Alexander Bush

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Alexander Strauch (born December 22, 1971 in Munich ) is a German composer .

Life

After taking private composition lessons with Konrad Jäger and Kay Westermann , he first studied composition with a diploma and master class from 1992 to 1998 at the University of Music and Theater in Munich , then from 1998 to 2001 with Hans Zender and Isabel Mundry at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt on the Main . Alexander Strauch lives in Munich .

Together with the composer and conductor Johannes X. Schachtner he founded "JUMBLE - Youth Ensemble for New Music Bavaria" as the initiator. With Schachtner, he also led the aDevantgarde Festival from 2013, in 2017 together with the composer Samuel Penderbayne and in 2019 together with the composer Markus Lehmann-Horn . Alexander Strauch is the author of Moritz Eggert's Bad Blog Of Musick , which he runs for the Neue Musikzeitung .

He received the following scholarships and awards:

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As a composer, Alexander Strauch's focus is on musical theater and vocal music . In addition to traditional operas such as "Narrow Rooms" (libretto: Marcus Hank, based on James Purdy; UA 1996 Prinzregententheater Munich) and the boxing opera "Joe & Max" (libretto: Marcus Hank, UA 2005 Neues Theater München) about Max Schmeling's boxing matches with Joe Louis there are more open forms such as "Uwe & Elisabeth" (2001, A • DEvantgarde -Festival) as musical-scenic poetology with instrumental and scenic use of the drums as an interface between stage and musicians or the community opera "element 112" (2005, Bayerforum Munich). On October 23, 2009, his opera UT-OP.ER was premiered in the high voltage hall of the TU Dresden. The libretto, which is freely based on the novel "Utopia" by Thomas More from 1516, and the production are by Martina Veh. On May 13, 2012, Strauch's music theater "NEDA - the call, the voice - A Persian Trilogy Part II" was premiered at the 13th Munich Biennale, Festival for New Music Theater. In November 2014 the music theater "Styx - Orfeo's past Now" was premiered in the Munich Museum for Casts of Classical Visual Works and again realized with the director Martina Veh, as did the comic choir opera "Queen Edward II" in 2015. In November 2016, the pianist Andreas Skouras recorded the piano work "Logo & Animated Gif" for Bayerischer Rundfunk. As part of the opening of the Various Voices choir festival, his choral work "Suscipe Flos Florem" was premiered in May 2018 by the Munich Rainbow Choir under the direction of Mary Ellen Kitchens in the Munich Philharmonie am Gasteig .

Inspired by Hans Zender , he tries to sound out the limits of his so-called "Gegenstrebiger Harmonik" (also difference and summation harmonics, simple " difference harmonics" ) and their transitions into other compositional systems: be it in areas of microtonality , be it in approximation to other musical styles Allusion or a combination of "musique concrète instrumentale" and spectralism , whereby the transitions between the different compositional methods are in the foreground.

Selection of works

Works with orchestra / larger chamber ensemble

  • Three Walt Whitman chants for tenor and orchestra (1995)
  • Adamic Songs after Walt Whitman for tenor, horn and low strings (1996)
  • Night feeling after Friedrich Hebbel for soprano and chamber orchestra (1998)
  • XXL for orchestra (2000)
  • Paraphrase on "Are you net with me" for chamber orchestra (2000)
  • Vienna! Ghosts! Third kind! 2 solo concert zithers and zither choir (2001)
  • THEN / NOW / NEXT for chamber orchestra (2003)
  • Ghasele 134 des Hafis in the translation by Friedrich Rückert for tenor, concert zither, women's choir and orchestra (2005)
  • Ascenseur - Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra (2006/16)
  • Comma sequence for large ensemble (2016)
  • The cities are green or blue for orchestras (2016)
  • Fanfare procedure for orchestra (2018)

Musical theater

  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys in 1666 (1994)
  • Narrow rooms . Opera. Libretto: Marcus Hank (based on James Purdy ) (1996)
  • The Way Home (after Franz Kafka ) (1997)
  • Inside out . Window display / personals performance (1998)
  • Beau Rivage or Uwe & Elisabeth . Musical and scenic poetology (2001)
  • metroUNIVERSAL . Music with Action (2003)
  • communityoper-element112 (2005)
  • joe + max. boxoper . Libretto: Marcus Hank (2005)
  • MORBUS TEUTONICUS - Scenes from the Third Reich . Libretto: Siegfried Gerlich. From it finished so far: Der Treue Heinrich ; We're going to Lodz (2006)
  • Who the fuck is Jager Gracchus - Monotonies of an Undead Singspiel with Franz Kafka's Gracchus Fragments (2008/09)
  • UT-OP.ER Libretto: Martina Veh (2009)
  • NEDA - the call, the voice - A Persian Trilogy Part II Libretto: Alexander Strauch & Martina Veh (2012)
  • Styx - Orfeo's past Now Libretto: Alessandro Striggio, edited by Martina Veh, Christopher Robson and Alexander Strauch (2014)

Vocal music

  • Der Hecht for baritone and piano (1991)
  • CHNOSPINCI. Old High German blood and blessings for viola and mezzo-soprano (1997–1999)
  • Die Heimkehr (after Franz Kafka) for soprano and harpsichord (1999)
  • Phädras Liebe & Phädras Tod for soprano and saxophone (ten., Bar.) (2000)
  • Der Hügel for mezzo-soprano and piano (2001). Text: Diana Kempff
  • STIMMUNG - on the meaning of this term in nine pictures for soprano, viola, violoncello and treble zither (2013)
  • sub arturo plebs - composed modification of the motet by Johannes Alanus for soprano, viola, violoncello and treble zither (2013)
  • groeG lkarT - Three songs of the devil, death and war based on Georg Trakl for tenor and piano (2014)
  • Utopia for choir and four cellos based on Rose Ausländer (2017)
  • Dichtermut II after Friedrich Hölderlin, Quodlibet for six choirs and a sturgeon choir (2017)
  • Suscipe Flos Florem from the Benediktbeurer song collection Carmina Burana for four-part mixed choir (2017/18)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bio , homepage of the composer; strauchcomposer.de, accessed May 24, 2018
  2. ↑ JUMBLE - Youth Ensemble for New Music Bavaria , website of the state youth ensemble on the sponsor's homepage: Tonkünstler München eV; tonkuenstler-muenchen.de, accessed May 24, 2018
  3. ↑ ADEvantgarde Festival , homepage A • DEvantgarde  ; adevantgarde.de, accessed May 24, 2018
  4. ^ The authors , homepage of Bad Blog Of Musik; blogs.nmz.de/badblog, accessed May 24, 2018
  5. ↑ Project grant for young art / new media in the field of music , list of the award winners; muenchen.de, accessed May 24, 2018
  6. ↑ World premiere of »UT-OP.er« in the high voltage hall of the TU , description of the work for the world premiere on the Portal Musik in Dresden; musik-in-dresden.de, accessed May 24, 2018
  7. ^ NEDA - the call, the voice, A Persian Trilogy Part II , description of the work for the world premiere of the Munich Biennale; archive.muenchener-biennale.de, accessed May 24, 2018
  8. ↑ A multi- faceted theater of remembrance , review of the world premiere by Frido Mann ; nmz.de, accessed May 24, 2018
  9. ^ Offenbachiade à la Ralf König , Review of the Derniere by Roland Dippel; nmz.de, accessed May 24, 2018
  10. ↑ Andreas Skouras is recording new works by Schwenk and Strauch , announcement by the music publisher V. Nickel; musikverlag-nickel.eu, accessed May 24, 2018
  11. ↑ They are singing for their lives , announcement of the Various Voices choir festival in the Süddeutsche Zeitung; sueddeutsche.de, accessed May 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bush, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd December 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich