Edino warrior

Edino Krieger, 1972.

Edino Krieger (born March 17, 1928 in Brusque , Santa Catarina , Brazil ) is a Brazilian violinist , composer and conductor and founder of the local conservatory.

Life

education

From the age of 7 he received violin lessons from his father Aldo Krieger. At the age of nine he gave his first concerts in various cities in Brazil. In 1942, at the age of 14, he received a government grant from the state of Santa Catarina to continue his education at the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Rio de Janeiro . There he learned counterpoint, harmony and composition with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter .

Starting from the aesthetics of Impressionism (“Improviso” for flute, 1944) he initially developed in the direction of serial music, e.g. B. with the trio for wind instruments "Música 1945" , for which he received the Música Viva prize. Because of this success, he became a member of the eponymous group of avant-garde composers alongside Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, Cláudio Santoro , Guerra-Peixe and Eunice Catunda .

As the winner of a competition in 1948, Krieger was able to continue studying with Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center de Massachusetts, USA, where he also took lessons with Darius Milhaud . He then studied composition with Peter Mennin at the Juilliard School of Music in New York for a year. In the same year, Krieger represented the Juilliard School at the symposium for composers from the USA and Canada in Boston. At the same time he studied the violin with William Nowinsky, a student of Ivan Galmian, at the Henry Street Settlement School of Music and also worked as a violinist in the Mozart Orchestra in New York.

Act

Returned to Brazil in 1949, Krieger produced the music programs of the Radio Ministério da Educacão (Radio Ministry of Education) as music director. At the same time, he took over the management of the Orquestra Sinfônica Nacional. From 1950 to 1952 he was a music critic for the daily Tribuna da Imprensa . In 1952 he took part in the Third International Summer Course in Teresópolis near Rio de Janeiro with Ernst Krenek. During this time he turned away from serial music in favor of further and more in-depth experiments with traditional forms and Brazilian themes. 1952/53 he studied for a year with Lennox Berkeley at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

With his “Variações Elementares”, which premiered at the 3rd Inter-American Music Festival in Washington the same year he wrote them (1965), he introduced a synthesis of his previous musical experiences and from then on used both avant-garde means as well as those from the musical tradition of Brazil. The following year, on the occasion of the 3rd Music Festival in Caracas, the premiere of his work "Ludus Symphonicus" took place by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to his compositional work, Krieger also worked in the following years as the head of various music institutions, as the director of large events and as a journalist for the daily newspapers Tribuna da Imprensa and Jornal do Brasil . He founded and organized in 1969 and 1970, the Festival de Música da Guanabara (Music Festival of Guanabara ), from 1975, the Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea emerged (Biennial of Contemporary Brazilian Music), which he held until 1997, until they are 12 Issue headed. In 1976 he took over the artistic direction of the Fundação (Foundation) de Teatros do Rio de Janeiro (FUNTERJ). In this function he organized the season of the reopening of the great old Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro as well as the "Inhaúma theater productions". Three years later he initiated the project “Pro-Memus - Memória Musical Brasileira” for the Instituto Nacional de Música of the National Art Foundation (FUNARTE). He was director of this institute from 1981 to 1989. He then took over the office of President of FUNARTE.

In 1996, Krieger held a week in Tokyo in his honor with six lectures by him, in addition to the performance of several of his orchestral and chamber music works, performed by Japanese ensembles. In 2000 he held lectures and seminars in Berlin and Karlsruhe. Six of his works were performed in Karlsruhe as part of the “500 Years of Brazil” festival. The year 2002 saw him again in Karlsruhe, this time as a guest composer at the music college. In the following year he was appointed president of the “Museum for Image and Sound” and in 2005 he took over the presidency of the “Brazilian Academy for Music” as well as the direction of the concert hall “Sala Cecília Meireles”.

On the occasion of the 37th International Winter Festival in Campos de Jordão 2006 the world premiere of his "Ritmetrias" for orchestra took place. In addition to the cities already mentioned, works by Edino Krieger et al. a. also performed in London, Paris, Munich, Liege, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, New York and Philadelphia.

Works (selection)

• 1988 - "3 Imagens de Nova Friburgo" (Three Views of Nova Friburgo) for strings and harpsichord
• 1989 - "Romance de Santa Cecília" for narrator, soprano, children's choir and orchestra
• 1993/94 - concert for two guitars and orchestra
• 1994 - "Camerata" for 6 instruments
• 1997 - "Telas Sonoras" (sound canvases) for string quartet
• 1997 - "Te Deum Puerorum Brasiliae" for boys' choir, Gregorian choir, brass and percussion instruments (using elements from the three tone systems that have shaped Brazilian musical culture: Gregorian chant, Indian music and "o nordestino", the typical music of the Northeast Brazil), composed for the celebrations on the occasion of the Pope's visit to Rio de Janeiro
• 1999 - "Embalos" for wind quintet - "Terra Brasilis", symphonic painting, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture on the occasion of the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil
• 2000 - "Era do Conhecimento" (Age of Knowledge), cantata for the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro
• 2001 - "Estudos Intervalares" (interval studies for piano)
• 2004 - "Variações Carnavalescas" (Carnival Variations) for marimba
• 2005 - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra - Concert suite for guitar and orchestra
• 2006 - "Ritmetrias" for orchestra
• 2007 - "Abertura Solene" (Grand Opening) for orchestra, for the 2008 commemorations marking the 200 years since the arrival of the Portuguese court in Brazil

Awards and honors

• 1945: Prêmio Música Viva (for the trio for wind instruments "Música 1945")
• 1948: First prize in the composition competition at the Berkshire Music Center, USA
• 1955: International Peace Prize of the Warsaw Festival (for the setting of "If We Die" by Ethel Rosenberg) - Prize of the Rottelini Foundation, Rome, Italy
• 1959: First prize in the 1st National Composition Competition for “Divertimento for Strings” - plaque of honor on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Theater Municipal (City Theater) Rio de Janeiro
• 1967: Gold medal of the song festival Rio de Janeiro for "Fuge e Anti-Fuga"
• 1968: Gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Song Festival for "Passacalha"
• 1968: Brazilian Record Prize (for a recording of the String Quartet No. 1) - Prize of the Brazilian Film Institute for the best film music of the year
• 1969: “Golden Dolphin” of the Rio de Janeiro State Council of Culture
• 1974, 1975, 1988 and 2006: Sao Paulo Art Critics' Prize
• 1978: Prize of the Governor of the State of São Paulo for the music for the film "O Seminarista"
• 1984: Order of Culture of Merit of the Polish Ministry of Culture and the Arts
• 1986: Anita Garibaldi Medal for Cultural Merit
• 1987: Shell Prize for Brazilian Music
• 1994: National Prize for Music from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture
• 1998: Honors on the occasion of the 70th birthday, including - a cycle of five concerts in the cultural center of the Banco do Brasil under the title "Edino Krieger: Trajetória Musical"; Carlos Gomes Medal of the State of Rio de Janeiro; Rui Barbosa State Medal of Merit for Culture of the State of Rio de Janeiro; Pedro Ernesto Medal of the City of Rio de Janeiro
• 2000: Brazilian Order of Merit for Contributions to Brazilian Culture - Cultural Merit Medal of the Bolshoi Theater Moscow, Russia
• 2002: Honorary doctorates from the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (Uni-Rio) and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
• 2004: National Prize for Literature and Art “Jorge Amado”, donated by the government of the State of Bahia, awarded for classical music

Krieger was guest of honor at the European premiere of his concert for two guitars and strings in Brussels, Belgium by the Duo Assad and at the opening of the concert season in Córdoba, Spain, with the same work performed by the Duo Assad and the Orquestra de Córdoba under Leo Brouwer . He also directed the South Westphalia Philharmonic Orchestra at the performance of his Canticum Naturale in Cologne.

literature

• Ermelinda A. Paz: Edino Krieger. Crítico, produtor musical, compositor. SESC, Rio de Janeiro 2012. 2 volumes:
  • Volume 1 , ISBN 978-85-89336-77-2 (PDF 5.8 MB)
  • Volume 2 , ISBN 978-85-89336-78-9 (PDF 6.7 MB)
• Vasco Mariz: História da Música no Brasil . 6th edition. Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro 2005, pages 359-366.

Web links

• Profile: Edino Krieger. In: www.abmusica.org.br. Academia Brasileira de Música (Brazilian Portuguese).