Dieter Zechlin

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Dieter Zechlin (born October 30, 1926 in Goslar ; † March 16, 2012 in Potsdam ) was a German pianist . He was one of the most famous pianists in the GDR .

Life

Zechlin was the son of the military doctor Theodor Zechlin (1889-1954). His father was at the front during the Second World War and last held the rank of general physician .

Dieter Zechlin received his first piano lessons at the age of eight and made his first attempts at composition. He attended high school in Erfurt from 1936 to 1943. At the same time he learned piano from 1941 to 1943 with Otto Weinreich at the Leipzig Conservatory . From 1943 to 1945 he was drafted into military service, during which he sustained a serious injury to his left hand. In 1945 he received piano lessons from Franz Jung at the Thuringian State Conservatory in Erfurt, who at the time was general music director of the Erfurt Municipal Orchestra. From 1946 to 1948 he then studied piano with Karl Weiß and composition and music theory with Johann Cilenšek at the Liszt School of Music Weimar .

After his studies he taught at the Conservatory in Erfurt and was an assistant at the Weimar Music Academy from 1948 to 1949. In 1951 he was appointed to the German University of Music in Berlin . In 1971 he was visiting professor at the International Music Seminar in Weimar. In 1973 he received a full professorship for piano at the Berlin Conservatory. From 1971 to 1982 he was the successor of Eberhard Rebling ibid Rector . At the end of his rectorate he was retired.

In 1965 he became an associate member and in 1971 a full member of the German Academy of the Arts in East Berlin. From 1970 to 1978 he was a member of the executive committee and vice-president, as well as acting president of the academy in 1974. From 1972 to 1981 he led the master class for piano. In addition, from 1969 to 1970 he was a member of the executive committee of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR . From 1971 to 1990 he was President of the GDR Music Council and President of the Robert Schumann Society in Zwickau.

His concert tours have taken him to the Soviet Union , Europe, Japan and Latin America. In the GDR, Zechlin took part in orchestral concerts, chamber music programs (including song accompanist for Jutta Welting and musical accompanist for cellist Esther Nyffenegger ) as well as radio and vinyl recordings (including VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin ), in particular works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schuberts . He played world premieres of works by Günter Kochan , Johann Cilenšek and Ernst Hermann Meyer .

family

Dieter Zechlin was a great-grandson of the local historian Theodor Zechlin , nephew of the historian Egmont Zechlin and the works teacher Ruth Zechlin .

Dieter Zechlin was married to the composer Ruth Zechlin from 1952 to 1971 . After he joined the SED in 1971 , she filed for divorce. His third wife was the Bulgarian pianist Sascha Müller-Konstantinova . His fourth marriage was to Susanne Grützmann . The third and fourth women were former Zechlin students.

Awards

Discography (selection)

Filmography

Fonts

  • Conductor and instrumental soloist . In: Legacy and Commitment. Festschrift for Franz Konwitschny on his 60th birthday . Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1961, pp. 36–37.
  • Wishes of the interpreters . In: Musik und Gesellschaft 13 (1963) 7, pp. 402-405.
  • Beethoven's legacy - property of our socialist human community . In: Musik und Gesellschaft 20 (1970) 5, pp. 319-320.

literature

  • Wolfram Schwinger: Dieter Zechlin. In: Music and Society 10 (1960), p. 19.
  • Dietrich Brennecke: Dieter Zechlin . In: Dietrich Brennecke, Hannelore Gerlach, Mathias Hansen (eds.): Musicians in our time. Members of the music section of the GDR Academy of the Arts . Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1979, p. 162 ff.
  • Hansjürgen Schaefer : Dieter Zechlin 60 . In: Musik und Gesellschaft 36 (1986) 10, pp. 545-546.
  • Zechlin, Dieter. In: Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 366.
  • Zechlin, Dieter . In: Presidium of the Academy of the Arts (ed.): Academy of the Arts of the German Democratic Republic. Handbook 1982–1986 . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 232 f.
  • Zechlin, Dieter. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 11456.
  • Peter Seidle: Dieter Zechlin . In: Ingo Harden , Gregor Willmes: Pianist profiles: 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , pp. 88f.
  • Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Zechlin, Dieter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Dieter Zechlin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000. ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , pp. 85 and 329.
  2. ↑ The Zechlins. Family and descendants tables of Achim Segelin 1541 in Kyritz, Lentz Zechlin around 1600 in Scharlibbe u. Jürgen Zechlin around 1700 in Stolper Land, edited by Cläre Maillard , b. Zechlin, Berlin 1937. DNB 361188307 An earlier version of the book was in 1912 by Erich Zechlin created
  3. ↑ Alexander Suder (ed.): Ruth Zechlin (= composers in Bavaria, documents of musical creativity in the 20th century. Volume 41). Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2001, ISBN 3-7952-1066-6 , p. 22.
  4. ↑ Theater der Zeit , 26, 1971, 1–6, p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Zechlin, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2012
Place of death Potsdam