Willy Focke

Willy Focke (* 1949 ) is a German composer .

Life

In 1973 he received a 3rd prize at the Dresden Weber Competition. In 1976 he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize by Radio DDR. In the same year he received 1st prize in the chamber music competition of the GDR Music Days. His works appear at Edition Peters and have been a. performed by the string quartet of the Komische Oper Berlin and at chamber music evenings by the Staatskapelle Dresden . He also received commissions from the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert hall in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Works (selection)

• Concerto for basset horn and orchestra
• String quartet I with baritone solo on a poem by Johannes R. Becher , op.13
• String Quartet II
• Five duos for viola and clarinet, op.3
• Three sonnets by Francesco Petrarca for voice and harpsichord
• Epitaph for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Divertimento for oboe, violoncello and harpsichord
• And where the first row goes (song)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Musik und Gesellschaft 23 (1973), p. 271.
2. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987 . Berlin 1989, p. 250.
3. ↑ Bulletin. Music Council of the GDR 13–15 (1976), p. 20.
4. ↑ Bulletin. Music Council of the GDR 13–15 (1976), p. 23.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Music and Society 24 (1974), p. 252.
6. ↑ Musik und Gesellschaft 27 (1977), p. 301.