Kurt Dietmar Richter (24 September 1931 − 15 January 2019) was a German

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and conductor.

Life

Richter was born on September 24, 1931 in

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(Czechoslovakia). His father was Gymnasium professor. At the urging of his mother he attended a music school, where he was appointed assistant concertmaster at the age of twelve. After the war his family moved from

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Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits in ...

.André Bochow: ''Neue Musik, alte Verhältnisse'' in the ''

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'' dated 23/24 June 2018,

Musical career

Richter was a member of the Thuringian Boys Choir in his childhood. From 1946 to 1949 he attended the Landesschule Pforta. He studied with

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and

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at the Thuringian State Conservatory in Erfurt. Inspired by his Erfurt music teacher, he was fascinated among others by Paul Hindemith and the

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. Later he was a master student with at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He then worked as conductor at the municipal Döbeln and

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, at the Greifswald Theatre and at the . In 1990 he founded the Berlin artist initiative ''die neue brücke''. His works have been performed among others at the

Schauspielhaus Berlin The Konzerthaus Berlin is a concert hall in Berlin, the home of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Situated on the Gendarmenmarkt square in the central Mitte district of the city, it was originally built as a theater. It initially operated from ...

, the Theater Greifswald and the Konzerthaus Berlin. Richter died in Berlin at the age of 87.

Awards

* 1948: ''a-cappella'' choir prize of the Landesschule Pforta * 1977: 4th Prize at the International TV Opera Competition Salzburg/UNESCO * 1980: Carl Maria von Weber Prize of the city of Dresden * 1982: Carl Maria von Weber Prize of the city of Dresden * 1984: Hanns Eisler Prize * 1993: Paul Woitschach Prize * 1995: Württemberg Composition Prize * 1996: Saarlouis Composition Prize * 1999: Composition Prize of the * 2000: Spanish a-cappella choir prize * 2001: Composition Prize of the * 2003: Composition Prize of the State of Brandenburg * 2004: Friedrich Silcher Composition Prize Württemberg * 2005: Prize at the composition competition of the Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands

Compositions

* 1962 Jugendoper ''Der fahrende Schüler'' * 1964 Opera ''Pazifik'' * 1970 ''Sekundenoper'' * 1977 TV-Opera ''Bewährung über den Wolken'' ( Deutscher Fernsehfunk) * 1978 Opera ''Der verlegene Magistrat'' * 1982 Opera ''Die Geschichte von Liebe und Salz'' * 1984 Mini-Opera ''Marx spielte gern Schach'' * 1985 Opera ''Adam und Eva''

Radio play music

* 1990: Lev Lunts: ''Die Stadt der Gerechtigkeit'' – Director:

Peter Groeger Peter Groeger (1 June 1933 in Gröbzig, Free State of Anhalt – 16 January 2018 in Berlin) was a German actor and director. Life Groeger grew up in Gröbzig. He was assistant director at Wolfgang Langhoff at the Deutsches Theater. Afte ...

(Hörspiel – Funkhaus Berlin)

References

External links

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Website of Kurt Dietmar Richter

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Verlag Dohr Verlag Dohr is a publishing house for music in Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 1990 by Christoph Dohr in , which moved to in 1992 and to in Bergheim in 2010. It publishes a quarterly magazine of music, ''fermate'', sh ...

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