Paul-Heinz Dittrich
Paul-Heinz Dittrich (born 4 December 1930) is a German composer.
Life and achievements
Born in Gornsdorf, From 1951 to 1956, Dittrich studied composition with Fidelio F. Finke and conducting with Günther Ramin at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and was choir conductor with the FDGB Ensemble in Weimar until 1958. From 1958 to 1960 he studied as a master student with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and was director of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Ensemble in Berlin until 1963. From 1960 to 1976 he was assistant at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, after which he worked as a freelance musician.
In 1979 he became professor for musical composition in Berlin. In 1981 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Bellagio Center in Italy. 1984 he stayed at the IRCAM and the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1983 to 1991 he trained Master students at the Academy of Arts, Berlin including Klaus Martin Kopitz (1985–1987), Hannes Zerbe (1985–1987), Annette Schlünz (1988–1991) and Péter Kőszeghy (1993–1999).
In 1990 Dittrich became professor at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin. In 1991 he founded the Brandenburg Colloquium New Music at the Musikakademie Rheinsberg, of which he was artistic director.
Dittrich composes works for orchestra and chamber music, cantatas and Lieder. The chamber music pieces I (with tape), III (with voice), V (with live electronics), VII Die Blinden (with 5 speakers) and XI Journal de poèmes were commissioned by the Bläservereinigung Berlin.
Dittrich is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and the Sächsische Akademie der Künste in Dresden. He is considered one of the most influential and best-known composers of serious contemporary music in Germany and has been in contact with personalities such as Carlfriedrich Claus, Burkhard Glaetzner, Vinko Globokar, Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Peter Haller, Hans Werner Henze, Heinz Holliger, Herbert Kegel, Marek Kopelent, Aurèle Nicolet, Luigi Nono, Heinrich Schiff and Karlheinz Stockhausen. A comprehensive archive is located at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
Work
In 2014, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin performed Dittrich's compositions Kammermusik VII on the theme Die Blinden by Maurice Maeterlinck from 1984 and Kafig-Musik from 1986 based on the story Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka.[1]
Guest professorships
- 1978 at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (as representative for Klaus Huber)
- 1980 at the Arnold Schönberg-Institut in Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego
- 1988/89 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Heimbach
- 1990 at the Samuel Rubin Academy Tel Aviv and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 1992 at the Daegu University (South Corea), Moscow and St. Petersburg
Awards
- 1963: Preis für künstlerisches Volksschaffen
- 1972: Prize for composition of the Künstlerhaus Boswil, Switzerland
- 1975: Honorary Prize at the Composition Competition of the Italian Society for New Music
- 1976: Composition Prize at the International Competition in Trieste
- 1976: Prize of the International Rostrum of Composers of the UNESCO in Paris
- 1978: Hanns-Eisler-Preis of the radio of the GDR
- 1981: Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic
- 1988: National Prize of the German Democratic Republic III. class for art and literature
- 1990: Prize of the Berlin Music Critics
Literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth, Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Dittrich, Paul-Heinz in Wer war wer in der DDR? 5th edition. Vol.1 Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4.
- Bettina Brand: Paul-Heinz Dittrich. In Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG). Edition Text & Kritik, München 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8.
- Dittrich, Prof. Paul-Heinz. In Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponisten-Interessenverband. Ein Handbuch. 4th edition, Deutscher Komponisten-Interessenverband, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-55561-410-X, p. 223.
- Ditrich, Paul-Heinz. In Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3, pp. 12208 ff.
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich. In Peter Hollfelder: Geschichte der Klaviermusik. Vol 1, Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1989, ISBN 3-7959-0436-6, p. 323.
- Dittrich, Paul-Heinz. In Axel Schniederjürgen (ed.): Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch. 5th edition, K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3, p. 87.
- Stefan Beyer: Der Komponist Paul-Heinz Dittrich. Studien zu "Areae sonantes" (1973) für Orchester, Staatsexamensarbeit (Ms, 120 Seiten), Leipzig 2008. Unpublished.
- Hermann Neef: Der Beitrag der Komponisten Friedrich Goldmann, Friedrich Schenker, Paul-Heinz Dittrich and Thomas Heyn zur ästhetischen Diskussion der Gattung Oper in der DDR seit 1977.[2] Dissertation, Halle 1989
External links
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich's official website
- Literature by and about Paul-Heinz Dittrich in the German National Library catalogue
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich on Munzinger
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Paul-Heinz-Dittrich-Archiv in the archives of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Paul-Heinz Dittrich im Archiv Zeitgenössischer Komponisten der Saxon State and University Library Dresden
References
- ^ Der Weg des Käfers in den Käfig in the FAZ dated 2 April 2014, page 12.
- ^ Der Beitrag der Komponisten Friedrich Goldmann, Friedrich Schenker, Paul-Heinz Dittrich und Thomas Heyn zur ästhetischen Diskussion der Gattung Oper in der DDR seit 1977 on WorldCat
