Heinz Weitzendorf

Heinz Weitzendorf (born May 4, 1931 in Altenweddingen ) is a German composer and conductor .

Life

Heinz Weitzendorf first went to the preparatory study department for the workers and farmers faculty in Halle. He then studied choral conducting at the German University of Music Berlin . From 1957 to 1962 he was a conductor with the Ernst Hermann Meyer Ensemble at the Humboldt University in Berlin , the State Folk Art Ensemble of the German Democratic Republic and the ensemble of the Ministry of the Interior . He also studied composition with Wolfgang Hohensee in Berlin. From 1963 he was secretary of the Berlin District Association of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR . He composed mainly wind and vocal music. His works were published by Verlag Neue Musik .

Awards

• 1977: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1981: Hanns Eisler Prize
• 1981: Art Prize of the NVA
• 1984: Patriotic Order of Merit

Works (selection)

• Yes, building houses. To lay the foundations (1965)
• The Ballad of Soldier John (1966)
• The World Must Turn (1968)
• At the radio operators (1972)
• Symphonic revolution march

literature

• Sabine Mecking, Yvonne Wasserloos (Ed.): Music - Power - State: Cultural, social and political change processes in the modern age . V&R unipress, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-872-0 , p. 254.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 28, 1977, p. 6.