Alfred Knüsel

Alfred Knüsel (born September 23, 1941 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss composer of contemporary classical music.

Life

Knüsel was born in Lucerne and grew up there. He studied composition with Peter Benary in Lucerne, Max Kuhn in Zurich, then with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He completed his cello studies , which he completed with a concert diploma, with Emmy Munzinger in Lucerne, Raffaele Altwegg in Zurich and Paul Tortelier in Paris; he also studied conducting.

Since 1973 he has been teaching at the University of Music in Basel. In 1980 he received the recognition award of the City of Lucerne's Art and Culture Prize . In 1995 he received the sponsorship award from the Basel-Land cultural festival.

Alfred Knüsel's works are performed at concerts of the Swiss Tonkünstlerfest and the International Society for New Music as well as at festivals in Switzerland and abroad. Jürg Wyttenbach , Räto Tschupp , Jürg Henneberger and others conducted his works and had them recorded on the radio ( DRS 2 ). CD-Werke documentation was published on the Classic 2000 label.

Sound carrier

• Idioma
  • Alfred Knüsel: Idioma
  • Alfred Knüsel: Violin Concertos
  • Alfred Knüsel: Interplay
  • Alfred Knüsel: Five suggestions
  • Alfred Knüsel: orchestral movements
  • Alfred Schweizer: Kanon (Ensemble IGNM Basel, Henneberger; Vilnius Chamber Orchestra, Virzonis; Serenade Chamber Orchestra Erevan, Topchjan; Danube Symphony Orchestra, Knüsel; Yvo Wettstein )
• classic 2000 C2 / 13

• ... Contrasts ...
  • Alfred Knüsel: Four Fragments
  • Andreas Pflüger: In the garden of earthly delights, Alfred Schweizer
  • David Hönigsberg: Concerto for Violin (Katharina Schamböck; Ukrainian Chamber Orchestra Kiev)
• classic 2000 C 2/11

• Grammont Sélection 2
• Musique Suisse
• World premieres from 2008
• • Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (* 1971)
  • Annette Schmucki (* 1968)
  • William Blank (born 1957)
  • Michel Roth (* 1976)
  • Alfred Knüsel (* 1941)
• In the midst of the abundance of DISAPPEARANCE as a connecting element
  • Beat Furrer (* 1954)
  • Rudolf Kelterborn (* 1931)
  • Stefan Wirth (* 1975)
  • Patrick N Frank (* 1975)
• • A co-production with SR DRS2 and RSR Espace-2

• • Contemporary church music by Swiss composers
  • Alfred Knüsel - Mass
• C. Rütti - My Lord and my God
• F.Rechsteiner - Psalm 13
• Th.Wegmann - Christmas cantata

• • Radie DRS, sound engineer Hans Ott
  • DRS2

Web links

• Website by Alfred Knüsel
• Biography with list of works and discography at Musinfo - La Base de Données de la Musique Suisse
• Directory of Alfred Knüsel (PDF; 96 kB) at the Zurich Central Library