Franz Koglmann

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Franz Koglmann (2015) with a flugelhorn

Franz Koglmann (born May 22, 1947 in Mödling near Vienna) is an Austrian jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn) and composer who works at the intersection of jazz and European modernism.

Life

After studying in New York and Philadelphia as well as working with Viennese avant-garde jazz musicians such as Walter M. Malli , Harun Barrabas, Toni Michlmayr, he founded the Pipe Records label in 1973 , on which he recorded three records a. a. released with Steve Lacy and Bill Dixon . From 1978 to 1981 he was musical advisor to the Galerie next St. Stephan , and then (1982) together with his partner Ingrid Karl to found the Wiener Musik Galerie , which held numerous international festivals and workshops.

In 1984 he founded the group Pipetet , which includes internationally known musicians such as Tony Coe , Tom Varner and Peter Herbert . From 1986 to 1996, Koglmann's CDs were released on the Swiss label HatHut Records , from 1999 to 2004 he was artistic director of the Frankfurt CD label between the lines , which was founded in 1998 on the initiative of the Frankfurt fund manager Paul Steinhardt and for third stream musicians like Ran Blake were released.

Act

The difficult balance between composition and improvisation corresponded to his ideas for the first time when Pipetet was founded and based on this he developed larger cycles such as The Use of Memory (premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 1990). This is followed by large-scale commissioned works for the Vienna Festival ( A beautiful, brighter, lighter days under Dennis Russell Davies, 1997), for Klangforum Wien ( Do not Play, Just Be under Sylvain Cambreling , 1998) and the opera Fear Death by Water by TS Eliots The Waste Land (Libretto: Christian Baier, under the musical direction of Peter Burwik and directed by Michael Scheidl, premiered in 2003 at MUQUA Vienna). In 2007 he realized the Nocturnal Walks suite based on Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 27 on behalf of the cultural capital of Sibiu / Hermannstadt (Romania) using the voice of Emil Cioran . (CD on col legno).

Most of Koglmann's works have cross-genre references, for example to the visual arts, to literature (text settings) for film (for example, a still image from Alain Resnais ' L' Année derniére à Marienbad was used as the cover for the CD L'heure bleue ) and for Theater (the CD Venus in Transit is originally incidental music for Beverly Blankenship). Koglmann worked with musicians such as Lee Konitz ( We Thought About Duke ), Paul Bley , Gary Peacock and Misha Mengelberg . With the saxophonist Tony Coe he founded the Monoblue Quartet (current line-up with Ed Renshaw and Peter Herbert) and the Pipe Trio with Rudolf Ruschel and Raoul Herget . In addition, there are "special casts" (e.g. a duo with pianist Oskar Aichinger , which is occasionally expanded by drummer Wolfgang Reisinger ). He has made guest appearances with the ensembles at international festivals.

Prizes and awards

Koglmann received the following awards: Hans-Koller-Preis - CD of the year for Don't Play, Just Be (2003), the Appreciation Prize for Music of the Province of Lower Austria (2003), the Prize of the City of Vienna for Music (2001) and the composition prize of the Erste Österreichische Sparcasse (1997). In 2008 he was awarded the Ernst Krenek Prize for his work Nocturnal Walks / Nocturnal Walks . Ö1 “Pasticcio” award for G (ood) luck (2015). In 2019 he was honored with the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art .

Furthermore, in 1992 he received an advancement award from the music division of the Province of Lower Austria, in 1989 and 1995 state grants for composition and in 1987 an advancement award for music from the Republic of Austria, and in 1972 and 1976 advancement awards from the city of Vienna's art fund.

Works / discography

Stage works

  • Fear Death by Water - A Beach Opera. Libretto: Christian Baier with Morenike Fadayomi, Walter Raffeiner, Birgit Doll, Alexander Waechter, Nikolaus Kinsky, the Monoblue Quartet and the exxj… ensemble XX. century, under the direction of Peter Burwik (2003). CD BTL 034
  • Identities - ballet based on the novel L'identité by Milan Kundera. Scenario: Christian Baier. Choreography: Xin Peng Wang (Ballet Dortmund, 2011)
  • Join! - Opera in 3 acts. Libretto: Alfred Zellinger, director: Michael Scheidl, with Katja Reichert, Wolfgang Gratschmaier, Anthony Heidweiller, Annette Schönmüller, Sebastien Soulès, Max Niemeyer, Dennis Kozeluh, orchestra: Ensemble “die Reihe”, conductor: Carsten Paap (Netzzeit in cooperation with the Wiener Festwochen 2013). ORF CD 3177 / Cracked Anegg Records
  • Dear Sophie - a correspondence thriller for jazz trio, speaker and orchestra. Composition: Franz Koglmann; Text: David Schalko; Visualization: Jakob Kirchmayr; ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna; Alto saxophone: Christian Maurer; Jazz Trio: Koglmann / Arcari / Pasztor; Conductor: Carsten Paap; Speaker: Markus Hering; Direction and production manager: Julian Pölsler. ORF DVD of the world premiere in September 2017

Franz Koglmann Pipetet (conductor Gustav Bauer)

  • Schlaf Schlemmer, Schlaf Magritte (1984) with Theo Jörgensmann
  • Me, Franz Koglmann (1986)
  • Places of Geometry special guest: Ran Blake (1988)
  • A White Line special guest: Paul Bley (1989)
  • The Use of Memory (1990)
  • Cantos I - IV (1993)
  • O Moon My Pin-Up (2001) Libretto: Christian Baier
  • Let's Make Love - An Imaginary Play In 12 Scenes (2005) Libretto: Christian Baier

Monoblue Quartet

  • L 'Heure Bleue with Misha Mengelberg (1991)
  • We Thought About Duke with Lee Konitz and the Pipe Trio (1994)
  • Make Believe with Tom Varner and Brad Shepik (1999)
  • An Affair With Strauss (2000)
  • Lo-lee-ta, Music on Nabokov with Wolfgang Mitterer (2009)

Other formations

  • Flaps with Steve Lacy (1973)
  • Franz Koglmann / Bill Dixon : Opium / For Franz (Pipe Records 1977), with Josef Traindl , Steve Lacy , Cesarius Alvim , Aldo Romano and Steve Horenstein , Gerd Geier, Alan Silva , Toni Michlmayr, Walter Malli
  • Opium / For Franz with Steve Lacy and Bill Dixon (1976)
  • Good Night (1985)
  • About Yesterdays Ezzthetics with Steve Lacy (1987)
  • Annette with Paul Bley and Gary Peacock (1992)
  • Venus In Transit (2001)
  • Don't Play, Just Be with the Klangforum Wien (2002)
  • The Bridal Suite with Oskar Aichinger (2004)
  • Nocturnal Walks with the exxj ensemble, conductor Peter Burwik (2007)
  • G (ood) luck with Mario Arcari and Attila Pasztor (2015)
  • Franz Koglmann Septet (with Clark / Arcari / D'Agaro / Turkovic / Pasztor / Herbert): Fruits Of Soli (Hat Hut Ezz-Thetics, 2019)

literature

  • Robert Bilek and Bernhard Kraller in conversation with Franz Koglmann, in: Atypical Jazz - 25 Years Wiener Musik Galerie (Eds. Ingrid Karl, Bernhard Kraller), Vienna 2007
  • Thomas Loewner: Franz Koglmann, in Peter Niklas Wilson (ed.), Jazz classics. Reclam 2005
  • Bill Shoemaker, Viennese Cool - Franz Koglmann, in: Jazz Times, America's Jazz Magazine, June 2001
  • Angel Gómez Aparicio, Franz K. - Un geómetra vienés, in: Cuadernos de Jazz, No. 52 / mayo - junio 1999
  • Franz Koglmann. O Moon My Pin-Up in: Wespennest special issue 02/1998, published by Bernhard Kraller
  • Robert Bilek, Bernhard Kraller, Walter Famler : Vienna Portrait XII - Views of an Outsider - Two conversations with the Viennese composer Franz Koglmann, in: Wespennest No. 105/1996
  • Reinhold Westphal: Franz Koglmann. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

Web links

Commons : Franz Koglmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " In the mid-1980s, Franz Koglmann presented - in view of the fading model of American jazz - his European alternative: A mixture of the second Viennese school of Webern and Alban Berg , the love of Franz Schubert and the tonal gesture of cool jazz " (Konrad Heidkamp in Die Zeit ).
  2. ↑ Annual reception for members of the Curia for Science and Art. In: bundespraesident.at. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Reissue 2019 at Black Monk . See review (AllAboutJazz) . Initially partially re-published under the title: Bill Dixon / Franz Koglmann / Steve Lacy Opium ( Between the lines 2001)
personal data
SURNAME Koglmann, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling near Vienna