Milko Kelemen

Milko Kelemen ( born March 30, 1924 in Podravsko Slatina ) is a Croatian composer living in Germany. He founded in 1959 the Zagreb Biennale, whose honorary president he is. In Slatina annually organized in May, the Milko Kelemen - day, where especially his chamber music works are performed. Kelemen was professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. For his achievements as a composer, he has received numerous honors.

Life and work

As underage Partisan Kelemen fought in the mountains of Yugoslavia and lived to die with fear. He began his studies at the Music Academy in Zagreb. Then he studied with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg. From 1957, Kelemen participated in the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. He worked in the " Siemens Electronic Music Studio " in Munich and was a " composer in residence " in Berlin. He became the founder of the New Music in Croatia By establishing the Music Biennale 1959 in Zagreb. Already the foundation of this festival attracted international attention. With the support of Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva he won the Bolshoi ballet. The U.S. State Department gave him a ballet of San Francisco, which danced to the music of John Cage. Finally got even the Hamburg State Opera arrived with two aircraft to perform Lulu and Wozzeck.

" That cost a few hundred thousand dollars, with all the traveling, and I 'm all get for free. And that was all won. I had the Russians, the Americans now, and with these pillars I got everything I wanted, even [ ... ] And as then appeared after the first Zagreb Music Biennale in the New York Times a huge article Title revolution in Zagreb since me the ambassador in Washington has asked how did you do that, we sometimes pay ten thousand U.S. dollars, only to three or four sentences about Yugoslavia are in the New York Times, and now we have almost half a page! "

Kelemen often changed the countries, cities and homes. From 1970 to 1973 he was a professor at the Robert Schumann Institute in Dusseldorf. In 1973 he accepted an appointment as professor of composition at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. He was the successor to the Chair Henk Bading. Since then, he lives in Stuttgart. He retired in 1989.

Among the students Kelemen include Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, Dirk Reith, Giovanni Sollima and Mia Schmidt.

Work

Kelemen composed both electronic music, chamber music and opera as well as other large- scale works for chorus and orchestra. His concern was primarily about imitation and story and less about the aestheticization of the sounds used to musical material. Kelemen's major works are the opera " Apocalyptica " and the oratorio " Salut au monde ". He summed up the 1953 decision to add sound to a text of Walt Whitman as an oratory. As he implemented this in the 1990s, he was concerned with " a new synthesis of all that has been developed musically over the last 50 years."

A major focus of his work is the endeavor to make the complexity of contemporary music more transparent. He has formulated soundscapes in the book His creative attitude:

" The standard idea of my value judgments assumes that in the music, the influence of the archetypes - is retained to form, language and structure ranging from the imagination - or the effect of the chord of Impressive. "

The philosophical and psychological basis for the work of Kelemen is the work of CG Jung. A novel design of musical material can be achieved with the musical archetypes that are not necessarily the diction complicated compositional techniques would be subject. Kelemen refuses to bring novelty for its own sake. It consists rather of a post-modern new simplicity using the Onomatopoesis one: the overall musical structure is not formally artificially constructed to achieve a mutual logical relation of the individual parts. For this, a new own quality is achieved by non-musical sounds are traced onomatopoeic. Kelemen is the author of the books " sound Labyrinths ", " sound worlds " and " letter to Stravinsky ."

Awards

  • Great Federal Cross of Merit
  • Beethoven Prize of the City of Bonn 1963
  • Award of the International Society for Contemporary Music
  • Big Yugoslavian National Award
  • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

Works

  • The mirror, ballet, 1959-1960
  • The new tenant musical scene, 1962; 1964 listed in Münster; as Novi stanar 1965 in Zagreb
  • Abbandonate, ballet with song in 1964
  • The state of siege, opera, 1966-1969; 1970 at the Hamburg State Opera; as Opsado stanje 1971 in Zagreb
  • Apocalyptica. Opera bestial or " From the beginning and the end " or " The Book of Books ," multimedia ballet opera, 1973-1978; concert in 1979 listed in Graz; completely in 1982 in Dresden ( with Arila Siegert and Gerald Binke )
  • Salut au Monde for narrator, vocal soloists, choir (24 voices ), large orchestra and light actions (Idea 1953 composition 1996 ).
  • Dom Bernarde Albe, Ballet (1998; 1999 in Zagreb listed )
  • Concerto 2000 for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, boy soprano and orchestra, on a text by Walt Whitman; Premiere 2009 in Stuttgart
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