Aribert Reimann

Reimann ( born March 4, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German pianist and composer and musicologist.

Life

Even as a ten year old wrote Reimann first piano songs. After graduation, he began working as a coach at the Städtische Oper Berlin. He also began the study in composition, counterpoint and piano (including with Boris Blacher and Ernst Pepping ) at the Academy of Music in Berlin. In 1958, Reimann went to musicology studies at the University of Vienna. End of the fifties also followed first appearances as a pianist and accompanist. Early seventies was Reimann member of the Academy of the Arts ( Berlin). In the period from 1983 to 1998, he accepted a professorship at the University of the Arts Berlin, Department of Contemporary song. Reimann wrote chamber music, orchestral works, as well as wide-ranging vocal music works from unaccompanied solo singing to the choir and symphonic music has been an important composers of our time.

The beginning of his career marked collaborations with Aribert Reimann Günter Grass for the ballet. The collaboration came about on placement of the dancer and choreographer Marcel Luipart. After a libretto by Grass Reimann wrote the ballets with fabric scraps (1959) and The Scarecrow (1970). In addition, Aribert Reimann set to music the poem March 1966 by Günter Grass for speaking voice and flute. Primarily Reimann has excelled as a composer important (literature ) Operas: With A Dream Play by August Strindberg, which was premiered in 1965, Reimann began successful work as an opera composer. Melusine (1971 Schwetzingen Festival ), Lear (1978 Bayerische Staatsoper) by William Shakespeare, The Ghost Sonata also by August Strindberg (1983 Berlin), Troades after the play of Euripides, in the version of Franz Werfel (1986 Munich), The Castle after the novel by Franz Kafka (1992 Berlin), House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca (2000 Munich) and last Medea after the eponymous third part of the trilogy the Golden Fleece by Franz Grillparzer (2010 Vienna) have the rank Reimann as one of the leading German opera composer permanent strength.

Reimann has received many awards, among others, with the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin. 2011, the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize was awarded to him for his life's work.

Invited by Walter Fink, he was in 1997, the seventh annual composer composer's portrait of the Rheingau Musik Festival.

The work Cantus for Clarinet and Orchestra, dedicated to the contemporary composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann was premiered on 13 January 2006 in the large studio of the WDR in Cologne. Reimann was inspired to this work through the Compositions for Clarinet by Claude Debussy. He lives and works in Berlin.

The Busoni Composition Prize

The Busoni Composition Prize was founded in 1988 by Aribert Reimann. He is the only award of the Academy of Arts Prize for the Promotion of compositional talent. Since 1992, in addition, composition students be encouraged.

Awards

Selected Works

  • Stage Works ( time of origin ) Fabric remnants (1959). Ballet in 3 acts. Libretto: Günter Grass. UA February 12, 1959 in Essen ( Essen Opera House )
  • Melusine (1970). Opera in 4 acts. Libretto by Claus H. Henneberg (after the eponymous drama by Yvan Goll ). UA April 29, 1971 Schwetzingen
  • The Scarecrows (1970). Ballet in 3 acts. Libretto: Günter Grass. UA October 7, 1970 Berlin ( German Opera )
  • Lear (1976 /78). Opera in two parts. Libretto by Claus H. Henneberg ( after King Lear by William Shakespeare, German by Johann Joachim Eschenburg ). UA July 9, 1978 Munich ( National Theatre)
  • The Ghost Sonata (1983). Libretto: Schendel and Uwe Reimann ( after the eponymous chamber play by August Strindberg ). UA September 25, 1984 Berlin ( Hebbel Theater )
  • Troades (1985). Libretto: Gerd Albrecht and Aribert Reimann (after Euripides' drama The Trojan Women, German by Franz Werfel ). UA July 7, 1986 Munich ( National Theatre)
  • The Castle (1989 /91). Libretto: Aribert Reimann ( based on the novel by Franz Kafka fragment and its dramatization by Max Brod). UA September 2, 1992 Berlin ( German Opera )
  • House of Bernarda Alba (1998 /2000). Opera in 3 acts. Libretto: Aribert Reimann (after the tragedy by Federico García Lorca, German Enrique Beck). UA October 30, 2000 Munich ( National Theatre)
  • Medea (2007/ 09). Opera in two parts. Version of the text by the composer after Franz Grillparzer's " The Golden Fleece ". UA 28 February 2010 Vienna State Opera
  • Orchestral works Symphony after the opera " A Dream Play " (1964)
  • Rondes for String Orchestra ( 1967)
  • Loqui (1969 )
  • Concerto for piano and 19 players (1972 )
  • Variations (1975 )
  • Seven fragments for orchestra in memory of Robert Schumann ( 1988)
  • Nine pieces (1993 )
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1995 /96)
  • SPIRALAT Halom, Dream Spiral (2002)
  • Near distance, moments to Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Piece in B flat major (2002/ 03)
  • Time Islands (2004)
  • Cantus for Clarinet and Orchestra ( 2006)
  • Orchestral works with song A Dance of Death, Suite for baritone and chamber orchestra ( 1960)
  • Hölderlin Fragments for soprano and orchestra (1963 )
  • Verrà la morte, cantata by Cesare Pavese for soloists (soprano, tenor, baritone ), two mixed choirs and orchestra (1966 )
  • Narrowing for tenor and orchestra (1967 )
  • Inane, monologue for Soprano and Orchestra ( 1968)
  • Fragments from the opera " Melusine " (1970)
  • Cycle based on texts from the book of poems by Paul Celan Atemwende for baritone and orchestra (1971 )
  • Lines for soprano and chamber string orchestra (1973 )
  • Cloud Seamless Christmas feast, Requiem for baritone, cello and orchestra (1974 )
  • Six Poems by Sylvia Plath (1975 )
  • Fragments from "Lear" for baritone and orchestra (1976 /78)
  • Chacun sa chimère, Poème visual by Charles Baudelaire for tenor and orchestra (1981 )
  • Three Songs on Poems of Edgar Allan Poe for soprano and orchestra (1980 /82)
  • Requiem for soprano, mezzo- soprano, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra ( 1982)
  • Finite Infinity on Poems of Emily Dickinson for soprano and orchestra (1994 /95)
  • The poles are in us for baritone and piano, based on a poem by Paul Celan (1995 )
  • Kumi Ori for baritone and orchestra (1999)
  • Tarde for soprano and orchestra (2003)
  • Vocal music March for speakers and bass flute (1966 ), UA July 30, 1966 Biswil (CH ), Old Church ( Günter Grass, Speaker; Aurele Nicolet, flute)
  • Disposed of for baritone solo ( 1989)
  • Eingedunkelt for alto solo. Nine Poems (1992 )
  • Lady Lazarus for soprano solo ( 1992)
  • Night Piece for Soprano and Piano ( 1992)
  • Five Songs on poems by Paul Celan for countertenor and piano (1994/2001)
  • Ni una sombra ..., trio for soprano, clarinet in A and piano, based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert and words by Antonio Porchia (2006)
  • Chamber Music Reflections for seven instruments (1966 )
  • Versial by Old French troubadour texts for speaking voice and ensemble ( 1967)
  • Unrevealed for baritone and string quartet (1981 )
  • Poems of Mary Stuart by Robert Schumann, Op 135 of 1852 for mezzo- soprano and chamber ensemble ( 1988)
  • Metamorphoses on a minuet by Franz Schubert ( D 600) for ten instruments ( 1997)
  • Three poems of Sappho, in the German transmission of Walter Jens (2000)
  • Fanfarrias para el público for 15 wind instruments ( 2004)
  • Spectra ( 1967)
  • Variations for piano (1979 )
  • On the way (1989 /93)
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