Peter Dorn (composer)

Peter Dorn (born November 1931 in Breslau ) is a German composer and pianist .

Life

Peter Dorn was born in the Silesian capital Breslau. He attended the Thomas School in Leipzig . He studied piano with Gerhard Puchelt and Amadeus Webersinke at the Berlin-Charlottenburg University of Music and the Leipzig University of Music . Until 1959 he worked as a pianist in West Germany. He then studied composition with Wilhelm Weismann in Leipzig and as a master student with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic in East Berlin. Then he worked at the Berlin Academy.

Dorn's violin sonatas are published by CF Peters Musikverlag in Leipzig. In 1968 he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize in Leipzig for his cantata In your hand is written the time . The world premiere was given by the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Radio Choir under Herbert Kegel . The music prize was awarded for the first time that year, together to the composers Ruth Zechlin and Gerhard Rosenfeld .

His 1964 piano music was once compared to Modest Mussorgski's composition Pictures at an Exhibition .

Works (selection)

• Sonatina for violin and piano
• Sonata for viola and piano
• Piano music in 4 suites
• Rhapsody for violin and piano
• The time is written in your hand
• Divertimento

literature

• Alan Pedigo: International encyclopedia of violin-keyboard sonatas and composer biographies . Arriaga Publications, Booneville 1995, ISBN 978-0-9606356-2-7 , p. 153.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Fred K. Prieberg : Music in Another Germany . Cologne 1968, p. 125.
2. ↑ Dietrich Brennecke, Hannelore Gerlach, Mathias Hansen (eds.): Musicians in our time. Members of the music section of the GDR Academy of the Arts . Leipzig 1979, p. 17.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Alan Pedigo: International encyclopedia of violin-keyboard sonatas and composer biographies . Booneville 1995, p. 153.
4. ^ Bettina Hinterthür: Notes according to plan. The music publishers in the Soviet Zone, GDR. Censorship system, centrally planned economy and German-German relations until the early 1960s . Stuttgart 2006, p. 265.
5. ↑ Musik und Gesellschaft 18 (1968), p. 740.
6. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra . Altenburg 1999, p. 186.
7. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987 . Berlin 1989, p. 174.
8. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Paragraphs and a first secretary ensure order . In: Die Zeit , June 18, 1965.
9. ↑ Bulletin. Music Council of the GDR 5/6 (1968), p. XLVII.
10. ↑ Musik und Gesellschaft 18 (1968), p. 93.