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Paul-Heinz Dittrich

Paul-Heinz Dittrich was a German composer and academic teacher. Based in East Berlin, he focused on chamber music, with many works inspired by poetry. His works were performed earlier in the West than in the East. He was an influential composer of contemporary classical music in Germany who taught internationally, including in the United States, Israel, and Korea.

Life and career
Born in Gornsdorf, Saxony, on 4 December 1930, In Streichtrio nach dem Gedicht "Tübingen, Jänner" von Paul Celan, Dittrich instructs in the score that the Celan poem should neither be read nor printed in the programme. Dittrich also wrote staged works that set texts by Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Heiner Müller. Dittrich died in Berlin at the age of 90. == Awards ==
Awards
• 1972: Prize for composition of the , Switzerland • 1975: Honorary Prize at the Composition Competition of the Italian Society for New Music • 1976: Composition Prize at the International Competition in Trieste • 1976: Prize of the International Rostrum of Composers of the UNESCO in Paris • 1978: Hanns Eisler Prize of the radio of the GDR • 1988: National Prize of the German Democratic Republic for art and literature, class III • 1990: Prize of the Berlin Music Critics == References ==
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