Rainer Kunad

Rainer Kunad (24 October 1936, Chemnitz – 17 July 1995, Reutlingen) was a German conductor and composer, especially of opera. Life Kunad studied choir and ensemble conducting at the Dresden Conservatoire from 1955 to 1956 and then, until 1959, composition with Fidelio F. Finke and Ottmar Gerster at the Musikhochschule in Leipzig. He spent the last years of his life as a freelance artist in Tübingen. Kunad composed piano pieces, chamber and orchestral music and operas (among others, Bill Brook, according to a story by Wolfgang Borchert and Der Meister und Margarita after the novel by 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 (1