Wladimir Vogel

Vladimir Rudolfowitsch bird (Russian Владимир Рудольфович Фогель, scientific transliteration Vladimir Fogel Rudol'fovič '; * 17 Februarjul / February 29 1896greg in Moscow, .. † June 19, 1984 in Zurich ) was a Swiss composer German - Russian origin.

Life

Vogel studied 1918-1924 at Heinz Tiessen and Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, where he was then a teacher at the Klindworth - Scharwenka Conservatory. He stood near the Expressionistenkreis to Herwarth Walden and was active in the music section of the November Group of Max Butting and Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt. Because of its commitment to the German - Soviet cultural exchange and for the labor movement, 1933, the son of a Jewish mother, who was interned as a German national in the First World War in the Urals, fled from Germany and then held, inter alia, to Strasbourg, Brussels, Paris and London. Since 1939 he lived in Switzerland, first in Ascona and since 1964 in Zurich. In 1948 at the instigation of bird in Orselina a " dodecaphonic Congress " instead. Among other things, Luigi Dallapiccola, Hermann Meier, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Rolf Liebermann and Erich Schmid participated.

Works

Bird composed a symphony, pieces for orchestra, brass and string orchestra, a violin and a cello concerto, works for choir, soloists and orchestra, the most important, called dramma - oratorio, based on a synthesis of speech and singing, and chamber works.

  • Three songs by August Stramm speech for baritone and piano, 1922.
  • Symphonic process for large orchestra, 1922-23.
  • Wagadus demise by the vanity, dramma - oratorio, 1930.
  • Sinfonia fugata for large orchestra, 1930-1932.
  • Four Etudes for large orchestra, 1930-1932.
  • Rally Piece for Orchestra, 1932.
  • Thyl Claes, Part I and II, dramma - oratorio, 1941-42 and 1943-45.
  • But Jonah went to Nineveh, dramma - oratorio, 1957-58.
  • Meditazione sulla maschera di Modigliani, dramma - oratorio, 1960.
  • On the academic youth ( Notker Balbulus ) for mixed choir a cappella, 1962.
  • Words (Hans Arp ) for 2 speaker voices and strings, 1962.
  • Escape, dramma - oratorio, 1963-64.
  • Moon Dreams (H. Arp ), permutations and paraphrases on verses from "Moon Sand " by Hans Arp spokesman for chorus a cappella, 1965.
  • Gli spaziali, dramma - oratorio, 1970-71.
  • Farewell for String Orchestra, 1973.
  • Meloformen for String Orchestra, 1974.
  • Hommage a 6- tone sequence of Hermann Jöhr for strings in any occupation, 1975.
  • Composition for chamber orchestra, 1976, a work commissioned by Paul Sacher.
  • In Signum IM for large orchestra, 1976.
  • Bracing for chamber orchestra, 1977.
  • Dance for chamber orchestra, 1981.
  • Humoresque, paraphrases of 2 threads started by Gottschalk and Tchaikovsky for large orchestra, 1981.
  • Contrasts for large orchestra, 1983.
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