Edgar Mann

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Edgar Mann (born May 22, 1961 in Aalen ) is a German composer and pianist .

Life

Edgar Mann's musical training begins in 1969 with his first piano lessons. In 1972 the eleven-year-old wrote his first composition Etude for piano . The piano teacher Karla Spolwig is one of the teachers who are important for his support. After completing his A-levels at the state advanced high school in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Achill Stein began his lessons in counterpoint , harmony and piano. From 1982 Henning Brauel prepared the young composer for the entrance examination for the music college .

Edgar Mann began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in 1984 with Frank Corcoran and continued it a year later with Christoph Hohlfeld . Brigitte Kriete - Ahringsmann teaches his main artistic subject, piano. He is a scholarship holder of the Oskar and Vera Ritter Foundation. In 1992 he completed his studies with a diploma in composition and music theory and as a certified music teacher for composition and music theory. He then continued his previous composition studies with Henning Brauel. This time his main focus is on instrumentation techniques . The result is the symphony for large orchestra. In the following year of study in Rome, he composed and taught piano.

Edgar Mann has lived as a freelance composer and music teacher for piano, music theory and composition in his hometown of Aalen since 1994. In 1995 he founded a piano duo with the pianist and music school director of the municipal music school Bopfingen, Gebhard Schmid , whose main focus was on new music. The duo usually performs with guest musicians. In addition to original literature, they also play arrangements made by Edgar Mann for the respective line-ups.

Edgar Mann often inspires lyrical works in terms of setting to music or a synaesthetic debate. Art, like music itself, serves him as a tandem towards the creation of his works, as well as literature, visual arts and natural events. Characteristic of Mann's harmony is the search for a new tonality that is not major-minor tonal, but instead transfers structures that have evolved musically and historically into its own, unmistakable sound language.

Edgar Mann's work includes solo pieces, chamber music , orchestral works , songs , theater music , recording studio productions , instrumentations and arrangements of pieces by other composers.

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