Tobias Hartleb
Tobias Hartleb is a Dresden composer . He set poems by Afro-American poets such as Langston Hughes to music for the 1984 album Ströme - Negerlyrik from two continents on the GDR record label Litera . The pieces were interpreted by Wolfgang Dehler and Ruth Hoffmann .
Karlheinz Drechsel assesses Hartleb's work as "multi-layered, demanding compositions / scores whose basic gesture was based on lines of reference derived from the jazz idiom to blues, gospel and contemporary pop music".
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Dörfel: Jazz and literature in the GDR: An investigation of selected examples. Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86924-013-8 , pp. 99–101 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ Cover text from Drechsel zu Ströme - Negerlyrik , accessed on January 27, 2011
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| SURNAME | Hartleb, Tobias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |