Composer
Biography:
Friedrich Goldmann, born in Chemnitz in 1941, began his musical education as a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor. In 1959 he attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses (composition seminar with Karlheinz Stockhausen). In the same year he began studying composition at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden and from 1962 to 1964 he was a master student of Rudolph Wagner-Régeny at the Academy of Arts in Berlin (East). At the same time he worked as a freelance assistant at the Berliner Ensemble. From 1964 to 1968 he studied musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1968 he worked as a freelance composer and conductor in Berlin.
His work includes numerous chamber music compositions, four symphonies, several solo concertos and orchestral works as well as an opera. As a conductor he led leading orchestras and ensembles. He conducted i.a. the German and French premieres of Nono's Prometeo and Schönberg's Moses und Aron as well as numerous premieres (including by Lachenmann, Hosokawa and Henze).
Friedrich Goldmann was a member of the Academies of Arts in Berlin and Dresden and from 1990 to 1997 President of the Society for New Music (German Section of the IGNM). He received i.a. the Hanns Eisler Prize, the Art Prize and the National Prize of the GDR. From 1991 he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and became one of the most important composition teachers of his generation.
He died in Berlin on July 24, 2009.
Albums:
String music 1 – Three sound speeches – … almost frozen unrest … 2 – Ensemble concert II:
