Gottfried Glöckner


Gottfried Glöckner is a German composer and music educator.

Life

Born in Chemnitz, Glöckner attended the Zwickau Conservatory. Afterwards he worked as a music teacher in Bad Liebenwerda and Frankfurt. From 1970 to 1974 he studied musical composition with Manfred Weiss at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He works as a freelance composer in Frankfurt. Glöckner composed several works which are published by bellmannmusik, Edition Choris Mundi and. His Concerto for Orchestra was first performed in Havana in 1984.
He was married to the writer Helga Glöckner-Neubert until her death in 2017.

Awards