Friedbert Streller

Friedbert Streller (21 December 1931 – 24 December 2017) was a German musicologist and composer.

Life

Born in Hohburg near Wurzen, Streller studied music education, musicology and composition with Fred Lohse at the University of Leipzig from 1950 to 1956. He then taught himself as a lecturer in Magdeburg, Halle and from 1963 to 1993 at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. He published biographical studies on Aram Khachaturian, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofieff and Dmitri Shostakovich in addition to his work as a music critic. From 1959, he also worked as a composer, writing symphonies, the first of which is dedicated to Shostakovich, string quartets, concertos, suites and motets.[citation needed] Streller was a formative member in the German Shostakovich Society.

Streller died in Dresden at the age of 86.

Streller's estate is preserved in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden.

Work

Publications

Compositions

Further reading

Notes

  1. ↑ Most sources name Hohburg near Wurzen as the place of birth, the German National Library gives Hohnstein.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mourning for Friedbert Streller". German Shostakovich Society. 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  2. ↑ Karsten Blüthgen (28 December 2017). "A humorous music mediator has fallen silent". Musik in Dresden. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Kalliope | Verbundkatalog für Archiv- und archivähnliche Bestände und nationales Nachweisinstrument für Nachlässe und Autographen". Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  4. ↑ Sergej Prokofjew und seine Zeit on WorldCat