Friedrich Lippmann (July 25, 1932, Dessau - 9 March 2019, Bonn) was a German musicologist who was considered an authority on 18th and 19th century Italian opera. He studied philosophy and German at the Free University of Berlin from 1951 through 1953. He then studied musicology with Adam Adrio at Humboldt University of Berlin from 1953 through 1956, and then with Friedrich Blume and Anna Amalie Abert at the University of Kiel where he earned his doctorate in 1962. He then worked as a research fellow at the Haydn Institute in Cologne from 1962 through 1964. From 1964 through 1996 he was chair of the music history department at the German Historical Institute in Rome. He published authoritative works on Johann Adolf Hasse and Vincenzo Bellini and was both a contributor and editor of several academic journals; including editor of Analecta musicologica and Concertus musicus. His scholoarship on opera was appreciated with a Festschrift in 1993. [1]
Boris Blacher was a German composer and librettist.
Gottfried von Einem was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ.
Max Georg Baumann was a German composer.
Paul Dessau was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them.
Friedrich Goldmann was a German composer and conductor.
Friedrich Cerha was an Austrian composer, conductor, and academic teacher. His ensemble Die Reihe in Vienna was instrumental in spreading contemporary music in Austria. He composed several operas, beginning with Baal, based on Brecht's play. He is best known for completing Alban Berg's opera Lulu by orchestrating its unfinished third act, which premiered in Paris in 1979.
Fritz Geißler (or Geissler) was one of the most important composers of the German Democratic Republic.
Johann Friedrich August Göttling was a notable German chemist.
Günter Bialas was a German composer.
Carl Weber was a theatre director and a professor of drama at Stanford University. He was Bertolt Brecht's directing assistant and a dramaturg and actor at the Berliner Ensemble theatre company in 1952. After Brecht's death in 1956, Weber remained as a director of the company. He directed in major theatres in Germany, America, Canada and elsewhere since 1957. He produced English translations of German dramatist Heiner Müller.
Kurt Schwaen was a German composer.
Barry McDaniel was an American operatic baritone who spent his career almost exclusively in Germany, including 37 years at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He appeared internationally at major opera houses and festivals, and created roles in several new operas, including Henze's Der junge Lord, Nabokov's Love's Labour's Lost, and Reimann's Melusine. He was also a celebrated concert singer and recitalist, focused on German Lied and French mélodie. He was the first singer of Wilhelm Killmayer's song cycle Tre Canti di Leopardi. He recorded both operatic and concert repertory.
William Dooley was an American bass-baritone singer who performed with many prominent opera companies. He began his career in Germany in the late 1950s, ultimately becoming a leading performer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1962 to 1964. He then embarked on a highly successful career at the Metropolitan Opera where he sang regularly between 1964 and 1977. Between 1977 and 1982 he sang in 19 performances at the Vienna State Opera, after which he remained active as a freelance artist on the international stage through the early 1990s.
Rouben Ter-Arutunian(Ռուբէն Տէր-Յարութիւնեան) was an American-Armenian costume and scenic designer for dance, opera, theater and television.
Hans Beirer was an Austrian tenor. In his early career he worked as a lyric tenor but as he aged his voice developed into Heldentenor which enabled him to become a celebrated performer in the operas of Richard Wagner. He was a resident artist of the Deutsche Oper Berlin for more than forty years. He also concurrently worked as a resident artist at the Hamburg State Opera (1958) and Vienna State Opera (1962-1987), and made numerous appearances as a guest artist at opera houses internationally, including La Scala, the Paris Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Colón, La Monnaie, the New York City Opera, and the Bayreuth Festival among others.
Friedrich Horst Winkler was a German art historian specialised in German art, especially the works of Albrecht Dürer, and Early Netherlandish painting from the 15th and 16th century.
Richard Johannes Petzoldt was a German musicologist and music critic.
Karl Mickel was a German writer.
Hanns-Herbert Schulz, better known as Hanns Petersen, was a German opera singer (baritone), music college teacher and pop singer. He is known for his career in popular music (Schlager), his many operatic performances at the Semperoper and the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar and his work as a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber and Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar.
Horst Koegler was a German dance critic, journalist and writer. He was the editor and author of books on the ballet scene in Germany, as well as the author of essays in journals and introductions to illustrated books. As a reviewer of German and English-language books, he formed a bridge between American and German dance research.