German composer, musicologist, opera director and conductor (1943–2021)
Udo Zimmermann
Zimmermann in 2006
Born
6 October 1943
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Died
22 October 2021(2021-10-22) (aged 78)
Dresden, Germany
Education
Dresdner Kreuzchor
Musikhochschule Dresden
Occupations
Composer
Musicologist
Conductor
Opera director
Organizations
Musikhochschule Dresden
Dresden Center for Contemporary Music
Leipzig Opera
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Udo Zimmermann (6 October 1943[1] – 22 October 2021[a][3]) was a German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor.[4] He worked as a professor of composition, founded a centre for contemporary music in Dresden, and was director of the Leipzig Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He directed a contemporary music series for the Bayerischer Rundfunk and a European centre of the arts in Hellerau. His operas, especially Weiße Rose, on a topic he set to music twice, have been performed internationally, and recorded.
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2001 over artistic conflicts with the then-incoming artistic director UdoZimmermann. Thielemann remained with the company until 2004, when he resigned over...
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composer class and then studied at the Dresdner Musikhochschule with UdoZimmermann. From 1990 he studied at the National Academy for Chinese Theatre in...
Igor Stravinsky, as well as Krzysztof Penderecki, Walter Schartner and UdoZimmermann. After the 1949 division of Germany, the orchestra was under the supervision...
Reinshagen and composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Hans Zender and UdoZimmermann. Kirchner taught at the University of Georgia, the Musikhochschule Hamburg...
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commissioned and premiered, including works by Hans Werner Henze, Werner Egk, UdoZimmermann, Aribert Reimann, Salvatore Sciarrino, Adriana Hölszky, Bernhard Lang...
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