Christfried Schmidt
Christfried Schmidt (born November 26, 1932 in Markersdorf (Oberlausitz) ) is a German composer and arranger .
Life
Christfried Schmidt was born in Markersdorf in 1932 as the son of a miller. He attended grammar school in Görlitz and received piano lessons from Humperdinck's student Emil Kühnel . From 1951 to 1954 he studied church music at the Evangelical Church Music School in Görlitz (B-exam) and from 1955 to 1959 with Werner Buschnakowski (organ) and Johannes Weyrauch (composition) at the Leipzig University of Music (A-exam). In Leipzig he familiarized himself with new music from Hermann Heyer .
From 1960 to 1962 Schmidt was a church musician in Forst . From 1963 to 1964 he worked as a drama music director in Quedlinburg and then from 1965 to 1980 he was a freelance piano teacher and choir director in Quedlinburg. In Warsaw he met the Japanese musicologist Ichirō Tamura , who made it possible for him to perform his works in Japan. Since 1980 he has lived as a freelance composer in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . The artistic breakthrough came with the world premiere of his oboe concerto by Burkhard Glaetzner at the GDR Music Days in 1984.
His orchestral work Memento was premiered in 2002 in the Leipzig Gewandhaus by the MDR Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi .
In 2019, the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin under Kai-Uwe Jirka premiered his Markus Passion from 1975 after 45 years. The highly expressive, headstrong work combines aleatoric compositional processes (influenced by Lutoslawski's controlled aleatoric ) with a polyphonic way of thinking in the footsteps of JS Bach and the Vienna School.
Awards and memberships
- 1971: Composition Prize in Nuremberg
- 1973: Composition Prize in Stettin
- 1976: Composition Prize in Trieste
- 1978: Composition Prize in Boswil
- 1987: Art Prize of the GDR
- 1990: Member of the Academy of Arts , Berlin (East) (until 1991)
- 1991: Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize
- 1998: Member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts
- 1999: Berlin Art Prize (sponsorship prize)
Works
| year | title | UA year | UA location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Land grab | 1994 | Berlin |
| 1967 | 1st symphony. Hamlet | ||
| 1968 | 2nd symphony. Martin Luther King | ||
| 1969 | Piano concerto | 1974 | Berlin |
| 1969-1995 | Chamber music I-XI | ||
| 1970 | Petite suite | 1970 | Tokyo |
| 1970 | Psalm 21 | 1971 | Nuremberg |
| 1971 | Wind quintet | 1973 | Berlin |
| Chamber music II | 1998 | Goerlitz | |
| 1973 | Chamber music VI | 1983 | Berlin |
| 1973 | Composer's nightmare | 1976 | Dresden |
| 1974 | Violin concerto | 1991 | Berlin |
| 1974 | Cello concerto | 1976 | Leipzig |
| 1975 | Mark Passion | 2019 | Berlin |
| 1977 | Flute concert | 1978 | Berlin |
| 1978 | A fairy tale - not a fairy tale | 1981 | Berlin |
| 1980 | Munch music | 1981 | Leipzig |
| 1982 | The time and the time after | 1985 | Berlin |
| 1983 | Oboe concert | 1984 | Berlin |
| 1985 | Orchestral music I | 1988 | Berlin |
| 1989 | The heart. Opera after Heinrich Mann | 1996 | |
| 1996 | Clarinet quintet | 1997 | Berlin |
| Memento | 2000 | Leipzig |
literature
- Ursula Stürzbecher: Composers in the GDR. 17 conversations. Hildesheim 1979, ISBN 3-8067-0803-7 .
- Georg-Friedrich Kühn: Uninhibited, unruly. The extremes of expression. Member of the musical society: Christfried Schmidt. In: Musik -tex 4/1984
- Frank Schneider : Sound images. An old aspect in the new music of the GDR. In: Fine Arts 6/1984
- Frank Schneider: Christfried Schmidt. In: Prospectus German publishing house for music. Leipzig 1987
- Gerald Felber: Vulnerable passion. The composer Christfried Schmidt. In: Sunday 36/1987
- Habakuk Trotter: Notes. Christfried Schmidt on his 60th birthday. In: New magazine for music 12/1992.
- Beate Schröder-Nauenburg: Christfried Schmidt . In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Christfried Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christfried Schmidt in the archive of contemporary composers of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
- Christfried Schmidt in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Christfried Schmidt at the Saxon Academy of the Arts
- Christfried Schmidt at RICORDI
- Christfried Schmidt at the Kunstberg-Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isabel Herzfeld: Christfried Schmidt's “Markuspassion” is premiered . The daily mirror. April 18, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
- ^ Sing-Akademie zu Berlin - Concerts. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
- ^ Composer Christfried Schmidt - The stubborn modernist. Accessed April 16, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Christfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Markersdorf |