Heinz-Klaus Metzger

Heinz- Klaus Metzger ( born February 6, 1932 in Konstanz, † October 25, 2009 in Berlin) was a German music theorist, and music critic. He was considered one of the most important theorists of new music since 1945. Together with Rainer Riehn he was the founder and editor of the musicological series music concepts (until 2003) and querstand. musical concepts.

Life and work

Butcher grew up in Konstanz and Dortmund. After the early high school, he studied piano with Carl Seemann at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, where he also met Dieter Schnebel. He then studied composition with Max German in Paris and Hebrew studies and Yiddish at Mendel Horowitz. In addition, attending, in the painting class Willi Baumeister and learned theory and practice of interpretation of Schoenberg's brother Rudolf Kolisch in Darmstadt. In the Kranichsteiner, later Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music he met, among others Edgar Varèse, Ernst Krenek, Theodor W. Adorno, Edward helmsman, Stefan Wolpe, Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Metzger has established itself as one of the leading theorists and propagandists of serial music at the Summer Courses. Since 1955 he worked with at the relevant Series " the series " in a prominent place.

For holiday courses began in 1950 and butcher friendship with the returned straight to the exile Adorno. Both led since Parisian butcher study period in 1954 an exchange of letters in which it was also about Adorno's essay, published in 1955 The aging of the new music, which Metzger criticized publicly. The correspondence that continued to 1967, both due to be published.

In the sixties, Metzger was one of the first European exegetes of John Cage and spokesman of the compositional "anarchy", including with the Cologne Manifesto of 1960 and as editor of collage in Palermo. From 1957 to 1976 he worked as a music critic, so from 1965 to 1969 for the Zurich World Week, and as a university lecturer in Krakow and Stockholm. In 1969 he founded together with the composer and conductor Rainer Riehn the Ensemble Musica Negativa, the performance of radical new music supposed to. 1987 went butcher and Riehn as chief dramaturge at the Frankfurt Opera under Gary Bertini, where she commissioned to compose John Cage's first two operas, the euro Pera 1 & 2, initiated and supervised the work dramatically.

From 1977 to 2003 Metzger and Riehn issued the musicological series music concepts in the Munich edition text kritik; for this they received in 1984 the German Critics' Prize. Your life's work they put in the series querstand. musical concepts continue.

Also in the " edition text kritik " she edited the first two volumes of compositions by Adorno. Metzger is an honorary doctor of the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Palermo. Heinz- Klaus Metzger died in 2009 in Berlin. He was buried on 10 November 2009 at the Jerusalem Cemetery on Mehring Damm in Berlin- Kreuzberg.

Counter regressive and postmodern currents of composition Metzger advocated adherence to the concept of progress, the " provocative WOULD and the discussion in need ."

Works

  • Bruckner's Ninth in purgatory reception Edition Text Kritik, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-88377-738-2
  • Giuseppe Verdi, Edition Text Kritik, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88377-661-0
  • Music for what purpose. Literature notes, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1980, ISBN 3-518-10684-8
  • Perrotinus Magnus, Edition Text Kritik, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88377-738-2
  • The left free music. Writings of John Cage, ed. by Rainer Riehn and Florian Neuner. Klever Verlag, Vienna, 2012. ISBN 978-3-902665-40-9
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