Ernstalbrecht Stiebler

Ernst Albrecht Stiebler ( born March 29, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German composer and music journalist.

Life and work

Stiebler studied composition and piano at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. 1959 and 1960, during the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, he has received numerous suggestions by Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1969 to 1995 he was employed as an editor for New Music at Hessischer Rundfunk, where he hosted the show Studio for New Music. In 1989, Stiebler the concert series New Music Forum at Hessischer Rundfunk. Between 1983 and 1991 he also served as editor of the music texts - working magazine for contemporary music. Between 1997-1999 Stiebler was president of the Society for New Music.

Stieblers compositional works are characterized mainly by minimalist shortages, making the sound spaces that open up to individual sounds around and engage with each other, are emphasized. He wrote mainly for chamber ensemble.

Stiebler received in 1966 the scholarship of Hamburg Bach Prize. In 1991 he took part in the composition seminar silence music in the Künstlerhaus Boswil and received an award. Two of his productions for the Hessischer Rundfunk received a special prize of the Prix Italia, Piece for Peace by Alvin Curran and The Blind Man of Walter Zimmermann. Stiebler lives with his wife Ursula Stiebler in Frankfurt am Main.