Peter Dorn (born November 1931) is a German composer and classical pianist.
Life Dorn was born in Wroclaw, capital of Silesia. He attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig. 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.Fred K. Prieberg: Musik im anderen Deutschland on WorldCat Cologne 1968, . He studied composition with Wilhelm Weismann in Leipzig and as a with Rudolf Wagner-RégenyDietrich Brennecke, Hannelore Gerlach, Mathias Hansen (ed.): Musiker in unserer Zeit. Members of the Music Section of the GDR Academy of Arts. Leipzig 1979, . at the Academy of Arts, Berlin (in East Berlin). He then worked at the Berlin Academy of Arts.Alan Pedigo: International encyclopedia of violin-keyboard sonatas and composer biographies. Booneville 1995, .
Dorn's violin sonatas are published by C. F. Peters Musikverlag in Leipzig.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, . In 1968, he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize in Leipzig for his cantata In deiner Hand steht geschrieben die Zeit.Musik und Gesellschaft 18 (1968), . The premiere was given by the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Rundfunkchor Leipzig under the direction of Herbert Kegel.Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. Die Geschichte des Sinfonieorchesters. Altenburg 1999, . The music prize was awarded for the first time that year, together with the composers Ruth Zechlin and Gerhard Rosenfeld.Erika Tschernig (ed.): Unsere Kultur. DDR-Zeittafel 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, .
His Klaviermusik 1964 was once compared with Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition.Fred K. Prieberg: Paragraphen und ein Erster Sekretär sorgen für Ordnung. In Die Zeit, 18 June 1965.
Work Sonatine für Violine und Klavier. Sonate für Viola und Klavier Klaviermusik in 4 Suiten Rhapsodie für Violine und Klavier.Bulletin. Musikrat der DDR 5/6 (1968), p. XLVII. In deiner Hand steht geschrieben die Zeit Divertimento.Musik und Gesellschaft 18 (1968),
References
Further reading Alan Pedigo: International encyclopedia of violin-keyboard sonatas and composer biographies. Arriaga Publications, Booneville 1995, , .
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