Volkmar Leimert

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Volkmar Leimert (born January 31, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German composer and music dramaturge .

Life

Volkmar Leimert attended the EOS "Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe" in Karl-Marx-Stadt until his Abitur in 1957. He received private music lessons from Gustav William Meyer in Grüna. Then he worked as a merchandise issuer. From 1959 to 1964 he studied composition with Ottmar Gerster , Wilhelm Weismann and Carlernst Ortwein at the Leipzig Music Academy . After the state examination, he was an aspirant in Leipzig from 1964 to 1967 . He then became a music dramaturge at the Städtische Theatern Karl-Marx-Stadt (from 1991 Chemnitz). In 2005 he retired.

He is a member of the Lions Club Chemnitz and the Saxon Music Association . He is also the secretary of the Chemnitz branch of the Richard Wagner Association . In 2008 Leimert participated in the joint project exhibition Richard Wagner-Episode X of the Association of Visual Artists Leipzig and the Saxon Music Association in the Leipzig City History Museum . His works are u. a. Published by Verlag Neue Musik in Berlin.

Compositions (selection)

  • Passacaglia for large orchestra, timpani and percussion (1963)
  • Sonata for horn and piano (1964)
  • Song motet "The sun that has faded" for 4/5-part mixed choir (1964)
  • String Quartet (1964)
  • Three madrigals after texts by Johannes R. Becher for five-part mixed choir a cappella (1965)
  • String Quartet II (1973)
  • Pentagram for orchestra (1974)
  • Five orchestral songs based on texts by Franz Fühmann for baritone and orchestra (1977)
  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra (1980) - Commissioned by the Theater der Stadt Plauen for the Robert Schumann Days of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district
  • Goethe songs for baritone and orchestra (1982)
  • Sextet for flute, clarinet. Violin, viola, cello and piano (1982)
  • Concertino for flute, oboe and strings (1987)
  • Marginalia on Schumann (1987)

Fonts

  • 70 Years of the Karl-Marx-Stadt Opera House In: Musik und Gesellschaft , 29, 1979, pp. 613–616.
  • 44th German Mozart Festival. 27.5. – 4.6.95 . Festschrift and program, Chemnitz 1995.
  • To the Chemnitz Tannhäuser concept . In: Udo Bermbach (Ed.): Individual versus Institution. For the original version of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" (1845) . Leipziger Univ.-Verlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-931922-25-1 , pp. 77-81 (= cultural infrastructure, volume 7)
  • To the libretto of the original version . In: Udo Bermbach (Ed.): Individual versus Institution. For the original version of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" (1845) . Leipziger Univ.-Verlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-931922-25-1 , pp. 83-93 (= cultural infrastructure, volume 7)
  • 90 years of the Chemnitz Opera House. 1909-1999 . Municipal Theater, Chemnitz 1999.
  • 100 years of the Chemnitz Opera House. 18 sheets on the history of the opera house . Municipal Theater, Chemnitz 2009.

Filmography

literature

  • Leimert, Volkmar. 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. 778.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musik und Gesellschaft 23 (1973), p. 501.
  2. ↑ Volkmar Leimert at the Lions Club Chemnitz
  3. ^ Members
  4. ↑ Richard Wagner Association - Chemnitz Local Association ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rwv-chemnitz.de
  5. ^ Richard Wagner episode X
personal data
SURNAME Leimert, Volkmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin