Carl-Heinz Dieckmann

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Carl-Heinz Dieckmann (born November 16, 1923 in Hain , Borna district ; † June 7, 2006 in Weimar ) was a German composer , conductor , music director and lecturer for orchestral and choral conducting at the Liszt School of Music Weimar .

Life

After his graduation in 1942 he studied until 1946, conducting and composition at the Music Academy in Leipzig and at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt (u. A. At Hermann Abendroth ). From 1956 to 1958 he was a master student at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin with Ottmar Gerster . From 1946 he worked as a conductor , solo coach and music director at the German National Theater Weimar and at other well-known concert halls in Thuringia ( Jena , Mühlhausen and Rudolstadt ).

From 1953 to 1960 he worked as a lecturer at the conservatory in Weimar and from 1960 to 1966 as a music editor at Radio DDR , Sender Leipzig and as a sound director at the radio station Weimar. From 1966 to 1991 he worked as a lecturer for orchestral and choral conducting at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Since the founding of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR , he was a member of the board of the Thuringian regional association. From 1968 he was a member of the central board.

Work (selection)

In addition to choral music, his works also include symphonic works, ballet and chamber music, cantatas and solo songs. For the inauguration of the Buchenwald memorial and memorial in 1958, he composed the Buchenwald poem (for solos, mixed choir and orchestra).

Orchestral works

  • Dramatic ballet "Weather Lights", 1950
  • Kreuzberger Ulrike, Ballet in 5 Pictures, 1957
  • Buchenwald Poem, 1958
  • Cantata “Spartacus Lives”, 1959
  • Symphonic poem for orchestra “In memoriam Wilhelm Pieck”, 1961
  • Karl Marx cantata, 1967/68
  • Cantata for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the GDR "Light of our days - happiness of our future", 1969

Vocal music

  • Goethe songs, 1949
  • Chansons based on texts by Joachim Ringelnatz, 1965
  • Songs for pioneer choir, 1966/67

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 .
  2. ↑ Paul Carl Doernfeld, Paul Michel, Gerhard Schmidt: Musicians in Thuringia . Ed .: Association of German Composers and Musicologists. Weimar 1970.
personal data
SURNAME Dieckmann, Carl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hain , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2006
Place of death Weimar , Thuringia