Rainer Kunad

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Rainer Kunad was born in Chemnitz in 1936. He gave us sixteen numbered symphonies, mostly with fancy names:

Sym. 64 (Sym. no.1), 1964;

Sym. no.2, 1967;

Sinfonie des göttlichen Friedens (Sym. no.3), T, chorus, orch, 1986–7;

Sinfonie des göttlichen Kosmos (Sym. no.4), Bar, pf, orch, 1991;

Tabor – Himmliche Vision (Sym. no.5) (A.K. Emmerich, others), solo vv, chorus, orch, 1991;

Siegesmusik über die Bösen Geister (Sym.no.6), solo vv, chorus, orch, 1991;

Das war Gottes Plan (Sym. no.7) (various), B-Bar, chorus, orch, 1992;

Sinfonie für eine grosse Zukunft (Sym. no.8 ‘Wind’) (various), T, Bar, chorus, wind, org, 1992;

Die sieben Siegel (Sym. no.9), chorus, orch, 1993;

Das Vermächtnis (Sym. no.10), B-Bar, dancers, orch, 1993;

Von Gottes neuer welt (Sym. no.11 ‘Perkussionssinfonie’), perc, orch, 1993;

Der Berg Zion (Sym. no.12 ‘Die Melodramatische’), spkr, orch, 1993–4;

Die Vision (Sym. no.13 ‘String Sym.’), dancers, str, 1994;

Die Erlösung (Sym. no.14) (various), T, B, chorus, orch, 1994;

Die Wege Gottes (Sym. no.15) (various), chorus, orch, 1994 T, dancer, spkr;

Vom heiligen Geist (Sym. no.16), T, B-Bar, chorus, 1994