Wilfried Krätzschmar

Wilfried Krätzschmar (born 23 March 1944) is a German composer.

Life Born in Dresden, Krätzschmar received piano lessons from 1952. After his Abitur at the he studied composition with Johannes Paul Thilman from 1962 to 1968, piano with Wolfgang Plehn and conducting with Klaus Zoephel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. In 1963 he conducted a trombone choir in Dresden. From 1968 to 1969 he took over the direction of incidental music at Theater Meiningen. After this time he returned to the Dresden Academy of Music as an aspirant of Fritz Geißler. In 1975 he took over artistically the Centre for the Promotion of Young Composers of the District of Dresden. In 1988 he was appointed extraordinary professor in Dresden. From 1991 to 2003 he was rector of the Dresden University of Music and from 1992 to 2009 full professor for musical composition. In 2003 he was appointed president of the . From 2011 to 2014 Krätzschmar was vice president and from 2014 to 2017 President of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste.

Awards 1971 Förderpreis des Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Wettbewerbes 1972 and 1973 Mendelssohn Scholarship des Ministeriums für Kultur 1979 Hans Stieber Prize of the Komponistenverbandes Halle 1980 des Rundfunks der DDR 1985 1986 Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic 1990 Kritikerpreis der DDR-Musiktage 2012 des Sächsischen Musikrates

Compositions 1974: Suoni notturni for solo flute and ensemble, UA Dresden 1976: Hölderlin-Fragmente for solo flute and ensemble, UA Dresden 1979: 1. Sinfonie, UA Dresden 1980: 2. Sinfonie Explosionen und Cantus, UA Berlin 1982: Heine-Szenen for baritone, choirs, organ and orchestra, UA Leipzig 1982: 3. Sinfonie, UA Berlin 1985: 4. Sinfonie, UA Dresden 1987: scenario piccolo for piano and ensemble, UA Dresden 1987: cataracta for orchestra, UA Berlin 1988: Kammerkonzert II, UA Schwerin 1991: und schon jetzt for two choirs and large ensemble, UA Dresden 1993: Klanggewächse for orchestra, UA Pirna 1993: Nachspiel zum Vormittag eines Ubu for ensemble, UA Berlin 1995: Reigen for orchestra, UA 1995 Dresden 1996: turns for six percussionists, UA Dresden 1998: Kammerkonzert III, UA Dresden 2003: age, spectra sonantia temporibus for orchestra, UA Dresden 2006: Galopp – mouvement, UA Leipzig 2006: Schlüsseloper. Ein burleskes Spiel, libretto Michael Wüstefeld, UA Dresden 2008: maga musica, Hymn for children choirs, UA Dresden 2009: Doch es wird nicht dunkel bleiben for choir and percussion ensemble, UA Dresden 2012: Fragmentum for two choirs and orchestra, UA Dresden 2019: 5th Symphony, UA Dresden

Students Among his students were Michael Flade, Arnulf Herrmann, Caspar René Hirschfeld, Alexander Keuk, Ekkehard Klemm, Uwe Krause, Rolf Thomas Lorenz, Christian Münch, Theodor Schubach and Sylke Zimpel.