Thomas Müller (composer)
Alfred Thomas Müller (born January 12, 1939 in Leipzig ) is a German conductor , composer and pianist .
Life
Thomas Müller comes from Leipzig. From 1957 to 1961 he studied piano with Elfriede Clemen , composition with Johannes Paul Thilman and conducting with Ernst Hintze at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden .
From 1962 to 1965 he was solo coach at the German State Opera in Berlin . This was followed by engagements as director of studies and conductor at the theaters in Halberstadt , Stralsund and Wittenberg from 1965 to 1969. From 1969 to 1975 he worked as director of studies and second conductor at the Landestheater Halle . From 1975 to 1977 he was musical director at the Thomas Müntzer Theater in Eisleben.
He then became a master class student for composition with Gerhard Wohlgemuth at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 1980 to 1982 he was musical director of drama music at the theater of the Junge Garde in Halle. In the 1980s he worked mainly as a freelance composer and pianist in Halle. From 1978 to 1989 he held a part-time teaching position at the Halle composer class . From 1989 to 2004 he was the conductor and artistic director of the Konfrontation ensemble and the “New Music” concert series at the Philharmonic State Orchestra in Halle . He also conducted a. a. the Neue Musik Hanns Eisler group , the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the “Forum Neue Musik” of the MDR Symphony Orchestra . From 1997 to 2003 he was also a lecturer at the Institute for Music at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg , where he gave lectures on "Structures in 20th Century Music".
Concert tours and lectures took him to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia before the fall of the Wall . His works were u. a. performed at the Donaueschinger Musiktage , the Prague Spring , the Festival International de Musica Contemporanea Alicante , the Music Biennale Berlin and the Festival for New Music ECLAT Stuttgart. In terms of style, he succeeds Anton Webern , Giacinto Scelsis and Edgar Varèses . Müller is chairman of the Society for New Music Saxony-Anhalt eV in Halle.
family
From 1985 Thomas Müller was married to the singer Eva Hassbecker (1932-1998). He is the stepfather of the rock guitarist Uwe Hassbecker , the biological son of the conductor Herbert Kegel .
Prices
- 1961: Carl Maria von Weber Prize of the City of Dresden (as pianist)
- 1988: Handel Prize of the Halle district
- 1998: Saxony-Anhalt Music Prize
Works (selection)
Orchestra and chamber ensemble
- flares (1979/80)
- picture for orchestra (1983/84)
- Tracks (1986)
- Epiphany (1993/94)
- Entasis II (2001)
- Scheidt adaptations (1991)
Solo instruments with orchestra
- Concerto for piano and chamber orchestra (1984)
Choir
- Motet (2003)
organ
- credo quia absurdum (1991)
Chamber music
- String Quartet No. 1 (1973/74)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1976/77)
- Concentrations (1981)
- Insights - Outlooks (1982)
- Proteus (1985)
- Maqam (1987)
- Kalamos (1990)
- Three fragments (1975/1993)
- String Quartet No. 3 (1993)
- Ataraxia (1997/98)
- Entasis I (2000)
- Heaven Touches Earth (2002)
Solo instruments
- Profiles (1978)
- Solo with Handel (1986)
- The Trumpets of the Seven Angels (1987)
- Vibrations (1987)
- tuba sola (1989)
- Anamesis (1990)
- Correspondance (1992)
- Calls (1992)
- Fatum (1995)
- Paian (1996)
- Four songs after Rimbaud (1981)
- Old Japanese Chants (1995/96)
- Canticum cecebratio (1994)
- GERMANY - A Winter's Tale (1995)
- Homage a la Femme (2002)
literature
- Stefan Amzoll : Alfred Thomas Müller . In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8 .
- Thomas Buchholz : Profile: For the 60th birthday of the Halle composer Thomas Müller . In: Handel House Communications 1/1999, p. 30f.
- Müller, Thomas. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 4th edition, German Association of Composers, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-55561-410-X , p. 889.
Web links
- Works by and about Thomas Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Müller's website
- Alfred Thomas Müller in the archive of contemporary composers of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
- Alfred Thomas Müller , KDG, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Stefan Amzoll : composer and conductor Thomas Müller: The trumpets of the seven angels . Deutschlandfunk Atelier of New Music, January 12, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Osang : Tamara Danz. Legends . Ch.links Verlag, Berlin 1999, p. 164.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Alfred Thomas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor, composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |