Rainer Kunad

Rainer Kunad (24 October 1936, Chemnitz – 17 July 1995, Reutlingen) was a German composer.

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. From 1960 to 1974, he directed theatrical music at the Staatstheater Dresden, and 1971 onward, he also worked at the Berlin State Opera. Kunad had been a regular member of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR since 1974. In 1972, he received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic and, in 1975, the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic.

In 1985, he applied to the authorities for a dismissal from GDR citizenship, which was granted. He lived in West Germany from 1984 onward. 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).

Operas:

Ballets:

Symphonies:

Concerts:

Orchestra music:

Chamber music:

Vocal music:

Oratorio:

Spiritual oratorio:

Mystery play:

Spiritual symphonies:

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