Widmar Hader

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Widmar Hader (born June 22, 1941 in Elbogen , Sudetenland ) is a German composer .

Life

Hader came to Bad Reichenhall as a child in 1946 . After graduating from high school , he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1960 and 1961 (including composition and composition with Cesar Bresgen and Friedrich Neumann ) and from 1961 to 1965 at the State University of Music in Stuttgart (including composition with Karl Marx (composer) ).

After two more years of study ( political science with Hans Maier, among others, and philosophy with Fritz Leist, among others ) at the University of Munich , he moved back to Stuttgart, where he worked as a composer , music educator, choir and orchestra director and as an external teacher for composition and ear training at the until 1990 Church music school Rottenburg worked.

In November 1990 he became director of the newly founded Sudeten German Music Institute (sponsor: Oberpfalz district ) in Regensburg , which was officially opened on April 6, 1991 and in 1995 entered into a partnership with the Musicological Institute of the University of Brno .

As a composer of opera, orchestral, ballet, chamber, piano, organ and vocal music, Hader had performances in almost all European countries, Israel and the USA . Several tours have taken him to the USA as a composer and conductor, including concerts with exclusively his own works (including in Washington DC ) and lectures on his compositions (including at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia ).

His compositions have been performed by the Israel Chamber Orchestra ( Philippe Entremont ), the South West German Chamber Orchestra ( Paul Angerer and Ladislav Czarnecki ), the Munich Chamber Orchestra ( Hans Stadlmair ), the Solistes de Marseille and the Palatinate Chamber Orchestra ( Klaus-Peter Hahn ), the Suk Chamber Orchestra ( Leoš Svárovský ), the Martinů Chamber Orchestra ( Lubomír Čermák ), the Stuttgart Philharmonic ( Hans Zanotelli and Heinz Finger ), the Baden-Baden Orchestra ( Werner Stiefel ), the Regensburg Philharmonic ( Friedrich Sin ), the Reichenhaller Philharmonic ( Willy Barth and Christian Simonis ), the Arcis Quintet , the Stuttgart Wind Quintet , the Singer Pur vocal sextet and renowned soloists such as Armin Rosin , Willy Freivogel , Rose Marie Zartner , Jaroslav Halíř , Bruce Abel .

In 1978 he founded the Sudeten German Music Days, which take place every year in the week after Easter, and in 1990 the Elbogen Organ Festival.

Honors

In 1961 Hader received the Sudeten German Culture Prize for Music , in 1975 he won the composition competition for the 125th anniversary of the Merseburg publishing house in Berlin and Kassel, and in the same year he received the Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize . In 1980 he was awarded the Adalbert Stifter Medal and in 1988 the South Moravian Culture Prize. In 1987 he was appointed to the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1996 he was awarded the Great Sudeten German Culture Prize and in 2002 the Nordgau Prize of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund . In October 2011 he received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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personal data
SURNAME Hader, Widmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbogen , Bohemia