Johannes Fritsch

Johannes Fritsch ( born July 27, 1941 in Auerbach ( Bensheim ), † April 29, 2010 in Bonn ) was a German composer and publisher at the same time, studio manager, magazine publisher and author. Since 1984 he was professor of composition at the Academy of Music and Dance Cologne.

Life

He studied from 1961 to 1965 at the University and the College of Music and Dance Cologne in Cologne, the subjects music, sociology and philosophy, among others, with Bernd Alois Zimmermann. In the following years he turned to a wide variety of musical activities, among other things, he worked as a violist with the Stockhausen Ensemble, and took part in Germany for the World Expo in Osaka. On 8 February 1963 he took part in the Bonn stage for sensory perception - Ecumenical Council with " MOV II 24 ' 1963 ". 1966 Fritsch was awarded the Prize of North Rhine- Westphalia of Music and in 1971 the price of the biennial Paris. Since the 1970s, followed by other awards such as the Award of the City of Cologne or the Robert Schumann Prize of the city of Dusseldorf.

Fritsch wrote music for all large and well-known theaters in Germany. In addition, Fritsch was in 1970 one of the founders of the Feedback Studio Cologne (together with Rolf Gehlhaar and David Johnson) and was since 1975 in Feedback Studio Verlag - First German composer publishing works as main actor: He was a producer of compact discs, editor of the Feedback Studio Papers a the electronic journal dedicated to music, publishers of scores of contemporary music and concert organizers. In the years 1979, 1982, 1984 and 1986, he worked with Peter foreigners and the WDR organizer of world music conferences in Vlotho. During the student protests in 1968 Fritsch modulation IV relation with his collage composition against the war in Vietnam.

Among his composition pupils were so aesthetically different personalities such as Georg Hajdu, hans w. cook, Siegfried Koepf, Harald Muenz, Oxana Omeltschuk, Markus Schmickler, Volker Staub and Caspar Johannes Walter.

Fritsch also worked as a lecturer at the Darmstadt spring meetings, and was a founding board member of the Cologne Society for New Music and longtime advisory board member of the Cologne Kunst-Station Sankt Peter. Shortly before his death, his writings, lectures, interviews and comments work appeared in the anthology The content of music.