Manfred Weiss (composer)


Manfred Weiss is a German composer.

Life

Weiss was born in Niesky. He grew up in a missionary family of the Moravian Church and received violin lessons in Niesky and piano lessons in Görlitz since his childhood. He also sang in the and played organ repertoire. At the age of twelve he composed his first pieces.
After his Abitur, Xeiss studied musical composition with Hans Stieber and music theory with Franz von Glasenapp at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Halle/Saale from 1952 to 1955. Minor subjects were piano and viola. From 1955 to 1957 he studied composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and music theory with Ruth Zechlin, and Jürgen Wilbrandt at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in East Berlin. In 1957 he passed his Staatsexamen. His critical remarks about the East German uprising of 1953 prevented him from becoming an aspirant in Berlin. From 1957 to 1959 he was instead for composition at Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He received further encouragement from Paul Dessau.
In 1959 he was appointed a lecturer on the recommendation of Fritz Reuter and professor in 1983 for composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. From 1991 to 1997 he was prorector of the University of Music, in whose modernization he played a leading role. He has been emeritus since 1998. Weiss is a member of the.

Work

Weiss composed more than 100 works for orchestra, chamber and choral music as well as songs. sound bodies like the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Dresdner Philharmonie and the Dresdner Kreuzchor performed his compositions. Conductors were among others Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Masur, Herbert Kegel, Roderich Kreile and Lothar Zagrosek. Among the soloists were the pianist Amadeus Webersinke, the organist Michael Schönheit and the singer Günther Leib.
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