Peter Dorn

Peter Dorn (born November 1931) is a German composer and classical pianist.

Life

Thorn was born in Wroclaw, capital of Silesia. He attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig.[1] He studied piano with Gerhard Puchelt and Amadeus Webersinke at the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Until 1959, he worked as a pianist in West Germany.[1] Cologne 1968, p. 125. He studied composition with Wilhelm Weismann in Leipzig and as a Meisterschüler with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny[2] at the Academy of Arts, Berlin (in East Berlin). He then worked at the Berlin Academy of Arts.[3]

Dorn's violin sonatas are published by C. F. Peters Musikverlag in Leipzig.[4] In 1968, he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize in Leipzig for his cantata In deiner Hand steht geschrieben die Zeit.[5] The premiere was given by the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Rundfunkchor Leipzig under the direction of Herbert Kegel.[6] The music prize was awarded for the first time that year, together with the composers Ruth Zechlin and Gerhard Rosenfeld.[7]

His Klaviermusik 1964 was once compared with Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition.[8]

Work
  • Sonatine für Violine und Klavier.[3]
  • Sonate für Viola und Klavier
  • Klaviermusik in 4 Suiten
  • Rhapsodie für Violine und Klavier.[9]
  • In deiner Hand steht geschrieben die Zeit
  • Divertimento.[10]

Further reading
  • Alan Pedigo: International encyclopedia of violin-keyboard sonatas and composer biographies. Arriaga Publications, Booneville 1995, ISBN 978-0-9606356-2-7, p. 153.

References
  1. Fred K. Prieberg: Musik im anderen Deutschland on WorldCat
  2. Dietrich Brennecke, Hannelore Gerlach, Mathias Hansen (ed.): Musiker in unserer Zeit. Members of the Music Section of the GDR Academy of Arts. Leipzig 1979, p. 17.
  3. Alan Pedigo: International encyclopedia of violin-keyboard sonatas and composer biographies. Booneville 1995, p. 153.
  4. Bettina Hinterthür: Noten nach Plan. Die Musikverlage in der SBZ, DDR. Zensursystem, zentrale Planwirtschaft und deutsch-deutsche Beziehungen bis Anfang der 1960er Jahre. Stuttgart 2006, p. 265.
  5. Musik und Gesellschaft 18 (1968), p. 740.
  6. Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. Die Geschichte des Sinfonieorchesters. Altenburg 1999, p. 186.
  7. Erika Tschernig (ed.): Unsere Kultur. DDR-Zeittafel 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 174.
  8. Fred K. Prieberg: Paragraphen und ein Erster Sekretär sorgen für Ordnung. In Die Zeit, 18 June 1965.
  9. Bulletin. Musikrat der DDR 5/6 (1968), p. XLVII.
  10. Musik und Gesellschaft 18 (1968), p. 93
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