Dietrich Erdmann

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Dietrich Erdmann (born July 20, 1917 in Bonn , † April 22, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German composer and university professor .

Life

Erdmann's father was the publicist and union official Lothar Erdmann , his mother Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke , the widow of the painter August Macke . Dietrich Erdmann had lived in Berlin since he was eight . His childhood was shaped by a family environment that was very culturally interested. He received his first piano lessons at the age of nine. During his school days at the Humanist High School in Berlin , he attended courses in typesetting with the composers Paul Hindemith , Ernst Lothar von Knorr and Harald Genzmer . In 1931 he began his cello lessons with Paul Hermann . From 1934 to 1938 Erdmann studied choral conducting and composition with Kurt Thomas and orchestral conducting with Walter Gmeindl at the Berlin Music Academy . He completed his studies with the artistic maturity examination in choir conducting and the private music teacher examination in composition . Erdmann was a co-founder of the working group for new music at the Berlin University.

From 1947 Erdmann taught at the University of Education in Berlin , where he took over the management of the music seminar two years later. His appointment as associate professor took place in 1954. 12 years later he became full professor and in 1970, finally, vice-rector of the university. His retirement took place in 1982.

Dietrich Erdmann was married to Gisela Cludius from 1940 to 1946, to Bianca Kuron from 1949 to 1958, and from 1959 to Gertrud Schulz.

Act

Erdmann's work encompasses a wide variety of instrumentations and almost all types of musical forms : 16 solo concerts , 12 works for large orchestra , piano music , solo and chamber music for strings and wind instruments, as well as songs , cantatas and choral music . Erdmann has also composed numerous plucked music works.

Honourings and prices

Works (selection)

literature

  • Riemann music dictionary. Supplementary volume A – K. Schott, Mainz 1972, p. 228.
  • Henke Matthias: The big book of the plucked orchestra . Schwingenstein, Munich 1987. pp. 140, 148, 151, 153, 233.
  • Wilfried Bruchhäuser: Composers of the Present . German Composers' Association, Berlin 1985. p. 169
  • S. Beikler, R. Grambow: A neoclassicist has passed away . Concertino 3/2009. P. 151
  • Music a connecting art . Concertino 3/2009. P. 121

Discography

  • Works for plucked orchestra . Mühlheim plucked orchestra (headed by Detlef Tewes). telos music records, 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of foundation: 1935
  2. ↑ a b c d http://www.dietricherdmann.de/bio.html
  3. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Erdmann, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2009
Place of death Berlin