Dieter Einfeldt

Dieter Einfeldt (born April 11, 1935 in Hamburg ) is a German composer and emeritus professor of composition and music theory .

Life

Dieter Einfeldt studied composition and conducting with Ernst Gernot Klußman, Walter Marin and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt and piano with Erik Schönsee at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater from 1950 to 1962 . At the same university he taught from 1972 to 2000 as a professor of composition and music theory. Dieter Einfeldt made a name for himself with compositions such as the Requiem for Hamburg "Gomorrha" (1983/85) and the 1971 rotations for percussion ensemble. His compositional work includes operas, children's musicals, a ballet, an oratorio, symphonies, other orchestral works, solo concerts and chamber music works, which have been awarded several prizes.

Works

Chamber music

• Amnesty - cycle based on three poems by Herbert Enderwitz (baritone solo and ensemble)
• Apocalypse (Ensemble)
• Reflections - cycle based on three poems by Eckart Kleßmann (medium voice and ensemble)
• Dialogues (piano quartet)
• Divertimento in E flat major - Freely based on themes by WA Mozart (Ensemble)
• Completion of the Sonata in C major DV 840 "Reliquie" by Franz Schubert (piano)
• Essay (organ)
• Contemplations (viola solo; 4 percussionists)
• Concert for violin and percussion ensemble
• Rotation - 1st concert version (drums)
• Rotation - II. Ballet version (percussion)
• Signals (piano solo and four percussionists)
• Sinfonia da Camera (ensemble)
• Sonata No. 2 (organ)
• Sonata for solo violin
• Mobiles (ensemble)

Orchestral music

• Amnesty - cycle based on three poems by Herbert Enderwitz (baritone solo, string orchestra and percussion)
• Chaconne Concertante - Concerto No. 2 (flute and chamber ensemble)
• Double concerto (violin and viola / violoncello solo and string orchestra)
• Imaginations II (saxophone and orchestra)
• Concerto for percussion and orchestra
• Concerto for violin and string orchestra
• Concerto for violoncello and string orchestra
• Sinfonia Sacra (string orchestra)
• Sinfonia Nostalgica (chamber orchestra)

Choir and orchestral music

• Gomorrah: A Requiem for Hamburg (text: Eckart Kleßmann) (soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone solos, mixed choir, orchestra)
• Litany (AM) Text: Bible, Coventry Litany of Reconciliation (soprano, alto solos, boys' choir, string orchestra and percussion)
• We do not see our signs Text: Bible (from Psalm 130 and 74) (mixed choir, organ and drums)

Web links

• Hamburg University of Music and Theater
• Dieter Einfeldt , contemporary composer, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Works by and about Dieter Einfeldt in the catalog of the German National Library