Born on 10 January 1935 in Habelschwerdt in Silesia, died on 7 May 2019 in Zeuthen near Berlin; Georg Katzer was a German composer. From 1953 to 1959 he studied piano, music theory and composition at the Hochschule für Musik in East Berlin with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and Ruth Zechlin, and in 1957/58 with Karel Janecek in Prague; from 1961 to 1963 he was a master student with Hanns Eisler, Ruth Zechlin and Leo Spies. In 1982 he founded the Studio für Elektroakustische Musik, which he directed artistically until 2005; in 1986 he held a visiting professorship at Michigan State University and in 1987 he was appointed professor. His work encompasses chamber and orchestral music, operas, ballets, radio plays and multimedia projects, among them “Das Land Bum-Bum” (1973), “Schwarze Vögel” (1975) and “Medea in Korinth” (2002). Three albums connect him with Cybele. Two of them are volumes of the DEGEM series in which the label documents the work of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik: Imaginary Landscapes (2000) and 90 Seconds of Reality (2005). To these is added a contribution to the audiobook production Weht ein Stadtspaziergang durch den Traum (2014).
Georg Katzer
Composer
