Peter Mieg

Peter Mieg ( born September 5, 1906 in Lenzburg, † December 7, 1990 in Aarau ) was a composer, painter and publicist, who coined the Swiss cultural life for decades in a variety of ways and made ​​a name beyond the country 's borders.

Biography

Peter Mieg grew up in a home in which everything in arts was self-evident. The maternal ancestors belonged to an old, middle-class Lenzburger race, to the paternal ancestors, the Mieg long resident in Basel, originally from Alsace.

Composition

During his school years Mieg received piano lessons from Carl Arthur Richter, music director and composer in Lenzburg; first attempts at composition already come from 1918. After graduating in 1927 in Aarau Mieg studied in Zurich, Basel and Paris art history, archeology, music history, as well as German and French literature. In parallel, he had piano lessons with Emil Frey in Zurich and Hans Münch in Basel. 1933 Mieg wrote a dissertation under the title Morgenthaler, Moillet, Eppler - studies in modern watercolor painting in Switzerland. As a result, Mieg turned to journalism and worked full-time as art, music and literary critic for the Basler Nachrichten, the world week, the Baden daily paper and various magazines.

In the years 1933-1939 he made ​​the acquaintance of Paul Sacher and the composer Bartok, Stravinsky, Honegger and Martinu. In 1934, he became friends with the painter and the painter Franz Ammann Marguerite Max Herzog. 1939 moved Peter Mieg back to Lenzburg, where he initially lived in the house Sonnenberg with his father for rent. The property he bought in 1955 for sale. During the war years Mieg practiced additionally operate as a Adlat of Lenzburg city clerk. As correspondent was followed by numerous foreign trips to music festivals in Austria, France, Italy and Germany.

From 1942 to Mieg was advised several years of Frank Martin in compositional issues. Beginning of the 1950s was the real breakthrough as a composer. As a result Mieg composed exclusively on 'orders, ( Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Radio Basel, Lucerne Festival Strings ). Numerous performances at home and abroad, put a. There began a friendship with the composer Gottfried von Einem, conductor Edmond de Stoutz on whose behalf Mieg wrote numerous works, as well as the composer Alexander Tcherepnin.

In the center of Mieg's work is clearly the musical oeuvre, which comprises around 135 compositions and in which he has developed a personal embossing Neoclassicism. The focus is in the area of ​​instrumental concertos, chamber and piano music.

Painting

As a watercolor and gouache painting Mieg only came in 1961 with regular exhibitions to the public, to his oeuvre includes hundreds of still life, particularly flowers and fruits images, and landscapes.

Letter

With Peter Mieg as an author in 1967, the band appeared Lenzburger poetics or imaginary speech to poetry in and around Lenzburg, 1978, the three most bizarre stories of Hannibal later Sport and Miss Marple, and on his 80th birthday in 1986, the memoirs Laterna Magica.

Peter Mieg was an homme d'esprit, a well- educated and well-read personality, was in the level of awareness coupled with cheerfulness and enigmatic irony. He died in his 85th year of life in 1990 at the Kantonsspital Aarau.

Peter Mieg Foundation

Foundation The Peter Mieg Foundation was established by Peter Mieg by testamentary disposition, and was founded in 1991 in Lenzburg. It is managed by a five -member Board of Trustees. Purpose of the Foundation is to maintain the artistic legacy of the composer, painter and journalist Peter Mieg. Due to the performance and reproduction of his musical works, the exhibition of his paintings, the publication of unpublished writings and other activities which are appropriate to the memory of Peter Mieg should be preserved.

Museum and Archive For Foundation owns the house " Sonnenberg " at the castle alley in Lenzburg, one surrounded by a lovely garden town house from the 18th century. The premises of Peter Mieg have remained unchanged and the public by appointment zugänglich.Durch furniture and furnishings they represent the culture -conscious middle turn of the century and in their exquisite colors and the personal aesthetic sensibilities of the artist. Belongs to the Foundation an archive in which the artistic legacy of Peter Mieg is secured. Music manuscripts, sheet music, sound recordings, gouaches and drawings, photographic material, correspondence and the feuilleton work.

Discography

CDs

  • Peter Mieg: Selected Works: String Trio (1937 ), String Quartet No. 1 (1938 ), Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra ( 1957), Toccata - Gigue arioso for String Orchestra ( 1959). Performers: Streiff Trio, Carmina Quartet, Camerata Zurich, Marc Kissoczy (Dir. ), Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim, Sebastian Tewinkel (Dir. ), Musiques Suisses CD 6239, 2006
  • Gaudibert - Meier - Mieg concerts, among others Peter Mieg: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra ( 1939-42 ), Bruno Schneider Horn, Felix Renggli flute, Adrienne Soos and Ivo Haag, piano, Orchestre de Chambre de Neuchâtel led by Jan Schultsz --- Musiques Suisses MGB CD 6234, 2005
  • Swiss Music for Flute and Piano: inter alia, Peter Mieg: Sonata (1963 ), Musiques Suisses MGB CD 6222, 2004
  • Peter Mieg: Triple Concerto pour violon dans le goût italy, alto, cello and orchestra à cordes, with night and night for tenor and orchestra, for flute et harpe Morceau élégant, and music for harpsichord, two horns and four Strings, Sonata for Cello piano. Performers: Radio Orchestra Beromunster, Erich Schmid (Dir. ), tenor Ernst Haefliger; Festival Strings Lucerne, Mario Venzago (Dir. ); Primoz Novšak, Karl- Andreas Kolly, among other things, Jecklin Edition JS 314-2, 1996
  • Peter Mieg Symphony (1958), Rondeau symphonique (1964 ), Combray (1977). Performers: Orkiestra Symfoniczna, Polskie Radio i Telewizja (Warszawa), André Froelicher (Dir. ), Gallo CD -681, 1991
  • String Trio (1984). Performers: Novšak Trio: Primoz Novšak (violin), Michel Rouilly (viola ), Susanne Basler (cello ). Pro Arte Musicae PAM - CD - PT1008, 1990

Records

  • Peter Mieg: Triple Concerto pour violon dans le goût italy, alto, cello et cordes (1978), Violin: Gunars Larsens, Viola: Wilhelm Gerlach, cello: Curdin Coray, Lucerne Festival Strings, conducted by Mario Venzago, Concerto per orchestra e clavicembalo da camera (1954 ), harpsichord: Ernst Gerber, Solo flute: Anna -Katharina Graf and Sunnah Bircher, Lucerne Festival Strings, conducted by Rudolf Baumgartner, EX LIBRIS 1981
  • Peter Mieg: Sonata IV for piano (1975 ), piano: Jean -Jacques Dünki, " Doris " pour alto (1977 ), viola András of Tószeghi, Duo for flute et alto (1977 ), Flute: Günter Rumpel, viola András of Tószeghi, Sonata for flute et piano (1963 ), Flute: Günter Rumpel, piano: Stefi Andres, ALOIV 1978
  • Peter Mieg: Chamber Music: Morceau élégant (1969 ) for flute et harpe, flute: Peter -Lukas Graf, harp: Ursula Holliger, Les Plaisirs de Rued (1971 ) for flute solo, flute: Peter -Lukas Graf, Quintuor (1969 ) pour flute, 2 violons, cello et clavecin, flute: Peter -Lukas Graf, Violins: Alexander von Wijnkoop, Eva Zürbrügg, cello: Walter Grimmer, harpsichord: Ernst Gerber, Lettres à Goldoni (1971 ) for piano, piano: Dinorah Varsi, Les Charmes de Lostorf (1971 ) pour 2 flûtes solo, flute: Anne Utagawa and Dominique Hunziker, Sur les Rives du Lac Léman (1968 ) for violin and piano, violin: Thomas Füri, Piano: Urs Voegelin, Les Jouissances de Mauensee (1971 ) pour 3 flûtes solo, flute: Peter -Lukas Graf, Anne Utagawa and Dominique Hunziker, Claves Records 1976
  • Concerto pour deux et flûtes string orchestra (1974 ), Flutes: Dominique Hunziker and Anne Utagawa, Lucerne Festival Strings, conducted by Rudolf Baumgartner, Ariola Euro Disc 1975
  • Peter Mieg: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 (1962 ), Piano: Annette Weisbrod, With night and day (1962), Songs for tenor and orchestra based on texts by Cyrus Atabay, tenor: Ernst Haefliger, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Armin Jordan
  • Toccata - Arioso - Gigue for string orchestra (1959 ), city orchestra Winterthur, line: Clemens Dahinden, Association for the Promotion of Swiss music, undated
  • Chamber concerts. Vanguard, 1959: Serial of Swiss Composer's League, no 42-43. Cassation for 9 instruments, 4 quatuors vocaux, Concerto da Camera per archi, pianoforte e timpani. Performers: Rudolf am Bach ( piano); Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Edmond de Stoutz (Dir. ), instrumental ensemble, Räto Tschupp (Dir. ), Pamela Ricci, Marie Lise de Mont Mollin, Eric Tappy, Gaston Presset, Maroussia Le Marc'Hadour.

Further Reading and Movies

  • Ingrid Bigler - Marshal Peter Mieg. In: Andreas Kotte (ed.): Theatre Dictionary of Switzerland. Volume 2 Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9, p 1245 f
  • Uli Däster, Walter Kläy and Walter Labhart (ed.): Peter Mieg. A monograph. Sauerland, Aarau and Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-7941-1529-5.
  • Silvia child: Peter Mieg. In: monologues. Washington, 2001, pp. 226-235.
  • Reni Mertens, Walter Marti: The composer, painter, writer and journalist Peter Mieg. Film portrait with music by Peter Mieg, 1980
  • Brigitte Morach -Müller (ed.): Peter Mieg as a painter. With contributions by Emil Maurer, Peter Mieg, Jean Rudolf von Salis and Edmond de Stoutz. Kromer, Lenzburg, 1984.
  • Michael Schneider: The composer Peter Mieg: Life - Work - reception. Amadeus, Winterthur 1995, ISBN 3-905049-64-3.
  • Peter Mieg - Composer Painter publicist. Realized by Franticek Klossner with extensive archival footage
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