{{short description|German musicologist and composer}}
'''Friedbert Streller''' (21 December 1931 – 24 December 2017) was a German musicologist and composer.
== Life == Born in Hohburg<ref group="A">Most sources name Hohburg near Wurzen as the place of birth, the German National Library gives Hohnstein.</ref> near Wurzen, Streller studied music education, musicology and composition with Fred Lohse at the University of Leipzig from 1950 to 1956.<ref name=DSG /> He then taught himself as a lecturer in Magdeburg, Halle and from 1963 to 1993 at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.<ref name=DSG /> He published biographical studies on Aram Khachaturian, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofieff and Dmitri Shostakovich in addition to his work as a music critic.<ref name=MiD>{{cite web|url=http://www.musik-in-dresden.de/2017/12/28/friedbert-streller/ |title=A humorous music mediator has fallen silent |author=Karsten Blüthgen |work=Musik in Dresden |date=28 December 2017|access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref> From 1959, he also worked as a composer, writing symphonies, the first of which is dedicated to Shostakovich, string quartets, concertos, suites and motets.{{CN|date=October 2021}} Streller was a formative member in the German Shostakovich Society.<ref name=DSG />
Streller died in Dresden<ref name=DSG>{{cite web|url=http://www.schostakowitsch.de/News-Archiv/Das-Jahr-2018/index.php |title=Mourning for Friedbert Streller|work=German Shostakovich Society |date=2018 |access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref> at the age of 86.
Streller's estate is preserved in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kalliope-verbund.info/de/ead?ead.id=DE-611-BF-73215 |title=Kalliope {{!}} Verbundkatalog für Archiv- und archivähnliche Bestände und nationales Nachweisinstrument für Nachlässe und Autographen |access-date= 20 August 2021}}</ref>
== Work ==
=== Publications === * ''Sergej Prokofjew''. VEB Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1960. * ''Aram Chatschaturjan''. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1968. * ''Dmitri Schostakowitsch''. Für Sie porträtiert. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1982. * ''Revolte und Aufbruch''. Musikhistorische Studien zum Expressionismus in Deutschland. Universität Halle, 1988. * ''Paul Hindemith''. Für Sie porträtiert. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1985. * ''Erwin Schulhoffs Beziehungen zu Berlin''. In Traude Ebert-Obermeier: Studien zur Berliner Musikgeschichte. Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Henschel, Berlin 1989, {{ISBN|3-362-00328-1}}. * ''Sergej Prokofjew und seine Zeit''.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52429937 ''Sergej Prokofjew und seine Zeit''] on WorldCat</ref> Laaber Verlag, 2003, {{ISBN|9783890075549}}. * ''Schostakowitschs späte Hinwendung zum Lied''. In: Schostakowitsch-Aspekte – Analysen und Studien, Verlag Ernst Kuhn, Berlin 2014, {{ISBN|9783936637298}}. * ''Neoklassizismus oder verordneter Traditionsbezug?'' Schostakowitschs Adaption Bachscher Themen und Formen. In Schostakowitsch, Prokofjew und andere Komponisten – Studien und Analysen. Schostakowitsch-Studien vol. 11, Verlag Ernst Kuhn, Berlin 2014, [https://www.gko.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/user_upload/musikwissenschaft/pdf_allgemein/arbeitsgemeinschaft/heft9/0909_streller.pdf PDF], {{ISBN|9783936637304}}
=== Compositions === * ''Sonatina'' for vibraphone and piano (1959) * ''Thomas Müntzer Suite'' for organ (1989) * ''Passion according to St. John'' for speaker, soli, choir and organ (1999) * ''1st Symphony in memoriam D. Shostakovich'' (2004) * ''Web.-Side.'' Three portraits on themes by Carl Maria von Weber for flute and piano (2006). * 2nd Symphony ''Down and High'' in three movements * ''Symphonia da Requiem'' (3rd Symphony) in two movements (2006) * 4th Symphony, ''the jazzy one'', in three movements (2008) * Psalm motet ''Herr Hilf'' for mixed choir (2009) * 5th Symphony ''Pastorale'' in three movements (2010) * ''Sym-Phonia historique'' (6th Symphony), play off by Bruckner, Ligeti and Hindemith (2012). * ''Moses's Thorn Bush''. A Biblical Sonata for Organ (2012) * ''Franciscan Ode'' (7th Symphony) for soli, choir, two flutes, strings and percussion (2014)
== Further reading == * {{cite web|url=http://www.dnn.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Regional/Dresdner-Komponist-Friedbert-Streller-gestorben |title=Dresdner Komponist Friedbert Streller gestorben |author=Michael Ernst |work=Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten |date=2017-12-28 |access-date=20 August 2021}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/den-richtigen-ton-gefunden-3848296.html |author=Birgit Grimm |title=Den richtigen Ton gefunden |work=Sächsische Zeitung |date=29 December 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171228234546/http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/den-richtigen-ton-gefunden-3848296.html |archive-date=2017-12-28 |access-date=20 August 2021}}
== Notes == <references group="A" />
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{DNB portal|124365949}} *[https://kalliope-verbund.info/de/ead?ead.id=DE-611-BF-73215 Nachlass Friedbert Streller] in der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden * {{cite web |url=https://komponisten-in-sachsen.de/komponisten/friedbert-streller/ |title=Vita und Werkverzeichnis |author= |work=Komponisten in Sachsen |date=2018 |access-date=20 August 2021 |archive-date=23 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623052129/https://komponisten-in-sachsen.de/komponisten/friedbert-streller/ |url-status=dead }} * {{cite web|url=http://www.schostakowitsch.de/News-Archiv/Das-Jahr-2018/index.php |title=Trauer um Friedbert Streller |work=Deutsche Schostakowitsch Gesellschaft |date=2018 |access-date=20 August 2021}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.musik-in-dresden.de/2017/12/28/friedbert-streller/ |title=Ein humorvoller Musikvermittler ist verstummt |author=Karsten Blüthgen |work=Musik in Dresden |date=28 December 2017|access-date=20 August 2021}} * {{Discogs artist}}
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