You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter of the composer Karl-Rudi Griesbach (1916-2000).
Dated Dresden, Pfaffensteinstraße 9, 5. September 1979.
Addressed to an unnamed “Comrade Rector”; Congratulations on the National Prize "on behalf of the composition/tone composition department".
It is certainly the rector of the Dresden University of Music “Carl Maria von Weber”, Siegfried Köhler (1927-1981), the 1979 National Prize of the GDR III. Class for Art and Literature "in recognition of his compositional work".
The recipient has replied to the note. K." added.
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About Griesbach and Köhler (source: wikipedia):
Karl Rudi Griesbach (*14. June 1916 in Breckerfeld; † 8th. May 2000 in Dresden) was a German composer.
Life: Griesbach attended a high school in Hamburg and then studied composition (with Philipp Jarnach) and conducting in Cologne from 1937. After completing his studies in 1941, he had to fight as a soldier in the Second World War and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944, from which he was not released until 1949. The following year, Griesbach settled in Dresden, where he lived until his death. In 1952 and 1953 he worked briefly at a Berlin theater. He also wrote reviews and worked as a dramaturge. From 1952 to 1955, Griesbach taught at the “Carl Maria von Weber” University of Music in Dresden; from 1966 he worked there initially as a lecturer and from 1968 as a professor of composition until he gave up teaching again in 1981. Griesbach was awarded, among other things, the Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize of the City of Dresden (1961), the GDR Art Prize (1967) and the Fatherland Order of Merit (1976). Griesbach's wife Margrit appeared as a pianist and primarily interpreted her husband's works.
Tonal language: Griesbach always tried to write music that was relatively easy to understand. Therefore, although he took up suggestions from Béla Bartók and Arnold Schönberg, he ultimately did not completely break with the tonality and was overall a rather conservative composer for his generation. His music is characterized by a succinct rhythm, rather rough timbres and concise forms. Griesbach sometimes referred to political themes in his works. At the beginning of the 1960s he became interested in foreign musical cultures and was also inspired by blues and African music. He had considerable success with the “African Symphony” he composed at the time. The focus of his oeuvre, however, is on stage works. Griesbach was a respected composer in the GDR and especially in Dresden, but after reunification he was largely forgotten.
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Orchestral works
Little Symphony (1950)
African Symphony (1963)
Symphony (67) to commemorate the Great October Socialist Revolution (1967)
“Ostinati” for orchestra (1976)
“Contacts” for orchestra (1978)
“Scene” for orchestra
Concertant music for piano and chamber orchestra (1964)
Stage works
“Columbus", opera (1958)
“The Black - the White - and the Woman", opera (1963)
“Belle and Armand”, opera (1988)
“Aulus and his parrot”, opera (1982)
4 more operas
“Clothes make the man”, ballet (1954)
“Snow White, ballet (1956)
“Reinecke fuchs “, ballet (1977)
“Samson", ballet (around 1980)
Vocal music
“Planetary Manifesto”, cantata after Johannes R. Becher for soprano, baritone, piano, choir and orchestra (1962)
“Drink courage of pure life", musical coordination for baritone, women's choir and orchestra based on texts by Goethe (1981)
Song cycles based on texts by Shakespeare, Brecht and Becher, among others
Folk song arrangements
Chamber and piano music
String Quartet (1977)
Music for flute and string trio (1953)
“Little Olympiad: Piano Pieces for Young People” (1961)
“blues-impressions”, five piano pieces in jazz style (1962)
Partita for piano (1986)
Siegfried Köhler (*2. March 1927 in Meissen; † 14. July 1984 in East Berlin) was a German composer in the GDR.
Life: During the Second World War he was involved musically in a Hitler Youth group. After the end of the war, the Soviet secret police of the NKVD imprisoned him in Special Camp No. 4 buildings. In March 1946 he was sent to Special Camp No. 1 Mühlberg and was born on the 21st. Handed over to the NKVD Operational Group Dresden in June 1946.[1] There he was discharged suffering from TB.[2] Köhler then studied composition in Dresden and then musicology and art history in Leipzig.
From 1963 to 1968 he was artistic director of VEB Deutsche Schall Platten Berlin (East). In 1968 he went back to Dresden and became rector of the Dresden University of Music “Carl Maria von Weber”. In 1983 he was appointed artistic director of the Saxon State Opera in Dresden. However, he did not live to see the reopening of the Semperoper in 1985. Köhler died on the 14th. July 1984 in East Berlin. From 1982 until his death he was president of the Association of Composers and Musicologists.
Siegfried Köhler's best-known works are the songs Today is a wonderful day (1942) and the Christmas carol A Thousand Stars Are a Cathedral. His Symphony No. 5 “Pro Pace” (premiered in 1984) is a cautionary reminder of the destruction of the city of Dresden. For the record Peter Schreier sings Christmas songs (1975), Köhler arranged all the songs for solo tenor, boys' choir and orchestra.
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Song of Life, Cantata Text: Siegfried Köhler op. 1 (1947)
Happy New Year happiness and health. A cheerful music based on a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for mixed choir and small orchestra, op. 2 (1954)
Six simple song tunes op. 3 (1950)
Germany, also German motet based on a poem by Cuba for six-part youth choir a cappella, text: KuBa (Kurt Barthel) op. 4
Reflection and Departure Cantata for soprano (or tenor), mixed choir and small orchestra based on poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe op. 5 (1951)
House music in 5 movements for piano op. 6 (1952)
Germany, you, our homeland (today is also a wonderful day). Song cantata for choir and instruments, text: Siegfried Köhler op. 7 (1952)
Christmas cantata A thousand stars are a cathedral for choir and instruments, text: Siegfried Köhler op. 8 (1951)
The judge of Hohenburg. Scenes from the Great German Peasants' War 1525, a dramatic play for musical theater, text: Siegfried Köhler, op. 10 (1954/1963)
Happy suite for orchestra, text: Siegfried Köhler op. 11 (1956)
Ten lyrical songs based on texts by various authors, op. 12 (1956)
Cheerful Prelude for Orchestra Op. 13 (1956)
Three gallows songs based on poems by Christian Morgenstern op. 14 (1956)
Song of Youth. A cantata for the consecration of youth and other festive occasions for solo, choir and instruments ad lib., text: Louis Fürnberg op. 15 (1956)
Spanish Visions: The Victory of Guernica Cantata a capella based on a poem by Paul Éluard op. 16 (1957)
Sonatina in F for piano op. 17 (1958)
Short festival music for string orchestra (or string quartet with double bass) op. 18 (1958)
Sonatina in C for piano op. 19
Prologue for orchestra op. 20 (1959)
Music for Kathrin. Twelve children's pieces for piano two hands op. 21 (1961)
Four songs based on poems by Mao Tse-tung, text: Mao Zedong/German: Rolf Schneider op. 22 (1961)
Empire of Man, Poem for soprano, alto and baritone, acc. Choir and orchestra, text: Johannes R. Cup op. 23 (1961/62)
Reach for the stars, child of time Cantata for the opening of the IV. German Gymnastics and Sports Festival 1963 in Leipzig, text: Max Zimmering op. 24 (1963)
Symphony of Youth op. 25 (1964)
The marriage school. A musical, text: Gerhard Branstner op. 27 (1964)
Cambodian festival music op. 28 (1964)
Of love and death for high voice and piano, text: Johannes R. Cup op. 29 (1965)
Earth, fertile and beautiful. Cantata for soprano, mixed choir and string orchestra op. 30
The Struwwelpeter or funny stories and funny pictures, cheerful and serious stories for singing, dancing and telling, text: Heinrich Hoffmann op. 31 (1966)
Sketches for Der Struwwelpeter new version of the piano pieces op. 31a (1966)
Rotterdam 14. May 1940 Sonata for horn and piano op. 32 (1966)
Max and Moritz. A boy's story in seven strings For speakers and chamber orchestra, text: Wilhelm Busch op. 33 (1967)
Fipps the monkey. Entertaining and Indecent, Text: Wilhelm Busch op. 34 (1964)
aspects. Sketches for nonet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass) and a high singing voice or speaker ad lib., text: Siegfried Köhler op. 36 (1968)
Bernauer song sequence: The work grows widely around the 20th. Anniversary of the GDR, text: Willi Layh op. 37 (1968)
Concertino for clarinet and string orchestra op. 38 (1969)
Land of my love, poem for soprano and orchestra, text: Siegfried Köhler op. 39 (1969)
Festive overture for large orchestra op. 40 (1969)
That our love has a home, choral cycle in ten parts, text: Günther Deicke op. 41 (1968)
Report on Lenin based on a ballad by Wolfgang Tilgner and poems by Wladimir Majakowski, Louis Fürnberg, KuBa (Kurt Barthel), Johannes R. Becher and Max Zimmering for a speaker and three instrumentalists, op. 42 (1970)
Singing love songs on the spinet, choral songs, text: Bertolt Brecht, Paul Fleming, Johannes R. Cup op. 43 (1970)
We – our time, choral symphony based on poems by Johannes R. Beaker in six movements op. 44 (1972)
Sinfonietta for orchestra in three movements (also 2. Symphony) op. 45 (1971)
Concerto for piano and orchestra op. 46 (1972)
Four Structures for Piano Op. 46a (1973)
Ode for tenor solo, horn and string orchestra in four movements, text: Helmut Reibig op. 47 (1971)
Diagram, 12 Variations for organ op. 49a (1973)
Johannes Bobrowski Choir Book Parts I and II. Five madrigals for mixed choir a cappella, text: Johannes Bobrowski op. 50 (1975)
Of trees, buds and nightingales, cycle for women's or children's choir a cappella, text: Georg Maurer op. 51 (1973)
Ours the country and the time. Cycle for mixed choir a cappella, text: Günther Deicke op. 52 (1973, premiere 1977)
Concert music for orchestra in three movements, op. 53 (1975)
Matamorphoses for organ on the Ode to the Future Time by Pablo Neruda op. 54 (1972)
Anja and Peter. A musical fairy tale for children (homage to Sergei Prokofiev) op. 55 (1974)
Canticum catulli for solos and instruments op. 56 (1974/75)
3. Symphony op. 57 (1975)
Seven micro scenes for clarinet, cello and piano op. 58 (1975)
Concerto for harpsichord and chamber orchestra op. 59 (1976)
Orpheus Bound, Essay for Orchestra, Op. 60 (1976)
Homage to JS Bach. Dialogue for two violins op. 61 (1977)
4. Symphony, new version as an epitaph for Antigone op. 62 (1977/78, rev. 1979)
Commentaries on three Venetian madrigals by Heinrich Schütz from 1611 op. 63 (1978)
Concerto for violin and orchestra op. 64 (1979/80)
syntheses. 1. String Quartet op. 65 (1977)
Sayings, also celebratory and commemorative sayings for eight-part choir a cappella op. 66 (1980)
Festive inventions. Dresden Renaissance music for three-choral symphony orchestra op. 70 (1981)
Sinfonietta for orchestra op. 71 (1981)
Music for cello solo No. 1 op. 72 (1980)
Contrasts. 2. String Quartet op. 73 (1981)
Ode to solidarity for eight-part mixed choir a cappella, text: Pablo Neruda op. 74 (1981)
Temperaments. Configuration for four flute instruments (for Jürgen Brüggebors) op. 75 (1981)
Epigrams for mixed choir a capella after poems by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Klein, Hans Aßmann von Abschatz and Angelus Silesius by Franz Liszt (op. 76 1982)
Positions for clarinet solo op. 77 (1980)
5. Symphony Pro Pace (also Resurrection) for soloists, speakers, mixed choir and large orchestra op. 78, text: Ulrich Grasnick op. 78 (1983)