Frauenkirche after restoration, broadcast live on 11 November 2005. His works are featured on more than twenty recordings by several of Germany's leading symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles. His 1975 Cello Concerto and his Second Symphony were recorded in 1978 by cellist Josef Schwab and the orchestra of the Komische Oper, conducted by the composer. A reviewer described the works as "deeply honest, uncompromising though highly communicative". For the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2004, a recording combined three concertos with orchestra recorded earlier with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken: the 1982 Concerto for Trumpet and Percussion, the 1994 Manhattan Concerto, and Der Wald (The forest), a 1984 percussion concerto. On 25 January 2009, Leon Botstein conducted Responso at the Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, with the American Symphony Orchestra. Festival In 1991, Matthus founded the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg festival. He was its artistic director until 2018. He was an honorary citizen of Rheinsberg. Personal life Since 1957, Matthus was married to the singer Helga Matthus. They had a son, (born 1964), and lived in , part of Wandlitz, near Berlin. Matthus died in his home on 27 August 2021 at the age of 87 after a protracted illness. Compositions Source: Matthus composed more than 600 works. His oeuvre includes 14 operas, over 60 large orchestral works, numerous chamber music, ballet scenes and film music. Opera 1960–63 Lazarillo von Tormes 1966/67 Der letzte Schuss (The Last Shot) 1971 Noch einen Löffel Gift, Liebling? (Another Spoonful of Poison, Darling?) (Comic crime opera by Peter Hacks after the comedy Risky Marriage by Saul O'Hara) 1972–74 Omphale (text by Hacks) 1974 Mario the Magician 1983/84 Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (Cornet Christoph Rilke's song of love and death ) (text after Rainer Maria Rilke) 1982–84 Judith (after the play by Friedrich Hebbel) 1987/88 Graf Mirabeau 1990 "Judith" American Premiere at the Santa Fe Opera 1990/91 Desdemona und ihre Schwestern (Desdemona and her Sisters) (text after Christine Brückner) 1998 Farinelli oder die Macht des Gesanges (Farinelli or The Power of Singing) 1998/99 (libretto by Thomas Höft) 2003 Die unendliche Geschichte (after Michael Ende's The Neverending Story commissioned by the Department for Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate, libretto by Anton Perrey) 2007: Cosima, reconstruction of an opera fragment by Friedrich Nietzsche 2019: Effi Briest, after the novel by Theodor Fontane commissioned by Staatstheater Cottbus, to a libretto by Awards 1972 and