Günter Bialas

Günter Bialas ( born July 19, 1907 in Bielschowitz, Upper Silesia, † July 8, 1995 in Glonn ) was a German composer and university teacher.

Life

Bialas received from 1922 to 1925 in Katowice piano and theory lessons with Fritz Lubrich ( 1888-1971 ), a pupil of Max Reger. After graduating from the German minority school in Katowice in 1926, he began a study of musicology, German literature and history at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Breslau. From 1927 to 1931 he studied music at the Prussian Academy in Berlin. From 1934 to 1937 he taught at the woman high school of the Ursulines in Wroclaw Carlo joke.

Furthermore, he took lessons in composition with Max Trapp in Berlin. About Romanian friends he met Sergiu Celibidache and prepared him for the entrance examination at the Berlin Academy of Music. In 1939 he was appointed as a lecturer in music theory and composition at the Institute for Music Education at the University of Breslau. After military service and captivity (1941-1945), he fled with his wife, the singer Gerda Specht, from Silesia to Bavaria and in 1946 conductor of the Munich Bach -Verein.

From 1947 to 1959 he worked as a teacher of composition at the Northwest German Music Academy, now the University of Music Detmold. In 1959 he became professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich and taught there until 1972.

The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, whose music department headed Bialas 1974-1979, awarded since 1998 every two years, funded by the GEMA Foundation Gerda and Günter Bialas prize for composition.

After his death, a street was named after him in his last place of residence of Upper Bavaria Glonn. An additional sign indicates the namesake and its life data.

Honors, Memberships

Selections

Stage Works

  • Jorinda and Joringel. Fairy tale with music ( melodrama ). Libretto: by Grimm's Fairy Tales. UA 1963 Kassel
  • The story of Aucassin and Nicolette. Opera in 13 images. Libretto: Tancred Dorst (after a Chantefable from the 13th century). UA December 13, 1969 Munich ( Cuvilliés Theatre )
  • Puss in Boots or How to play the game. Comic opera in two acts. Libretto: Tancred Dorst (after Ludwig Tieck ). UA May 15, 1975 Schwetzingen ( Festival; ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera ). Recast: 1987 Munich
  • From the mattress grave. Liederspiel. Libretto: after Heinrich Heine. UA 1992 Kiel

Ballet

  • Meyerbeer paraphrases (UA 1974 Hamburg)

Oratory

  • In the beginning - Genesis by Martin Buber (1961 ) for three echo voices, chorus and orchestra
  • Lamento di Orlando ( 1983-85 ) for baritone, mixed choir and orchestra

Cantatas

  • Indian cantata by natives seals (1949 ) for baritone, chamber choir, 8 instruments and percussion
  • Praises by Martin Buber (1964 ) for baritone and orchestra

Orchestra

  • Romanzero (1955 )
  • Seranata (1955 )
  • Sinfonia Piccola (1960 )
  • Forest Music ( 1977)
  • The way to Eisenstadt - Haydn Fantasies (1980 )
  • Marsch- Fantasie ( 1987)
  • Landler Fantasy (1989 )

Concerts

  • Concerto Lirico for Piano and Orchestra ( 1967)
  • Introit - Exodus for Organ and Orchestra ( 1976)
  • Music for Piano and Orchestra ( 1990)
  • Second Concerto for Cello and Orchestra ( 1992)
  • Funeral music: in memoriam Hans Jörg Schmitthenner for Viola and Orchestra ( 1994)

Chamber Music

  • Music for 11 Strings ( 1970)
  • 5 string quartets (1935, 1949, 1968, 1986, 1991 )
  • 2 Saxophone Quartets ( Six Bagatelles, 1986, Art of the canon 1991)
  • Trio (1981 ) for violin, cello and piano
  • Fall Time ( 1982) for string trio and piano
  • Nine Bagatelles (1984 ) for wind trio, string trio and piano
  • Moments Musicaux III ( 1975-76 ) for clarinet, cello and piano
  • Five Duets for Viola and Cello (1988 )

Solo Works

  • Lamento, four interludes and Marsch ( 1986) for piano

Students by Günter Bialas

Bavarian Order of Merit National Theatre Mannheim Tankred Dorst Schwetzingen Festival Gottfried Michael Koenig Integrated Authority File
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