Johannes Korndörfer
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Johannes Korndörfer (born in 1980) is a German music theorist, church musician and composer.
Korndörfer attended the Komponistenklasse Dresden, a school for young composers, studying with Silke Fraikin from 1991 to 1998.[1] He then studied composition, music theory and piano at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden, and further studied musicology there, graduating in 2006.[2] Among his teachers were Jörg Herchet for composition, Clemens Kühn and John Leigh for music history, and Christine Haupt for piano.[3] From 2006, Korndörfer has taught music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber[3] and its associated Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik Carl Maria von Weber at the TU Dresden from 2010,[3] and from 2011 at the Berlin University of the Arts.[2] In 2009 he published a book about the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann. He was a developer of the multimedia program to train hearing by the Dresden Zentrum für Musiktheorie (Centre for music theory).[3][2]
Korndörfer became instructor of the Komponistenklasse in 1998.[1] He was also appointed organist of the Schifferkirche Maria am Wasser in Dresden-Hosterwitz in 1999.[1] Together with Matthias Herbig, he founded a choir and the ensemble Maria am Wasser.[1][4]
His orchestral composition Horch! was premiered in 2004 by the Sinfonietta Dresden, conducted by Milko Kersten.[5]
