Günter Neubert

Born in Crimmitschau, Saxony, after his Abitur at a secondary school in Crimmitschau in 1954, Neubert studied school music at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1954 to 1955 and from 1955 to 1960 sound engineering at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He completed his studies in 1960 with the Staatsexamen and diploma. From 1959 to 1965 he was a guest auditor with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny. From 1965 to 1967 he was its aspirant and acquired the teaching qualification for music theory at the Berlin Musikhochschule. From 1968 to 1971 he was Meisterschüler for musical composition with Wagner-Régeny and Paul Dessau at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Von 1960 bis 1961, Neubert was assistant Tonmeister at the Rundfunk der DDR in Berlin. From 1961 to 1991 he worked as sound director at the radio station in Leipzig. From 1978 to 1989 and from 1999 to 2006 he was Lecturer at the Leipzig Academy of Music. From 1978 to 1989 he was also a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. In 1987 he became private docent. In 1990 he became a member of the board of the Sächsischer Musikbund, which he headed from 1998 to 2000. Finally he worked as a sound engineer at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from 1992 to 2000.

From 1992 to 1995 he was a member of the board of directors of the Deutscher Komponistenverband. Here he directed the series Das Außergewöhnliche Konzert and created the Förderpreis für junge Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler. From 1995 to 2001 he was a member of the Sächsischer Musikrat and chairman of the Saxony regional association of the German Composers' Association. In 1996 he was a founding member of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste. Since 2009 he has been chairman of the Grieg-Begegnungsstätte Leipzig (Notenspur-Station 3 of the Unesco-Initiativen (Leipzig)). He is a member of the board of trustees of the "Hans Stieber Foundation", which regularly awards the Hans Stieber Prize. He is also on the board of trustees of the Freunde und Förderer des MDR Rundfunkchores e. V".

From 2001 to 2005 he composed an oratorio with texts by Karl May and Isaiah, which was premiered in Dresden on 22 November 2006.

• 1980: Hanns Eisler Prize of the Rundfunk der DDR
• 1984: Kunstpreis der Stadt Leipzig
• 1985: Composition Prize for the International Composition Seminar of the Künstlerhaus Boswil (Switzerland) Foundation.
• 2011: 2nd prize in the composition competition for the theme year "Reformation and Music" of the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland
• 2015: Helmut-Bräutigam-Preis der Stadt Crimmitschau

• Neubert, Günter. In Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponisten-Interessenverband. Ein Handbuch. 4th edition. Deutscher Komponisten-Interessenverband, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-555-61410-X, p. 917.
• Neubert, Günter. In Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann: Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstlerlexikon. Second part: Ergänzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937. Volume 1, Heinrichshofen. 15th edition. Wilhelmshaven 1974, ISBN 3-7959-0087-5, p. 125.
• Udo Klement: Gedenkmusiken von Reiner Bredemeyer, Helge Jung, Ernst Hermann Meyer und Günter Neubert. In Positionen 2, 1988, pp. 13–14.
• Günter Neubert. In Peter Hollfelder: Geschichte der Klaviermusik. Volume 1. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1989, ISBN 3-7959-0436-6, pp. 327–328.
• Ulrike Liedtke: Günter Neubert. In Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG). Edition Text & Kritik, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8.

• Literature by and about Günter Neubert in the German National Library catalogue
• Günter Neubert im Archiv Zeitgenössischer Komponisten der Saxon State and University Library Dresden
• G. Neubert on DDB
• Website of Günter Neubert
• Günther Munziger on Munzinger Komponisten der Gegenwart
• Günter Neubert discography at Discogs