Peter Richter de Rangenier

Peter Richter de Rangenier, also Peter Richter (25 March 1930 – 9 August 2021^[1]) was a German composer, conductor and university professor.

Born in Prague, after attending the Gymnasium in Lübeck, Richter de Rangenier first worked as a freelance composer and founded the Lübecker Kammerorchester. He then studied composition, conducting, piano, horn and organ at the conservatories in Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and the Mozarteum.^[2]

He worked as a Kapellmeister in Hagen in 1954, in Wuppertal in 1957 and was musical director of the Theater des Westens in Berlin from 1960 to 1965 and from 1974 to 1976. From 1967 to 1973, Richter de Rangenier worked in Hof, Bavaria, as general music director (Hofer Symphoniker and Theater Hof). In 1977, he went to South America. Until 1981, he trained conductors as a professor at the University of Chile and also worked there as a conductor from 1979 to 1981.^[3]

In 1981 he returned to Europe and taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Concert tours took Richter de Rangenier to Switzerland (Lucerne Festival) and Germany. In 1989, he acted as guest conductor with the Vienna Symphony.^[4][5]

• 1967: Sinfonietta
• 1974: Die Raben von Holland. Opera after Maurice Maeterlinck
• 1982: Und Pippa tanzt! Opera after Gerhart Hauptmann

Furthermore: Symphonies, string quartets, various pieces for different solo instruments, choral works and Lieder.^[6]

• 1960: Kunstpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
• 1961: Förderpreis der Hansestadt Lübeck
• 1980: Ehrenmitglied der Philharmonie Santiago de Chile (Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago)
• 1982: Theodor Körner Prize

• Literature by and about Peter Richter de Rangenier in the German National Library catalogue
• Peter Richter de Rangenier discography at Discogs
• Axel Schniederjürgen, ed. (2010), Kürschners Musikerhandbuch 2006 (in German), Walter de Gruyter, p. 381, ISBN 978-3-11-095016-8