Wilfried Jentzsch

Wilfried Jentzsch (* 1941 in Dresden ) is a German composer .

Life

Jentzsch attended the Dresden Kreuzschule and was a member of the famous Kreuzchor . He studied conducting , composition and violoncello at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . Afterwards he was a master class student with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and Paul Dessau at the Academy of Arts in Berlin . This was followed by studies in electronic music with Hans Ulrich Humpert at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . From 1976 to 1981 he studied with Iannis Xenakis at the Sorbonne in Paris and received his doctorate in musical aesthetics . At the same time he conducted research at the IRCAM and the Center d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales.

From 1983 he taught at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg and founded a computer music studio. In 1993 he became director of the studio for electronic music in Dresden. He is a member of the International Society for New Music and a founding member of the German Society for Electroacoustic Music . From 1995 to 2000 he was chairman of the Society for New Music Saxony. In 1998 he was composer in residence at Capital University in Columbus (Ohio) .

literature

About Jentzsch performances by the Dresdner Kreuzchor, in: Matthias Herrmann (Ed.): Dresdner Kreuzchor and contemporary choral music. World premieres between Richter and Kreile , Marburg 2017, pp. 167–175, 246, 327 (Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchor, Vol. 2)

Web links

• Works by and about Wilfried Jentzsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vorlass Wilfried Jentzsch in the archive of contemporary composers of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden
• Homepage of Wilfried Jentzsch