Eberhard Schoener

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Eberhard Schoener (born May 13, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German conductor and composer .

Live and act

From 1954 to 1959 Schoener studied violin and choral conducting at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold. Since the 1960s he has worked as a classical violinist and as an opera conductor . In 1965 he founded the Munich Chamber Opera. Based on the classical music, he experiments with a wide variety of musical styles.

He composed several operas and film scores, the latter mainly for German television series such as Das Erbe der Guldenburgs , Der Alte , Derrick and Siska .

From 1968 he set up a laboratory for electronic music at Bavaria Studios and was one of the first to experiment with the Moog synthesizer . The official German contribution to the world exhibition Expo '70 in Osaka was composed by him. In later works such as B. Forensics he used the sample-based Fairlight CMI synthesizer to combine nature sounds, bird calls and different orchestras.

Since the 1970s he has endeavored to bring together classical music , pop music and world music. He worked for several years with bands such as Procol Harum , Tangerine Dream , the musician Sting and the later The Police . He was also the conductor of the musicians of the Munich Chamber Opera on the albums Windows by Jon Lord (1974) and The Turn of a Friendly Card by The Alan Parsons Project .

On September 21, 1979, he took part in the Ars Electronica Festival with musicians from Java and Bali . In 1979 Schoener was commissioned to redesign the BMW Museum together with Wilfried Minks . The result was initially not approved by the company's board of directors and the time signals exhibition was only opened in 1980 after a change, but then ran successfully for 4 years. Between 1980 and 1985 he presented the classic rock night five times on Bayerischer Rundfunk, which was broadcast in up to 16 countries via Eurovision. The last of these events took place in 1985 on the grounds of the world exhibition in Tsukuba (Japan), musicians from Munich were connected via satellite - it is therefore considered the first satellite live concert. In 1987 Sting , Gianna Nannini and Jack Bruce sang songs by Brecht / Weill and Hanns Eisler under the direction of Eberhard Schoener, who conducted the State Opera Orchestra in Hamburg. These two concerts “Popstars sing Brecht / Weill” were recorded for ARD (first broadcast on April 30, 1987).

In 1993 he designed the opening ceremony of the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart . Musicians from five continents played via satellite at the same time as musicians in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium . The CD for this, Harmonia Mundi , was released in 1993. In 1996 the first CD with the short operas Cold Genius with Kurt Moll , Laurence Gien and George Kochbeck and Palazzo dell 'Amore with u. a. Andrea Bocelli , Gianna Nannini, Kurt Moll and Helen Schneider . In 1998 he organized the opening ceremony of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin , and in 2001 the second CD of the short operas Eine Rache based on a short story by Isabel Allende with u. a. Helen Schneider and Willy DeVille and Beleza Negra . In 2002 he put the first internet opera online: Virtopera , the confrontation between a virtual character and a real person, portrayed by Dieter Meier . In Mantua (Italy) Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), Calcutta (India) and Cologne, the performances were streamed live on the internet.

In 2005 he conducted the Munich Radio Orchestra at the Munich Midsummer Night's Dream , a major event in the Olympic Park in Munich. The following year, 2006, the CD Eberhard Schoener and Friends was released . In 2010 he wrote the music for Dieter Wedel's film Gier . In 2011 he founded the Tegernsee Summer Festival with the performance of the Walpurgis Magic . As part of this festival, Traumpfade der Musik followed in 2012 . This production was recorded for Bavarian television and was broadcast on September 5, 2013. On November 22nd, 2014, Eberhard Schoener was awarded the SoundTrack Cologne Prize of Honor.

Schoener has been married to the art historian and author Stefanie Schoener since 1967, who wrote his biography in 2009.

Discography (selection)

  • 1969 - The box
  • 1971 - Destruction of Harmony
  • 1972 - A Day's Lullaby
  • 1973 - meditation
  • 1976 - Bali-Agúng
  • 1977 - The Book - Film music for And the Bible is right by Manfred Barthel
  • 1977 - Rheingold
  • 1977 - trance formation
  • 1978 - flashback
  • 1978 - Video Magic, Sting , Andy Summers
  • 1980 - events
  • 1981 - Time Square (with Esther Ofarim )
  • 1983 - Complicated Ladies (with Esther Ofarim)
  • 1984 - Sky Music / Mountain Music
  • 1983 - forensic evidence
  • 1986 - Eberhard Schoener System (with Dario Domingues , Jens Fischer , George Kochbek )
  • 1987 - Bon Voyage
  • 1988 - Video Flashback
  • 1989 - The Legacy of the Guldenburgs - Original film music for the ZDF television series
  • 1990 - Eberhard Schoener, Sting, Andy Summers
  • 1991 - Trance Mission
  • 1993 - Harmonia Mundi
  • 1994 - Time Cycle
  • 1995 - Short Operas
  • 1998 - The Sound of Derrick
  • 1998 - Potsdamer Platz - Heart of Berlin
  • 1999 - Namaste Puja
  • 2001 - Short Operas II
  • 2006 - Eberhard Schoener and Friends - Crossing Times And Continents
  • 2010 - Greed - Soundtrack for the television film by Dieter Wedel
  • 2010 - Balig Agung / Trance Formation
  • 2011 - flashback

More film music

Music for TV series

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpts from the biography (accessed on December 4, 2012)
  2. ↑ Eberhard Schoener. Retrieved September 3, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ BMW Welt - Explore the location - BMW Museum. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Eberhard Schoener. Retrieved September 3, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Schoener, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart