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Gerd Zacher

Gerd Zacher (6 July 1929 – 9 June 2014) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He specialized in contemporary compositions, many of which feature extended techniques, and are written

Gerd Zacher (6 July 1929 – 9 June 2014) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He specialized in contemporary compositions, many of which feature extended techniques, and are written in graphic or verbal scores. He interpreted the scores of numerous contemporary composers, including John Cage, Juan Allende-Blin, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Hans Otte, Luis de Pablo, and Isang Yun. He is also known as an interpreter of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Zacher was born in Meppen and lived in Essen, Germany. Writings On music * Analyse der Orgel – ein Interpretationskurs. In: Internationale Ferienkurse für neue Musik. 26. 1972. – Mainz u.a. : Schott, 1973. (Darmstädter Beiträge zur neuen Musik; 13) * Bach gegen seine Interpreten verteidigt : Aufsätze 1987–1992. München : Edition Text u. Kritik, 1993. – 170 pages – (Musik-Konzepte; 79/80) * Beobachtungen an Erik Saties «Messe des pauvres». In: Erik Satie. – 2., erw. Aufl. – München : Edition Text u. Kritik, 1988. – pp. 48–63. – (Musik-Konzepte; 11) * Canonische Veränderungen, BWV 769 und 769 a. In: Bach Johann Sebastian – Das spekulative Spätwerk. – 2., unveränd. Aufl. – München : Edition Text u. Kritik, 1999. – pp.

Era
Post-War
Lived
1929–2014
From
Germany
Born in
Meppen · died Essen
Known as
organist, composer, musicologist, non-fiction writer, university teacher, conductor
Instruments
pipe organ, organ

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.