Burkhard Meier (composer)

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Burkhard Meier (born July 2, 1943 in Finow ; † January 17, 2001 in Greifswald ) was a German music teacher and composer .

Life

Burkhardt Meier studied choral conducting at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and music education and German at the University of Greifswald . He received further lessons from Johann Cilenšek , Günter Kochan and Ruth Zechlin . From 1976 to 1979 he studied composition with Wolfgang Hohensee at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin. From 1967 he taught music theory and school music in Greifswald and was appointed professor in 1989. In 1990 he became director of the Institute for Musicology and Music Education at the University of Greifswald. From 1997 he was professor for practical piano playing , composition and composition at the Rostock University of Music and Theater .

He was co-founder of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional association of the German Composers' Association and its chairman from 1996 to 2000.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Song cycle In Praise of Sisyphus (1984)
  • Causalities for wind quintet (1987)
  • Music for orchestra (1987)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German composers' association - regional association MV. (No longer available online.) In: Kulturportal Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 20, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturportal-mv.de