Hugo Raithel

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'''Hugo Raithel''' (6 April 1932 – 12 September 2020) was a German composer, conductor and pianist.

== Life ==
Born in [[Schwarzenbach an der Saale]], Raithel studied the piano at the [[Hochschule für Musik Köln]] from 1951 to 52 and from 1952 to 55 composition at the [[University of Music and Performing Arts Munich]] with [[Karl Höller]], conducting with [[Fritz Lehmann]] and [[Kurt Eichhorn]] and piano with Johannes Hobohm and [[Friedrich Wührer]]. In 1955, he moved to the GDR, where he accepted a position as [[choir]] master at the Stadttheater Bautzen. From 1957 to 61 he was [[Korrepetitor|Solorepetitor]] at the [[Komische Oper Berlin]] and afterwards again in Bautzen as a theatre [[Kapellmeister]]. Frpm 1978, he was a [[lecturer]] for repetition at the [[Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber]]. He was appointed professor in 1993 and retired in 1997.<ref>[https://ift.tt/35YsDFK Tabular curriculum vitae and selection of works]</ref>

Compositionally, he first took up [[Max Reger|Reger]], but then went far beyond major/minor tonality. His mostly strongly [[polyphony|polyphonic]] writing uses modal scales, among other things. Individual works also integrate [[dodecaphony|dodecaphonic]] elements, such as his "Sinfonietta", Op. 18 (1963), inspired by a poem by [[Nâzım Hikmet]].

Raithel composed a children's opera (''Hase Nasehoch'', based on a Russian fairy tale, 1981), incidental music, orchestral and choral works, songs and piano music. He lived in [[Liegau-Augustusbad]] together with his wife, the piano professor Monika Raithel (1940-2011). He died there in 2020 at the age of 88.

== Further reading ==
* [[Fred K. Prieberg]]: ''Musik im anderen Deutschland'', Cologne 1968,
* [[Peter Hollfelder]]: Lexikonartikel über Hugo Raithel, in ''Die Klaviermusik.'' Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1999, pp. 192 f., .

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[[Category:20th-century classical composers]]
[[Category:German composers]]
[[Category:German classical pianists]]
[[Category:1932 births]]
[[Category:2020 deaths]]
[[Category:Musicians from Bavaria]]

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