Ruth Zechlin
1926 - 2007
German
Summary
Born on June 22 1926 in Saxony, Ruth Zechlin (maiden name Oschatz) studied at the Leipzig Academy of Music during and after the Second World War, initially with Johann Nepomuk David (composition and choral conducting) and later with Karl Straube (organ), Günther Ramin (liturgical organ playing) and Wilhelm Weismann (composition). From 1950, she worked in Berlin at the newly founded Hanns Eisler Academy of Music as a lecturer in composition, aural training and theory of form, among other things. She was appointed professor of composition there in 1969. Until her retirement in 1986, she taught a masterclass in composition, with Georg Katzer and Hans-Jürgen Wenzel among her students. Ruth Zechlin moved to Bavaria in 1991. Her catalogue raisonné contains more than 300 works in all genres. The composer favours a linear-contrapuntal style of writing, which is modelled on J. S. Bach. Dodecaphony, sound surfaces, clusters, limited aleatoric, collage and modern playing techniques are used in her works, techniques with which she has created her own sound language. Her versatile work has been honoured several times. She died on August 2 2007 in Munich, where she last lived and worked.
Source: mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de
Biography
Born on June 22 1926 in Saxony, Ruth Zechlin (maiden name Oschatz) studied at the Leipzig Academy of Music during and after the Second World War, initially with Johann Nepomuk David (composition and choral conducting) and later with Karl Straube (organ), Günther Ramin (liturgical organ playing) and Wilhelm Weismann (composition). From 1950, she worked in Berlin at the newly founded Hanns Eisler Academy of Music as a lecturer in composition, aural training and theory of form, among other things. She was appointed professor of composition there in 1969. Until her retirement in 1986, she taught a masterclass in composition, with Georg Katzer and Hans-Jürgen Wenzel among her students. Ruth Zechlin moved to Bavaria in 1991. Her catalogue raisonné contains more than 300 works in all genres. The composer favours a linear-contrapuntal style of writing, which is modelled on J. S. Bach. Dodecaphony, sound surfaces, clusters, limited aleatoric, collage and modern playing techniques are used in her works, techniques with which she has created her own sound language. Her versatile work has been honoured several times. She died on August 2 2007 in Munich, where she last lived and worked.
Source: mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de