13 Facts About Dieter Schnebel

Dieter Schnebel was a German composer, theologian and musicologist.

Dieter Schnebel composed orchestral music, chamber music, vocal music and stage works.

From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of experimental music at the Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin.

Dieter Schnebel began general private music studies with Wilhelm Siebler from 1942 until 1945, when he started piano lessons with Wilhelm Resch, and continued study with him until 1949 at the age of 19.

Dieter Schnebel continued with music history through 1952, under Eric Doflein.

Dieter Schnebel entered formal studies at the University of Tubingen where he took musicology with Walter Gerstenberg, as well as theology, philosophy and further piano studies.

Dieter Schnebel became a minister, and taught theology and religion until 1963 when he began teaching philosophy and psychology.

Dieter Schnebel died of a heart ailment in Berlin on 20 May 2018 at the age of 88.

Dieter Schnebel composed several cycles of works, sometimes over a long time.

Dieter Schnebel made arrangements of works by Bach, Beethoven, Webern and Wagner, called Re-Visions, sometimes using their traditional concepts to reflect new techniques and different ways of looking at them.

Dieter Schnebel's awards include the Arts Prize of Lahr in 1991.

Dieter Schnebel received the first European Church Music Prize in Schwabisch Gmund the same year.

Dieter Schnebel was a member of the Berlin Akademie der Kunste from 1991, and of the Bayerische Akademie der Schonen Kunste since 1996.