Juan Allende-Blin

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Juan Allende-Blin (born February 24, 1928 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean composer who lives in Germany.

Life

Juan Allende-Blin studied first with his uncle Pedro Humberto Allende Sarón and the Webern student Fré Focke and then at the University of Santiago. He took lessons from Olivier Messiaen as part of the Darmstadt summer courses . In 1951 he came to Detmold and shortly afterwards moved to Hamburg. From 1954 to 1957 he taught as a professor of musical analysis at the University of Santiago. In 1957 he moved to Germany and in 1962 became an employee of the North German Broadcasting Corporation in Hamburg . He has lived in Essen as a freelance composer since 1971 , with the composer and organist Gerd Zacher until his death .

Allende-Blin composed instrumental music for different line-ups, two ballets , chansons and music for tape and orchestrated the fragmentary opera La Chute de la Maison Usher by Claude Debussy . As a music journalist, he is particularly interested in the music of exile.

Allende-Blins works are published by Edition Gravis .

Works

  • Transformations for wind instruments, percussion, celesta and piano
  • Profiles for clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violoncello and percussion
  • Magnetic fields for piano, clarinet, double bass and tape
  • Transformations III for percussion, 1952
  • Transformations IV for piano, 1960
  • Echelons for organ, 1962–68
  • Silences interrompus for clarinet, double bass and piano, 1969/1970
  • My blue piano for organ, barrel organ and jaw harp, 1970
  • Period for piano, 1971–74
  • Souffle for two choirs and projections, 1972
  • Perspectives: pour clarinette en si b , 1977
  • Expelled from the country , concert and scenic actions, 1978, libretto: Jean-Pierre Faye
  • Rapport sonore / Relato sonoro / sound report , music radio play , Karl Sczuka Prize 1983
  • Dialogue for piano and two interpreters, 1983
  • Coral de caracola for organ, 1985
  • Transformations V for organ and chamber ensemble, 1987
  • Diary songs based on Franz Kafka and Lautréamont for two baritone voices and chamber orchestra, world premiere in 1987
  • String Quartet , 1995
  • Walter Mehring - a winter fairy tale , imaginary scene for baritone and chamber ensemble, 1998
  • Le Voyage , cantata for baritone and ten instruments, 2001
  • Transformations VII for 14 instruments , 2003
  • Gegenträum / contre-rêves - radiophonic sound collage, 2003
  • Wound at the end of time - radiophonic sound collage, 2003
  • Changes - radiophonic sound collage, 2005
  • Dream rooms - radiophonic sound collage, 2007
  • Cantate á trois for soprano, tenor, baritone and 4 ensembles, 2007

Discography

  • The piano music by Juan Allende-Blin

Thomas Günther, piano Cybele SACD 160.401

  • The organ music by Juan Allende-Blin

Gerd Zacher, Organ Cybele SACD 060.401

Fonts

  • A life of memory and utopia , essays, edited by Stefan Fricke and Werner Klüppelholz , Pfau, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-8972-7184-2
  • Church music under Hitler. In: Hanns-Werner Heister, Hans-Günther Klein (eds.): Music and music politics in fascist Germany , Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1984, ISBN 3-596-26902-4 .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsletter of the Essen City Library , edition 01/02/2018, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Information from the Order's Chancellery in the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Allende-Blin, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile