Armin Schibler

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Armin Schibler (1920–1986) composer, music teacher, grave in the Witikon cemetery, Zurich Inscription: When the sounding is the trace of truth - inexpressible language, wordless message. Then you are at the place. Listen to the brink of pain
Grave in the Witikon cemetery

Armin Schibler (born November 20, 1920 in Kreuzlingen , † September 7, 1986 in Zurich ) was a Swiss composer and music teacher .

Life

After attending grammar school in Aarau, he studied music at the Zurich Conservatory . There Schibler met his future wife, the violinist Tatjana Berger. After the end of the war, Schibler traveled to England. There he met the composers Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten . In 1947 Schibler became a full-time music teacher at the Zurich Literary School , where he worked until shortly before his death.

During his lifetime, Schibler was one of the most frequently performed Swiss composers of the 20th century, receiving international music prizes, including the City of Zurich Art Prize in recognition of his complete musical oeuvre. Globally recognized conductors, orchestras and soloists performed his premieres .

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Work and musical personal style

Even the compositions of the young Schibler show a personal style of music that he continues to develop until the end of his life. From 1949 onwards, on the occasion of the Darmstadt summer courses, he dealt with dodecaphony and adopted twelve-tone elements as a spiritual ordering principle in his music, but rejected the strict rules of dodecaphony.

From 1952 he worked with rhythm (drums) and dance. On the basis of his musical style, he succeeded in creating his compositions with the archaic element of rhythm and dance as a physical experience; his works integrate non-classical musical idioms such as jazz , blues , folk and popular music and finally electronic music. From his school music practice, he wrote compositions for everyday school music and developed his course from body to percussion .

A little later, Schibler turned to music theater and composed several operas . Affected by the problems of his time - for example the destruction of the natural foundations of life, East-West conflict , abuse of power in dictatorships, commercialization and the massing of cultural and intellectual life - Schibler urged to shape it musically and artistically: He developed the opera further into Hörwerk as a separate musical genre. It is characterized by a combination of music and language in mutual relationship, whereby both artistic media retain their independence. Many of the resulting audio works were critical of society, others dealt with philosophical-mythical topics, an area that Schibler dealt with throughout his life, for which he was constantly looking for suitable text templates from the past and present; and if he couldn't find templates on certain subjects, he had to become his own writer.

His vision of a total work of art did not let him go: a wide variety of artistic media should serve a work idea, a material. Experimenting, he achieved a synthesis of the most diverse creative media: music, language, theater, image (film) and dance (ballet). Many works arose from this based on the idea of ​​total musical theater.

Schibler was also productive in absolute music. He composed several symphonies and orchestral pieces, at least one solo work for each instrument. Schibler realized his vision of a tonal language encompassing all areas of life, which appropriately uses the most diverse musical idioms in order to artistically reproduce the colorful diversity of life. The basis is a musical personal style that stands in the field of tension between structural innovations and tradition; Typical are semitones and their complementary forms as well as split sounds, etc. a. the split seventh chord .

Autobiographical

  • Armin Schibler: Music, medium between time and timelessness, an autobiographical sketch , in: Musikkollegium Winterthur, General Program 1977/78 ; Musikkollegium Winterthur 1977; 63 p., P. 5–25 with illustrations and sheet music examples, with a list of Pfister's works, performed by the Musikkollegium Winterthur 1945–1977 (p. 25–26).
  • Armin Schibler: Das Werk 1986, self-presentation, list of works and work data, documents for realization, workshop texts, biographical information ; Alkun-Verlag, Adliswil / Lottstetten 1985, 143 p., Ill .: ISBN 3-85662-015-X .

Prices

1950: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize

Discography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Prize winners - Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Foundation. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schibler, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreuzlingen
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1986
Place of death Zurich