Rudi Spring

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Rudi Spring (born March 17, 1962 in Lindau (Bodensee) ) is a German composer , pianist and music teacher.

Life

Rudi Spring received his first piano and composition lessons from 1971 from Alfred Kuppelmayer (1918–1977). In 1978 he began studying chamber music in Bregenz with Heinrich Schiff , with whom he also worked as a duo partner and composer. From 1981 to 1986 he studied composition with Wilhelm Killmayer and Heinz Winbeck and piano with Karl-Hermann Mrongovius at the Munich Music Academy . In 1987 he became a lecturer at the university, initially for accompaniment , later for aural training , analysis and tone systematics (following on from Hermann Pfrogner's interest in non- tempered tunings). Since 1999 he has been a lecturer in song design there .

From 1985 to 2003 he had an intensive duo partnership with the violinist Erich Höbarth. Since 1994, his musical work has shaped his collaboration with the accordionist Maria Reiter .

In 2000 Bach was released three times , a triple CD with piano music mainly by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, flanked by works by his father Johann Sebastian and his brother Wilhelm Friedemann. The triple CD Auf Schubert's Track followed in 2003/2004, dedicated to the piano sonatas period 1823–1826, and in 2009 " MiniaturVertrauen " , a solo CD with piano music by Jean Sibelius. Spring recorded three CDs together with the singer Salome Kammer: 2006/07 I hate music , 2008 Salomix-max , 2011/2013 I'm a stranger here myself . In 2008, two of his songs were released on a CD by Salome Kammer , along with music by Cole Porter , Luciano Berio , Alban Berg and others.

In 2009 he accompanied Salome Kammer at the Rheingau Music Festival in songs and chansons from the 1920s to 1940s. He was the pianist in a trio concert in Gasteig , with Jens Josef (flute) and Graham Waterhouse (cello). They played Martinůs Trio, the first performance of the flute version of Gestural Variations by Waterhouse, as well as a Christmas carol arrangement by the three composers. Spring continued Maria went through a thorn forest . Rudi Spring advocates characteristic, but neglected song repertoire, especially in the context of his university activities. B. for the work of Konrad Ansorge, Frederick Delius, Albert Roussel, Florent Schmitt, Carl Nielsen, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Jean Sibelius, Hans Pfitzner, Alexander Zemlinsky, Ludwig Thuille, Peter Cornelius and Robert Franz.

Rudi Spring lives with his family in Munich.

Honors

  • 1987: Feldkirch Culture Prize
  • 1988: Bavarian State Prize for Young Artists
  • 2002: International Lake Constance Culture Prize
  • 2005: Scholarship holder of the Villa Massimo in Rome
  • 2012: Culture Prize of the City of Lindau

Compositions

Stage works

  • Songs for the play Maria Madlenerin by Helga Sauermann (op.64a; 1995) for alto voice, small accordion (on G) and drum. Premiere June 28, 1995 Lindau (Marianne Kirch [voice and instruments])
  • He did a little eclipse trade (op. 71; 1999). Chamber play for speaking voice, sound figures (half doll, half instrument), accordion and violoncello. Libretto: based on aphorisms by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . Premiere June 10th, 1999 at Seefeld Castle (Munich Puppet Players; Maria Reiter [accordion], Heinrich Klug [cello])
  • Two fragmentary scenes (op.74e; 2000/02) for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • Between view behind reason (op.74e, 1; 2000). Text: Rudi Spring (after recruiting shareholders). WP April 1, 2001 Saulgau ( Salome Kammer [mezzo-soprano], Rudi Spring [piano]). Admission 2002 (SFB Berlin)
  • On the steep, red rock face (op.74e, 2; 2002). Text: Rudi Spring (based on popular education texts). WP May 2, 2002 Benediktbeuern (Salome Kammer [mezzo-soprano], Rudi Spring [piano and voice])
  • The Danube and its Spirit (op. 78; 2002). Fairy tale melodrama for narrative voice, pantomime group and sextet: clarinet (Eb / Bb), tenor dulcimer, accordion, celesta / piano, violin and double bass. Libretto: Andrea Haupt and Elisabeth Verhoeven (based on the book of the same name by Dorothea Rein). Premiere November 10, 2002 Stuttgart (Elisabeth Verhoeven [narrator]; children's theater group of the Stuttgart Music School, directors: Andrea Haupt; Wolfgang Steger [clarinets], Elisabeth Seitz [tenor chopping board], Maria Reiter [accordion], Ingrid Friedrich [violin], Matthias Weber [ Double bass], Rudi Spring [celesta / piano and conductor])

Vocal compositions

For solo voice and 1–6 instruments

  • Book of gallows songs (op. 19; 1983-2000) for voice and piano. Texts: from the gallows songs (1895–1905) by Christian Morgenstern
    • 1st episode (op.19a; 1983/89 for tenor or baritone, 1997 for soprano, 1999 for mezzo-soprano) and piano. WP June 9, 1989 Eching (Harald Thum [baritone], Rudi Spring [piano])
1. Hedgehog and Agel   - 2.  Goat and Sneak   - 3.  Gallows Brother's Prayer and Answer - 4.  Pug Life - 5.  Confession of the Worm   - 6.  The Sigh   - 7.  The two bottles 
  • 2nd episode (op. 19b; 1983–96 for tenor, nos. 4–5 1997 for soprano, nos. 1 and 3–5 1999 for mezzo-soprano). Premiere December 3, 1999 Seefeld / Upper Bavaria (Wolfgang Antesberger [tenor], Rudi Spring [piano]). Recording (No. 4–5) 1999 ( BR Munich; Martina Koppelstetter [mezzo-soprano], Rudi Spring [piano])
1. The Gallows Hill - 2. Gallows Brother's Song to Sophie the Hangman's Maid   - 3.  The Raven Ralf   - 4.  The Rehlein (The Prayer)   - 5.  Gallows Brother's Spring Song   - 6.  The Moon Sheep Says Itself - 7.  Lunovis 
  • 3rd episode (op. 19c; 1994–96) for baritone, nos. 2 and 5 1997 for soprano, nos. 2–5 1999 for mezzo-soprano). Premiere December 3, 1999 Seefeld / Upper Bavaria (Michael Mantaj [baritone], Rudi Spring [piano]). Recording (No. 2 and 5) 1999 (BR Munich; Martina Koppelstetter [mezzo-soprano], Rudi Spring [piano])
1. The moon sheep stands in a wide field   - 2.  Parable - 3.  The knee   - 4.  Korf invents a kind of joke - 5.  Vice versa - 6.  The rocking chair on the deserted terrace   - 7.  The two parallels
  • Three gallows songs (op.19d; 1983–99 / 2000). WP (No. 1) December 3, 1999 Seefeld / Upper Bavaria (Wolfgang Antesberger [tenor], Rudi Spring [piano]); (No. 2) June 14, 1997 Benediktbeuern (Susanne Winter [soprano], Rudi Spring [piano]); (No. 3) January 17, 2001 Munich (Arlette Meißner [soprano], Anne Schätz [piano]). Recording (No. 2) 1999 (BR Munich; Martina Koppelstetter [mezzo-soprano], Rudi Spring [piano])
1. The stone ox (1983/99; for tenor or mezzo-soprano) - 2nd Korfs Enchantment (1997; for soprano or mezzo-soprano) - 3.  The little woman with the Kunkel   (1999 for mezzo-soprano, soprano 2000)
  • Evening of Childhood (op.20a; 1983) for soprano and quintet (clarinet, horn, harp, violin and violoncello). Text: Hermann Lenz . Premiere 1983 Munich ( University of Music )
  • So close in the distance (op. 52; 1984–91). Song cycle for soprano (or mezzo-soprano) and trio: flute, viola and violoncello. Texts: Wolfgang Bächler . Premiere November 13, 1992 Augsburg (Adelheid Maria Thanner [soprano], Bettina Fuchs [flute], Gunter Pretzel [viola], Anja Lechner [violoncello]). Recording 1992 (BR Munich)
1. Fairy tale (with trio) - 2. Evening stanza for children (with viola) - 3.  Love song (with flute and violoncello) - 4.  In the foehn wind (with flute and viola) - 5.  The night in the palazzo (with viola and violoncello ) - 6.  Weird in Nowhere (with violoncello) - 7.  So fern (with trio)
  • Song series (op. 54; 1992/97) for voice and piano. Premiere No. 1-3, 5, 7: July 27, 1995 Weilburg ( Dietrich Henschel [baritone], Fritz Schwinghammer [piano]). Photo taken in 1998 (Brussels). Premiere No. 4 and 6: October 25, 1998 Prien am Chiemsee (Martina Koppelstetter [mezzo-soprano], Rudi Spring [piano]). Recording 1999 (BR Munich)
1. Melancholy (baritone). Text: August Stramm - 2.  Unfaithful (baritone). Text: August Stramm - 3.  Tristitia ante (baritone). Text: Jakob van Hoddis - 4th  Senna Hoy (mezzo-soprano or soprano). Text: Else Lasker-Schüler - 5th  guard (baritone). Text: August Stramm - 6.  Bohemia is by the sea (mezzo-soprano or soprano). Text: Ingeborg Bachmann - 7th end of the  world (baritone). Text: Jakob van Hoddis

For solo voice and larger ensemble / orchestra

  • Inflamed (op. 70e; 2001) for chanson-baritone, accordion and string orchestra. Text: Konstantin Wecker UA 24 June 2001 Munich (Philharmonie am Gasteig ; Konstantin Wecker [vocals]; Maria Reiter [accordion]; subscriber orchestra of the Munich Philharmonic, conductor: Heinrich Klug)
  • Return home (. Kammersinfonie No. 3 op 74;. 2000/01) for Mezzosopran (or old), flute, clarinet, trumpet, accordion, harp and strings (10.0.4.3.1). Text: Friedrich Hölderlin , Heimkunft. To the relatives (1801-04) WP May 19, 2001 Tettnang (New Palace; with Christa Mayer )

For voices a cappella

  • Wonderfully saved by good powers (op. 45; 1983–1988) for 5-part mixed choir. Text: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (December 19, 1944). Premiere June 8, 1991 Munich (student choir of the Musikhochschule , conductor: Max Frey )
Version for 4-part male choir (op.45a; 1992). WP 14 May 2000 Regensburg ( Renner Ensemble Regensburg , conductor: Bernd Englbrecht); contained on the CD ... which is hardly conscious of the heart ... by the Renner-Ensemble, Ars Produktion, 2003
  • Narcissus and Echo (op. 59; 1994). Singing scene for 6-part mixed choir. Text: Ovid , Metamorphoses 3,339-510. WP August 6, 1994 Irsee Monastery (selection choir, conductor: Kurt Suttner )
  • The girl from abroad (op.74a; 2000) for 4-part female choir. Text: Friedrich Schiller (summer 1796). Premiere December 18, 2001 Munich ( Herz-Jesu-Kirche ; Eve Voices, conductor: Andreas Herrmann [* 1963])

Instrumental music

for 1–4 players

  • Sonatina (op. 1; 1979) for violoncello and piano. Recording 1980 ( ORF Linz; Heinrich Schiff [violoncello], Rudi Spring [piano])
  • Revised version (1989/90). Premiere November 17, 1990 Lindau ( Anja Lechner [violoncello], Rudi Spring [piano])
  • Quartet (op. 47; 1989) for 2 flutes (2nd with b-foot), natural tone - dulcimer in A and piano. WP November 22, 1989 Schondorf am Ammersee (Ensemble Ikarus)
  • Invokationen (1988ff.) For 1–4 dulcimer instruments (partly in natural tuning)
  • Tangos (1994ff.) For tenor dulcimer, accordion and piano
  • Three night pieces (op.77a; 2000/01; in memoriam Andreas Heider) for accordion. WP (No. 1) June 29, 2001 Fürstenfeldbruck, (No. 2-3) February 1, 2003 Bregenz ( Maria Reiter )
  • Canto sopra un 'idea frattale (op.81e; 2005) for bassoon and organ. Premiere April 28, 2005 Vienna (Radio-Kulturhaus des ORF)
  • Risonanze (op.82b; 2005) for flute. Premiere July 6, 2005 Rome (Villino of Villa Massimo ; Roberto Fabbriciani [* 1949])

for 5–8 players

  • Preludes (op. 37; 1986/87) for string sextet (1.1.2.2.0) and piano. Premiere May 12, 1992 Schwaz ( Viennese string sextet , Rudi Spring [piano]). Recording 1992 (ORF Innsbruck)
  • Violato ( op.50 ; 1991). Study (fifth canon) for 6 violas. Premiere June 13, 1991 Munich (Hariolf Schlichtig and 5 students)

for larger ensemble / orchestra

  • Scene 1 (op.10; 1981; revised 1987) for violoncello and orchestra. WP (1st version) November 28, 1981 Prague ( Heinrich Schiff [violoncello]; Prague Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek [1946–2017])
  • Chamber Symphony No. 1 (op.63; 1995) for 12 brass instruments. Premiere June 6, 1995 Berlin
  • Chamber Symphony No. 2 (op.68; 1997) for clarinet / tenor saxophone, horn, percussion, accordion and string orchestra (12.0.4.3.1). Premiere February 12, 1998 Munich ( Herkulessaal ; Stefan Schneider [clarinet / tenor saxophone], Johannes Kaltenbrunner [horn], Wolfram Winkel [drums], Maria Reiter [accordion], Munich Chamber Orchestra , conductor: Jobst Liebrecht)
  • Heimkunft (Chamber Symphony No. 3 op. 74; 2000/01): see under vocal compositions

Portraits

broadcast

  • Listening to music, understanding music : Alfred Solder (* 1949) in conversation with the composers Michael Neunteufel (* 1958) and Rudi Spring ( ORF , program Ö1 , October 16, 1987)

Movie

  • Die Kochsche snowflake (Germany 2005; documentation of the world premiere of the Canto sopra un 'idea frattale for bassoon and organ in Vienna). Director: Norbert Wartig (* 1973). Production: LNW Film

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salomix-max - Voice Without Limits / Salome Chamber . arkivmusic.com. 2008. Retrieved November 29, 2010.
  2. ↑ Daniel Honsack: Very special Heimatlieder / RMF Salome chamber and Rudi Spring in the Parkhotel Schlangenbad . Wiesbadener Tagblatt . July 24th, 2009. Archived from the original on August 9th, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de
  3. ^ Concertante music for flute - cello - piano . Graham Waterhouse. December 20, 2009. Retrieved November 30, 2010.
  4. ↑ Leopold Mozart Center: Lecturer (inn) s ( Memento of the original on 13 January 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Retrieved June 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.philso.uni-augsburg.de
  5. ↑ Igel and Agel on Zeno.org
  6. ↑ Geiss and Schleiche on Zeno.org
  7. ↑ The Worm's Confession on Zeno.org
  8. ↑ The Sigh on Zeno.org
  9. ↑ The two bottles on Zeno.org
  10. ↑ Galgenbruders Lied to Sophie, the executioner's maid on Zeno.org
  11. ^ The raven Ralf on Zeno.org
  12. ↑ The prayer on Zeno.org
  13. ↑ Gallows Brother's Spring Song on Zeno.org
  14. ^ Lunovis on Zeno.org
  15. ↑ The Moon Sheep on Zeno.org
  16. ↑ The knee on Zeno.org
  17. ↑ The rocking chair on the abandoned terrace on Zeno.org
  18. ↑ The woman with Kunkel on Zeno.org
  19. ↑ Melancholy on hor.de
  20. ↑ Unfaithful on hor.de
  21. ↑ Jakob van Hoddis ( Memento from March 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ Senna Hoy on kj-skrodzki.de
  23. ↑ Watch on hor.de
  24. ↑ Bohemia is by the sea on sternenfall.de
  25. ↑ Jakob van Hoddis ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ↑ Ignited by the world fire ( Memento from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  27. ↑ Homecoming on Zeno.org
  28. ↑ From good powers ... ( Memento of March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  29. ↑ Narcissus and Echo on gottwein.de
  30. ↑ The Foreign Girl on Zeno.org

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personal data
SURNAME Jump, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindau (Lake Constance)