Gerd Boder


Gerd Boder was a German composer. He studied music at the Hochschule für Musik Saar, the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Poitiers, and the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his teachers were Heinrich Konietzny, Jean Rivier, and Noël Gallon. He won the Stuttgart Award for Young Composers in 1963 and 1968, was awarded the Prix de Composition Prince Pierre de Monaco in 1963, and received the Kunstpreis des Saarlandes, the most important cultural prize of this German federal state, in 1976.