Gerd Kühr

Gerd Kühr, also Gerd Kuhr (born 28 December 1952 in Maria Luggau), is an Austrian conductor, composer of classical music and academic teacher. He is known for operas, such as ''Stallerhof'' on a libretto by the author of the play, Franz Xaver Kroetz, and film music including Schlöndorff's '' Eine Liebe von Swann''.

Career

Kühr studied history, conducting and composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and took master classes in conducting with Gerhard Wimberger, Hans Swarowsky and Sergiu Celibidache. He continued his studies of composition with Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer and Hans Werner Henze.Gerd Kühr
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In 1983 he collaborated with Henze, David Graham and Marcel Wengler to compose the film music for Volker Schlöndorff's '' Eine Liebe von Swann'' after Marcel Proust.

His opera ''Stallerhof'', to a libretto of Franz Xaver Kroetz based on his own play, was premiered at the first Munich Biennale in 1988, as a co-production with the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. Ulf Schirmer conducted the premiere at the Kongresssaal of Deutsches Museum. The play ''Stallerhof'', a dialect play on a taboo subject matter, was premiered in 1972. A review of the opera in a production of the Theater Luzern remarks:

Kroetz's Stallerhof is a work about inability to communicate, which opens space for music. Gerd Kühr's music serves the function of expressing the feelings and situations in which people find themselves. With a fairly large chamber orchestra he provides a rich tapestry of colours and motives. There is expressionist music, which brings to mind. the inarticulacy and exploitation suffered by Wozzeck.

Kühr composed in 1997/99 the opera ''Tod und Teufel'' (Death and Devil) on a libretto of Peter Turrini on a commission of the Theater Graz and the festival on the occasion of the centennial of the opera house.Tod und Teufel
Steirischer Herbst 1999 Kühr composed the opera ''Agleia Federweiß'' in 2000/01 on a libretto of Petra Ernst, commissioned by the Jugendmusikfest Deutschlandsberg, a music festival for young people founded by Henze as part of the festival Steirischer Herbst.

Kühr taught from 1985 to 1994 in Graz, from 1992 to 1994 at the Mozarteum. Since 1995 he has been professor for composition at the Graz University of Music.

He was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Composers' Prize in 1995.List of past winners
of the Composers' Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation. Retrieved 2 April 2011.

Operas

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