1. biografia

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Reiner BREDEMEYER
http://reiner-bredemeyer.de/
Vélez, Santander (Colombia), 1929 - Berlino, 1995


The German composer Reiner Bredemeyer went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he began his military service. After World War II he met Karl Amadeus Hartmann. From 1949 to 1953 he studied composition with Karl Höller at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich. In 1954 Paul Dessau took him to East Germany, where Bredemeyer became a master student of Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin (1955-1957).
Reiner Bredemeyer taught at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and worked together with Bertold Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Ernst Busch. From 1957 to 1960 he was arts director at the Theatre of Friendship in Berlin and from 1961 kapellmeister and composer at the German Theatre in East Berlin. His composers generation (among Friedrich Goldmann, Georg Katzer und Friedrich Schenker) broke with socialist realism and looked for orientation in western Avant-garde. In 1978 he became a member of the Akademie der Künste and in 1988 he was appointed professor. Until 1989 he served as a board member of the GDR's composers and musicologists Union. Bredemeyer's grave is at Cemetery Pankow III, where a lot of famous people are buried.
In his music Reiner Bredemeyer was an astute experimenter, but he adhered to the tenets of classical forms and avoided the extremes of modernism. His awards include: Art Prize of the FDGB (1969); Banner of Labor (1969); Art Prize of East Germany (1975); National Prize of East Germany (1983); FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival (1983); Composition Award at the National Film Festival of the GDR (1986); Order of Merit for the Fatherland (1989).