Alexander Goehr

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Alexander Goehr (2007)
Cast sheet for the opera Arden muss die, which premiered in 1967

Alexander Goehr (born August 10, 1932 in Berlin ) is an English composer . His father was the conductor Walter Goehr .

Life

Goehr first studied composition (Richard Hall) at the Royal Manchester College of Music and then founded the New Music Manchester Group (with Harrison Birtwistle , Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and John Ogdon ). In 1955 and 1956 further studies followed with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod in Paris. In the early 1960s he worked for the BBC and was the founder of the Music Theater Ensemble, one of the first English ensembles to exclusively devote itself to contemporary music theater . In the late 1960s he was given a teaching position at the New England Conservatory in Boston and at Yale, and in 1971 he was appointed professor of music at the University of Leeds . From 1975 to 1999 he was Professor of Music at Cambridge University .

Works

Goehr wrote seven operas, including Arden must die (based on Arden of Faversham , Hamburg 1967) and " Arianna , lost Opera by Monteverdi " (London, ROC 1995). In addition, Goehr's work includes four symphonies , concertos for piano , violin , viola and cello , as well as smaller orchestral works such as “Cambridge Hocket” for four horns and orchestra.

Conductors such as Pierre Boulez , Daniel Barenboim , Christoph von Dohnányi and Sir Simon Rattle , together with numerous internationally renowned soloists such as Oliver Knussen, regularly support his works.

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personal data
SURNAME Goehr, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English contemporary composer of classical music of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin