Wilfried Krätzschmar Explained

Wilfried Krätzschmar (born 23 March 1944) is a German composer.

Life

Born in Dresden, Krätzschmar received piano lessons from 1952. After his Abitur at the he studied composition with Johannes Paul Thilman from 1962 to 1968, piano with Wolfgang Plehn and conducting with Klaus Zoephel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. In 1963 he conducted a trombone choir in Dresden. From 1968 to 1969 he took over the direction of incidental music at Theater Meiningen. After this time he returned to the Dresden Academy of Music as an aspirant of Fritz Geißler. In 1975 he took over artistically the Centre for the Promotion of Young Composers of the District of Dresden. In 1988 he was appointed extraordinary professor in Dresden. From 1991 to 2003 he was rector of the Dresden University of Music and from 1992 to 2009 full professor for musical composition. In 2003 he was appointed president of the . From 2011 to 2014 Krätzschmar was vice president and from 2014 to 2017 President of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste.

Awards

Compositions

Students

Among his students were Michael Flade, Arnulf Herrmann, Caspar René Hirschfeld, Alexander Keuk, Ekkehard Klemm, Uwe Krause, Rolf Thomas Lorenz, Christian Münch, Theodor Schubach and Sylke Zimpel.

Further reading

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