Gerd Boder (13 June 1933,

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...

– 2 June 1992) was a German composer. He studied music at the Hochschule für Musik Saar, the

Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Poitiers The Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Poitiers is a school of higher education for music, drama, and dance located in Poitiers, France. The institution is a charter school of France's Ministry of Culture and is operated by the Direction r� ...

, and the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his teachers were

Heinrich Konietzny Heinrich Josef Konietzny (born 7 May 1910 in Gliwice; died 23 April 1983 in Saarbrücken-Dudweiler) was a German musician, professor and composer. Life Heinrich Konietzny was born as the son of a Prussian Silesian military officer and socialis ...

, Jean Rivier, and

Noël Gallon Noël Jean-Charles André Gallon (11 September 1891 – 26 December 1966) was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs, 10 preludes, a ''Toccata'' for piano, a ''Sonata ...

. 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.

Sources

*Kreutzer, Tomas: Ein Hoffnungsträger - Leben und Werk des Komponisten Gerd Boder. in: Musik in Saarbrücken - Nachklänge einer wechselvollen Geschichte (Im Auftr. des Saarländischen Rundfunks, SR 2 ). Hrsg.: Nike Keisinger, Ricarda Wackers. Saarbrücken: 2000. pg. 207-210 * Lücke, Martin: Gerd Boder: Leben und Werk, hrsg. von der Stadt Soest, Soest 2003 {{DEFAULTSORT:Boder, Gerd 1933 births 1992 deaths Conservatoire de Paris alumni Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Poitiers alumni Hochschule für Musik Saar alumni People from Saarbrücken 20th-century German composers Musicians from Saarland