Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Just Another Girl

FORTNER (Fortner) Wolfgang (b. 12 X 1907, Leipzig) - German composer and conductor (Germany). He studied in Leipzig on composition from G. Grabner at the conservatory, studied musicology at the university under T. Kroyer. Since 1931 he lived in Heidelberg, taught music theory and composition at the Institute Church. music, led the Collegium musicum University, in 1935 founded a chamber orchestra and performed as a conductor. Since 1955 professor of composition Muses. Academy in Detmold. Since 1958, the head of conc. organization of the Musica viva Society in Freiburg, since 1957 professor at the Higher Muse. schools there. Since 1964 he lived in Munich. Repeatedly led the “Summer Course of New Music” in Kranichstein. Among his students is X. V. Hentze. The President is German. sections of the Intern. Society of modern music (since 1957), head of muses. Department of the Academy of Arts Zap. Berlin (1956), member Bavarian Academy of Arts in Munich (1961). Your creative. the way as a composer F. began in line with neoclassicism. Fame enjoyed his "German Song Mass." With con. 1940s applies dodecafonia. The most famous op. F. - lyric. the tragedy "Bloody Wedding" by F. Garcia Lorca (1957), where the composer managed to combine tradition. and the latest tech. receptions (12-tone series with characteristic Spanish dance dance rhythms and melodic turns of Spanish songs).