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Siegfried Köhler (composer) is a German composer and music educator. He was born on 2 March 1927 in Berlin, Germany. He studied composition at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He has composed works for orchestra, chamber music, and vocal music. He has also written several books on music theory and composition. Köhler has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Order of Merit of Berlin, and the Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg. He has also been awarded the Berliner Kunstpreis, the Berliner Musikpreis, and the Berliner Kulturpreis. Köhler is currently a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He is also a member of the Berliner Akademie der Künste and the Deutscher Musikrat. As of 2021, Siegfried Köhler (composer) is 57 years old. He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

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1984

From 1963 to 1968 he worked as an art director at the state-owned music publisher VEB Deutsche Schallplatten in East Berlin. In 1968 he returned to Dresden and became the president of Musikhochschule Dresden. From 1982 until his death he was the president of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the German Democratic Republic. In 1983 he was appointed as the director of the prestigious opera house Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden. However, he did not live to see the re-opening of the Semperoper in 1985. Köhler died on 14 July 1984 in East Berlin.

1946

During World War II, Köhler worked with a musicians group (Spielschar) within the Hitler Youth organisation. After the end of the war, the Soviet secret police NKVD arrested him and charged him with being a member of the Werwolf. He was detained at the infamous prison Speziallager Nr. 4 in Bautzen. In March 1946 he was transferred into Speziallager Nr. 1 in Mühlberg and on 21 June 1946 he was handed over to the NKVD command in Dresden. He was released there suffering from tuberculosis. Köhler went on to study first Composition in Dresden and then musicology and Art history in Leipzig.

1942

Siegfried Köhler's best-known works are the song Heut ist ein wunderschöner Tag (1942) and the Christmas song Tausend Sterne sind ein Dom. His Symphony No. 5 "Pro Pace" (premiered in 1984) is a stunning reminder of the bombing of Dresden in World War II. For the record Peter Schreier singt Weihnachtslieder (1975), Köhler arranged all songs for solo tenor, boys' choir and orchestra.

1927

Siegfried Köhler (2 March 1927 in Meißen – 14 July 1984 in East Berlin) was a German composer in the German Democratic Republic.