Armin Schibler
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 .
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)
- Song compositions by Armin Schibler as a radio broadcast, documented in the Fonoteca Svizzera: https://www.fonoteca.ch/cgi-bin/oecgi4.exe/inet_fnbasedetail?REC_ID=743.041&LNG_ID=DEU
- Concertino for clarinet and string orchestra , op. 49, Radio-Orchester Beromünster, Hans-Rudolf Stalder (clarinet), 1957, documented in the Fonoteca Svizzera: https://www.fonoteca.ch/cgi-bin/oecgi4.exe/inet_fnbasedetail ? REC_ID = 20822.046 & LNG_ID = DEU
- Fantasia Helvetica for wind orchestra, Der Rütlischwur , by Armin Schibler, 1962, documented in the Fonoteca Svizzera: https://www.fonoteca.ch/cgi-bin/oecgi4.exe/inet_fnbasedetail?REC_ID=740.049&LNG_ID=DEU
- Greina , compositions by Armin Schibler and Julien-François Zbinden, 1975, documented in the Fonoteca Svizzera: https://www.fonoteca.ch/cgi-bin/oecgi4.exe/inet_fnbasedetail?REC_ID=8631.011&LNG_ID=DEU
- Hutten's last days , by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, symphonic cycle by Armin Schibler 1970, documented in the Fonoteca Svizzera: https://www.fonoteca.ch/cgi-bin/oecgi4.exe/inet_fnbasedetail?REC_ID=20834.046&LNG_ID=DEU
- Un homme seul , concert for guitar by Armin Schibler, 1973, documented in the Fonoteca Svizzera: https://www.fonoteca.ch/cgi-bin/oecgi4.exe/inet_fnbasedetail?REC_ID=20818.046&LNG_ID=DEU
literature
- Hanspeter Renggli: Armin Schibler . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 1602-1604.
- Gina Schibler: "When the sound is the trace of the truth ..." The work of the composer and music dramatist Armin Schibler in its significance for the present. Peter Lang, Bern 2000, ISBN 3-906766-21-7 .
- Tatjana Schibler: Double Fugue, 1942–2004: My life with the composer Armin Schibler. filos, Erlangen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938498-15-6 .
Web links
- Works by and about Armin Schibler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Gautier: Schibler, Armin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Armin Schibler's website
- Stage works by Armin Schibler at operone
- Film about Armin Schibler A picture of life drawn by Tatjana Schibler, 2016
- Sound documents by and about Armin Schibler in the catalog of the Swiss National Sound Archives
- Sound recordings with works by the composer from the archive of Swiss Radio SRG SSR on Neo.Mx3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swissdisc ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Prize winners - Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Foundation. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
personal data | |
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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 |