Erhard Karkoschka

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Erhard Karkoschka (born March 6, 1923 in Ostrava ; † June 26, 2009 in Stuttgart-Heumaden ) was a German composer.

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Erhard Karkoschka studied composition, conducting and musicology at the Stuttgart University of Music and the University of Tübingen . From 1948 he taught at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. There he founded the Ensemble Neue Musik in 1962 (since 1976 the Contac Ensemble ). From 1973 until his retirement in 1987 he headed the studio for electronic music . After his retirement he held courses and lectures in South Africa, China and Korea, among others.

From 1964 to 1972 he was a board member of the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt eV and then President of the Society for New Music eV

Karkoschka composed orchestral works, chamber music , organ works, works for electronic instruments, cantatas , motets , psalms and chants.

Works

  • Symphonic evolution from two own themes (1953)
  • God is a king! Three moths for mixed voices based on words from Psalm 47, 4th and 74th (1954)
  • Symphonia Choralis on "Veni Sancte Spiritus" (1957)
  • Small Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1965)
  • four stages (1965)
  • triptych on BACH for organ (1966)
  • Quattrologist for string quartet (1966)
  • Variations on no original theme and out of this (1974)
  • Sound fountain , multimedia project (1975)
  • Teleologies (1978)
  • Allklang (1978)
  • Unfold (1982/83)
  • Chamber music for orchestra (1983)
  • From dying. From the new birth based on texts by Martin Luther (1983)
  • Wind poem (1987)
  • Sound time spectacle based on a script by Kurt Leonhard (1988)
  • Orpheus Choirs after the Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso (1989)
  • Orpheus? Or Hadeshöhe , Chamber Opera (1990-92)
  • On the move - between two Schubertlanders (1994)
  • N quarto: Papafrebe (1995)
  • Celan Variations IV based on poems by Paul Celan (1996–98)
  • Klangzeit, woodcut in three scenes based on poems by Günter Sopper (2004)

Fonts

  • The typeface of new music , Moeckverlag Celle 1965
  • Analysis of new music , Döring Verlag Herenberg 1976
  • New Music - Listening - Understanding , Döring Verlag Herenberg 1978
  • Attempt on Webern's use of the guitar in his operas 10, 18 and 19 , nova giulianiad, volume 3 / no. 11-12 / 88

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Karkoschka, Erhard, p. 215 f .

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personal data
SURNAME Karkoschka, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostrava
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2009
Place of death Stuttgart