Siegfried Tiefensee (20 October 1922 – 24 March 2009) was a German musician and conductor. Siegfried Tiefensee was born in Rastenburg,

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, he started his artistic education in his early youth and learned

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and composing. In 1947 he passed his exam as a music teacher and in 1951 his state examination as a conductor. Tiefensee became the

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at the theaters of

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(1951–1954),

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(1954–1958) and

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(1958-1990). In Leipzig he became the head of the section "drama music" at the "Theater der Jungen Welt" and composed several musical works for stages, TV and filmmusic. His works, such as the children's opera ''Cipollino'', were published by the

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2011 Tiefensee was the father of four children, one of them the German politician

Wolfgang Tiefensee Wolfgang Tiefensee (born 4 January 1955) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development in the grand coalition cabinet led by Angela Merkel between 2005 and ...

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Works

* Cipollino, Ein Spiel für Kinder/Kinderoper, 1959 * Katz und Kätzchen, Oper für Kinder, 1960 * Schneewittchen, DEFA-Film, 1961 * Das Pinguinei, Musical für Kinder, 1962 * Adrian und das rote Auto, Kinderoper, 1966 * Mascha und der Bär, Kinderballett, 1968 * Die Zauberer sind da, Märchenstück mit Musik, 1968 * Rotkäppchen, Märchenstück mit Musik, 1968 * Das Rübchen, Märchenstück mit Musik, 1971 * Der neue Struwwelpeter, Musikalisches Bilderbuch /Kinderoper, 1972 * Vom Äffchen, das eine Brille trug, 1973 * Die Geschichte vom tapferen Schneiderlein, Kinderballett, 1978 * Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, Märchenstück mit Musik, 1980 * Maus und Kater im Theater, Ein Spiel für zwei Darsteller mit viel Musik, 1984

Literature

* Siegfried Tiefensee in: „Oper heute“, Almanach Nr. 1, Henschelverlag 1978 * Eberhard Rebling: Ballett A – Z, Henschelverlag 1980 * Brigitte Regler-Bellinger: Internationales Musiktheater für Kinder und Jugendliche, Frankfurt a. M. 1990 (pp 427 – 436) * Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), ed.

Ludwig Finscher Ludwig Finscher (14 March 193030 June 2020) was a German musicologist. He was a professor of music history at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1995 and editor of the encyclopedia ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. He is respecte ...

, Sachteil Band 5, 1996, 2. neubearb. Ausgabe, Stichwort „Kinder- und Jugendmusiktheater“ (Brigitte Regler-Bellinger), p. 48, 49

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