Dieter-Gerhardt Worm (born 31 August 1930) is a German conductor.Dieter-Gerhardt Worm
on Digital Archiv From 1974 until 1993, Worm was

music director A music(al) director or director of music is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert band, the d ...

of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra in

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...

for almost two decades.

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Worm was born in Zittau in 1930. There, he attended the humanistic grammar school and studied piano, then conducting and

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in Dresden, Weimar and Berlin. After his state examination in conducting and musicology, Worm assumed overall responsibility for repertoire planning, artist support and the budget for the GDR record label "Eterna" from 1954 to 1972.Landesarchiv ThüringenChemnitzgeschichte.de In 1972, after a trip to Japan, Worm was "received at the airport with a strict order not to enter his workplace again." As a result of this dismissal, Worm was unemployed for almost three years. From 1974 to 1978, Worm was director of the Staatskapelle Berlin. From 1974 to 1993, he took over the corresponding position in Chemnitz (at that time "Karl-Marx-Stadt") and directed the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie there. From 1978 to 1986, Worm was professor at the summer academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1983 Worm received the

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. In 1989 he was appointed to the board of the International Schumanngesellschaft Zwickau. In 1991, on his initiative, the Chemnitzer Musikverein e.V. was re-established and he became its first chairman. From 1993 to 1995, Worm was involved in the establishment of the Middle Saxon Philharmonic. In 1995 Worm received the

Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau The Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau is a classical music award. Since 1964 it has been awarded by the Lord Mayor of Zwickau. Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau. Between 1964 and 2002 the prize was awarded annually, since 2003 bienni ...

. Worm has conducted the Plauen Philharmonic Orchestra since 1999 and the Plauen-Zwickau Philharmonic Orchestra from 2001 to 2003.

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