Siegfried Thiele (composer)

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Siegfried Thiele (born March 28, 1934 in Chemnitz ) is a German composer . From 1990 to 1997 he was rector of the Leipzig University of Music .

Life

Siegfried Thiele was born the son of a craftsman. He created his first compositions at the age of twelve. He had music lessons with Werner Huebschmann and Gustav William Meyer and worked in the studio choir of the Volksbühne Chemnitz, led by Paul Kurzbach .

After graduating from EOS "Karl Marx" in 1952 , he studied composition with Wilhelm Weismann and Johannes Weyrauch from 1953 to 1958 , conducting with Franz Jung and Heinz Rögner and piano with Rudolf Fischer and Amadeus Webersinke at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" College of Music in Leipzig. From 1958 to 1962 he was a teacher as well as choir and orchestra leader at the music schools in Radeberg and Wurzen . From 1959 he performed his chamber music, symphonic and choral symphonic works at home and abroad. Since that time he has also worked in the Leipzig Christian Community as a musician and composer for liturgical and other works.

From 1960 to 1962, Thiele studied composition with Leo Spies at the East Berlin Academy of the Arts . In 1962 he began teaching at the University of Music in Leipzig in the subjects of composition and score playing and in 1963 he founded the Leipzig Youth Symphony Orchestra, which he directed until 1978. From 1971 to 1999 he was a lecturer ( professor from 1984 ) for composition at the Leipzig Music Academy . His students included u. a. Bernd Franke , Walter Thomas Heyn , Thomas Reuter , Reinhard Pfundt and Steffen Schleiermacher .

On the occasion of the opening of the New Gewandhaus in Leipzig on October 8, 1981, Thiele created the large commissioned work Gesänge to die Sonne for alto and tenor solo, organ, choir and orchestra. It was premiered in the opening concert under the direction of the then Gewandhaus Kapellmeister Kurt Masur , who wanted the new large organ of the Gewandhaus to be appropriately included in this composition. Thiele took the texts from the “Prologue in Heaven” from Goethe's Faust , Schiller's poem “To the Sun” and Hölderlin's “The Sun God”. It was only after Masur intervened that this piece was allowed to be performed at the opening, as the Central Committee of the SED did not accept the texts.

On October 1, 1990, Thiele took office as the newly elected Rector of the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. In 1994 he was re-elected in this capacity for a further three years.

Since 1992 he has been a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig , and in 1996 of the Saxon Academy of the Arts in Dresden. In 1999 he was guest of honor at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2001 he was appointed honorary senator of the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig.

Siegfried Thiele is married to Uta Thiele and still lives in Leipzig today.

Awards

literature

  • Thiele, Prof. Siegfried. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 4th edition. German Composers' Association, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-555-61410-X , p. 1291.
  • Prof. Siegfried Thiele on his 70th birthday. In: Journal. Journal of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig, supplement to no. 17, summer semester 2004. Therein a. a .:
  • Thiele, Siegfried. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 14644 f.
  • Christiane Niklew, Ingrid Kirschey-Feix :  Thiele, Siegfried . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, rector of the Leipzig University of Music
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz