Gottfried Glöckner | |
Birth Date: | 1937 6, df=y |
Birth Place: | Chemnitz |
Education: | Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber |
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Spouse: | Helga Glöckner-Neubert |
Awards: | Hanns Eisler Prize |
Gottfried Glöckner (born 24 June 1937) is a German composer, choral conductor and music educator.
Born in Chemnitz, Glöckner attended the Zwickau Conservatory. Afterwards he worked as a music teacher in Bad Liebenwerda and Frankfurt (Oder). From 1970 to 1974 he studied composition with Manfred Weiss at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He worked as a freelance composer and choral conductor in Frankfurt (Oder). Glöckner's compositions were published by bellmannmusik, Edition Choris Mundi and . His Concerto for Orchestra was first performed in Havana in 1984.
He was married to the writer Helga Glöckner-Neubert until her death in 2017.