Johannes Korndörfer (born in 1980) is a German music theorist, church musician and composer.
Life
editKorndörfer attended the Komponistenklasse Dresden, a school for young composers, studying with Silke Fraikin from 1991 to 1998.[1] He then studied composition, music theory and piano at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden, and further studied musicology there, graduating in 2006.[2] Among his teachers were Jörg Herchet for composition, Clemens Kühn and John Leigh for music history, and Christine Haupt for piano.[3] From 2006, Korndörfer has taught music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber[3] and its associated Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik Carl Maria von Weber at the TU Dresden from 2010,[3] and from 2011 at the Berlin University of the Arts.[2] In 2009 he published a book about the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann. He was a developer of the multimedia program to train hearing by the Dresden Zentrum für Musiktheorie (Centre for music theory).[3][2]
Korndörfer became instructor of the Komponistenklasse in 1998.[1] He was also appointed organist of the Schifferkirche Maria am Wasser in Dresden-Hosterwitz in 1999.[1] Together with Matthias Herbig, he founded a choir and the ensemble Maria am Wasser.[1][4]
His orchestral composition Horch! was premiered in 2004 by the Sinfonietta Dresden, conducted by Milko Kersten.[5]
Awards
editThe Komponistenklasse was awarded the 2015 Initiativpreis für Kunst und Kultur of Saxony for its engagement for the early training in music creation.[6]
Publications
edit- Monographs
- Johannes Korndörfer: Zimmermanns Intercomunicazione: Regel und Freiheit beim Komponieren (in German) ISBN 978-3-639-15632-4.
- Articles
- Johannes Korndörfer (2009). "Christoph Bernhards Figurenlehre im Werk von Heinrich Schütz". In Clemens Kühn; John Leigh (eds.). Systeme der Musiktheorie. Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag. p. 85. ISBN 978-3-940319-64-7.
- Johannes Korndörfer (2010). "45 Minuten Zeitdehnung und Kugelgestalt. Vom Wert Neuer Musik im Unterricht". In Felix Diergarten; Ludwig Holtmeier; John Leigh; Edith Metzner (eds.). Musik und ihre Theorien. Clemens Kühn zum 65. Geburtstag. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag. p. 172. ISBN 978-3-942422-06-2. OCLC 688637242.
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Dozenten". Komponistenklasse Dresden (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ a b c "Johannes Korndörfer". Berlin University of the Arts (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Johannes Korndörfer". Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "Kontakt / Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde "Maria am Wasser" Dresden-Hosterwitz-Pillnitz". maria-am-wasser.de (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "Uraufführungen". Sinfonietta Dresden (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "Initiativpreis für Kunst und Kultur 2015". Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
External links
edit- Zimmermanns Intercomunicazione exlibris.ch
- "Das Wohlpräparierte Klavier" – Neues Album für die Jugend (in German) schumann-portal.de 2020
- Pressestimmen (in German) Komponistenklasse
