Kurt Dietmar Richter


Kurt Dietmar Richter was a German composer and conductor.

Life

Richter was born on September 24, 1931 in Plzeň. His father was Gymnasium professor. At the urging of his mother he attended a music school, where he was appointed assistant concertmaster at the age of twelve. After the war his family moved from Sudetenland to Erfurt.

Musical career

Richter was a member of the Thuringian Boys Choir in his childhood. From 1946 to 1949 he attended the Landesschule Pforta. He studied with Dieter Zechlin and Franz Jung at the Thuringian State Conservatory in Erfurt. Inspired by his Erfurt music teacher, he was fascinated among others by Paul Hindemith and the New Music. Later he was a master student with at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He then worked as conductor at the municipal Döbeln and Theater Erfurt, at the Greifswald Theatre and at the. In 1990 he founded the Berlin artist initiative die neue brücke. His works have been performed among others at the Schauspielhaus Berlin, the Theater Greifswald and the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Richter died in Berlin at the age of 87.

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