Composer and pedagogue, born in Raun (belongs since 1994 to Bad Brambach/Vogtland/Saxony), died in Lipsia. He was born as the son of a primary school teacher and a housewife. He belonged to that generation of composers who experienced the outcome of the Second World War as a child. Treibmann went in his native city (1942-1947) and in Oelsnitz/Vogtland (1947-1954) to school and received in addition to the (large) paternal teaching important impulses from Oelsnitzer cantor and Straube student Paul Leo. From 1954 to 1959 he studied music education (Richard Petzoldt and Hellmuth Christian Wolff) and German studies (Theodor Frings, Hermann August Korff and Hans Mayer) at the Faculty of Arts of the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. In 1959 he passed the state examination for teaching at the high school. In 1959/60 Treibmann worked as a music educator at the polytechnic secondary school in Zschortau and from 1960 to 1966 at the Friedensoberschule in Delitzsch. His Ph.D. phil. wrote Treibmann 1966 (in addition to the ongoing teaching) at the Faculty of Philology on the composer and music educator Helmut Bräutigam (1914-1942). The reviewers of the work were Paul Willert and Richard Petzoldt. In 1966 he became a research assistant in the Department of Artistic Practice of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Leipzig and in 1969 lecturer in music theory. From 1971 to 1974 he worked within the framework of academic self-government as head of the Artistic Practice section.
From 1967 to 1970 he completed with Fritz Geißler and Carlernst Ortwein (Instrumentation) at the State Academy of Music - Mendelssohn Academy - in addition to a composition study. During this time, Treibmann had realized that his true vocation should be composing. His compositional career led him to Paul Dessau in Berlin in 1974/75, where he began his studies at the Academy of Arts of the GDR from Leipzig.
After receiving the Facultas docendi in September 1975 for the Department of Musicology and Music Education, he became a lecturer in musicology and composition at the Department of Musicology and Musical Instrument Museum in February 1976. In 1981 he was appointed professor with artistic teaching for music theory and composition. From 1981 his professorship was in the section of Arts and Cultural Studies and from 1991 at the Department of Musicology and Musical Instruments Museum of the Faculty of Arts, Language and Education. In 1993 he became a lecturer in music education at the Institute of Music Education. Upon reaching the age limit in 2001, he retired from the university service. His teaching and research areas were the music theory, the music composition, the musical analysis and composition in the 20th century.
During his time as a teacher, he was Kreisfachberater for music in the department of education of the Council of Delitzsch. Until 1974 he was a member of the commission music education of the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Higher and Specialty Schools. From 1985 to 1989 he was district chairman of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR and from 1990 Regional Chairman of the Association of German Composers.
Treibmann was actively engaged in composing until the end of his life. His works were mainly published by publishers such as Breitkopf & Härtel / Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Ebert Musik Verlag, Hofmeister and Edition Peters. His œuvre includes three operas (“Der Idiot”, „Der Preis” und „Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung”) and seven symphonies as well as chamber music and choral works, but also song cycles and dramatic music. An international breakthrough came in 1973 at the Warsaw Autumn with the 3rd symphonic essay. His 5th Symphony was premiered in November 1989 in the Leipziger Gewandhaus by the Gewandhausorcheser under Kurt Masur. From 1992 to 1994 he wrote motets for the Thomanerchor Leipzig.
(Rainer Stelle)