# Rainer Kunad

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{{Short description|German conductor and composer}}
{{Infobox person
| name                = Rainer Kunad
| image               = Rainer Kunad 1992 RK01.jpg
| image_upright       = 
| caption             = Rainer Kunad 1992 in Dresden
| birth_name          = 
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1936|10|24|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [Chemnitz](/source/Chemnitz), Germany
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1995|07|17|1936|10|24|df=y}}
| death_place         = [Reutlingen](/source/Reutlingen), Germany
| education           = [Musikhochschule Leipzig](/source/Musikhochschule_Leipzig)
| occupation          = {{plainlist|
* Conductor
* Composer
}}
| organization        = {{plainlist|
* [Staatsschauspiel Dresden](/source/Staatsschauspiel_Dresden)
* [Staatsoper Berlin](/source/Staatsoper_Berlin)
}}
| awards              = {{plainlist|
* [Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic](/source/Art_Prize_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic)
* Hanns-Eisler-Preis
* [National Prize of the German Democratic Republic](/source/National_Prize_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic)
}}
}}
'''Rainer Kunad''' (24 October 1936, [Chemnitz](/source/Chemnitz) – 17 July 1995, [Reutlingen](/source/Reutlingen))<ref name="Grove">{{Cite Grove |author=Frank Geissler|title=Kunad, Rainer|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.15665|date=2001}}</ref> was a German conductor and composer, especially of opera.

== Life ==
Kunad studied choir and ensemble conducting at the [Dresden](/source/Dresden) Conservatoire from 1955 to 1956 and then, until 1959, composition with [Fidelio F. Finke](/source/Fidelio_F._Finke) and [Ottmar Gerster](/source/Ottmar_Gerster) at the Musikhochschule in [Leipzig](/source/Leipzig).<ref name="Grove"/> From 1960 to 1974, he directed theatrical music at the [Staatsschauspiel Dresden](/source/Staatsschauspiel_Dresden), and 1971 onward, he also worked at the [Berlin State Opera](/source/Berlin_State_Opera).<ref name="Grove"/> Kunad was a regular member of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR since 1974. In 1972, he received the [Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic](/source/Art_Prize_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic), the {{ill|Hanns-Eisler-Preis|de}} in 1973, and the [National Prize of the German Democratic Republic](/source/National_Prize_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic) in 1975.

In 1985, he applied to the authorities for a dismissal from GDR citizenship, which was granted. He lived in [West Germany](/source/West_Germany) from 1984 onward.<ref>[http://www.abendblatt.de/archiv/1985/article203429849/DDR-Komponist-Rainer-Kunad-bleibt-im-Westen.html ''„DDR“-Komponist Rainer Kunad bleibt im Westen.'' Artikel vom 28. Mai 1985 im ''Hamburger Abendblatt'']</ref> He spent the last years of his life as a freelance artist in [Tübingen](/source/T%C3%BCbingen).

Kunad composed piano pieces, chamber and orchestral music and operas (among others, ''Bill Brook'', according to a story by [Wolfgang Borchert](/source/Wolfgang_Borchert) and ''Der Meister und Margarita'' after the novel by [Mikhail Bulgakov](/source/Mikhail_Bulgakov)).

== Works ==
'''Operas'''
* ''Bill Brook'' (1959/60), premiered Dresden 1965
* ''Das Schloss'' (1961/62)
* ''Old Fritz'' (1962/63, premiered Dresden 1965
* ''Maître Pathelin oder Die Hammelkomödie'' (1968), premiered Dresden 1969
* ''Sabellicus'' (1972/73, premiered Berlin 1974
* ''Litauische Claviere'' (1974, premiered Dresden 1976
* ''Der Eiertanz'', premiered Bautzen 1975
* ''Vincent'' (1975/76), premiered Dresden 1979
* ''Amphitryon'', premiered Berlin 1984)
* ''Der Meister und Margarita'' (1982/83), premiered 1986
* ''Der Traum'' (1993), premiered Hagen 2000

'''Ballets'''
* ''Ich: Orpheus'' (1964/65)
* ''Wir aber nennen Liebe lebendigen Frieden'' (1970), premiered Dresden 1972
* ''Münchhausen'' (1977/78), premiered Weimar and Kassel 1981

'''Symphonies'''
* ''Sinfonie 64'' (1964)
* ''Sinfonie II'' (1966/67)
* Sinfonietta (1969), premiered Schwerin

'''Concertos'''
* Piano Concerto (1969), premiered Dresden 1971
* Concerto for Harpsichord, Pianom Jonika, Celesta and Orchestra (1970)
* Concerto for Organ, two string orchestras and timpani (1971), premiered Dresden 1971

'''Orchestral'''
* ''Sinfonia variatione'' (1959)
* ''Pathelin-Portrait'' (1974)
* Divertimento (1968)
* ''Antiphonie'' (1971), premiered Frankfurt/Oder
* ''Quadrophonie'' (1973)
* ''Szène concertante'' (1975), premiered Dresden 1976

'''Chamber music:'''
* ''Aphorismen'' (1956/57)
* String Quartet No. 1 (1957)
* ''Konzertantes Klaviertrio'' (1958)
* ''Notturno'' for cello solo (1958)
* ''Grande Ouverture'' for two pianos
* ''Musik für Bläser'' (1965)
* ''Concerto per Archi'' (1966)
* String Quartet No. 2 (1967)
* ''Commedia 'Die Ehe' '' (1969)
* ''Pneumatika'' for akkordion (1971)
* ''Duomix'' (1973)
* ''Miniaturen'' for organ and percussion (1977/78)
* ''Mozartparaphrase''
* ''Phantysy'' for organ
* ''Rimstinger Adventsmusik''
* Sonatine for piano (1992)

'''Vocal music'''
* ''Schattenland Ströme, Gesänge nach Gedichten von Johannes Bobrowski'' (1966)
* ''Melodie, die ich verloren hatte, Gesänge nach Versen von Günter Deicke'' (1968)
* ''Von der Kocherie, Ein kulinarisches Loblied'' (1970)
* ''Pro novo'', after [Dante Alighieri](/source/Dante_Alighieri) (1973)
* ''Metai, nach Texten von Kristijonas Donelaitis (Das Jahr, Die Jahreszeiten)''
* ''Klopstock-Ode'', premiered Dresden
* ''Bobrowski-Motette'', premiered Berlin 1981
* ''Honig holen''
* ''Dona nobis'', premiered Dresden 1992
* ''Mit dem Hauch seines Mundes, Christus und der Antichrist'' (1988/89)

'''Oratorios'''
* ''Das Spiel vom Heliand'' (1957)
* ''Pax mundi'' (1966)
* ''Die Kitschpostille'' (1974)
* ''Stimmen der Völker'', premiered Dresden 1983

'''Sacred oratorios'''
* ''Salomonische Stimmen'' (1982), premiered Dresden 1984
* ''Das Thomas-Evangelium'' (1984/85), premiered Kiel 1987
* ''Trilogie der Offenbarung Gottes'':
** Part I: ''Jovian, der Seher'' (1985), premiered Mannheim 1987
** Part II: ''Der Seher von Patmos'' (1985/86), premiered Karlsruhe 1988
** Part III: ''Das neue Jerusalem'' (1986), premiered Sindelfingen 1989
* ''Die Pforte der Freude'' (1987), premiered Stuttgart and Tübingen 1990

'''Mystery plays'''
* ''Die Menschen von Babel'' (1983/84), premiered Munich 1986
* ''Kosmischer Advent, Spiel von der Wiederkunft des Herrn'' (1987), premiered Ulm and Munich 1991

'''Sacred symphonies'''
* Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonie des göttlichen Friedens" (1986/87), premiered Darmstadt 1989
* Symphony No. 9 "Die sieben Siegel" (1993), premiered Reutlingen 1993
* Symphony No. 12 "Der Berg Zion" (1994), [premiere](/source/premiere)d in Dresden 1996

== Literature ==
* Siglind Bruhn: ''[http://www.musicandmeaning.net/issues/showArticle.php?artID=4.2 (online)] ([http://www.musicandmeaning.net/issues/pdf/JMMart_4_2.pdf Jesus and Satan in Moscow. Three Late-20th-century Operas on Bulgakov's Novel]''. In ''The Journal of Music and Meaning'' 4 (Winter 2007)
* Sabine Kreter: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PGbwInddRTUC&pg=PA51 "Alles auf Hoffnung" - Bobrowski-Vertonungen von Rainer Kunad]'', Dissertation 1993. Waxmann, Münster/ New York 1994, {{ISBN|3-89325-207-X}}.
* Thomas Kupsch: ''Neue Musik am Staatsschauspiel Dresden. Die Komponisten Rainer Kunad, [Thomas Hertel](/source/Thomas_Hertel) and [Eckehard Mayer](/source/Eckehard_Mayer) als Leiter der Schauspielmusik im letzten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts''. In: Herrmann, Matthias (ed.): ''Dresden und die avancierte Musik im 20. Jahrhundert''. Laaber 2004, {{ISBN|3-89007-511-8}}, {{pp.|201|210}}.
* Rolf Stabel: ''IM Tänzer. Der Tanz und die Staatssicherheit''. Schott, Mainz 2008, {{ISBN|978-3-7957-0165-9}}. (zu R. Kunad, pp.&nbsp;30–57: ''Wir aber nennen Liebe lebendigen Frieden. Eine (eigentlich zu kurze) Tanzgeschichte der DDR).''
* Heike Sauer: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6p2p4y9Xm9UC&pg=PA141 Traum, Wirklichkeit, Utopie: das deutsche Musiktheater 1961–1971 als Spiegel politischer und gesellschaftlicher Aspekte seiner Zeit]'', Dissertation 1993. Waxmann, Münster / New York 1994, {{ISBN|3-89325-235-5}}.

== External links ==
* {{German National Library portal|119194686}}
* [http://hansopac.slub-dresden.de/Nachlassverzeichnisse/Kunad,Rainer.pdf Vorläufiges Nachlassverzeichnis in der SLUB Dresden]

== References ==
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