Dieter Schnebel

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Dieter Wolfgang Schnebel (born March 14, 1930 in Lahr / Black Forest ; † May 20, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German composer , musicologist and Protestant theologian.

life and work

After studying at the Freiburg University of Music (1949–1952) and having close contact with the Darmstadt summer courses, Dieter Schnebel pursued studies in Protestant theology, philosophy and musicology at the University of Tübingen . This was followed from 1956 by a pastor and teacher in Kaiserslautern , from 1963 to 1970 at the Wöhlerschule in Frankfurt am Main and from 1970 to 1976 at the Oskar-von-Miller-Gymnasium in Munich . After the death of his first wife Camilla, Dieter Schnebel and the translator Iris von Kaschnitz (1928–2014), daughter of the poet Marie Luise Kaschnitz, married in 1970 . According to Achim Freyer , Schnebel married a third time in 2017.

Schnebel was Professor of Experimental Music and Musicology at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1976 to 1995 . His students included Anna Clementi , Chaya Czernowin , Silke Egeler-Wittmann, Suguru Goto, Michael Hirsch , Henrik Kairies, Christian Kesten, Chico Mello, Iris ter Schiphorst , Steffi Weismann and Michael Wertmüller . Since 1991 he was a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and in the same year received the Lahr Art Prize . Schnebel had been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 1996 . At the invitation of Walter Fink , he was the sixth composer in the annual composer portrait of the Rheingau Music Festival in 1996 . In 1999 he was awarded the European Church Music Prize. Schnebel continued his work as a theologian by preaching at the Johann Sebastian Bach Church in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

Schnebel experimented with serial techniques in his first compositions in the 1950s and then discovered, not least under the influence of John Cage (since his appearance at the Darmstadt Summer Course in 1958), experimental possibilities for composing with voice, text and scene. Pieces with a wide variety of scoring and for a wide variety of contexts were created, categorized into highly individual and unconventional work groups. Key positions here include a. the following compositions: Glossolalie (1959/1961), Maulwerke (1968–1974) and Symphony X (1987–1992). In some of his compositions, Schnebel refers to the music of older composers in an adaptation (title of this group of works Re-Visionen ). He has also written numerous musicological publications a. a. on works by Franz Schubert , Giuseppe Verdi , Richard Wagner and Anton Webern .

Another important, repeated thematic focus in Schnebel's work is the compositional exploration of sacred themes - from the experimental missa of the late 1950s to his more recent contributions to the church pavilion at EXPO 2000 and documenta 8 . Schnebel expressly did not want his corresponding works to be understood as church music in the liturgical sense, but as autonomous works of new music with an explicitly “avant-garde” claim.

As one of the first representatives of the so-called avant - garde of the 1960s and 1970s, Schnebel wrote pieces that were expressly designed for performance by musical amateurs and especially by students. In addition, he regularly presented his other works in various schools to supplement music lessons and give interested students an insight into contemporary art music .

Grave of Dieter Schnebel

The grave of Schnebel and his wife, who died in 2014, is in the Dahlem cemetery .

Prizes and awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • orchestra
    • Compositio (1955/1956; 1964/1965)
    • Orchestra , symphonic music for mobile musicians (1974–1977)
    • Canones (1975-1977; 1993/1994)
    • Schubert Phantasy for large orchestra and parts (1978, rev. 1989)
    • Thanatos Eros (Traditione III, 1) , Symphonic Variations for large orchestra (1978/79/81/82/84/85)
    • Missa , Dahlem Mass for four solo voices, two mixed choirs, orchestra and organ (1984–1987)
    • Mahler Moment for Strings (1985)
    • Symphony X (1987–1992; 2004/2005)
    • Mozart moment (1988/1989)
    • Schumann Moment (1989)
    • Verdi Moment (1989)
    • St. Jago , Music and Pictures for Kleist (1989–1991, rev. 1995)
    • Janáček moment (1991/1992)
    • Dance of Death , ballet oratorio for two speakers, soprano, bass, choir, orchestra and live electronics (1992–1994)
    • inter (1994)
    • O love! - sweet death ... , five sacred songs after Johann Sebastian Bach for mezzo-soprano, chamber choir and small orchestra (1995)
    • Ekstasis for soprano solo, speaker, two children's voices, percussion solo, choir and large orchestra (1996/1997; 2001/2002)
  • Chamber music , experimental pieces
    • Analysis for string instruments and percussion (1953)
    • Pieces for string quartet and string instruments (1954/1955)
    • Fragment for chamber ensemble and voice ad libitum (1955)
    • The judgment according to Franz Kafka , room music for instruments, voices and other sound sources (1959, rev. 1990)
    • Glossolalia 61 (1960-1965)
    • Maulwerke (1970); Production 1977 by Achim Freyer , Musiktheaterwerkstatt Wiesbaden Version 2010
    • Body language , organ composition for 3–9 performers (1979/1980)
    • Beethoven Symphony for chamber ensemble (1985)
    • Metamorphosis music for voice and chamber ensemble (1986/1987)
    • Metamorphoses of Ovid or The Movement from the Edges to the Center and Vice Versa , incidental music for 11 strings and voices (1987)
    • With these hands for voice and cello with round arch (1992)
    • Baumzucht ( JP Hebel ) , musical reading for speakers and chamber ensemble (1992/1995)
    • Magnificat (1996/97)
    • Pinball , chamber music for slot machines, actors, instruments and tape (2002/2003)
    • Three Kafka Dramolets , 2009: The Sudden Walk , Decisions and Give Up!

Fonts (selection)

  • MONO. Music to Read - Music to Read. DuMont, Cologne 1969, extended new edition: Edition MusikTexte, Cologne 2018.
  • Conceivable music. Writings 1952–1972. Published by Hans Rudolf Zeller . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1972.

literature

  • Heinz-Klaus Metzger , Rainer Riehn (eds.): Dieter Schnebel. Music Concepts Issue 16. Edition Text u. Critique, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-88377-056-6 .
  • Nikša Gligo: writing is music? A contribution to updating a seemingly outdated contradiction. in: International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music , 18, 1987, 1, pp. 145-162 (1st part); 19, 1988, 1, pp. 75–115 (Part 2) (an analysis of Schnebel's MO-NO )
  • Werner Grünzweig , Gesine Schröder , Martin Supper (eds.): Schnebel 60 . Wolke, Hofheim 1990, ISBN 3-923997-36-1 .
  • MusikTexte 57/58, March 1995, 23–117 (Schnebel thematic focus with contributions by Dieter Schnebel, Ulrich Dibelius, Martin Wilkening, Hanns-Werner Heister, Reinhard Oehlschlägel, Gisela Gronemeyer, Hartmut Lück, Max Nyffeler, Peter Ruzicka, Theda Weber- Lucks, Alexander Kopp, Gisela Nauck, Hans Wüthrich, FW Bernstein, Clytus Gottwald, Bernd Leukert and catalog raisonné).
  • Gisela Nauck: Schnebel. Reading walks through life and work. Schott, Mainz a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-7957-0303-4 .
  • Simone Heilgendorff : Experimental staging of language and music. Comparative analyzes on Dieter Schnebel and John Cage. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2002, ISBN 3-7930-9267-4 . (Series Cultura Vol. 16)
  • Asja Jarzina: Gestural music and musical gestures. Dieter Schnebel's “visible music”. Weidler Buchverlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89693-258-6 . (= Body Sign Culture Vol. 14.)
  • Theo Rommerskirchen: Dieter Schnebel . In: viva signature si! Remagen-Rolandseck 2005, ISBN 3-926943-85-8 .
  • Andreas Weiland: BODY LANGUAGE. An 'organ composition' by Dieter Schnebel, premiered in the Neue Galerie in Aachen on March 24, 1986. in: Art in Society, No. 11 (Spring / Summer, 2011) [1] .
  • Andreas Weiland: Die Metamorphosen for mezzo-soprano and small orchestra Dieter Schnebel, premiered in the Neue Galerie in Aachen. ibid [2] .
  • Ariane Jeßulat : Craft as text. To Dieter Schnebel's counterpoint . In: Myth craft. On the role of music theory in current composition , ed. by Ariane Jeßulat, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5488-4 , pp. 317-344.
  • Theda Weber-Lucks (Ed.): Dieter Schnebel. Lateral thinker of the musical avant-garde. edition text + kritik, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86916-395-6 .
  • Eleonore Büning : The luck of the recapitulation . On the death of Dieter Schnebel. In: nmz , 6/2018, obituary, magazine p. 6.

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Schnebel died at the age of 88. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. May 20, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Short biography of the Academy of the Arts, adk
  3. ↑ On the death of Dieter Schnebel - A radical avant-gardist. Deutschlandfunk Kultur on May 20, 2018
  4. ^ Gisela Nauck: Dieter Schnebel. Reading walks through life and work . Schott, Mainz a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-7957-0303-4 , pp. 241 .
  5. ↑ http://www.neuemusik-rlp.de/biografie%20details.htm
  6. ↑ Suguru Goto: "Music to See, Visible to Hear". My meeting with Dieter Schnebel . In: Theda Weber-Lucks (Ed.): Dieter Schnebel. Lateral thinker of the musical avant-garde . edition text + kritik, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86916-395-6 , p. 244 .
  7. ↑ Schlossparktheater Berlin: Schlosspark Theater Artists. In: Schlosspark Theater Artists. Halliwood Film GmbH Schlosspark Theater Berlin, January 1, 2019, accessed on April 15, 2019 .
  8. ^ Christian Kesten: Christian Kesten biography. In: Christian Kesten. Christan Kesten, May 1, 2004, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  9. ↑ biography on: latinoamerica-musica.net
  10. ^ Schott Music: Glossolalie Projects III. In: schott-music.com. Schott Music, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  11. ^ Schott Music: Glossolalie 61 projects IV. In: schott-music.com. Schott Music, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  12. ^ Schott Music: Maulwerke for organs of articulation and reproduction devices. In: schott-music.com. Schott Music, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  13. ^ Schott Music: Re-Visions. In: schott-music.com. Schott Music, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  14. ^ See Nauck 2001 (see bibliography), pp. 84ff and 169ff.
  15. ↑ This is what happened in 2005 at the Scheffel-Gymnasium in his hometown Lahr (Black Forest).
  16. ^ Foundation Bible and Culture - Awards. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
  17. ^ With these hands - world premiere 1992 Cologne ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ http://www.adk.de/de/projekte/2015/Kontakte/Bio_Schnebel.htm
  19. ↑ Melancholic pneumatics, reduced to minimalist sequences of steps. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from January 24, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Schnebel, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnebel, Dieter Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr / Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH 20th May 2018
Place of death Berlin