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Dieter Zahn (born 8 February 1940) is a German double bassist.
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Dieter Zahn (born 8 February 1940) is a German double bassist.
Born in Magdeburg, from the age of 14 Zahn received lessons of double bass from F. Richter at the Fachschule für Musik Magdeburg. From 1958 to 1961 he studied with Heinz Zimmer at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. In 1961 he became a musician with the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin. In 1967 he became principal bassist at the Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra Leipzig. In 1970 he was one of the founding members of the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler. From 1983 he was also a member of the Leipziger Consort. Concerts have taken him to many countries in Europe and Central America. With the Eisler Group he has received several awards, including the Art Prize of the GDR. (1980), the badge of honour of the Verband der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der DDR in Gold (1988) and the Schneider-Schott Music Prize of Mainz (1991).
Günter Kochan was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as professor for musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He taught master classes in composition at the Academy of Music and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He was also secretary of the Music Section of the Academy of Arts from 1972 to 1974 and vice-president of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR from 1977 to 1982. Kochan is one of eleven laureates to have been awarded the National Prize of the GDR four times. In addition, he received composition prizes in the US and Eastern Europe. He became internationally known in particular for his Symphonies as well as the cantata Die Asche von Birkenau (1965) and his Music for Orchestra No. 2 (1987). His versatile oeuvre included orchestral works, chamber music, choral works, mass songs and film music and is situated between socialist realism and avant-garde.
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