Gerd Domhardt

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Gerd Domhardt, Michaelstein Monastery 1993

Gerd Domhardt (born February 19, 1945 in Wolmirstedt ; † February 18, 1997 in Halle ) was a German composer , musicologist and conductor .

Life

Gerd Domhardt was born before the end of the war in 1945 as the son of a glass blower and a seamstress in Wolmirstedt, not far from Magdeburg in the Prussian province of Saxony . He grew up in Schleusingerneundorf near Suhl and received violin lessons in his childhood and youth .

From 1963 to 1968 he studied music education with Siegfried Bimberg , musicology with Walther Siegmund-Schultze and German studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . He experienced further musical influences from the Halle madrigalists , of which he was a member from 1963 to 1973. Under Olaf Koch he also worked at the State Symphony Orchestra in Halle until 1969 . From 1969 to 1973 he worked as a lecturer for choral music at VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik in neighboring Leipzig.

From 1973 to 1976 he was a master class student for composition with Ruth Zechlin at the Academy of Arts of the GDR in Berlin (East). Since then, the composer has been heavily influenced by the Western European avant-garde .

Together with Hans Jürgen Wenzel from Halle, Günther Eisenhardt from Dessau and Thomas Müller from Magdeburg, he founded the Halle composer class in the late 1970s , in which he taught composition and counterpoint . Some of the institution's graduates became famous composers. From 1987 he was a lecturer for the music of the 20th century at the Institute for Musicology at the Martin Luther University in Halle. He was also a guest lecturer at composition courses at home and abroad. Domhardt was a member of the central board of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR . In Halle (Saale) he headed the State Association of Saxony-Anhalt German Composers eV and the Hallische Musiktage until 1995 . In addition, he was the initiator and artistic director of the concert series “Approach - New Music in Conversation” in the Handel House , which offered international composers a platform. Composer portraits of Western composers were shown to a national audience in the Handel city.

Domhardt's music was u. a. Performed by the Handel Festival Orchestra Halle and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig . At the ceremony “20 years of the state and state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt” (2010) in Magdeburg, his composition To an etching by Goya from 1970 was performed.

Most recently, Domhardt lived and worked as a freelance composer in Halle, where he died in 1997.

Awards

Works (selection)

Domhardt's music was published by Deutsches Verlag für Musik in Leipzig, Verlag Neue Musik in Berlin, CF Peters Musikverlag in Frankfurt am Main, Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag in Leipzig and Domus Verlag in Halle. He composed vocal music, including numerous songs, an opera, instrumental music (orchestral works, concerts and chamber music) as well as radio plays and drama music.

  • Women's comedy , opera based on Heiner Müller
  • two symphonies
  • two chamber symphonies
  • two string quartets
  • Concerto for viola and orchestra
  • HÖLDERLIN á CAPPELLA for mixed choir
  • ASSOCIATIONS for mixed choir a cappella
  • Violin sonata
  • String sextet
  • Cantata In memoriam Lenin , commissioned work for the company festival of the Bitterfeld Chemical Combine in 1970
  • SOTTO VOCE for chamber ensemble
  • Quadrosonata for chamber ensemble
  • ORPHEUS Fragments I for two guitars
  • ORPHEUS Fragments II in memoriam Víctor Jara for speaker and 7 instruments
  • ORPHEUS for cor anglais and string orchestra
  • ORPHEUS Fragments III for English horn, bassoon, viola and guitar
  • INVOCACIÓN for eight-part a cappella choir based on words by Pablo Neruda (in memoriam Paul Dessau ), German text: Erich Arendt / Stephan Hermlin - 1979, commissioned by the GDR radio

Radio plays

Broadcasting of the GDR

Sender Free Berlin / University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg

  • 1991: Lutz Volke : Maybe Trebizond would have been worth it. Günter Eich - Ein Erinnern - Director: Peter Groeger

DS culture

  • 1992: Joachim Knauth : Aretino or An Evening in Mantua - Director: Peter Groeger

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Greeting: "Get to work". Land and Landtag Schsen-Anhalt were 20 . In: President of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): Ceremony "20 years of the State and State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt" . Magdeburg 2010, p. 1f.
  2. ↑ Musik und Gesellschaft 25 (1975), p. 575.
  3. ^ Gilbert Stöck: New music in the districts of Halle and Magdeburg at the time of the GDR. Compositions, politics, institutions. Schröder, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-926196-50-7 , p. 181.
  4. ↑ Andreas Johannes Wiesand (Ed.): Handbook of Culture Awards. Awards, honors, grants and individual project funding for artists, publicists and cultural mediators. 4th new edition, ARCult publishing house Kultur & Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-930395-24-X , p. 7.
  5. ↑ Andreas Johannes Wiesand (Ed.): Handbook of Culture Awards. Awards, honors, grants and individual project funding for artists, publicists and cultural mediators. 4th new edition, ARCult Verlagbuchhandlung Kultur & Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-930395-24-X , p. 987.
personal data
SURNAME Domhardt, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolmirstedt
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1997
Place of death Hall