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Christfried Schmidt (born 26 November 1932) is a German composer and arrangeur.

Life

Schmidt was born in 1932 as the son of a miller in Markersdorf. In Görlitz, he attended the grammar school and received piano lessons from Humperdinck's pupil Emil Kühnel. From 1951 to 1954, he studied church music at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik der Evangelischen Kirche der schlesischen Oberlausitz [de] (B-exam) and from 1955 to 1959 with Werner Buschnakowski (organ) and Johannes Weyrauch (music composition) at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig (A-Exam). In Leipzig, he familiarised himself with Neue Musik with Hermann Heyer.[1][2]

From 1960 to 1962, Schmidt was a church musician in Forst. From 1963 to 1964, he worked as an acting bandmaster in Quedlinburg and then from 1965 to 1980 was a freelance piano teacher and choir director in Quedlinburg. In Warsaw, he met the Japanese musicologist Ichirō Tamura, who enabled him to perform his works in Japan. Since 1980, he has been living as a freelance composer in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.[3] The artistic breakthrough came with the premiere of his oboe concerto performed by Burkhard Glaetzner at the DDR-Musiktagen 1984.[4]

His orchestral work Memento was premiered in 2002 in the Leipziger Gewandhaus by the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi.[5]

In 2019, the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin under Kai-Uwe Jirka premiered his St. Mark Passion from 1975 after 45 years.[6] The highly expressive, headstrong work combines aleatoric compositional procedures (influenced by Witold Lutosławski's controlled aleatoric music) with a polyphonic way of thinking in the wake of J.S. Bach and the Viennese School.[7][8]

Awards and memberships

• 1971: Composition prize in Nürnberg
• 1973: Composition prize in Stettin
• 1976: Composition prize in Triest
• 1978: Kompositionspreis in Boswil
• 1987: Kunstpreis der DDR
• 1990: Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, (East) (until 1991)
• 1991: Johann-Wenzel-Stamitz-Preis [de]
• 1998: Member of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste
• 1999: Berliner Kunstpreis (Promotion Prize)

Work

Year	Title	Premiere year	Premiere location
1965	Landnahme	1994	Berlin
1967	1. Symphony. Hamlet
1968	2. Symphony. Martin Luther King
1969	piano concerto	1974	Berlin
1969–1995	Chamber music I-XI
1970	Petite Suite	1970	Tokyo
1970	Psalm 21	1971	Nürnberg
1971	Wind Quintet	1973	Berlin
	Chamber music II	1998	Görlitz
1973	Chamber music VI	1983	Berlin
1973	Tonsetzers Alptraum	1976	Dresden
1974	Violin concerto	1991	Berlin
1974	Cello concerto	1976	Leipzig
1975	St Mark's Passion	2019	Berlin
1977	Flute concerto	1978	Berlin
1978	Ein Märchen – kein Märchen	1981	Berlin
1980	Munch-Musik	1981	Leipzig
1982	Die Zeit und die Zeit danach	1985	Berlin
1983	Oboe concerto	1984	Berlin
1985	Orchestermusik I	1988	Berlin
1989	Das Herz. Opera after Heinrich Mann	1996
1996	Clarinet Quintet	1997	Berlin
	Memento	2000	Leipzig

Further reading

• Ursula Stürzbecher: Komponisten in der DDR. 17 Gespräche. Hildesheim 1979, ISBN 3-8067-0803-7.
• Georg-Friedrich Kühn: Unbefangen, ungebärdig. Die Extreme des Ausdrucks. Glied der musikalischen Gesellschaft: Christfried Schmidt. In Musik-Texte 4/1984
• Frank Schneider: Klang-Bilder. Ein alter Aspekt in neuer Musik der DDR. In Bildende Kunst 6/1984
• Frank Schneider: Christfried Schmidt. In Prospekt Deutscher Verlag für Musik. Leipzig 1987
• Gerald Felber: Verletzbare Leidenschaftlichkeit. Der Komponist Christfried Schmidt. In Sonntag 36/1987
• Habakuk Traber: Notizen. Christfried Schmidt zum 60. Geburtstag.In Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 12/1992.
• Beate Schröder-Nauenburg: Christfried Schmidt. In Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG). Edition Text & Kritik, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8

References

External links

• Literature by and about Christfried Schmidt in the German National Library catalogue
• Christfried Schmidt discography at Discogs

На других языках

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[de] Christfried Schmidt

Christfried Schmidt (* 26. November 1932 in Markersdorf (Oberlausitz)) ist ein deutscher Komponist und Arrangeur.

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- [en] Christfried Schmidt

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[ru] Шмидт, Кристфрид

Кристфрид Шмидт (нем. Christfried Schmidt; род. 26 ноября 1932 (1932-11-26), Маркерсдорф) — немецкий композитор .

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