Gerd Natschinski Explained

Gerd Natschinski
Birth Date:	23 August 1928
Birth Place:	Chemnitz, Germany
Death Place:	Berlin, Germany
Othername:	Gerd Joachim Natschinski
Occupation:	Composer, orchestra leader
Yearsactive:	1952-1990 (film and television)

Gerd Natschinski (23 August 1928 – 4 August 2015) was a German composer.^[1] He worked on the scores for more than forty film and television series during his career. He was employed the East German state-controlled studio DEFA.

Natschinski died on 4 August 2015 in a Berlin hospital.^[2]

Selected filmography

• My Wife Makes Music (1958)
• Heißer Sommer (1968)

Selected operettas and musicals

• Messeschlager Gisela (1960, premiered at Metropol Theater Berlin)
• Servus Peter (1961)
• Mein Freund Bunbury (1964, premiered at Metropol Theater Berlin) based on The Importance of Being Earnest
• Casanova (1976, premiered at Metropol Theater Berlin)
• Caballero (1988)
• Ein Fall für Sherlock Holmes (1982)

Bibliography

• Marc Silberman & Henning Wrage. DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture: A Companion. Walter de Gruyter, 2014.

External links

• • Gerd Natschinski at schott-musik.de

Notes and References

1. Silberman & Wrage p.323
2. http://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/natschinski108.html Komponist Gerd Natschinski gestorben