Frank Michael (composer)

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Frank Michael (born February 3, 1943 in Leipzig ) is a German composer and flautist.

Life

Frank Michael spent his childhood and youth in Marburg an der Lahn, where the family was welcomed in the house of the Protestant theologian Rudolf Bultmann . After graduating from high school Philippinum (Marburg) , he studied composition with Richard Rudolf Klein and Kurt Hessenberg and flute with Willy Schmidt at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . From 1984 to 1993 he taught Tonsatz at the same university and from 1992 to 1994 at the University of Music Heidelberg-Mannheim, theory of forms / analysis and new music . Michael has also been working as a flute teacher at the municipal music school in Müllheim since 1974 .

Michael founded the “Marburger Studio” in Marburg in 1968 and the “New Series” in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1970 as a series of concerts for new music. Since 1971 he has been a member of the "Camerata Instrumentale Freiburg", of which he took over in 1985. As a flautist, Michael has premiered numerous works, including by Boris Blacher , John Cage , Reinhard Wolschina , Felix Werder , Andreas Grün , Martin Christoph Redel , Klaus Hinrich Stahmer , and Wolfgang Ludewig . Michael has also published Urtext editions and arrangements for flute with Zimmermann Music Publishing .

The early death of his wife, the flautist Sigrid Eppinger, in December 1984 was not only a personal, but also an artistically decisive event for Michael. Today he lives as a freelance musician in Stegen-Eschbach in the southern Black Forest .

music

In Michael's music, poetic and constructive elements intermingle. Traditional sentence structures and playing styles are often combined with unconventional techniques. Topics like nature, eroticism and death always play a big role. In many works tone or number symbols or quotations form a subcutaneous level of meaning.

Works (selection)

Orchestral works

  • Violin Concerto op.9 (1964) Homage à Bartók
  • Maithuna op. 26 (1968) for chamber orchestra
  • Mandala I op. 36 No. 1 (1972/73) Concerto for solo flute, flutes, strings and percussion
  • Alterations in a Landscape op. 42 (1976) for large orchestra
  • Horn Concerto op.55 (1984)
  • Schwarzer Gesang op.66a (1991) for sub-bass flute solo, oboes, percussion and strings
  • Etchings op. 100 (2003) for string orchestra
  • Fresken op. 117 (2008) for symphonic wind orchestra with cathedral bells

Vocal music

  • Traum der Sulamith op.37a (1974) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
  • Das Hohe Lied op.37b (1974) for a cappella choir
  • De profundis op. 46 (1977) for choir and orchestra
  • Arcimboldesken op. 50 (1981) for vocal quartet and renaissance ensemble

Chamber music

  • Nepenthes rajah op. 23 No. 2 (1970) for flute, alto flute and piano
  • Yantra op. 41 (1974) for piano, violin and violoncello
  • Schattenspiele op.44 (1977) for flute and prepared piano
  • I GING - Book of Changes op. 49 (1979/80) for flute, saxophone, trombone and string trio
  • String Quartet No. 4 op. 56 (1983/84) "Metamorphoses of Eros"
  • Trio op. 58 (1985) for flute, violoncello and piano
  • Inner Pictures op. 59 (1985) for flute and harp
  • String Quartet No. 5 op. 63 (1986) "Metamorphoses of Mourning"
  • Butterflies op.64 (1987) for 2 flutes
  • Schwarz wie Antimon ... op. 70 (1991) for 3 bassoons and contrabassoon
  • Nocturnal op.68 (1994) for flute and guitar
  • The streets sing, the stones speak, op. 76 (1995) for flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, double bass and piano
  • Crying Game op.77 (1996) for saxophone quartet
  • Graffiti op.81 (1996) for violin and piano
  • Feuerschrift op. 88 (1999) for oboe, violoncello and piano
  • Septet op.94 (2001) for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass
  • String Quartet No. 6 op. 96 (2001/02) "dona nobis pacem"
  • "... interwoven ..." op. 103 (2004) 2nd wind quartet
  • String Quartet No. 7 Op. 108 (2006)
  • Lichtgitter op.110 (2006) for guitar and piano
  • String trio op.115 (2008)
  • “C'était au temps heureux” op. 120 (2009) for flute, oboe and string trio
  • MessingFarben op.123 (2011) for 2 trumpets and 2 trombones
  • Facetten op.133 (2016) for flute, violin and viola

Solo works

  • Invocationes op.33 (1971) for flute
  • Nâda op.51 (1983) for piano
  • Fragments op. 60 (1985) for violin
  • Spiegelschriften op. 67 (1989) for a flautist with additional instruments
  • Lyric Suite op.116 (2006/07) for clarinet
  • Shadow songs op.119 (2010) for violoncello

Fonts

  • Béla Bartók's variation technique presented in the context of an analysis of his 2nd violin concerto , Gustav Bosse Verlag Regensburg, FBMw 27, 1976, ISBN 3-7649-2137-4
  • Experiment on the music of mourning and death . In: TIBIA 4/1996

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolaus Cybinski: Frank Michael for a big birthday . (PDF) In: TIBIA 1/2003
  2. ↑ Dorothee Philipp: One of the first in the music school . In: Badische Zeitung , February 1, 2013
  3. ^ Frank Michael: Tamar (Erotogram IV) • Nocturnal
personal data
SURNAME Michael, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and flautist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig