Manfred Schubert (composer)

Manfred Schubert (27 April 1937 – 10 June 2011)[1] was a German composer, conductor and music critic.

Life

Schubert was born the son of a lawyer in Berlin-Charlottenburg.[2] In his youth, he received violin and piano lessons; he passed his Abitur in Berlin-Köpenick.[2] From 1955 to 1960, he studied music education with Fritz Reuter,[3] Georg Knepler and Siegfried Bimberg and Slavic studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.[2] Von 1960 bis 1963 war er Meisterschüler for musical composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.[2] From 1962 to 1990, he worked regularly as a music critic for the Berliner Zeitung, after that only sporadically. In 1978, he conducted the Staatskapelle Berlin at a guest concert in Lyon. From 1984 to 1985, he worked as a lecturer in composition and instrumentation at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". Since 1963, he lived in Berlin as a freelance composer.[4]

Schubert died in Berlin at the age of 74.[2] His estate is owned by the Berlin State Library.[1]

Source:[5][6]

1965: Tanzstudien, for small orchestra (15')
1966: Orchestermusik 66 (Paean) (7')
1966: Suite für Orchester (22')
1970: Divertimento für Orchester (14')
1971: Konzert für Klarinette und Orchester (22')
1972: Hommage à Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, Concertante meditations for harp solo, 13 string instruments, percussion and celesta (20')
1974: Cantilena e Capriccio, per violino ed orchestra (16')
1979–82: I. Sinfonie, for large orchestra (32')
1988: Konzert für zwei Violinen und Orchester (25')
1990: Vogelreden III, Capriccio für 6 Flöten (1 Spieler) und Streichorchester (22')
1998–05: Ein ökumenisches Te Deum, for four solo voices, speaker, eight-part mixed choir, organ and large orchestra (75')[4]

1964: Acht Lieder, on poems by Bertolt Brecht (9')
1964: Traumwald, Four Lieder on poems by Christian Morgenstern for baritone and String Orchestra (6')
1973: Canzone amorose, Concerto for baritone and large orchestra on poems by Johannes Bobrowski (22')
1986: Nachtgesänge, after Carl Friedrich Zelter together with two intermezzi for medium voice and small orchestra (Goethe) (20')
1992: Miserere, for eight–part mixed choir and organ (8')
1996: Misericordia ejus, antiphon for 2 mixed choirs a cappella (12')
1995–97: Missa viadrina, for eight–part mixed choir a cappella (50')
2006: Zweite Romantik, seven sonnets for medium voice and piano (32')

Composition Prize at the Prague Spring International Music Festival (1966)
Ernst-Zinna-Preis der Stadt Berlin (1966)[6]
Prize of the Verband der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der DDR (1966, 1969)[6]
Hanns Eisler Prize of the Rundfunk der DDR (1977)[6]
Recognition by the International Rostrum of Composers of the UNESCO in Paris (1984)[6]

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Peter Hollfelder: Geschichte der Klaviermusik. F. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1989, ISBN 3-7959-0770-5, p. 310.
Smitmans, Wolfgang. "Nachruf Manfred Schubert". hastedt Musikedition (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2021.
Hillenbrand, Markus. "Klassika: Manfred Schubert (1937–2011)". Klassika (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2021.
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Vera Grützner in Munzinger-Archiv, Manfred Schubert

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