Christfried Schmidt ( German: Christfried Schmidt ; born November 26, 1932 , Markersdorf ) - German composer .
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Son of a miller. He graduated from high school in Goerlitz , there he began to study music under the guidance of the composer Emil Künel (1881-1971). In 1954 he graduated from the Higher School of Church Music in Goerlitz, then in 1959 the Leipzig High School of Music according to the classes of Werner Bushnakovski (organ) and Johannes Wairauch (composition). He worked as an organist in Forst , then as a theater conductor and choirmaster in Quedlinburg , taught piano. Since 1980 , he settled in East Berlin and devoted himself entirely to composition.
Schmidt owns two symphonies (No. 1 Hamlet and No. 2 Martin Luther King), several concerts, of which the Concerto for oboe with orchestra ( 1983 ), first performed and recorded by Burckhard Gletzner , and other orchestral works, brass quintet, had the greatest success. , as well as the opera “Heart” (1989, based on the eponymous novel by Heinrich Mann ).
In the GDR, Schmidt was awarded a number of music awards and in 1990 he was elected to the Academy of Arts in Berlin . In 1998 , he became a full member of the Saxon Academy of Arts .
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- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 124951821 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Berlin Academy of Arts - 1993.
- ↑ Discogs - 2000.