Daniel Andres

Daniel Andres (born March 6, 1937 in Biel / Bienne ) is a Swiss composer and musician.

He received his musical training at the Bern Conservatory (today Bern University of the Arts). His teachers included Otto Schaerer , organ, and Sándor Veress , composition. Later he continued his education with Kazimierz Serocki .

Daniel Andres worked among other things as Kapellmeister , répétiteur and choirmaster at the Musiktheater der Stadt Biel (today Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn ) from 1972 to 1979 and from 1984 to 1989. From 1989 he was an organist and church musician in Biel, from 2002 a freelance composer.

Andres also worked as a journalist for a time and published an autobiographical novel as well as several books on the building history of Biel. 1996–1998 he was President of the Landesring der Independentigen (LdU) .

Works

• Sambogha-Kaya , five orchestral pieces
• Job's laments , choral piece
• ... alors la nuit ... , choir piece
• Missa a 4 voci , choir piece
• The nightingale of a thousand stories , opera
• Violin Concerto 1976
• 3 string quartets
• String sextet
• "Was ist der Mensch ..." for alto solo, string sextet and organ
• Concerto for piano and orchestra 2002
• Tusqui el Haratine , orchestral piece 2004
• Concerto for violoncello and orchestra 2010
• Chamber music (cello sonata, piano sonata, violin sonata, duos for Vl./Vc.;Vl./Vla;Fag./Vla)

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Andres in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Daniel Andres