Dieter Acker (3 November 1940 – 27 May 2006) was a German composer born in Sibiu, Romania.Biography of Dieter Acker at www.siebenbuerger.de
/ref>

Career

Dieter Acker studied composition with

Sigismund Toduță Sigismund Toduță ( Simeria, 17 May 1908 – Cluj-Napoca, 3 July 1991) was a Romanian composer, musicologist, and professor. Biography Toduță graduated from the Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art in Cluj in 1936. His instructors included ...

. In 1969, Acker moved from Transylvania (Romania) to Germany for political and artistic reasons. He later attended the Munich conservatory where in 1976 he received a professorship in composition. Acker taught a number of students that later became prominent composers, such as Wolfram Buchenberg, Ferran Cruixent, Oriol Cruixent, Marius Ruhlan, Florian Heigenhauser, Peter Wittrich and others. In 2000, the University of Cluj-Napoca awarded him an honorary doctorate. Dieter Acker wrote well over a hundred works, including orchestral compositions, six symphonies, instrumental concertos, and chamber music. He died in Munich, Germany in 2006.

Selected works

;Concertante * ''Musik'' for viola, harp and string orchestra (1992) ;Chamber music * Cantus duriusculus for brass quintet (1973) * Duo for viola and cello (1973) * Sonata for viola and piano (1985) * '' Equale II'' for 2 violas (1987) * Sonata for viola and harp (1987) * Trio for flute, viola and harp (or guitar) (1987) * Trio for clarinet, viola and piano (1992) * ''Arkaden II'' for viola and piano (1995)

References

External links

Official site
1940 births 2006 deaths German composers Musicians from Sibiu Transylvanian Saxon people 20th-century German musicians Romanian emigrants to Germany Romanian people of Russian descent Romanian people of Ukrainian descent Romanian people of Polish descent {{germany-composer-stub