 onward, he also worked at the Berlin State Opera. Kunad was a regular member of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR since 1974. In 1972, he received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the in 1973, and the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic in 1975. In 1985, he applied to the authorities for a dismissal from GDR citizenship, which was granted. He lived in West Germany from 1984 onward. He spent the last years of his life as a freelance artist in Tübingen. Kunad composed piano pieces, chamber and orchestral music and operas (among othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Goldmann
Friedrich Goldmann (27 April 1941 – 24 July 2009) was a German composer and conductor. Life Born on 27 April 1941 in Siegmar-Schönau (since July 1951 incorporated into Chemnitz), Goldmann's music education began in 1951 when he joined the Dresdner Kreuzchor. At age 18, he received a scholarship by the city of Darmstadt to study composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1959, who further encouraged him over the following years . He moved on to study composition at the Dresden Conservatory from 1959, taking his exam two years early in 1962. From 1962 until 1964 he attended a master class at the Academy of Arts, Berlin with Rudolph Wagner-Régeny. Around this time, he worked as a freelance music assistant at the Berliner Ensemble where he befriended other composers and writers, including Heiner Müller, Luigi Nono and Luca Lombardi. He also met Paul Dessau, who became a close friend and mentor. From 1964 until 1968 he studied mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musik Und Gesellschaft
''Musik und Gesellschaft'' was a music magazine in the German Democratic Republic German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **G .... It was published monthly from 1951 to 1990 in East Berlin by . History The journal was published from the first issue in March 1951 onwards by Ernst Hermann Meyer and the . In 1954 the editorship changed to the , of which it simultaneously became the official organ of communication. The music magazine regularly awarded a recording prize. Chief editors * 1951–1952 Karl Laux * 1952–1959 Eberhard Rebling. * 1959–1960 Horst Seeger. * 1960–1973 Hansjürgen Schaefer * 1973–1990 Liesel Markowski Literature * Bettina Hinterthür: ''Noten nach Plan. Die Musikverlage in der SBZ, DDR – Zensursystem, zentrale Planwirtschaft und deutsch-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wicke
Peter Wicke (born in 1951 in Zwickau) is a German musicologist, who is particularly interested in popular music; he teaches as a university professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Life and achievements Born in Zwickau, Wicke studied musicology in Berlin until 1974 and received his PhD in 1980 with a dissertation on the music aesthetics of popular music. In 1986, he was awarded a doctorate (Dr. sc. phil.) with a thesis on the aesthetics and sociology of rock music and in 1988 he was appointed Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Music of Carleton University in Ottawa. In 1992 he was appointed to the Humboldt University Berlin, where he held the chair for "Theory and History of Popular Music" until his retirement in 2016. He was also director of the "Research Center for Popular Music" at the Department of Musicology of the Humboldt University. Wicke is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and was its General Secretary in 1987 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Tittel
Gerhard Tittel (born 13 May 1937) is a German composer and conductor. Life Born in Vielau), Tittel first worked as a drafter in Zwickau. From 1958 to 1964, he studied violin with Otto Klinge and composition with Günter Kochan at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". In 1966 he became a lecturer and in 1981 a professor for composition and music setting. From 1977 to 1992 he co-founded and directed the Berlin Youth Symphony Orchestra. Work * Klaviersuite (1966) * Musik für Streichorchester (1967) * Dialoge für Klavier zu 4 Händen (1968) * Konzert für Klavier und Orchester (1971) Further reading * Peter Hollfelder: ''Geschichte der Klaviermusik.'' Volume 1, Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1989, , . * Axel Schniederjürgen (ed.): ''Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch.'' on WorldCat 5th editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
