title: Reiner Dennewitz
text: # Reiner Dennewitz
  
  Reiner Dennewitz (born 21 February 1937) is a German composer.
  
  ## Life
  
  Dennewitz was born in Sundhausen. After the Abitur he passed at the Schnepfenthal Salzmann School, he studied composition with Johann Cilenšek [de] and piano with Siegfried Rapp at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. Afterwards he was a master student for composition with Fritz Geißler at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He then worked as a music teacher and freelance composer. His compositions were performed by the Thomanerchor and Canzonetta Chamber Choir Leipzig, among others. He created solo songs, chamber music, orchestral works and choral music.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 1976: 3rd prize for chamber music at the GDR Music Days
  * 1980: Art Prize of the Gera District
  * 1983: Hanns Eisler Prize of the DDR radio station
  