Dorothee Eberhardt

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Dorothee Eberhardt (born January 23, 1952 in Memmingen ) is a German composer and music teacher.

Life

Dorothee Eberhardt was introduced to music as a child. She received accordion and piano lessons from an early age. A little later, the lessons were expanded to include saxophone and clarinet. After graduating from high school, she studied oriental studies , philosophy and Greek at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , completing her degree in 1979 with a doctorate.

She went to London in 1980 and studied musicology, composition (with Antonin Tucapsky) and clarinet at the university and the Trinity College of Music . There she was already working as a freelancer for music publishers.

After completing her studies, she worked in London as a composer and music teacher. She has lived near Munich since 1992.

Works

For instrument (s)

Piano music
  • Time Changes I – III (1989–90) for piano solo (Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt)
  • Chameleon (1990) for piano four hands (TRIO Musik Edition, Mettenheim)
  • Oblique Birds (1992/93) for two pianos
  • Weird Birds (1995) for piano solo
  • Quattro (1996) for piano four hands (Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt)
Chamber music
  • For Georg (1983/2004) for clarinet and piano
  • For Julia (1983/2004) for flute and piano
  • Steps I – V (1987/1990) for violin and violoncello (Forward Music, London)
  • Intrada (1996) for brass quintet (TRIO Musik Edition, Mettenheim)
  • Semper (1997) for violin, oboe (English horn) (or clarinet in A) and piano (Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt)
  • Phlox (1997/98) for flute and alto flute (Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt)
  • Piano Trio No. 1 (1998) (Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt)
  • Sträusse (1999/2000) for violin, clarinet in Bb, violoncello and piano
  • Campion (2000) for bass clarinet in Bb (or clarinet in Bb) and piano (TRIO Musik Edition, Mettenheim)
  • Syringa (2001) for violin and piano (Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt)
  • Salamanca (2001) for clarinet in Bb solo (also in a version for flute solo) (Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt)
  • Piano Trio No. 2 (2002)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (2003)
  • Kinemata (2003–2004) for strings, flute, clarinet and percussion
  • Pas de deux (2004) for clarinet and piano
  • Dreams (2004/2006) for flute and piano
  • Sextet (2005) for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion
  • Pasitos (2005) for clarinet and piano (and sea drum)
  • Piano Trio No. 3 (2006)
  • Taviv Trazom (2006) for clarinet and string quartet (The title is an anagram for “Mozart Vivat”.)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (2007/2008, rev. 2010/2011)
  • Terra Nea (2009/2013) for violin and piano
  • Orion for violoncello and piano (2010)
  • Piano Trio No. 4 (2010). Premiere October 10, 2010 Munich ( Gasteig , Small Concert Hall). Gertrud Schilde (violin), Michael Weiss (violoncello), Eva Schieferstein (piano)
  • Notos (2010) for violin, bass clarinet in Bb and piano
  • Solar (1995/2011) for flute (alto flute), cello and piano
  • Táxis (2011) for flute and piano. WP November 19, 2012 Munich ( Insurance Chamber ). Elisabeth Weinzierl-Wächter (flute), Eva Schieferstein (piano)
  • Neon (2012) for clarinet and piano. Premiere March 3, 2013 Munich (Gasteig, Black Box). Zoltán Kovács (clarinet), Eva Schieferstein (piano)
  • El Conde de Gondomar (2012) for percussion solo
  • Engel singen (2013) for flute solo. Premiere December 8, 2013 Uttenreuth (Matthäuskirche). Anja Weinberger
  • Von Zeit ... zu Zeit (2013) for flute solo (also transverse flute)
  • String Quartet No. 5 (2013/2014)
  • Kymata (2014/2015) for violin, horn and piano
Concert music
Orchestral music
  • Flux For Orchestra (1986) for large orchestra
  • Magpaco (1993/95) for large orchestra
  • Gamma (1999) for orchestra

For voice (s)

a cappella
  • Gesänge des Nezahualcoyotl (1993) for mixed chamber choir a cappella based on poems by the old Mexican prince Nezahualcóyotl (1402–1472)
with instruments
  • Life of a Man (1986) for soprano and piano. Life of a man. Text: Werner Bergengruen
  • On such a morning (1986) for soprano and piano. Text: Walter Helmut Fritz
  • The Bremen Town Musicians (2003). A fairy tale for speaker and piano (also: violin)
  • Going Up (2013). Six songs based on poems by Clive Wright for tenor and piano
  • Two songs (2015) for mezzo-soprano and alto saxophone based on texts by Barbara Yurtdaş and Heloïse Ph. Palmer

Sound carrier

  • Piano works by Martinez, Auernhammer, Hensel, C. Schumann, Chaminade, Tailleferre, l. Boulanger, Firsova, d. Eberhardt (Dreyer label)
  • Piano Trio 1 & 2 / Ostriches / Sal (Label Ccd)
  • Klaviernacht (piano works by female composers from the Romantic period and the present) (Label Br)
  • Landscapes (Pasitos, Piano Trio No. 3, Xenon Phi, Sextet)
  • Kosmos X (piano trio No. 4, Terra Nea for violin and piano, Orion for violoncello and piano, Táxis for flute and piano, Solar for flute (alto flute), violoncello and piano) Label Antes, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothee Eberhardt on klassika.info , accessed on January 26, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Eberhardt, Dorothee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen