Peter Richter de Rangenier

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Peter Richter de Rangenier , also Peter Richter (born March 25, 1930 in Prague ), is an Austrian composer , conductor and university professor .

Life

After attending grammar school in Lübeck , Richter de Rangenier initially worked as a freelance composer and founded the Lübeck Chamber Orchestra . He then studied composition, conducting, piano, horn and organ at the music academies in Detmold , Hamburg and at the Mozarteum .

He worked as Kapellmeister in Hagen in 1954 , in Wuppertal in 1957 and was musical director of the Theater des Westens in Berlin from 1960 to 1965 and 1974 to 1976 . From 1967 to 1973 Richter de Rangenier worked in the Bavarian court as general music director ( Hofer Symphoniker and Theater Hof ). In 1977 he went to South America. Until 1981 he trained conductors as a professor at the University of Santiago de Chile and worked there as a conductor from 1979 to 1981.

In 1981 he returned to Europe and taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . Concert tours took Richter de Rangenier to Switzerland ( Musikfestwochen Luzern ) and Germany. In 1989 he was a guest conductor with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra .

Peter Richter de Rangenier lives in Waidhofen an der Ybbs .

Work (selection)

Furthermore: symphonies, string quartets, various pieces for various solo instruments, choral works and songs

Honors and prizes

  • 1960: Art Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1961: Sponsorship award from the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  • 1980: Honorary member of the Philharmonic Santiago de Chile (Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago)
  • 1982: Theodor Körner Foundation sponsorship award

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