Peter Zwetkoff

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Peter Zwetkoff (also written Petar Zwetkow , Bulgarian Петър Цветков ) (born April 14, 1925 in Bazargic, Romania , today Dobrich , Bulgaria ; † May 17, 2012 in Baden-Baden ) was a Bulgarian- German composer . He lived and worked in Germany since 1954.

Zwetkoff was considered a master of applied composition, which is never just pure music, but is always closely linked to language and action. Words are clothed with sounds through him in such a way that they are even more clearly perceived than without. The music nuances the radio play, underlines it ironically or dramatically and helps with orientation through the use of leitmotifs.

Life

In 1926 the family moved to Tyrol, where Peter Zwetkoff grew up in Hall and Tulfes and attended high school in Hall. During the Nazi period he was involved in the resistance and was arrested and interrogated several times.

Zwetkoff received his first piano lessons from a great aunt. After the end of the Second World War he attended the music school in Innsbruck (piano with Maria Auer and Hans Leygraf as well as harmony and counterpoint with Karl Koch ) and studied at the Mozarteum Music Academy in Salzburg in 1947/1948 (piano with Wilhelm Keller , composition with Carl Orff ) . He then attended the music academy in Munich (taking courses with Carl Orff). From 1951 to 1954 he was a piano teacher and head of the Orff School Works at the Innsbruck Music School.

Since 1954 he has worked at SWF Baden-Baden as a freelance in-house composer for radiophonic and cinematic tasks, music and dramaturgical work with actors, musicians, directors and technicians. He wrote the music for over 250 radio plays and numerous stage and feature film scores.

His estate is in the Brenner Archive Research Institute .

Awards

  • 1955: Karl Sczuka Prize for “The Trojan War does not take place” by Jean Giraudoux
  • 1961: Karl Sczuka Prize for “Impatience of the Heart” by Stefan Zweig
  • 1964: Radio play award of the war blind for “ The Buzzard Above Us ” by Margarete Jehn
  • 1974: Karl Sczuka Prize for “The Terrible Confusion of Giuseppe Verdi” by Urs Widmer
  • 1978: Radio play award of the war blind for "Breakfast Talks in Miami" by Reinhard Lettau
  • 1980: Radio play award of the war blind for "Moin Vaddr läbt" by Walter Kempowski
  • 1981: Prix Italia for “Intensive Care Unit” by Christoph Gahl
  • 2011: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
  • 2011: Billy Wilder Award from the Film Academy, Vienna

Works

Radio play music

Film music

  • Close Encounters (1955) (TV)
  • The Cassette (1961) (TV)
  • Ghost Comedy (1962) (TV)
  • The 18th Birthday (1962) (TV)
  • The Great Wall of China (1965) (TV)
  • A House Made of Sheer Love (1966) (TV)
  • Jacob the Last (1976) (TV)
  • The unicorn (1978)
  • Kassbach - A Portrait (1979)
  • The Last Round (1983)
  • Land of Fathers, Land of Sons (1988)

Other works

  • Hotel solo for a male voice based on the poem by Erich Kästner
  • Violin music for two to four violins
  • To a distant lover
  • Suite for piano
  • Transfer point for clarinet, tuba, violin, double bass and drums

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF.at : composer Peter Zwetkoff dead , May 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Zwetkoff, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwetkow, Petar; Цветков, Петър (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian-German composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobrich , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 2012
Place of death Baden-Baden