Adrian Oswalt

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Adrian Oswalt (* 1954 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German composer .

Live and act

Adrian Oswalt studied composition with Hans Ulrich Engelmann at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and flute with Klaus Schochow at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts . Oswalt plays a variety of instruments including the piano, saxophone and guitar. He worked as a stage musician in Frankfurt am Main, Tübingen, Stuttgart and Berlin.

He made several concert tours in Europe, the USA and Asia. During the Germany Year 2005 he performed his children's musical Die Bremer- und other Stadtmusikanten in several Japanese cities, including Tokyo and Hiroshima. As part of the culture festival Germany and China, together in motion , he performed with his concert program for barrel organ and orchestra in Nanjing and with a solo program for barrel organ and flute at the Expo in Shanghai .

In 2011 he received the cultural award of the European cultural foundation Pro Europa "for his services to the musical innovation of mechanical music and for the establishment of the barrel organ on the concert stage".

Oswalt often deals with political and social issues in his works, such as his song program for the 150th anniversary of the revolution in 1848/1849 People, hear the story! . On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster , he performed FukushimaRequiem 03/11 for voice and orchestra in 2016 . In 2018, there followed 12 prayers for peace from 12 religions for orchestra and song and in 2019 constitutional sounds , a setting of the Basic Law .

The Oswalt organ

In cooperation with the Waldkirch Organ Foundation, he developed and built the largest hand organ in the world, the so-called Oswalt organ . The special feature of this instrument is the combination of mechanical and electronic sound generation. For this he received an award for innovative instrument making.

Compositions

  • The Wagner Code - analog and digital decoded (2013)
  • FukushimaRequiem0311 (2016)
  • Wuhan - a collage of voices and noises from Wuhan (recorded in 2009) with erhu (Chinese violin), violin, viola and cello (2017)
  • 12 × Peace - 12 prayers for peace from 12 religions (2018)
  • Constitutional sounds - The Basic Law set to music (2019)
  • JS Bach / Adrian Oswalt: Bourree

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Fleischhauer: Adrian Oswalt is a guest with his program "Peter and the Wolf" in the libraries of the Spree-Neisse district. Accessed April 13, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ A b Michael Hagemann: European Culture Prize for Adrian Oswalt. (PDF) In: Tonkünstler Forum, December 2011 edition, page 18. Detuscher Tonkünstler Verband Baden-Württemberg e. V., accessed on March 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ editorial Regio rebels: Waldkirch: Cultural Weeks> Special Concert "with Adrian Oswalt - Today! In: Regiorebellen. September 13, 2012, accessed on April 13, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ "The dynamism drives us away". In: WORTVISIO N. November 14, 2011, accessed on April 13, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ The giant barrel organ XXXL - with 58 pitches - largest range |. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Adrian Oswalt, builder of the largest hand organ in the world. In: swr.de. March 9, 2019, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Tristan in chord - a musical dream sequence. Performance on November 28, 2013 in the Schillertheater in Berlin by the wind quintet of the Staatskapelle Berlin. In: Youtube.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ FukushimaRequiem 03/11 - The suffering of animals. In: Youtube.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  9. ^ Day of the Basic Law: HMKW students help organize constitutional sounds. In: hmkw.de. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Bourree. In: Youtube.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Oswalt, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe