Boris Yoffe

Boris Yoffe ( born December 21, 1968 in Leningrad) is a composer.

Born in St. Petersburg in 1968, immigrated to Israel in 1990 Yoffe and lives in Germany since 1997. His composition teachers were Adam Stratievsky and Wolfgang Rihm. Yoffe's compositions have been performed in the EU countries, Switzerland, Israel, Russia and the United States; Radio recordings (BBS, SWR, Radio France, DRS, Israeli radio ) and CDs documenting his work. Yoffe was a fellow of various foundations; in 2000 he received the Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

Yoffe is also the author of numerous arrangements and adaptations, as well as some musicological and philosophical essays.

Music

Characteristic of Yoffe is the equation between the aesthetic experience and the act of understanding. The ascetic, abstract yet emotionally tense music Yoffe is often associated with metaphysics and even mysticism. His next " musical family " among modern composers are probably Galina Ustwolskaja and Morton Feldman; but one could also perceive his music as a kind of opposition to the currently established new music. The central means are in the form of education and the polyphony, it is also important to grips with the music of the Baroque and Classical periods; almost completely neglected the virtuosity and the work with the sound effects.

Works

" Each piece is a miracle of discretion and concentration " - as Wolfgang Rihm on the quartet book of poems by Boris Yoffe. On the quartet book - a work-in -progress - he started in 1995 to write, and now this work has become his life's work, or even life. There is a seemingly endless collection of short pieces for string quartet or viol consort, to create a new post almost every day.

The quartet book is something of a strain from which almost all other compositions Yoffe's branch. Mostly the instrumental and vocal chamber works, the Yoffe has written commissioned works for certain musicians or music institutions:

  • Sonnet (lute player) for solo gamba,
  • Tree for bassoon solo,
  • Oratio de hominis dignitate for Guitar
  • 6 designs for Sonata de Vinteuil for violin solo,
  • Light but with dedication for solo violin,
  • Folksong for violin solo,
  • 6 designs for solo cello,
  • Action game for solo recorder,
  • Ricercata Sonata for Piano
  • Bagatelles for Piano
  • Essay for Violin and Piano,
  • 9 dedications for violin and piano
  • Caprichos for cello and guitar,
  • Bracha for recorder and harpsichord,
  • Speech for Clarinet, Viola and Piano,
  • Aria for String Trio,
  • Romance for Piano Trio,
  • Bagatelles for three recorders,
  • Masterpieces of naive painting for viola, cello and double bass,
  • Night Music ( church windows at night) for horn, two cellos and double bass
  • Tanka for four cellos,
  • 16 Pieces for Harp, Flute, Oboe and Bass Clarinet
  • I was permitted! for violin, viola, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
  • Variations for string quartet, piano, flute, basset horn and tuba
  • Air and Angels ( Donne ) for soprano and choir
  • Russian Music ( Platonov ) for alto and Wind Quintet,
  • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ( Frost ) for voice and string quartet
  • My prayer (F. Schubert) for voice, oboe, violin and cello,
  • Folksong ( Rilke ) for voice, flute and harp,
  • FOUR, a song cycle for mezzo- soprano and three instruments: Villon - Mandelstamm - Monogotari Ise, Chapter I - The Lord of the Castle
  • 3 Canzoni for Violin and Strings,
  • Comments for a second cello on the Ricercari for solo cello by Domenico Gabrielli

Cadenzas for the piano concerto KV. 537 W. A. Mozart

Children play " From Prince, Princess ," for narrator and orchestra

Orchestral works

  • Motet for violin and orchestra (premiere: 2005, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Baden- Baden Philharmonic Orchestra )

Operas

  • Esther de Racine, for four singers and seven baroque instruments (UA: 2006, Ensemble Muskadin, Basel )
  • The story of the rabbi and his son, based on the story of Rabbi Nachman of Brazlaw.

Writings

  • Musical sense. Hofheim, 2012, ISBN 978-3-936000-98-6
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