Marianne Schroeder

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Marianne Schroeder

Marianne Schroeder (born April 6, 1945 in Reiden ) is a Swiss pianist and composer . She is one of the leading interpreters of new music . The pianist is considered a Scelsi specialist. She is a member of the group of composers Groupe Lacroix and has released over 30 records .

Life

Marianne Schroeder grew up with her two brothers on their parents' farm in Reiden. She received her first piano lessons at the age of seven. Schroeder dropped out of school to study piano with Klaus Linder at the Basel Music Academy and later with Eliza Hansen at the Hamburg State University of Music and Performing Arts . She also received composition lessons from Hans Wüthrich . She also attended master classes in composition with Mauricio Kagel and Klaus Huber as well as with Earl Brown , Dieter Schnebel and Vinko Globokar . After completing her piano diploma, she also began studying with Giacinto Scelsi in Rome. She had a long collaboration with John Cage . a. during various Cage festivals in Europe.

As a soloist and chamber musician, she performed a. a. at pro musica nova in Bremen, at the Lucerne Festival , at the IGNM World Music Days in Athens, at the Donaueschinger Musiktage , at the Berlin Festival , at Wien Modern , at the Zagreb Music Summer and at the Witten Days for New Chamber Music . She played under conductors such as Paul Sacher , Francis Travis , Erich Schmid and Luciano Berio . World premieres by Pauline Oliveros , Walter Zimmermann , Morton Feldman, John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, William Duckworth , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Erhard Grosskopf and Maurizio Pisati have taken them through Europe (including the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris), the Soviet Union and to the United States (including Carnegie Hall and Roulette in New York and the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles). Furthermore she worked u. a. with the musicians Chris Newman , Anthony Braxton , Frances-Marie Uitti , Rohan de Saram , Robyn Schulkowsky , Abbie Conant and Paul Zukofsky . More than 30 recordings, u. a. with first recordings by Stockhausen, Braxton, Feldman and Scelsi. Galina Ustvolskaya's piano sonatas were all recorded by HatHut Records .

In 1986 and 1988 she was a lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses . She also taught piano at the Spring Conference for New Music and Music Education in Darmstadt in 1987 and 1989 and was Artist in Residence at Brunel University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in 1988. In Basel she taught at the music academy. Since 1994 she has been a member of the group of composers Groupe Lacroix . Her works were u. a. performed in Russia, Europe and Cuba. She is currently working as an improvisation artist and is the founder and head of the rehearsal stage for hearing and seeing in Basel. Schroeder has been married to the writer Jürg Laederach since 2001 , with whom she lives in Basel and Soglio GR .

Music genre

Marianne Schroeder initially received classical piano training. She found access to contemporary music through Anton Webern's repertoire . In 1983 she gave a Beethoven concert for the last time . John Cage , Giacinto Scelsi and Morton Feldman became her musical foster parents . She began to improvise freely on her concert grand piano and adapted the technique of prepared piano introduced by Cage . The musicologist Peter Niklas Wilson put it: "Their soft spot for the American avant-garde is unmistakable [...] their empathy for new music that does not fetishize brilliance and hypercomplexity, but gives the sounds time."

Awards

Discography

Fonts (selection)

  • Up . In: MusikTexte 26 (1988), pp. 27-28.
  • A German cage? In: Werner Grünzweig (Ed.): Schnebel 60 . Wolke, Hofheim 1990, ISBN 3-923997-36-1 , pp. 65-67.
  • Astrologer . In: MusikTexte 46/47 (1992), p. 117.
  • The Etudes Australes by John Cage . In: positions 17/1993, 13-15.

literature

  • Peter Niklas Wilson : Feldman before breakfast, Scelsi at night. The Basel avant-garde pianist Marianne Schroeder . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 12/1990, pp. 24–26.
  • Hanno Ehrler: Mystical experiences. Portrait of the pianist Marianne Schroeder . Deutschlandfunk, November 15, 1995. ( Digitized ; PDF; 36 kB)
  • Hanno Ehrler: Then it happened ... The Swiss pianist and composer Marianne Schroeder. Bavaria 2, August 16, 1996. ( Digitized ; PDF; 44 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g NZfM 12/1990, p. 24.
  2. ^ Next to the pianist Jürg Wyttenbach .
  3. ^ Title: piano innards . In: Basler Zeitung, March 22, 2003.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Mark Wyss: From a pianist and a clever cleaning lady. Reiden Marianne Schroeder is one of the most sought-after interpreters of “new” piano and chamber music. In: Zofinger Tagblatt , March 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b About the person: Marianne Schroeder . In: Zofinger Tagblatt , March 7, 2012.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h Marianne Schroeder , in: Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik , ed. from the International Music Institute Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1982.
  7. ↑ a b c Stephen W. Ellis: Booklet-Text, CD 8 Pieces on Paul Klee, 2003, CW 1035, p. 31.
  8. ↑ a b c d e Marianne Schroeder ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the association les muséiques Basel. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
  9. ↑ Interview with Hanno Ehrler, 1995.
  10. ↑ Allan Kozinn : Recital: Marianne Schroeder, pianist. In: The New York Times. March 1, 1988.
  11. ↑ a b c Marianne Schroeder . In: Ulrich Bischoff (Ed.): John Cage. Art as crossing borders, John Cage and the modern age . Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich 1991, p. 255.
  12. ↑ From Strauss to Stockhausen. Rohan de Saram and Marianne Schroeder in a duo . In: Basler Zeitung , November 13, 2008, p. 17.
  13. ↑ a b Booklet-Text, CD The Composer Group, 1997, CW 1030, p. 20.
  14. ^ Complete recording of Galina Ustvolskaja's piano sonatas on Hat Hut Records . Sikorski website, January 9, 2013.
  15. ^ Groupe Lacroix in the Music Information Center Austria
  16. ↑ Peter Bum: One of us is an idiot - all right? Visiting the famous Basel writer Jürg Laederach . In: Basler Zeitung , October 11, 2011, p. 2.
  17. ↑ Title: Traderaklatsch - all kinds of birthdays, the beginning of holidays and garden parties . In: Basler Zeitung , July 3, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröder, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Reiden