Renate Maria Birnstein is a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 composer, violinist and pianist. She was born in Hamburg

Hamburg

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, and studied at the Hochschule fur Musik with Diether de la Motte and Gyorgy Ligeti

György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

, receiving her diploma in composition and piano in 1973.

After completing her studies, Birnstein took a position teaching at the Hochschule fur Musik in Hamburg. Birnstein won the 1983 Prix de Rome

Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...

. Her music has been performed internationally.

Works

Birnstein composes for orchestra, theater, chamber ensemble, choral and piano performance. Selected works include:

• Villa Hassimo
• Imaginations for orchestra, 1972
• Ich rufe an mit meiner Stimme, 1981
• Octet for flute, clarinet, trombone, viola, cello and two percussionists, 1985
• Pranto ocre for baritone and piano to the text of the Brazilian poet Paes Loureiro, 2003
• Les horloge, theater work
• Les grains de sable, theater work

External links

• List of works