Christian Münch

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Christian Münch (born April 11, 1951 in Freiberg ) is a German composer , organist , pianist and conductor .

Life

Münch was born in 1951 into a cantor family in Freiberg. He learned the trumpet and organ from his father . Since childhood he received piano and clarinet lessons at the Freiberg Music School.

From 1971 to 1976 he studied composition with Manfred Weiss and Wilfried Krätzschmar , conducting with Rudolf Neuhaus and piano with Günter Handel at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . From 1983 to 1985 he was a master student with Georg Katzer at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . During this time he was engaged in electro-acoustic music .

Münch then worked as a répétiteur at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden . He conducted the Neue Musik Hanns Eisler group , the musica-viva-ensemble dresden and the Ensemble für Neue Musik Berlin as well as guest conductor at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin . Münch directed more than 100 world premieres. His compositions, including a ballet, have been performed by the Dresden Philharmonic , the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Dresdner Kreuzchor , among others .

Münch has been teaching at the Dresden University of Music since 1976 and was honorary professor there from 2002 to 2016 . He taught performance practice in New Music .

In 2018 he donated his bequest to the music department of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Whispering Letters from Prison for mezzo-soprano, Fl, Vla, Perk (1979)
  • Piano Variations (1980)
  • The weak power, (Ballet, 1982/86)
  • dreamed (1988)
  • In beautiful indolence (1989)
  • Dakrion ... Dakrion (1992)
  • Canto LXXVL by Ezra Pound , (oratorio, 1994)
  • Undecided (concert, 1999)
  • All things lovely (choral music, 1999)
  • a fleece lends miner godliness for soloists, choir and ensemble (2000)
  • Jemand , Lieder after Borges for solos, choir and orchestra (oratorio, 2001)
  • Queen's song, piano trio
  • Music for the rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche "as a gift" (2006)
  • glowing for alto and piano (2007)
  • Chants and Harmonies (Chamber Music, 2007)
  • fall silent for 2 Vl, Vla, Vcl (2008)
  • dance through for female and male voices (2009)
  • Impossible duos for tenor, pos, Vl, Vla, Vcl, Kb, Pn (2010)
  • Klangmoment for Organ, Perk (2010)
  • the witch I mean is laughing? for soprano, 2 vl, vla, vcl (2011)
  • nobody for 2 pianos, choir and large orchestra (2011)
  • heavenly for celesta, soprano solo and large orchestra (2011)
  • graciously gracious for solos, choir (SATB), children's choir, Pn, org and small orchestra (2012)
  • it's the tones for organ (2013)
  • Flute and skin instruments for fl, perk (2018)
  • Flute concert (before the blackout) for Fl solo, Trp, Hrn, Pos, Tb, 2 Vl, 2 Vla, 2 Vc, 2 Kb, Perk (2019)
  • Female voice and drummer for soprano, drum set (2019)
  • Traum (with a text by Franz Kafka) for children's or women's choir, Pn, 2 Vl, 4 Perk (2019)

literature

  • Münch, Christian. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 4th edition, German Association of Composers, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-55561-410-X , p. 900.
  • Christoph Sramek : Münch, Christian. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 20th August 2012.
  • Christoph Sramek: Christian Münch . In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8 .
  • Christoph Sramek: Münch, Christian . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): Music in past and present (MGG). Supplement, Bärenreiter, Kassel [u. a.] 2004, col. 585-586.
  • Münch, Christian. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 322.
  • About Münch performances by the Dresden Kreuzchor, in: Matthias Herrmann (Ed.): Dresdner Kreuzchor and contemporary choral music. World premieres between Richter and Kreile , Marburg 2017, pp. 162–167, 269, 326 (Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchor, vol. 2)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vorlass Münch, Christian (* 1951)  in Kalliope
  2. ↑ Das Orchester 39 (1991), p. 339.
personal data
SURNAME Münch, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg