Johann Cilenšek

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Johann Cilenšek (* December 4, 1913 in Großdubrau in Upper Lusatia; † December 14, 1998 in Erfurt) was a German composer and music teacher. Johann Cilenšek was the son of a porcelain maker from Slovenia and attended secondary school in Bautzen from 1924 to 1933. Already as a pupil he received lessons in playing the zither, piano, cello and organ. In 1933 he was engaged to the Reichsarbeitsdienst and worked 1934 in the Hermsdorf factory of the Hermsdorf-Schomburg-Isolatoren GmbH. Between 1935 and 1939 he studied composition with Johann Nepomuk David and organ with Friedrich Högner at the Leipzig Conservatory's Institute of Church Music. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP. From 1939 to 1945 he was employed as a grinder and lathe operator at Junkers-Flugzeugwerke throughout the Second World War. After the war he joined the KPD. He became a member of the SED in 1946 through the forced unification of SPD and KPD. In 1945 Cilenšek was appointed lecturer for music theory at the Thuringian State Conservatory in Erfurt. He now lived in this city all his life. In 1947 he moved to the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, where he was offered a professorship in composition. From 1966 to 1972, Cilenšek succeeded Werner Felix as university director. Although he retired in 1978, he continued to teach there as a lecturer at the Musikhochschule until 1980. He was also a member of the central board of the Association of German Composers of the GDR, whose Thüringer Bezirksverband he chaired from

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Musik für Orchester - Konzerte 1950-1960

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Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000: Konzerte 1950-1960

Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000: Musik für Orchester - Konzerte 1950-1960

Konzertstück für Viola und Orchester (1977) - Konzertstück für Horn in F und Orchester (1982)

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Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000 - Konzerte 1950-1960

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Musik in Deutschland, 1950-2000: Konzerte (1950-1960)

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