Yehoshua Lakner

Yehoshua Lakner (Hebrew יהושוע לקנר; Yehoshua Lakner German, born April 24, 1924 in Bratislava, † December 5, 2003 in Zurich ) was an Israeli -Swiss composer.

Life

Lakner grew up in Bratislava in 1941 and emigrated to Palestine. From 1943 to 1948 he studied with Odon Pártos and Alexander Uriah Boskovitch. In 1952, he undertook studies in the U.S., so at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland. From 1950 to 1963 he worked as a teacher at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. Since 1959, he worked temporarily in the Electronic Music Studio of the South West German Radio in Cologne about with Mauricio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1963 he moved to Switzerland Lakner. From 1974 to 1987 he was a teacher of music theory at the Conservatory and Musikhochschule Zurich.

Work

From Lakner earlier period are instrumental and vocal works that move quite freely between the times irreconcilable positions of the Neoclassical and the serially. His Toccata for Orchestra (1958 ) was awarded the Angel Award of the city of Tel - Aviv. For the avant-garde theater of the 1960s in the Mary of Ostfeldens Theater an der Winkelwiese Zurich, he created a kind of tape montages musique concrete than abstract stage music.

A transformation took his compositional activity by purchasing a Commodore 64 computer at the beginning of the 1980s. He began to experiment with algorithms that generated at the same time sounds from the speaker and graphic elements on the screen. Undeterred by colleagues who laughed at him, he remained with this unit, which had become by technological progress quickly to a kind of historical musical instrument, and wrote his musical life's work in the BASIC programming language exclusively for the C64. - Sometimes these processes are well defined, sometimes they are influenced by the built-in random number generator or keyboard.

With these graphically - musical pieces, which he called AVZGs ( Audiovisual -time figures ), he played concerts and took part in exhibitions (London, 1991, Tel Aviv 1993, Basel 1994, Zurich 1996). In 1999, his " Segante " project on the Swiss painter Giovanni Segantini in Zurich, Milan and Bratislava performance.

Since his death, a foundation dedicated to his work.

Theatre Music

• Theater an der Winkelwiese: Victor by Roger Vitrac, 1965; The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco, 1966; Nestroy Quodlibet by Johann Nestroy, 1967; The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria by Fernando Arrabal, 1968; The night of the murder of Jose Triana, 1969; Jonah Martin Sorescu, 1970
• Schauspielhaus Zurich: Turandot or The Congress of Whitewashers by Bertolt Brecht, 1969
• Theater am Neumarkt: Garden of Earthly Delights by Fernando Arrabal, 1971