Alfred Schönfelder

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Alfred Schönfelder (born April 23, 1924 in Thum , Erzgebirge; † March 29, 2020 in Leipzig ) was a German conductor and composer .

Live and act

Schoenfelder studied from 1940 to 1943 at the Conservatory Dresden composition with Kurt Striegler , conducting with Ernst Hintze and Walther Meyer Giesow, piano with John Schneider Marfels and French horn at Wirrmann. During his studies he conducted a concert of the Dresden Philharmonic with Bruckner's 3rd Symphony . From 1947 to 1948 he began his career as a choir director and operetta conductor at the Meissen City Theater . Engagements as Kapellmeister at the Landestheater Wismar (1948–1950) and at the Landestheater Meiningen (1950–1952) followed. Subsequently, until 1955 he was first conductor at the Plauen City Theater and conductor of the spa orchestra in Bad Elster .

From 1955 to 1971 he worked as music director and musical director of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz with 47 opera productions and 177 symphony concerts. Guest conductors have taken him to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and Slovakia.

Schönfelder founded the Görlitz Teachers' Choir and performed over 200 choir concerts with it at home and abroad. From 1971 he worked as a solo coach at the Leipzig Opera .

From 1972 until his retirement, Schönfelder was a lecturer and professor for vocal accompaniment and score playing at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig and also taught until 2002.

Schönfelder received various awards, including the City of Görlitz Art Prize.

Private

Alfred Schönfelder was married twice and has a son and a daughter.

He invented a variant of large field chess, played on a 10 × 10 field chess board.

World premieres

Operas

Orchestral works

  • 1957: The night smith of Görlitz by Emil Kühnel, Stadthalle Görlitz
  • 1964: 1st Symphony by Manfred Weiss , Görlitz City Hall
  • 1967: Orchestral suite by Helmut Heinze, Görlitz town hall
  • 1967: Divertimento for string orchestra by Wolfgang Teuscher, Stadthalle Görlitz
  • 1970: Cantata Der Mensch by Udo Zimmermann , Stadthalle Görlitz

Compositions (selection)

  • The future of youth , symphonic cantata, first performance 1963, Görlitz
  • Quo vadis homo sapiens? Choral symphony for large mixed choir and large orchestra
  • Three choirs ( The Wind Whistles , The Moon Sheep , Wish for a Monument ) based on texts by Christian Morgenstern , first performed in 1990, Gewandhaus Leipzig
  • From the Pythagorean theorem for mixed choir, world premiere in 2000, Leipzig
  • Psalm 18 and Psalm 76 for choir, first performance 2002, Harelbeke (Belgium)
  • Psalm 103 for choir, world premiere 2003, Thomanerchor Leipzig
  • The most beautiful, happiest star is the earth , motet for mixed choir and piano in the words of Helmut Preißler
  • For our earth , motet for mixed choir and piano
  • Join our choir , motet for mixed choir based on words by Fritz Diettrich
  • Rhapsodie sinfonico for large orchestra

Awards (selection)

  • Art Prize of the City of Görlitz, 1971

Publications

  • Large field chess (1) - The alternative way of playing on the 100-field board for advanced players , 1988
  • Large field chess (2) - strong, creative, rich in combinations: 17 new games with 45 diagrams , 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Axel Schniederjürgen: Kürschner's Musicians Handbook 2006 . Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-095016-8 ( google.de [accessed on June 9, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Sebastian Beutler: Görlitzer Theater mourns Alfred Schönfelder. In: Saxon newspaper. April 7, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Alfred Schönfelder: Large field chess (1). In: Catalog of the SLUB Dresden. 1988, accessed June 11, 2020 .
  4. ^ Fritz Hennenberg: Orff studies . Engelsdorfer Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86268-669-8 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 8, 2020]).
  5. ^ "Thyl Claas" - a new Volksoper. New Germany Archive, accessed on June 10, 2020 .
  6. ^ GDR 1960. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Search for Alfred Schönfelder in the online catalog of the Leipziger Städtische Libraries
  8. ^ Alfred Schönfelder: Large field chess (2). In: Catalog of the SLUB Dresden. Catalog of the SLUB Dresden, accessed on June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schönfelder, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Thum
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2020
Place of death Leipzig