Dieter Salbert


Dieter Salbert was a German composer.
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Life

Born in Berlin, Salbert received piano lessons from 1938 and began early with improvisations on piano and accordion. After his Abitur in 1952 at the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Berlin-Tegel, he studied composition and piano at the Stern Conservatory and passed the final examination in composition in 1957.
From 1959, he lived in Nuremberg, where he presented his own works in the Kabarett "Die Roten Funken". Afterwards, he studied school music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. In the following years he was at the, at the and at the Fachhochschule Braunschweig. In 1986, he received his doctorate in Hamburg. In 1981, he founded the "Neue Akademie Braunschweig" and established the Synthesizer Music Festival Braunschweig, which he directed until 2001.
Salbert published over 200 compositions, including orchestral and choral works, chamber music and radiophonic productions.
Salbert died in Meine aged 83.

Honours

Compositions

Theatralische Messe. Text from the liturgy and by Rainer Kirsch, Eva Zeller, Kurt Marti, Álvaro Menéndez Leal,, Helmut Preißler. Premiere 1977 in Braunschweig Stationen der Hoffnung. A scenic oratorio for soprano, narrator, choir, pantomime, string orchestra, guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, percussion and organ. Text: Paul Gerhardt, Martin Luther, Uwe Hoppe among others, premiere 1981 Braunschweig Tageszeiten. A secular oratorio based on poems by Rahel Mann for 2 solo sopranos, choir, orchestra, organ, percussion and synthesizer. Premiere 18 June 1985 Nürnberg Europa. Musik für den Frieden for soprano, bass, choir and orchestra. Text: Nelly Sachs among others, premiere 20 November 1991 Nürnberg Shalom, Luther… for Choir and trombone. Premiere 7 June 1996 Nürnberg