Johannes Korndörfer (born in 1980) is a German music theorist, church musician and composer.

Life

Korndörfer attended the Komponistenklasse Dresden, a school for young composers, studying with Silke Fraikin from 1991 to 1998.[1] He then studied composition, music theory and piano at the Musikhochschule für Dresden, and further studied musicology there, graduating in 2006.[2] Among his teachers were Jörg Herchet for composition, Clemens Kühn and John Leigh for music history, and Christine Haupt for piano.[3] From 2006, Korndörfer has taught music theory, at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden[3] and its associated Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, at the TU Dresden from 2010,[3] and from 2011 at the Berlin University of the Arts.[2] In 2009 he published a book about the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann. He was a developer of the multimedia program to train hearing, by the Dresden Zentrum für Musiktheorie (Centre for music theory).[3][2]

Korndörfer became instructor of the Komponistenklasse in 1998.[1] He was also appointed organist of the Schifferkirche Maria am Wasser in Dresden-Hosterwitz in 1999.[1] Together with Matthias Herbig, he founded a choir and the ensemble Maria am Wasser.[1][4]

His orchestral composition Horch! was premiered in 2004 by the Sinfonietta Dresden, conducted by Milko Kersten.[5]

Awards

The Komponistenklasse was awarded the 2015 Initiativpreis für Kunst und Kultur of Saxony, for its engagement for the early training in music creation.[6]

Publications

Monographs
  • Johannes Korndörfer: Zimmermanns Intercomunicazione: Regel und Freiheit beim Komponieren (in German) ISBN 978-3-639-15632-4.
Articles
  • Johannes Korndörfer (2009). Clemens Kühn and John Leigh / Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden (ed.). Christoph Bernhards Figurenlehre im Werk von Heinrich Schütz. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag. p. 85. ISBN 978-3-940319-64-7. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • Johannes Korndörfer (2010). Felix Diergarten; Ludwig Holtmeier; John Leigh; Edith Metzner (eds.). 45 Minuten Zeitdehnung und Kugelgestalt. Vom Wert Neuer Musik im Unterricht. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag. p. 172. ISBN 978-3-942422-06-2. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Dozenten". Komponistenklasse Dresden (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 "Johannes Korndörfer". Berlin University of the Arts (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Johannes Korndörfer". Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Kontakt / Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde "Maria am Wasser" Dresden-Hosterwitz-Pillnitz". maria-am-wasser.de (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Uraufführungen". Sinfonietta Dresden (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Initiativpreis für Kunst und Kultur 2015". Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  7. ↑ Musik und ihre Theorien : Clemens Kühn zum 65. Geburtstag on WorldCat
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