Edition Gravis

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Edition Gravis
legal form GmbH
founding 1983
Seat Bruehl , Germany
management Detlef Kessler
(Management)
Branch Music publisher
Website www.editiongravis.de

The Edition Gravis is a specialist publisher for contemporary music based in Brühl and an office in Berlin .

history

The publishing house was founded in Bad Schwalbach in 1983 by Rudolf Lück (1927–2019), who had previously worked as a publisher's editor 1955–1964 at Edition Peters (Frankfurt am Main) and 1980–1982 at Breitkopf & Härtel (Wiesbaden). Today Edition Gravis belongs to the group of AMA Verlag . Its founder, owner and managing director Detlef Kessler was a professional musician before he started publishing. Edition Gravis' program includes works by more than 100 authors. The editing department is based in Berlin-Pankow.

activities

The publisher publishes chamber music as well as stage and orchestral works. Sheet music is either available in stores or, as is customary in the branch, on loan (especially large-scale compositions, musical theater works, etc.). Edition Gravis works with ensembles and organizers from home and abroad.

Publishing program

The program focuses on works by living authors of contemporary music. The original authorship consisted mainly of German composers, who have long since had a strong international character. New authors in recent years come mainly from the 1960s to 1980s. (The youngest composer in the publishing program is Kai Johannes Polzhofer, born in 1989). Younger and middle generation composers such as Brice Pauset , Wolfram Schurig, Dietrich Eichmann and Dániel Péter Biró stand for the aesthetic attitudes of the contemporary musical avant-garde. The publisher's program also includes arrangements of music-historical works, such as Jorge Rotter's reconstruction of Johannes Brahms' Serenade No. 1 in Dr major op. 11 as a nonet or Mathias Weber's symphonic development of César Franck's Piano Quintet in F minor . The program also includes works by the late romantic composer Walter Braunfels , such as his opera Annunciation . Braunfels' The Death of Cleopatra, Op. 24, published in 2014 as a newly set score, was considered one of the composer's last to date unpublished scores.

Contemporary music

The thematic focus of the publishing program is contemporary music. The authors include composers such as Brice Pauset , Georg Katzer , Wolfram Schurig and Detlef Heusinger , as well as Samuel Adler , Juan Allende-Blin , Jeffrey Ching, Michael Denhoff , Gerald Eckert , Dietrich Eichmann, Aaron Einstond, Ernst Helmuth Flammer, Johannes Kalitzke , Olga Kroupova, Georg Kröll , Giorgos Kyriakakis, Horst Lohse , Andrés Maupoint, Ari Benjamin Meyers , Christopher Trebue Moore, Manfred Niehaus, Bernfried Pröve , Aristides Strongylis, Dimitri Terzakis .

New authors

Since 2011, an increasing number of new, often young (and sometimes even less well-known) authors from Edition Gravis have been added to the program. Internationalization is emerging as a trend. The newcomers include Dietrich Eichmann (since 2011), Kristian Ireland, Yasutaki Inamori, Wolfram Schurig (since 2012), Dániel Péter Biró, Amir Shpilman, Anthony Tan, Gerd Zacher (since 2013), Brice Pauset and Aaron Einstond (since 2014) . Gerd Zacher died in 2014. Bricet Pauset, previously published by Editions Henry Lemoine , a traditional Parisian publisher , will appear in public with orchestral and stage works in the coming years.

Church music

Part of the publishing program includes sacred works. The works of the composers Oskar Gottlieb Blarr from Düsseldorf ( Die Himmelfahrt , oratorio from 2010), Otfried Büsing from Freiburg ( Adonai , cantata from 2008) and Heinz Werner Zimmermann ( Missa Profana , Latin mass from 1977) deserve special mention . Also Gerd Zacher ( 700,000 days later for vocal ensemble) and Kai Johannes Polzhofer ( > Amen dico tibi: hodie mecum eris in paradiso ' for string quartet) compose spiritually motivated works.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publishing information, URL: http://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/shop_content.php?coID=4 , accessed on June 12, 2014.
  2. ^ Rudolf Lück: Obituaries: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Rudolf Lück's biography, URL: http://www.editiongamma-ega.de/ , accessed on June 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ http://www.nmz.de/media/video/20-jahre-ama-verlag-detlef-kessler-im-gespraech "20 years AMA Verlag: Detlef Kessler in conversation", accessed on June 23, 2014.
  5. ↑ Overview of the publisher's authors, URL: http://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/authors.php?authors_id= , accessed on June 12, 2014.
  6. ↑ Biography on the artist website, URL: http://kaijohannespolzhofer.com/kai-johannes-polzhofer/ , accessed on June 16, 2014.
  7. ↑ Musiktext.de: Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): Serenade No. 1 in D major op. 11. Reconstruction of the lost original scoring for nonet by Jorge Rotter (1987) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 12, 2014.
  8. ↑ CD recording by the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra, URL: http://d-nb.info/999926357/about/html , accessed on June 12, 2014.
  9. ↑ Walter Braunfels: The Death of Cleopatra op.24. Publishing website, URL: http://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/product_info.php?info=p734_Der-Tod-der-Kleopatra.html , accessed on 16. June 2014.
  10. ^ Organist and author Gerd Zacher has died. In: NZZ Friday, June 13, 2014, 09:59, URL: http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/organist-gerd-zacher-gestorben-1.18321346 , accessed on June 16, 2014.
  11. ↑ Publishing house website, URL: https://www.henry-lemoine.com/fr/compositeurs/fiche/brice-pauset , accessed on June 16, 2014.
  12. ↑ Publisher's website Edition Gravis, URL: http://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/authors.php?authors_id=150 , accessed on June 16, 2014.

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