{{Short description|German composer, conductor and jazz pianist}} {{Infobox person | name = Frank Petzold | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1951|05|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = Zwickau, East Germany | death_date = | death_place = | education = {{ubl | Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden | Academy of Arts, Berlin }} | occupation = {{ubl | Composer | Conductor | Jazz pianist }} | organisation = {{ubl | Staatstheater Cottbus | Brandenburgische Technische Universität }} | awards = Hans Stieber Prize }}
'''Frank Petzold''' (born 1951) is a German composer, conductor and jazz pianist. A composer of operas and other stage works, he has worked at theatres, from 1994 as Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Cottbus. He has lectured music theory and jazz piano at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität in Cottbus from 2001.
== Life == Petzold was born in Zwickau in 1951.<ref name="Theater der Zeit" /> He took piano lessons from age nine.<ref name="LR" /> He studied composition, conducting and piano at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden from 1968 to 1974, composition with Siegfried Köhler.<ref name="Theater der Zeit" /> From 1974 to 1977, he worked as Kapellmeister and choir director at the {{ill|Theater der Altmark|de}} in Stendal. He also worked as Kapellmeister for plays at the Theater Magdeburg from 1977 to 1979.<ref name="Theater der Zeit" />
From 1977 to 1981 he studied composition with Rainer Kunad at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.<ref name="Theater der Zeit" /><ref name="BTU" /> He was a freelance composer and pianist in Magdeburg and Cottbus from 1981 to 1994,<ref name="BTU" /> writing operas, orchestral music, chamber music, stage works and jazz music.<ref name="Theater der Zeit" /> Since 1990 he has been regional chairman of the {{ill|German Composers' Association|de|Deutscher Komponistenverband}} in Cottbus.<ref name="Deutscher Komponistenverband" /> In 1994, he became Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Cottbus, and held the position to 2001, when he became also lecturer for music theory and jazz piano at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität in Cottbus from 2011.<ref name="BTU" />
Petzold is married; the couple has two sons.<ref name="LR" />
== Prize == * Hans Stieber Prize for composition (1984)
== Works == === Stage works === * 1980/81: ''Das Kälberbrüten'', {{Ill|Fastnachtsspiel|de}} (Carnival play) after Hans Sachs for soprano, tenor, bass and six instruments. premiere: 1982.<ref name="Theater der Zeit" /> * 1986/87: ''Prinzessin Zartfuß und die sieben Elefanten'', comic opera in one act based on the play of the same name by Albert Wendt, libretto by the composer, premiere: Theater der Stadt Cottbus, 1989.<ref name="Theater der Zeit" />
=== Other compositions === * 1990: ''Sinfonie in F'', premiered by the Dresden Philharmonic<ref name="BTU" /><ref name="Schniederjürgen 2006" />
== Recordings == * ''Tritonia'' (2000)<ref name="Schniederjürgen 2006" /> * ''Jazzterday Live'' (2005)<ref name="Lausitzer Rundschau 2007" />
== References == <references>
<ref name="BTU">{{cite web | title=Petzold, Frank | website=BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg | url=https://www.b-tu.de/musikpaedagogik-ba-fh/personen/lehrpersonen/lehrende-nach-namen/lehrbeauftragte/petzold-frank | language=de | access-date=11 January 2022 }}</ref>
<ref name="Deutscher Komponistenverband">{{cite web | title=Brandenburg – Deutscher Komponistenverband | website=Deutscher Komponistenverband | url=https://komponistenverband.de/landesverbande/brandenburg/ | access-date=11 January 2022 }}</ref>
<ref name="Lausitzer Rundschau 2007">{{cite web | title=Auch das sind die Beatles: "Imagine" gejazzt | website=Lausitzer Rundschau | date=20 September 2007 | url=https://www.lr-online.de/lausitz/luebbenau/auch-das-sind-die-beatles_-_imagine_-gejazzt-36908168.html | language=de | access-date=11 January 2022 }}</ref>
<ref name="LR">{{cite news | url = https://www.lr-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/weil-kunst-eben-von-muessen-kommt-37126026.html | title = Weil Kunst eben von Müssen kommt | newspaper = Lausitzer Rundschau | date = 18 May 2011 | language = de | access-date = 15 October 2021 }}</ref>
<ref name="Schniederjürgen 2006">{{cite book | last=Schniederjürgen | first=Axel |chapter=Petzold, Frank | title=Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch 2006 : Solisten, Dirigenten, Komponisten, Hochschullehrer | publisher=K.G. Saur | publication-place=München | year=2006 | isbn=978-3-11-095016-8 | oclc=823746872 | language=de | page=353 }}</ref>
<ref name="Theater der Zeit">{{cite web | title=Frank Petzold | website=Verlag Theater der Zeit | url=https://www.theaterderzeit.de/person/frank_petzold/ | language=de | access-date=11 January 2022 }}</ref>
</references>
== Further reading == * Frank Petzold. In Sigrid Neef (with Hermann Neef): ''Deutsche Oper im 20. Jahrhundert. DDR 1949–1989.'' Lang, Berlin 1992, {{pp.|390|393}}, {{ISBN|3-86032-011-4}}. * {{cite web | title=Frank Petzold | website=Willkommen bei den Uckermärkischen Bühnen Schwedt | date=5 November 2020 | url=https://www.theater-schwedt.de/ubs/v/fpetzold/ | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Willkommen bei den Uckermärkischen Bühnen Schwedt | 2020}} | access-date=11 January 2022}}
== External links == * {{Official|http://www.frankpetzold-piano.de}} * {{YouTube|Vse1xWXRlmQ|Frank Petzold: Im Herbst (2018)}}
{{authority control}} {{portal bar|Classical music|Germany}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Petzold, Frank}} Category:German jazz pianists Category:German choral conductors Category:20th-century German classical composers Category:People from Zwickau Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century German male composers