title: Johannes Korndörfer
text: # Johannes Korndörfer
  
  Johannes Korndörfer (born in 1980) is a German music theorist, church musician and composer.
  
  ## Life
  
  Korndörfer attended the Komponistenklasse Dresden, a school for young composers, studying with Silke Fraikin from 1991 to 1998. He then studied composition, music theory and piano at the Musikhochschule für Dresden, and further studied musicology there, graduating in 2006. Among his teachers were Jörg Herchet for composition, Clemens Kühn and John Leigh for music history, and Christine Haupt for piano. From 2006, Korndörfer has taught music theory, at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden and its associated Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik Carl Maria von Weber [de], at the TU Dresden from 2010, and from 2011 at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2009 he published a book about the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann. He was a developer of the multimedia program to train hearing, by the Dresden Zentrum für Musiktheorie (Centre for music theory).
  
  Korndörfer became instructor of the Komponistenklasse in 1998. He was also appointed organist of the Schifferkirche Maria am Wasser [de] in Dresden-Hosterwitz [de] in 1999. Together with Matthias Herbig, he founded a choir and the ensemble Maria am Wasser.
  
  His orchestral composition Horch! was premiered in 2004 by the Sinfonietta Dresden, conducted by Milko Kersten.
  
  ## Awards
  
  The Komponistenklasse was awarded the 2015 Initiativpreis für Kunst und Kultur of Saxony, for its engagement for the early training in music creation.
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Monographs
  
  * Johannes Korndörfer: Zimmermanns Intercomunicazione: Regel und Freiheit beim Komponieren (in German) ISBN 978-3-639-15632-4.
  
  ### Articles
  
  * Johannes Korndörfer (2009). Clemens Kühn and John Leigh / Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden (ed.). Christoph Bernhards Figurenlehre im Werk von Heinrich Schütz. Systeme der Musiktheorie. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag [de]. p. 85. ISBN 978-3-940319-64-7.
  * Johannes Korndörfer (2010). Felix Diergarten; Ludwig Holtmeier; John Leigh; Edith Metzner (eds.). 45 Minuten Zeitdehnung und Kugelgestalt. Vom Wert Neuer Musik im Unterricht. Musik und ihre Theorien. Clemens Kühn zum 65. Geburtstag. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag. p. 172. ISBN 978-3-942422-06-2.
  