Hans Ulrich Engelmann

Hans Ulrich Engelmann ( born September 8, 1921 in Darmstadt, † January 8, 2011 ) was a German composer.

Career

Engelmann studied architecture and received private lessons in composition from 1946 Hermann Heiss. After its establishment, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses, where it is noted on the archive lists the International Music Institute Darmstadt as a student # 1 of the Summer Course in 1946 and him in subsequent years, especially the twelve-tone music courses by René Leibowitz (1948) and Ernst Krenek (1951 ) affected. From 1947 he studied musicology ( Friedrich Gennrich, Helmuth Osthoff ) and philosophy ( Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Hans -Georg Gadamer ), literature and art history in Frankfurt and studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner. In 1952 the doctorate on Bela Bartok microcosmos.

After marriage and a one-year stay in Iceland Engelmann worked at several German theaters as a dramaturg, theater composer and assistant director. As a teacher, he worked at the music festival in Bilthoven and the Summer Courses in Darmstadt. From 1969 lecturer for composition in Frankfurt, where he taught 1969-86 as Associate Professor. Visiting professor in Ghent, Offenbach am Main, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Composition courses in Moscow and Vilnius ( 1985) and at Columbia University (1995).

Engelmann received fellowships from Harvard University (1949 ) and the "Villa Massimo " Rome (1960, 1967, 1983) and has been honored with numerous awards. Since 1995, Engelmann was chairman of the working committee of the GEMA. 2006 Engelmann was awarded (after Gründler, Resch and Leopolder ) as the fourth Honorary Senator of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt / Main.

Compositions

Stage Works

  • Doctor Faust 's descent into hell (op. 4, 1949/50 ). Burlesque chamber opera in one act Libretto: after Klabund. UA 1951 Hamburg; UA recast the 1962 Nuremberg
  • Magog (op. 16, 1956/57 ). Music drama in 2 acts. Libretto: Hans Ulrich Engelmann / A. Müller
  • Noche de Luna (op. 18, 1958). Pantomime for two dancers. 1962 Food
  • The Lost Shadows ( 1960). Lyric Opera in 2 acts. Libretto: Hans Ulrich Engelmann by Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Serpentia (op. 26 in 1962 /63). Ballet in 2 acts
  • The case of van Dam (op. 30; 1966/67 ). Opera in 3 acts. Libretto: M. Kutter. UA 1968 Cologne; UA the new version 1974 Münster
  • Ophelia (op. 36, 1969). Multimedia theater for a Mimim. UA 1969 Hannover
  • Coincidentals (1971, electronic music)
  • Revue (op. 43; 1972/73 ). Musical theater in 2 parts. Libretto: Hans Ulrich Engelmann / W. Swaczynna. UA 1973 Bonn
  • Numerous theater, film and stage music

Student of Hans Ulrich Engelmann

  • Gerhard Müller- Hornbach (* 1951)
  • Hans- Jürgen von Bose (* 1953)
  • Adrian Oswalt (born 1954 )
  • Kühnl ( b. 1957 )
  • Wolfgang Kleber (* 1958)
  • Ralf Emig (* 1959)
  • Rolf Rudin (* 1961)
  • Karl- Wieland Kurz ( b. 1961 )

Writings

  • Bela Bartok's microcosm: an attempt to classify " new music ", Würzburg: Triltsch, 1953 ( literary history - musicological treatises 10)
  • Past Present - memories and thoughts of a composer, Darmstadt: Liebig Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-87390-157-9
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