Karl Dietrich (composer)

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Gravestone of Karl Dietrich in the cemetery in Weimar

Karl Dietrich (born July 9, 1927 in Wachsedt on the Eichsfeld ; † February 6, 2014 in Weimar ) was a German composer and professor of composition at the Liszt School of Music Weimar .

Life

Karl Dietrich came from a family in the Catholic Eichsfeld . After graduating from high school in 1947, he went to Jena to study and later to Weimar , where he taught from 1954 as a lecturer in music theory and ear training, and from 1984 as professor for composition and composition. In 1998 he was a founding member and deputy chairman of the Thuringia regional association in the German Composers' Association . His grave is in the main cemetery in Weimar. Since 2007 he was an honorary citizen of his place of birth.

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In his musical work, Karl Dietrich was committed to new music , which he often used for compositions with Christian material. His work includes chamber music, several song cycles, church music, concerts, eight symphonies, including the 4th symphony “contra bellum” (“Against the War”), based on the cf by the Lutheran Renaissance composer Balthasar Resinarius, “Verleih uns Peace, gracious ”(record Nova 8 85 241; 1985, Staatliches SO Thüringen, MD Lothar Seyfarth).

Karl Dietrich's 5th symphony "Die Weimar", based on the poem "The Greatness of the World" by Friedrich Schiller , in 1984/85 contradicted socialist cultural theory. It was judged to be "decadent" and was only allowed to be premiered after the fall of the Wall, which happened in 2004 in the form of the final concert of the 5th Weimar Spring Days for Contemporary Music (Staatskapelle Weimar, Peter Hirsch).

Karl Dietrich also wrote two operas: “Die Wette des Serapion”, comic opera in 4 scenes and 3 utopian interludes, libretto: Heidemarie Stahl, premiere 1984 Gera, and “Pervonte or Die Wünsche”, an opera based on the poem of the same name by Christoph Martin Wieland which in turn goes back to a fairy tale by Giambattista Basile from 1634; Libretto: Heidemarie Stahl, WP 1989 Stralsund, 1990 Kiel, published by Bärenreiterverlag Kassel.

His “ Rupert Mayer -reflections for organ” were presented to Pope Francis at an audience in June 2016 so that the work could be performed at a possible canonization of Mayer in the Vatican. The work honors the Jesuit priest who was beatified in 1987 for his resistance against the Nazi regime.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wachstedt: Composer Professor Karl Dietrich died . Thüringer Allgemeine, February 11, 2014. Accessed March 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Music by Karl Dietrich from Weimar should accompany the canonization . Thüringische Landeszeitung, June 30, 2016. Accessed July 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Waxed on the Eichsfeld
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2014
Place of death Weimar