Hans-Joachim Hessler

Hans -Joachim Hessler ( born January 7, 1968 in Recklinghausen ) is a German composer, musician and musicologist. He now lives in Duisburg and Diemelsee. As a contemporary composer, he arranges his work in literature and work proactively under the epoch of musical postmodernism.

  • 5.1 Piano Works
  • 5.2 Organ Works
  • 5.3 Chamber Music
  • 5.4 Orchestral works
  • 5.5 theater music
  • 5.6 Improvisation works

Life

After graduating from the urban, classical languages ​​school Petrinum to Recklinghausen, he studied music at the Westfälische Wilhelms -Universität Münster (Westfalen) and then 1990-1997 school music and German at the University of Dortmund today. His artistic training at the piano, he received, among other things with Prof. Werner Seiss and Bob Degen, at the organ, among other things Karl Weyers and Thomas Gabriel, in composition among others Prof. Heribert Buchholz and Tomasz Stanko. From the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz him the degree of Doctor Philosophiae was awarded in 2008.

The work

Heßlers diverse artistic socialization as a jazz musician, composer and classical pianist or organist is also reflected in his work. Thus Polystilistic and transgressions of all kinds essential features of his work.

References to Jean -François Lyotard

Due to his preoccupation with the philosophical writings Jean -François Lyotard, many show of Heßlers plants as affected by this thinker of postmodernism, such as his chamber music works " update coercion" and " Tonregelsystem 189 ", which deal specifically with the event philosophy Lyotard, and the orchestra series " Le differend XVII -XXIII ," which are dedicated to his eponymous major philosophical work.

Conceptual discontinuity

Since the beginning of his career Hessler puts his special attention to musical breaks and the design of transitions between the different genres and styles. The mid-1980s, for example, it says in the FLAX - TRIO, the Hessler belonged as a creative member, pianist and keyboardist program: "With pleasure boundaries are torn between different styles of music, this - broken down into component parts - absorbed and completely new forms the listener encouraged. " This compositional method that Hessler free after Frank Zappa " called Conceptual discontinuity ", intended his work to this day.

Writings (selection )

How close theory and practice to each other, evident in Heßlers transfer the theory of intensities, according to the occur in the case of the conflict between two discourses or the transition from one to the other discourse intense feelings, to the practice of music in his book about Jean -François Lyotard, entitled "Philosophy of postmodern music " [ Nóném Verlag, Dortmund 2001, ISBN 3-935744-00-5 ].

That not only Pierre Boulez, but Madonna is to count to contemporary music, [ ISBN 3-935744-06-4 Dortmund Nóném -Verlag, 2007. ] Is post-historical considerations in Heßlers ' disappearance of music " clearly.

Hessler Comprehensive Treatise " The angry Baron" [United Dictions of Music, MA, 2010. ISBN 978-3-942677-00-4 ] shows, among other things, that in his view, the musician and composer Charles Mingus, among the ideal type of " can subsume conceptual discontinuity ".

Political commitment

Hessler interpreted one of the most important key texts for discussion, postmodernism " Cross the border, close the gap " by Leslie Fiedler in terms of an educational mandate for artists and as a commitment of a convinced democrat, to overcome elite and mass culture in the field of contribute contemporary music.

Catalog of works (selection)

Piano Works

  • Adagio e molto espressivo (1992 )
  • Allegro vivace (1992 )
  • Claude and the odd clock (1994 )
  • Quasi Fuga (1992 )
  • S.L.Y. (1994)
  • Disappearances over- ES ( 1999)
  • 10 Latin American composition (2003)
  • 10 Well-Tempered Appearances Of The Blues (2003)

Organ Works

  • A. C. D.E.B. (2006)
  • Dance Macabre (2003)
  • D.S.C.A. (2009)
  • No.1 & No.2 Evocationen (1995 )
  • G. F. H.A.E. (2006)
  • Impressions No.1 & No.2 ( 1995)
  • Irritation 1 (2003)
  • Etchings ( 2000)

Chamber Music

  • Forced update for piano, double bass and violin ( 1997)
  • Please let stand for double bass and bass clarinet (1987 )
  • CHANFLAX for double bass, bass clarinet and piano (1988 )
  • Continuum contra punctum for piano, double bass, violin and marimba (1997)
  • The picture book Moon for voice and piano (1994 )
  • An empty dream of happiness for voice, soprano saxophone and piano (1994 )
  • Awakening for voice, soprano saxophone and piano (1992 )
  • Have a Nice Day for double bass, bass clarinet and piano (1987 )
  • Methexis I-VII for 3 violins, bass, 2 trombones, trumpet, flute, clarinet, vibraphone, drums, accordion, piano and voice (1994 )
  • Six discourses for solo violin (1997)
  • Dance in the Bird Cage # 2 ( Satirical Dance) for string quartet with only instruments (2004)
  • Tonregelsystem 189 for piano, double bass, violin and marimba (1997)

Orchestral works

  • HALF! ( Homage to Leonard Bernstein, 2000)
  • Le differend XVII ( 1997)
  • Le differend XXI ( 1997)
  • Le differend XXIII (1997)
  • Nabuli Tintin (1999)
  • Picturesque Sceneries: The Musical Journey Of Anna And Her Magical Flute (2005)
  • Sara Banda (2010)
  • W.T.C. - Meditatio Pacis - Invocatio Pacis (on the occasion of the 11th September 2001)

Theater music

  • Marat / Sade (1996 )
  • Requiem for a Spy (1994 )
  • Ruhr.mensch! (2003)

Improvisation works

  • Canción del Emperador (2009)
  • Kaleidoscope # 1 (1999)
  • Spiegel im Spiegel (2008)
  • Dance on the Volcano (2006)
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