Reinhard Pfundt (born in 1951) is a German pianist, composer and academic teacher at the
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig () is a public university in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest univ ...
. He wrote orchestral works, chamber music and songs, and was awarded prizes in the
German Democratic Republic
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...
(DDR).
Life
Born in
Burgstädt
Burgstädt () is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 12 km northwest of Chemnitz.
Sons and daughters of the city
* Erich Gleixner (1920-1962), footballer
* Peter Jahr
Peter Jahr (born 24 April ...
, Pfundt grew up with weekly singing and lessons in piano and organ.
He received first composition lessons from 1967 to 1969 with
Paul Kurzbach in
Chemnitz
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...
(then Karl-Marx-Stadt). From 1969 to 1975, he studied composition and piano at the
Musikhochschule Leipzig, among others with
Fritz Geißler
Fritz Geißler
(or Geissler) (16 September 1921 in Wurzen, Saxony – 11 January 1984 in Bad Saarow, Brandenburg) was one of the most important composers of the German Democratic Republic.
The son of Elsa and Walther Geißler, he was raised in m ...
,
Rolf Reuter
Rolf Reuter (7 October 1926 – 10 September 2007) was a German conductor.
Life
Reuter was born as son of the composer Fritz Reuter in Leipzig. After studying music at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden he began his caree ...
,
Siegfried Thiele
Siegfried Thiele (; 28March 193424November 2024) was a German composer. From 1990 to 1997, he was rector of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig where he had begun teaching in 1962. He composed an extended work for soloists, choir and or ...
and
Wilhelm Weismann.
Afterwards he was master student of
Siegfried Matthus
Siegfried Matthus (13 April 1934 – 27 August 2021) was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. Some of his operas, such as ''Judith'', were premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin in East Berlin. In 1991, he founded the c ...
at the Berlin
Academy of Arts
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...
.
Pfundt worked as a freelance composer and pianist until 1987, and simultaneously lectured at Musikhochschule Leipzig and in Halle. He then became senior assistant (''Oberassistent'') in Leipzig.
His ''De profundis'' was premiered in 1981 for the opening weeks of the new
Gewandhaus
Gewandhaus () is a concert hall in Leipzig, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics.
History
The first Gewandhaus (''Altes Gewandhaus'')
The ...
, conducted by
Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur (; 18 July 192719 December 2015) was a German Conducting, conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewand ...
.
In 1992, Pfundt was appointed professor of composition and ''Tonsatz'' at the institution, now called
University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy". He served as Prorector of the university from 1994 to 2000. He retired in 2016.
Awards
* 1978 Prize at the DDR Musiktage festival,
for Sonata for viola solo
* 1980
Hans Stieber Prize
The Hans Stieber Prize is a promotional prize for composers of serious and light music, which is awarded by the fiduciary trust ''Hans Stieber Foundation'' of the ''Landesverband Sachsen-Anhalt '' based in Halle (Saale). The name giver and dedic ...
.
* 1984 for ''Bartók-Reflexionen für Orchester''.
* 1986 Hanns-Eisler-Preis for ''Inventionen zu BACH''.
1985
* 1985 Prize of the Thüringer Landeskirche.
* 1992 Prize of the Carl-Engels-Stiftung.
Composition
Pfundt composed orchestral works, chamber music and songs, including:
Orchestra
* Bartók-Reflexionen
* ''De profundis''
* ''Introduktion und Kanon''
* ''Inventionen zu BACH''
* Flute Concerto
* Concerto for orchestra
* ''Musique pour Sanssouci''
Chamber music
* ''Auf der Suche nach dem Gleichgewicht'' for flute, violin and piano
* ''Ballade für Violine und Harfe''.
* Wind Quiotet
* Capriccio, Canto e Canone for flute and clarinet
* Three Etudes for piano
* Three Pieces for horn
* Three Pieces for oboe and viola.
* Three Pieces for oboe and percussion.
* Three pieces for violin and piano
* Fantasia on
Luther's Agnus Dei for organ
* Five Pieces for piano
* ''In die Tiefe'', Collage for soprano recorder, violin, cello, double bass and harpsichord
* Inventions on
B-A-C-H for piano
* Serenade for flute, alto flute (or violin) and cello.
''Serenade für Flöte, Altflöte (oder Violine) und Violoncello''
on WorldCat
* Sextett for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola and cello
* Sonate for viola sola
* Four String Quartets
* Suite for three flute instruments
* Trio for flute, viola and cello
* Triosonata for organ
* ''Vertiefung in ein Thema von Bach'' for flute, two violins, cello, double bass and harpsichord
* Four Pieces for piano
* Four Monograms for alto recorder
Vocal music
* Five songs for mezzo-soprano, horn and piano, text by Eva Strittmatter
Eva Strittmatter (née Braun; 8 February 1930 – 3 January 2011) was a German writer of poetry, prose, and children's literature.
Her books of poems sold millions of copies, reportedly making her the most successful German poet of the second ha ...
* Nine ''Galgenlieder'', songs for mixed choir, text
Text may refer to:
Written word
* Text (literary theory)
In literary theory, a text is any object that can be "read", whether this object is a work of literature, a street sign, an arrangement of buildings on a city block, or styles of clothi ...
by Christian Morgenstern
Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (6 May 1871 – 31 March 1914) was a German writer and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin ...
* Seven songs for mezzo-soprano, flute and harp, text by Morgenstern
* Two songs for voice and piano, text by Friedrich Hagedorn
* Two madrigals for mixed choir, texts by Paul von der Aelst and Thibault
References
External links
*
Katalog beim Verlag Schirmer
Compositions
on Wise Music ''Classical''
(in German) Wagner Association Leipzig
* ttp://www.richard-wagner-stiftung-leipzig.de/mein-wagner-neu/articles/plaedoyer-fuer-den-ganzen-klinger.html Plädoyer für den ganzen Klinger(in German) Wagner Foundation Leipzig, July 2011
*
Reinhard Pfundt's Website
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21st-century German composers
Living people
20th-century German composers
1951 births
People from Burgstädt