Wolfgang Pietsch (composer)

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Wolfgang Pietsch (* 1929 in Dresden ; † 1974 ) was a German composer who worked in the GDR .

Pietsch was self-taught . He worked as an orchestra conductor at the Volksbühne in East Berlin and composed the music for numerous cinema and television films.

In 1963 he married the actress Marianne Wünscher and had a son with her. His grave is in the Pankow III cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the DEFA Foundation , accessed on July 30, 2017
  2. ^ Wolfgang Thiel: Jazz in the DEFA film. In: Willem Strank, Claus Tieber (Hrsg.): Jazz in Film. Contributions to the history and theory of an intermedia phenomenon. LIT, Münster 2014, ISBN 9783643506146 , p. 96. Excerpts from books.google.de
personal data
SURNAME Pietsch, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1974