Thomas Jennefelt
Thomas Jennefelt (* 1954 in Huddinge in Stockholm ) is a Swedish composer.
Life and work
Thomas Jennefelt studied from 1974 to 1980 Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm with Gunnar Bucht and Arne Mellnäs. Since then he has worked as a freelance composer. From 1994 to 2000 he held the position of President of the Society of Swedish Composers. Since 2004 he has been Vice- President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In the compositions of Thomas Jennefelt his interest in the tight word - sound relationship in the tradition of the Reformation composers such as Heinrich Schütz, is clearly noticeable. Jennefelt pulls using as his own lyrics as well as various literary sources. His music therefore has a strong vocal profile of choral music to opera.
Warning to the rich (1977 ) for mixed choir was an early success and is listed again and again all over the world. O Domine (1983 ), based on the Requiem texts, which has enjoyed wide dissemination. With the same Heine poems, which also used Robert Schumann, he composed in 1990 for mixed choir and soloists, the poets love for the Swedish Radio Choir. Music for a big church, which was built in the same year, opened the way to a new, more minimalist choral style that he uses in the Villa Rosa sequenses (1993-2001, Villa Rosa sarialdi, Aledi floriasti, Claviante brilioso etc.).
Thomas Jennefelt partners with international outstanding vocal ensembles such as the Swingle Singers, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the Choir of the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Athesinus Consort Berlin and Vocalconsort Berlin. In 1990 his opera The Jesters Hamlet, premiered on the basis of a piece of Swedish author Per Christian Jersild, in the Gothenburg Opera. This is a paraphrase of Hamlet, focused on the actors / fools who appear in the original piece. In 1994, the chamber opera The Vessel was premiered in Copenhagen. For this purpose, the composer wrote the libretto. The plot reflects different aspects of travel.
Under Jennefelts works one finds pieces such as Music by a mountain (1992 ) for orchestra, tracks Black (1990 ) for Strings and Music for a builder of a cathedral (1984). One notable composition, the Concerto for Trumpet and Strings Stockholm in May ( 2000) written for Håkan Hardberger, premiered in October 2000. In December 2004 his opera Sports & Leisure premiered at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. 2008 was first performed at the Hope after Friedrich Hölderlin for ten voices a cappella in the Rheingau Music Festival.
Dixit Dominus 2009, his was for soloists, choir and string orchestra, premiered. In 2010, the Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Nocturnal singing for the first time. On 15 September 2011 the musical theater was Paul. Premiered The earnest expectation of the creature, for actors, double quartet, 2 saxophones and percussion to a libretto by Christian Lehnert in Berlin with the participation of Athesinus Consort Berlin and the Lilienfelder Cantorei Berlin at St. Elizabeth's Church. The role of Paul was played by Jens Schäfer.
Thomas Jennefelts works appear at Gehrmans Musikförlag and the traditional publisher Warner / Chappell Music, who belongs to the Warner Music Group.
CD releases of works by Thomas Jennefelt
- SIGNALS. Works by Kuhnau, Praetorius, Schütz, Bach, Kaminski, Jennefelt ( Villa Rosa Sarialdi ), with Athesinus Consort Berlin inter alia line Klaus -Martin Bresgott, 2011 ( edition chrismon ).
- Sleeps a Song in all things. Romantic settings of Eichendorff, Hölderlin, Rilke Hensel, Reger, Jennefelt ( An die Hoffnung ), Genzmer, Lauridsen, Schwemmer, with Athesinus Consort Berlin, Berlin et al Lilienfelder Cantorei line Klaus -Martin Bresgott, 2011 ( edition chrismon ).