Georg Katzer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Georg Katzer

German composer

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1935

Place of Birth: Bystrzyca Kłodzka, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 07-May-2019

Profession: composer, film score composer, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Georg Katzer

  • Georg Katzer (German: ['ge?.?rk kat?s?]; 10 January 1935 – 7 May 2019) was a German composer and teacher.
  • The last master student of Hanns Eisler, he composed music in many genres, including works for the stage.
  • Katzer was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic and the founder of the first electronic-music studio in the GDR.
  • He held leading positions in music organisations, first in the East (Akademie der Künste der DDR), then in the united Germany (Academy of Arts, Berlin, and Deutscher Musikrat), and received many awards, including the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Music Authors' Prize.

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