Thomas Ehricht

Thomas Ehricht (* 1940 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German composer , music teacher and dramaturge .

Life

Thomas Ehricht studied school music from 1959 to 1963 at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Then he worked as a music teacher in Stralsund . From 1969 to 1973 he studied composition with Johann Cilenšek and Werner Hübschmann at the Weimar Academy of Music. In 1981 he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize . From 1982 to 1988 he worked as a dramaturge at the Greifswald Theater . At the same time he was a master student of composition with Siegfried Matthus at the Academy of Arts in Berlin (East). From 1988 to 2005 he was a lecturer for composition and ear training at the Rostock University of Music and Theater . From 1992 to 2002 he held the office of deputy chairman of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional association of the German composers' association .

He composed several pieces, including an opera .

Works (selection)

• Opera "Kassandra"
• Canzona for viola and piano
• Concertino for piano and orchestra
• Siebengesang for voice and chamber ensemble
• Marionettes for treble recorder and piano
• Variations on Jesus, my joy for organ

Filmography

• 1981: David and Goliath

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bridge Festival 2009 program ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.8 MB) 
2. ↑ Ulrich Dibelius (Ed.): New music in divided Germany. Volume 4: Documents from the 1980s . Henschel, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89487-224-1 , p. 260.
3. ↑ Musik und Gesellschaft 25 (1975), p. 764.