Karl Ottomar Treibmann (14 January 1936 – 13 February 2017) was a German composer and music educator. From 1981 until his retirement in 2001, he was professor of music theory and Tonsatz [de] at the Leipzig University. He was one of the representatives of modernity in the German Democratic Republic, whose great major works can be found in the areas of opera, symphony and chamber music.
Life and work
Treibmann, was born in 1936 as the son of an elementary school teacher and a housewife in Raun [de] (Vogtland). He belonged to that generation of composers who experienced the outcome of the Second World War as children. Treibmann lived in his native town (1942–1947) and in Oelsnitz, Vogtland (1947–1954), and in addition to his (grandfather's) lessons, received important impulses from the Oelsnitz cantor and Straube's student Paul Leo.
Treibmann wrote his doctoral dissertation in 1966 (in addition to his then teaching activities) at the Philological Faculty about the composer and music educator Helmut Bräutigam. (1914–1942). The reviewers of the work were Paul Willert and Richard Petzoldt. In 1966 he became scientific assistant in the Artistic Practice Department of the Institute of Musicology of the University of Leipzig [de] and in 1969 he became a lecturer for music theory. From 1971 to 1974 he was head of the Artistic Practice Department within the framework of academic self-administration.
After receiving the Facultas docendi [de] for the Department of Musicology and Music Education in September 1975, he became university lecturer for music theory and composition at the Department of Musicology and Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University in February 1976. In 1981 he was appointed professor with artistic teaching responsibilities for music theory and composition. From 1981 his professorship was at the Department of Art and Cultural Studies and from 1991 at the Department of Musicology and Musical Instruments Museum of the Faculty of Art, Linguistics and Education. In 1993 he became university lecturer for music education at the Institute for Music Education. He retired from the university service in 2001 when he reached the age limit. His teaching and research areas were music theory, composition, musical analysis and composition in the 20th century.
1975/78: Der Preis (libretto: Harald Gerlach), one act opera, UA Theater Erfurt, 1 March 1980
1983–1985: Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung. Comic opera in 2 acts after the play of the same name by Christian Dietrich Grabbe, UA Städtische Bühnen, 14 March 1987 Erfurt
1983: Der Frieden (3rd Symphony) (libretto: Volker Braun), UA Gottfried Richter (narrator), Joachim Vogt (tenor), Leipziger Universitätschor, member of the Gewandhausorchesters (Max Pommer conducting), Gewandhaus, 2 December 1984 Leipzig
Das Leipziger Schlagzeugensemble mit Schlagmusiken (MDR 1995) with the Leipziger Schlagzeugensemble // Entertainment of two percussionists
Hölderlin – Briefe und Dichtungen (Querstand 1998) with Jürgen Kurth (baritone), Birte Simon (flute), Hendrik Bräunlich (piano) // Hölderlin – Letters and poems
Helmut Bräutigam. Ein Komponist und Musikerzieher in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit umfassendem Werkverzeichnis. Dissertation, Leipzig 1966.
Strukturen in neuer Musik. Anregungen zum zeitgenössischen Tonsatz. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1981, ISBN978-3-370-00001-6 (music textbook; also a Korean edition).
Literature
Treibmann, Karl Ottomar. In Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann, continued by Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rösner: Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstlerlexikon. Zweiter Teil: Ergänzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937. Vol. 2: L–Z. Heinrichshofen, 15th edition, Wilhelmshaven 1978, ISBN3-7959-0087-5, p. 370.
Treibmann, Prof. Dr. Karl Ottomar. In Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponisten-Interessenverband. Ein Handbuch. 4th edition, Deutscher Komponisten-Interessenverband, Berlin 1995, ISBN3-555-61410-X, p. 1305.
Treibmann, Karl Ottomar. In Peter Hollfelder: Klaviermusik. Internationales chronologisches Lexikon. Geschichte – Komponisten – Werke – Literatur. Supplement, Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN3-7959-0855-8, p. 222.
Ulrike Liedtke: Treibmann, Karl Ottomar. In Ludwig Finscher (ed.): Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata – Villoteau). Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel among others 2006, ISBN3-7618-1136-5, pp. 1023–1025 ([subscription required for full access) Online-edition], subscription required for full access).
