Arnold Maury

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Arnold Maury (born August 17, 1927 in Kiel ; † February 5, 2018 there ) was a contemporary German composer and writer .

Life

Arnold Maury was born into a musical family: his mother Martha was a piano teacher, his father Paul was a freelance violinist in Kiel and his grandfather was already a musician. Maury learned to play the piano at an early age and his first attempts at composition were made at this time. His training at the Max Planck School in Kiel was interrupted by military service and subsequent Soviet imprisonment. In 1949 he was able to catch up on his Abitur and between 1950 and 1951 studied musicology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . At the same time he received private composition lessons from Willi Kröger (1903–1968) and was instructed in harmony by Martin Usbeck. His parents' concerns led him to study school music for two semesters in Hamburg. On the advice of lecturers and fellow students, however, he finally changed his subject and completed a full-blown composition course from 1953 to 1959 with the renowned teachers Philipp Jarnach and Ernst Gernot Klußmann at the Hamburg University of Music .

In the 1950s, Arnold Maury was a successful jazz pianist: together with Stefan von Dobrzynski (alto saxophone, clarinet, flute), Jobst Erdmann (bass) and Ingo Thiede (drums), he made a significant contribution to building up a jazz scene in Kiel. The combo played among others in Club California , which was located in Klahn's Hotel , in Magdeburg and in Riverside , all institutions in Kiel. In 1955 the musicians parted ways: Arnold Maury devoted himself more and more to composing and around Stefan von Dobrzynski his well-known quartet was formed. The activities as a jazz pianist not only helped Maury to finance his studies, but also provided some impulses for his own compositional work. Examples include The Color out of Space for a large jazz ensemble from 1976 or the Grenzgang cycle , which premiered on April 29, 1981 in the Buxtehudesaal of the Lübeck University of Music , combines conventional instruments with the sound of electric piano and synthesizer.

After graduating, Maury became a musical editor for the North German Radio . In 1968 he married Roselies Ewert, who - besides her job - took over the management of the composer. In order to be able to devote himself more intensively to his own work, Maury gave up his editing activity, gave music lessons at the Ellen Cleve School in Kiel from 1972 and held a teaching position for music theory and aural training at the Lübeck University of Music between 1978 and 1984.

In the autumn of 1982 Maury founded the group of Kiel composers together with Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann and Martin Karl-Wagner , which distinguished itself in the following years through numerous concerts with their own and other works. Roselies Maury took over the organization of these concerts. In addition, he designed and initiated the Contrapunkte concert series in Kiel , which dealt exclusively with new music. In this way, Mauricio Kagel , György Ligeti , Peter Michael Hamel and Isang Yun were invited to the capital of Schleswig-Holstein in the 1980s and 1990s . And in this context, Maury's 2nd Chamber Symphony was launched by the NDR Symphony Orchestra .

Many well-known interpreters have (first) performed works by Maury, including Kammersänger Hans Georg Ahrens ( 3 North Sea songs , 3 songs from difficult times ), the opera and concert singer Thomas Mohr (from the tower the daffodils rang ...) , the singer Elisabeth Graf the Rheinisches Bach Collegium (And Kabir says ...) , the pianist Peter Roggenkamp (1st and 3rd piano sonatas), the pianist Vera-Carina Stellmacher (2nd and 4th piano sonatas, shouting from afar ), the Brandis Quartet (3rd . String quartet) , the Kiel Philharmonic (3rd symphony) and the ensemble the new work of the NDR symphony orchestra (2nd chamber symphony).

The composer's estate is kept in the Schleswig-Holstein State Library , Kiel.

Composition technique

Since the 1970s, Arnold Maury followed the principle of composition with "tonal rows". The composer explains: Formally, his works are “determined by the unifying reference system of the 'tonal series'. Melody and chord rows are drawn from a brief, profiled topic with functional echoes. The melody line, permuted several times by exchanging tones, provides unanimous rows. The combination of these lines, vertical chords created by narrowing them, the polyphonic composition of the theme and its functional harmonization result in series of chords. The rhythm of the topic is also used. The topic appears - usually towards the end - as a climax. Before that it builds up - then it ends. "

Works

Arnold Maury's extensive oeuvre encompasses almost all musical genres: In addition to five symphonies, eight string quartets and six piano sonatas, there are also some unusual chamber music ensembles, vocal symphonic works, song cycles and, last but not least, literary works. His main work, however, is the musical chronicle Lamentation of Jeremiah, based on texts from the Old Testament, which is dedicated to the memory of Regina Nagelberg and her two daughters - a Jewish family who lived in the same house in Kiel during the composer's childhood and adolescence was deported and murdered by the National Socialists .

Orchestral works

  • Orchestral Variations (1952)
  • Chamber Symphony No. 1 (1961)
  • 3 orchestral pieces (1963)
  • The Color out of Space for large jazz ensemble (1976)
  • Symphony No. 1 (1979)
  • Symphony No. 2 Traumfahrt (1981) [based on the chamber music work of the same name]
  • Symphony No. 3 (1983/1987)
  • Symphony No. 4 (1984)
  • Chamber Symphony No. 2 for 18 instruments (1987)
  • Symphony No. 5 (2000)
  • Night for orchestra based on Ernst Barlach's drama Der tote Tag (2004)
  • Chamber Symphony in One Movement (2005)
  • The wonderful day has appeared. Triptych for orchestra (2006)
  • ... and that's when they saw the light for orchestra (2008)
  • Weg in die Stille for orchestra (2008)
  • Levels for orchestra (2009)
  • The other bank for orchestra (2010)
  • Music for string orchestra (2014)

Chamber music

  • Piano Trio (1952/53)
  • Sonata for violin and piano (1953)
  • Sonata for flute and piano (1954)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1958)
  • Two movements for string quartet (1960)
  • Trio for trumpet, horn and trombone (1964)
  • Suite for clarinet and piano (1965)
  • Quartet for flute, clarinet, piano and percussion (1965)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1966)
  • Quartet for alto flute, bass clarinet, piano and marimbaphone (1967)
  • Agitato for clarinet and piano (1968)
  • Jazz talk for flute, soprano saxophone, piano and percussion (1975)
  • Borderline (1980)
    • Combined Music I for piano and bongos (1980)
    • The music of the Valar for flute, clarinet, piano, vibraphone and percussion (1980)
    • The music of the Ainur for alto flute, trumpet, electric piano, synthesizer and percussion (1980)
    • Combined Music II for piano, electric piano and synthesizer (1979)
  • For Dylan Thomas † for flutes, trumpet, clarinet / bass clarinet and percussion (1981)
  • Traumfahrt for piano, electric piano and synthesizer (1981)
  • The soft light of the night. Quartet for flute, clarinet, violoncello and piano (1983)
  • Rhapsody for double bass and piano (1983)
  • The wonderful day has appeared. Choral arrangement for 3 flutes, harpsichord and cello (1984)
  • Nonet for wind instruments. Music from the Silmarillion (1985)
    • The music of the Valar
    • The music of the Ainur
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1985)
  • Sonata for violoncello and piano (1986)
  • Piano trio [No. 2] (1987)
  • Trio for alto flute, harp and violoncello (1988)
  • String Quartet No. 4 (1992)
  • Sonata [No. 2] for violin and piano (1993)
  • Fantasy for violin and piano (1995)
  • Gavotte for violin and piano (1999)
  • String Quartet No. 5 Klingsor (2004)
  • String Quartet No. 6 (2003)
  • Homecoming for chamber ensemble (2010)
  • String Quartet No. 7 - for RM - (2011)
  • Duo for cello and piano (2013)
  • Piano trio [No. 3] (2013)
  • String Quartet No. 8 (2013-2014)
  • String Quartet No. 4, new version (2015)

Piano works

  • 6 piano pieces (1951)
  • 4 piano pieces (1952)
  • Piano Sonata No. 1 (1955)
  • 3 piano pieces (1963)
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 (1966)
  • Development for piano (1969)
  • Piano piece I (1969)
  • Onetet Ia (1970)
  • Onetet Ib (1971)
  • Piano piece II (1981)
  • Piano Sonata No. 3 (1983)
  • Piano Sonata No. 4
  • Piano Sonata No. 5 (1996)
  • Impetus for piano solo (2003)
  • Piano Sonata No. 6 (2012)
  • Call from afar . Poem for piano solo (2012)

Vocal music

  • Soul for 13 players and four vocal parts (1974)
  • Styx. Cycle after Arno Holz for baritone and orchestra (1964/1979)
  • Ricercar. 8 Low German poems by Waltrud Bruhn for low speaking and singing voice, accordion, ocarina and percussion (1982)
  • The daffodils rang from the tower ... (Arno Holz). Cycle for bass baritone and piano or orchestra (1982 or 1983)
  • 4 North Sea songs by Heinrich Heine for baritone and piano (1984/1987)
    • cleaning
    • peace
    • Night on the beach
    • The shipwrecked
  • Geister, Elfen, singet ... (based on William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream) for four solos and orchestra (1984/1985)
  • Sonatina based on poems by Arno Holz for speaker, alto flute, guitar and marimbaphone (1985)
  • And Kabir says ... for alto voice, flute, clarinet and string quartet after Rabindranath Thakur (1986)
  • ... a man calls to you for bass baritone and string quartet according to Kierkegaard (1993)
  • Three chants based on the letters of St. Paul (2006)
  • Three songs from hard times for bass and piano (2007)
    • The grim death
    • Human misery
    • The savior
  • Without a trace ... Scenes from the musical chronicle Lamentation of Jeremias in concert performance for baritone, choir and orchestra (2011)
  • 6 songs by Rainer Maria Rilke for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (2013)

Stage works

  • Steps. Music theater (1984)
  • Island in the water. Music theater (1989)
  • Clocked. Music theater (1989/90)
  • Lament of Jeremiah. Musical chronicle in three pictures (1985/2011)

Literary works

  • Journey into the gloomy. Novella (1988)
  • Preparations. Fantastic Tale (1989)
  • Pieces for the speaking stage
    • Traffic Island (1989)
    • Allegro moderato (1990)
  • River trip 1875 . Narration (1991)

CD

  • Arnold Maury. Composer portrait, Veraphon Records (2017)
    • Symphony No. 3
    • Three songs from difficult times
    • Call from afar
    • The daffodils rang from the tower
    • Violin Sonata No. 2

Literature / sources (chronological)

Lexicon article

  • Claus Woschenko: Art. Arnold Maury , in: Hanns-Werner Heister and Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer (Eds.): Composers of the Present (KDG) , Munich (edition text + kritik) undated, 48th subsequent delivery 2012.

Portraits

  • Michael Struck: composer in Northern Germany. Arnold Maury - an activist on quiet feet , in: NZfM , Jg. 148 (1987), H. 10, S. 48-50.
  • Michael Struck: Fantasy, color, seriousness. The Kiel composer Arnold Maury turns 85 today , in: Kieler Nachrichten (August 17, 2012), p. 10.

Reviews

[with details of the discussed works in square brackets]

  • RG [Rolf Gaska]: Jazz and chamber music combined. Arnold Maury presents his compositions in Lübeck , in: Kieler Nachrichten (April 22, 1981). [Border crossing]
  • Kg: Between light and serious music. Arnold Maury's “Grenzgang liked in Lübeck” , in: Kieler Nachrichten (April 30, 1981). [Border crossing]
  • Wolfgang Pardey: Jazz and New Music , in: Lübecker Nachrichten (April 30, 1981). [Border crossing]
  • RG [Rolf Gaska]: Musical mythologist. The composer Arnold Maury in the working group for new music , in: Kieler Nachrichten (May 13, 1982).
  • RG [Rolf Gaska]: Wind in the pen. The Kiel composer Arnold Maury in the working group for new music , in: Kieler Nachrichten (June 2, 1983). [Ricercar, the daffodils rang from the tower ... ]
  • RG [Rolf Gaska]: Music for three. “Group of Kiel composers appear together for the first time” , in: Kieler Nachrichten (November 12, 1983). [Piano Sonata No. 2, The Soft Light of the Night ]
  • Rolf Gaska: An encouraging start. The first concert of the group of Kiel composers received a lot of attention , in: Kieler Nachrichten (November 18, 1983). [Piano Sonata No. 2, The Soft Light of the Night ]
  • hj: Rhapsody premiered in Celle. Young double bass player made his debut in the artists' association , in: Celler Zeitung (February 4, 1984). [Rhapsody for double bass and piano]
  • Rolf Gaska: Suggestions from the literature. Second concert by the group of Kiel composers - four world premieres , in: Kieler Nachrichten (June 22, 1984). [ The glorious day has appeared ]
  • Rolf Gaska: The scenic and the fantastic. 3. Concert by the group of Kiel composers with Peter Roggenkamp in the castle foyer , in: Kieler Nachrichten (November 29, 1984). [Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 3]
  • EA: The music in a dream. Kiel composer portrait: Arnold Maury introduces himself in the castle , in: Kieler Nachrichten (December 5, 1984). [ Ghosts, elves sing ... ]
  • Rolf Gaska: Complicated Midsummer Night's Dream. 3rd Kiel Symphony Concert in the Castle - Arnold Maury's composition premiered , in: Kieler Nachrichten (December 10, 1984). [ Ghosts, elves sing ... ]
  • E [nno]. Neuendorf: Fruitful poetry. Literary-musical evening of the group of Kiel composers , in: Kieler Nachrichten (June 1, 1985) [Ricercar]
  • rg .: Demanding poetry setting , in: Norddeutsche Rundschau (June 10, 1985). [Ricercar, Sonatina based on poems by Arno Holz]
  • Michael Struck: Between chorale and catastrophe. Concert by the group of Kiel composers - three world premieres , in: Kieler Nachrichten (November 20, 1985). [Nonet for wind instruments]
  • Anonymous: Group of Kiel composers introduces itself , in: Goden Dag, leeve Lüüd! (November 21, 1985).
  • Dietlinde Hedwig Heckt: group picture with lady. The “Group of Kiel composers” is celebrating its second birthday with new works , in: Kieler Rundschau (November 28, 1985). [Nonet for wind instruments]
  • ms [Michael Struck]: District culture apart from the concert routine. The Hamburg Haydn Quartet plays Arnold Maury's 3rd String Quartet in the Prieser Kirche , in: Kieler Nachrichten (April 23, 1986). [String Quartet No. 3]
  • Christa Waschmann: Arnold Maury's works received with great applause , in: dpa (April 28, 1986). [String Quartet No. 3]
  • ll Lutz Lesle : Maury's string quartet. Tolkien's words as sound worlds , in: Die Welt (April 28, 1986). [String Quartet No. 3]
  • EN [Enno Neuendorf]: Risk to the limit. The duo Zander / Brede organizes the 7th concert of the group of Kieler composers , in: Kieler Nachrichten (January 16, 1987). [Sonata for violoncello and piano]
  • Michael Struck: Colorful anthemic work. The Rheinische Bach-Collegium with a Maury world premiere in Kiel , in: Kieler Nachrichten (February 19, 1987). [ And Kabir says ... ]
  • Wolfgang Pardey: Roggenkamps care to convey new music , in: Lübecker Nachrichten (May 22, 1987). [Piano Sonata No. 3]
  • Michael Struck: Fantasticism and a sense of technical duty. A portrait of the Kiel composer Arnold Maury on his 60th birthday , in: Kieler Nachrichten (August 15, 1987).
  • Detlef Brandenburg: Difficult contemporaneity. Three days of the Kiel Cultural Forum on New Music , in: Kieler Nachrichten (October 12, 1987). [ Daffodils sounded from the tower ... , And says Kabir ... ]
  • Detlef Brandenburg: Illuminating each other. Kieler Contrapunkt concert with two world premieres , in: Kieler Nachrichten (December 18, 1987). [Chamber Symphony No. 2]
  • gel: Composer portrait with Arnold Maury , in: Kieler Nachrichten (April 12, 1988).
  • ate: Portrait: Composer Maury , in: Kieler Markt on Wednesday (April 13, 1988).
  • Anonymous: Symphony concert with well-known guests , in: Kieler Express (April 13, 1988). [Symphony No. 3]
  • ms [Michael Struck]: Symphony with ulterior motives for an opera. In the VdM series Composer Portrait, Arnold Maury spoke at the premiere of his “3. Symphony ”on Sunday and Monday , in: Kieler Nachrichten (April 16, 1988). [Symphony No. 3]
  • Michael Struck: Symphonic turbulence and dream sequences. Niksa Bareza directs the world premiere of Arnold Maury's “3. Symphony ”in the seventh concert of the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra , in: Kieler Nachrichten (April 18, 1988). [Symphony No. 3]
  • Enno Neuendorf: The uncanny is breaking in. World premiere: Literature and Music by Arnold Maury , in: Kieler Nachrichten (October 14, 1988). [ Reise ins Düstere, Trio for alto flute, harp and violoncello]
  • kml: experiments alongside the conventional. The “trio appassionato” in the cultural quarter , in: Kieler Nachrichten (October 19, 1989). [Trio for alto flute, harp and violoncello]
  • Enno Neuendorf: literature, music and images as a unit. Arnold Maury's performance in Sophienhof , in: Kieler Nachrichten (January 20, 1990). [ Preparations , 4 piano pieces, piano piece I]
  • mk [Michael Kube]: Word and Music by Arnold Maury , in: Kieler Nachrichten (April 29, 1992). [ The Chain , Piano Sonata No. 2]
  • Thomas Kahlke: A quiet man in the country. Arnold Maury on his 65th birthday , in: Kieler Nachrichten (October 23, 1992). [Piano Sonata No. 2, River Cruise 1875 ]
  • Christian Strehk: Kiel's Shaper of Sound , in: Kieler Nachrichten (October 31, 2002). [ 3 North Sea Songs , Sonata [No. 2] for violin and piano, string quartet No. 6, ... a person calls to you ]
  • Oliver Kopf: Hope is not out of place. VdM special concert for the composer Arnold Maury , in: Kieler Nachrichten (November 4, 2002). [ 3 North Sea Songs , Sonata [No. 2] for violin and piano, string quartet No. 6, ... a person calls to you ]
  • Jörg Meyer: Passionate fragility. The first Musikfreunde matinee presented new works by the Kiel composer Arnold Maury in the Klaiber studio , in: Kieler Nachrichten (October 2, 2012). [ Call from afar , Three Songs from Difficult Times , Sonata [No. 2] for violin and piano, string quartet No. 7]
  • Jörg Meyer: A solitaire and its “tonal rows”. A CD honors the Kiel composer Arnold Maury on his 90th birthday , in: Kieler Nachrichten (August 31, 2017).
  • Christian Strehk: Farewell to the Kiel clay tinkerer , in: Kieler Nachrichten (February 7, 2018).
  • Michael Struck: Captivating life's work in 26 boxes. The Schleswig-Holstein State Library receives the estate of the Kiel composer Arnold Maury , in: Kieler Nachrichten (March 28, 2019). [Piano Sonata No. 4, Sonata [No. 2] for violin and piano]

Others

  • Leo Bodenstein: And suddenly I had to speak English ... Why a Kieler became an American , Kiel (State Center for Political Education Schleswig-Holstein) 1991, p. 271 f. [on the origins of the lamentation of Jeremiah ]

Web links

Audio samples

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries , published and accessed on February 10, 2018
  2. ↑ Michael Struck, composer in Northern Germany. Arnold Maury - an activist on quiet feet , in: NZfM , Jg. 148 (1987), H. 10, S. 48-50.
  3. ↑ cf. Reviews of April 22 and 30, 1981 (see literature).
  4. ↑ cf. Reviewed November 28, 1985 (see literature).
  5. ↑ cf. Reviewed December 18, 1987 (see literature).
  6. ↑ cf. Reviewed on March 28, 2019 (see literature).
  7. ↑ quoted from: Michael Struck: Composer in Northern Germany. Arnold Maury - an activist on quiet feet . In: NZfM . Vol. 148 (1987), no. 10, p. 49.
  8. ↑ Michael Struck, composer in Northern Germany. Arnold Maury - an activist on quiet feet , in: NZfM , Jg. 148 (1987), H. 10, S. 48-50, supplemented by reviews and information from the composer.
personal data
SURNAME Maury, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German contemporary composer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2018
Place of death Kiel