Georg Katzer (Habelschwerdt, Lower Silesia, Germany, 10 January 1935 – 7 May 2019) was a German
composer. He was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the DDR (German Democratic Republic). From 1954 to 1960 Katzer studied piano, music theory, and composition with (amongst others)
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and
Ruth Zechlin at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in East Berlin. From 1957 to 1958 he studied in Prague with
Karel Janáček. From 1961 to 1963 he was a postgraduate student of
Hanns Eisler and
Leo Spies at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin. In 1963 he became a fr…
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