Peter Dorn (born November 1931) is a German composer and classical pianist.
Dorn was born in Wroclaw, capital of Silesia. He attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig.[1] He studied piano with Gerhard Puchelt and Amadeus Webersinke at the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Until 1959, he worked as a pianist in West Germany.[1] Cologne 1968, p. 125. He studied composition with Wilhelm Weismann in Leipzig and as a Meisterschüler with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny[2] at the Academy of Arts, Berlin (in East Berlin). He then worked at the Berlin Academy of Arts.[3]
Dorn's violin sonatas are published by C. F. Peters Musikverlag in Leipzig.[4] In 1968, he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize in Leipzig for his cantata In deiner Hand steht geschrieben die Zeit.[5] The premiere was given by the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Rundfunkchor Leipzig under the direction of Herbert Kegel.[6] The music prize was awarded for the first time that year, together with the composers Ruth Zechlin and Gerhard Rosenfeld.[7]
His Klaviermusik 1964 was once compared with Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition.[8]