Paul-Heinz Dittrich
Paul-Heinz Dittrich (born December 4, 1930 in Gornsdorf ; † December 28, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German composer .
life and work
From 1951 to 1956 Dittrich studied composition with Fidelio F. Finke and conducting with Günther Ramin at the Leipzig University of Music and was choir conductor with the FDGB ensemble in Weimar until 1958 . From 1958 to 1960 he studied as a master class student with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and was director of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Ensemble in Berlin until 1963 . From 1960 to 1976 he was an assistant at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy ; after that he worked freelance.
In 1979 he became a professor of composition in Berlin. In 1981 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Bellagio Center in Italy. In 1984 he stayed at IRCAM and the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1983 to 1991 he trained master students at the Academy of Arts of the GDR , including Klaus Martin Kopitz (1985–1987), Hannes Zerbe (1985–1987), Annette Schlünz (1988–1991) and Péter Kőszeghy (1993–1999).
In 1990 Dittrich became a professor at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin. In 1991 he founded the Brandenburg Colloquium New Music at the Rheinsberg Music Academy , of which he was artistic director.
Dittrich composed works of orchestral and chamber music, cantatas and songs . The chamber music I (with tape), III (with vocals), V (with live electronics), VII “The Blind” (with 5 speakers) and XI “Journal de poemes” were commissioned for the Berlin Wind Association .
Dittrich was a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Saxon Academy of Arts in Dresden. He was considered one of the most influential and well-known composers for serious contemporary music in Germany and was in contact with personalities such as Carlfriedrich Claus , Burkhard Glaetzner , Vinko Globokar , Sofia Gubaidulina , Hans Peter Haller , Hans Werner Henze , Heinz Holliger , Herbert Kegel , Marek Kopelent , Aurèle Nicolet , Luigi Nono , Heinrich Schiff and Karlheinz Stockhausen . A comprehensive archive is located at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
Dittrich lived in Zeuthen . He died in Berlin a few weeks after his 90th birthday.
Works
In 2014, Dittrich's compositions chamber music VII on the subject of Die Blinden by Maurice Maeterlinck from 1984 and Käfig-Musik from 1986 based on the story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka were performed in the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin .
Visiting professorships
- 1978 at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (as substitute for Klaus Huber )
- 1980 at the Arnold Schönberg Institute in Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego
- 1988/89 at the Cologne University of Music in Heimbach
- 1990 at the Samuel Rubin Academy Tel Aviv and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 1992 at the University of Taegu (South Korea), Moscow and St. Petersburg
Awards
- 1963: Prize for national artistic creation
- 1972: Prize for composition from Künstlerhaus Boswil , Switzerland
- 1975: Honorary prize at the composition competition of the Italian Society for New Music
- 1976: Composition prize at the international competition in Trieste
- 1976: Prize of the Tribune Internationale des Composers of UNESCO in Paris
- 1978: Hanns Eisler Prize of the GDR Radio
- 1981: Art Prize of the GDR
- 1988: National Prize of the GDR III. Art and literature class
- 1990: Berlin Music Critics' Prize
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Dittrich, Paul-Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Bettina Brand: Paul-Heinz Dittrich . In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8 .
- Dittrich, Prof. Paul-Heinz. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 4th edition, German Association of Composers, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-55561-410-X , p. 223.
- Ditrich, Paul-Heinz. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 12208 ff.
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich. In: Peter Hollfelder : History of piano music. Volume 1, Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1989, ISBN 3-7959-0436-6 , p. 323.
- Dittrich, Paul-Heinz. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 87.
- Stefan Beyer: The composer Paul-Heinz Dittrich. Studies on "Areae sonantes" (1973) for orchestra , state examination paper (Ms, 120 pages), Leipzig 2008. Unpublished.
- Hermann Neef : The contribution of the composers Friedrich Goldmann , Friedrich Schenker , Paul-Heinz Dittrich and Thomas Heyn to the aesthetic discussion of the opera genre in the GDR since 1977 , dissertation, Halle 1989
Web links
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich Official Homepage
- Works by and about Paul-Heinz Dittrich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich , KDG - Contemporary Composers, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Saxon Academy of the Arts
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Berlin Academy of the Arts
- Paul-Heinz-Dittrich-Archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich in the archive of contemporary composers of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Composer Paul-Heinz Dittrich has died , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on December 29, 2020.
- ^ Paul-Heinz Dittrich on www.adk.de
- ^ The way of the beetle in the cage in FAZ from April 2, 2014, page 12.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dittrich, Paul-Heinz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gornsdorf |
DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2020 |
Place of death | Berlin |