Gerald Barry (composer)

Gerald Barry ( born April 28, 1952 in Clare Hill, Clare Castle County Clare ) is an Irish composer.

Life and work

The young Gerald Barry initially attended St. Flannan 's College in Ennis. He then studied music at University College Dublin, in Amsterdam with Peter Schat, in Cologne with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel and in Vienna with Friedrich Cerha. From 1982-86 he taught at the University of Cork. Since he grew up in the countryside in the county of Clare, he had - apart from the radio - little contact with the music. Barry says: " The enlightenment for me, in the sense of St. Paul on the road to Damascus, was probably an aria from Handel, perhaps from Serse, which I heard on the radio I heard this woman sing, and I was quite different.. so I discovered the music. "

" Barry's World has sharp edges, it consists of precisely defined, but completely unpredictable musical objects. His music sounds in their adamantine hardness, her humor aund occasionally their violence as no other composer. " He puts his clay material often independent of the instrumental medium and uses ideas in other compositions on. An example are arrangements of blues Triorchic of a piece for violin to a piano and finally an aria for countertenor in his opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit. Some of his works are for the bass voice, such B.The Conquest of Ireland and Beethoven ( a setting of Beethoven's "Letter to the Immortal Beloved "). His opera, The Importance of Being Earnest, proved after its premiere in Los Angeles and its European premiere in London as an unusual success.

As Strindberg he writes, " what he wants " and does not try going to characterize his characters, but to have it performed its own characteristics, its own musical features. As with Strindberg, where one has the feeling that every sentence stands on its own and the characters are just borrowed to say these sentences (borrowed to give the text of meat and not vice versa), borrowed for just one day. In Gerald's opera takes the whole apparatus - because that's it - a sort of surrealistic shape, like the torso of a man being forced to go to the other legs, semi- opera character and semi- composer.

Operas

The Intelligence Park, libretto Vincent Deane (1990 )
The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit, libretto Meredith Oaks ( 1991-2 )
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, based on the play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2005)
La Plus Forte, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra based on Strindberg's The Stronger (2007)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Libretto Gerald Barry by Oscar Wilde (2010)

Other works

Things that gain by being painted for soprano, speaker, Cello and Piano ( 1977)
Things That Gain for piano (1977 )
' _____ ' For ensemble (1979 )
ø for two pianos (1979 )
Kitty Lie Over Across From The Wall for Piano and Orchestra ( 1979)
Sur les pointes for Piano (1981 )
Au milieu for piano (1981 )
O Lord How Vain for choir ( 1984)
Five Chorales from The Intelligence Park for two pianos (1985 )
From The Intelligence Park for orchestra ( 1986)
Swinging Tripes and Trillibubkins for piano (1986 )
String Quartet No.. 1 (1985)
Chevaux -de- frize for Orchestra ( 1988)
Bob for ensemble (1989 )
Triorchic Blues for Piano (1991 )
Sextet for ensemble ( 1993)
From The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit for Orchestra ( 1994)
Triorchic blues for solo trumpet ( 1994)
The Chair for Organ ( 1994)
Piano Quartet No. 1 (1994 )
The Conquest of Ireland for bass voice and orchestra ( 1995)
Quintet for English horn, clarinet, cello, double bass and piano (1994 )
Low for clarinet and piano (1995 )
Piano Quartet No.. 2 (1996)
Before The Road for four clarinets (1997)
String Quartet No.. 2 (1998)
1998 for violin and piano (1998)
The Eternal Recurrence, sound according to Nietzsche, for soprano and orchestra (1999)
The Coming of Winter for choir ( 2000)
Wiener Blut for large ensemble (2000)
Wiener Blut for Orchestra ( 2000)
String Quartet No.. 3 (Six marches ) (2001 )
Snow is white for Piano Quartet (2001)
God Save the Queen for boy soprano, chorus and large ensemble ( 2001)
Dead March for large ensemble (2001)
In The Asylum for Piano Trio ( 2003)
Trumpeter for Solo Trumpet (2003)
Day for orchestra [Versions for strings and full orchestra (2005) ]
Lisbon for piano and ensemble ( 2006)
First Sorrow ( String Quartet no. 4 ) (2006 )
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) for voice and piano (2008)
Feldman 's Sixpenny Editions for large ensemble (2008)
Le Vieux Sourd for piano (2008)
Beethoven for bass voice and large ensemble (2008)
No other people for Orchestra ( 2009)
Schott and Sons in Mainz for bass voice and choir (2009)
Piano Concerto ( 2012)
O Tannenbaum for choir or brow and Piano ( 2012)
No people for ensemble ( Nonet ) ( 2013)
Humiliated and Insulted for piano (2013 )

Sound recordings

Gerald Barry: Chamber and solo piano works / Nós Nua, Noriko Kawai ( piano), Dairine Ní Mheadhra ( conductor ) NMC DO22 (1994 )
Barry / Orchestral Works / Marco Polo 8.225006 (1997)
The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit / Soloists, Composers Ensemble, Diego Masson Largo 5135 (1998)
Things That Gain / Music for piano, two pianos, chamber and vocal music / Gerald Barry and Kevin Volans, pianos, Xenia Ensemble. Nicholas Clapton, countertenor / Black Box Music BBM 1011 (1998)
Snow is White / The Schubert Ensemble / NMC (2001)
The Intelligence Park, Almeida Ensemble, Robert Houlihan ( conductor ) NMC D122 (2005)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant / Soloists / RTESO / Gerhard Markson / RTÉ 261 (2005)
La Jalousie Taciturne / Irish Chamber Orchestra / Black Box
Add The Asylum / Trio Fibonacci / NMC (2005)
Triorchic Blues for Trumpet / Marco Blaauw / BV Haast Records - CD 0406 (2006)
Lisbon / Thomas Adès, piano / BCMG / CMC Ireland Volume 8 (2009)
Lady Bracknell 's song from The Importance of Being Earnest / Gerald Barry, voice & piano / NMC (2009)
The Chair for organ / David Adams / CMC Ireland

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