Gerd Kühr, alsoGerd Kuhr (born 28 December 1952), is an Austrian conductor, composer of classical music and academic teacher. He is known for operas, such asStallerhof on a libretto by the author ofthe play,Franz Xaver Kroetz, and film music including Schlöndorff'sEine Liebe von Swann.

Born inMaria Luggau, Kühr studied history, conducting and composition at theMozarteum in Salzburg, and took master classes in conducting withGerhard Wimberger,Hans Swarowsky andSergiu Celibidache. He continued his studies of composition withJosef Friedrich Doppelbauer andHans Werner Henze.^[1] In 1983 he collaborated with Henze, David Graham andMarcel Wengler to compose the film music forVolker Schlöndorff'sEine Liebe von Swann afterMarcel Proust.^[2]

His operaStallerhof, to a libretto ofFranz Xaver Kroetz based on his own play, was premiered at the firstMunich Biennale in 1988, as a co-production with theStaatstheater Wiesbaden.Ulf Schirmer conducted the premiere at the Kongresssaal ofDeutsches Museum.^[3] The playStallerhof, a dialect play on a taboo subject matter, was premiered in 1972. A review of the opera in a production of the Theater Luzern remarks:

Kroetz's Stallerhof is a work about inability to communicate, which opens space for music. Gerd Kühr's music serves the function of expressing the feelings and situations in which people find themselves. With a fairly large chamber orchestra he provides a rich tapestry of colours and motives. There is expressionist music, which brings to mind. the inarticulacy and exploitation suffered byWozzeck.^[4]

Kühr composed in 1997/99 the operaTod und Teufel (Death and Devil) on a libretto ofPeter Turrini on a commission of the Theater Graz and the festivalSteirischer Herbst on the occasion of the centennial of the opera house.^[5] Kühr composed the operaAgleia Federweiß in 2000/01 on a libretto of Petra Ernst, commissioned by the Jugendmusikfest Deutschlandsberg, a music festival for young people founded by Henze as part of the festival Steirischer Herbst.

Kühr taught from 1985 to 1994 in Graz, from 1992 to 1994 at the Mozarteum. Since 1995 he has been professor for composition at the Graz University of Music.^[1]

He was awarded theErnst von Siemens Music Composers' Prize in 1995.^[6]

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