Alexander Goehr

Alexander Goehr ( born August 10, 1932 in Berlin ) is an English composer. His father was the conductor Walter Goehr.

Life

Goehr initially studied composition ( Richard Hall ) at the Royal Manchester College of Music and then founded the New Music Manchester Group ( with Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and John Ogdon ). In the years 1955 and 1956 was followed by further studies with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod in Paris. Early 60s, he worked for the BBC and was the founder of the Music Theatre Ensemble, one of the first British ensemble that had itself exclusively to the contemporary musical theater. operate. End of the 60s he got a teaching position at the New England Conservatory in Boston and at Yale University and was appointed in 1971 as Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. From 1975 to 1999 he was professor of music at the University of Cambridge.

Works

Goehr wrote seven operas, including Arden must die (after Arden of Faversham, Hamburg 1967) and " Arianna, lost opera by Monteverdi " (London, ROC 1995). In addition, the creation of Goehr includes, among others, four symphonies, concertos for piano, violin, viola and cello, as well as smaller orchestral works such as " Cambridge Hocket " for four horns and orchestra.

Conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph von Dohnányi and Sir Simon Rattle put together with numerous internationally renowned soloists such as Oliver Knussen regularly for his works a.

Awards and Honors

Claudio Monteverdi Symphony Churchill College, Cambridge Integrated Authority File
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