[3] The string quartet was awarded second prize at the Prague Spring International Music Festival in 1965.
[4] He was appointed professor of composition in 1984 at the Musikhochschule, by now named Hochschule für Musik Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and was its University rector from 1984 to 1987.
He composed the film music for the 1971 Zeichner – Zeuge – Zeitgenosse [de], a short documentary of the artist Leo Haas.
For voices, he composed Lieder and Mater Terra, a cantata for soprano and chamber ensemble.
It was premiered at the Musikhochschule Leipzig by a speaker of texts by Kant, a pop singer, tape, flute, oboe, jazz trumpet, saxophone, electric guitar, piano, harmonica and string quartet.