Franz Richter Herf

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Franz Richter Herf (born December 17, 1920 in Vienna , † July 4, 1989 in Salzburg ; artist name: Franz Herf ) was an Austrian composer , conductor and music theorist . He developed the Ekmelic Tone System .

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Franz Richter Herf attended school in Vienna and later in Maribor and Zagreb , where he graduated from high school. He then studied at the Vienna Music Academy from 1941 and, after the Second World War, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Johann Nepomuk David , Egon Kornauth and Bernhard Paumgartner . He also took private conducting lessons from Clemens Krauss . In 1948 he became Kapellmeister in Salzburg and in 1949 he was appointed lecturer at the Mozarteum. In addition, he worked as a freelancer for Austrian Broadcasting .

From 1970 he devoted himself together with Rolf Maedel to the research and systematization of microtones . This led to the development of Ekmelic music . In 1974 he co-founded the Institute for Basic Musical Research and built the Ekmelic organ according to his own plans. In the same year he was appointed full university professor. From 1979 to 1983 he was rector of the Mozarteum University. In 1981 he founded the Society for Ekmelic Music (later the International Society for Ekmelic Music ) together with Rolf Maedel . In 1985 he founded the International Symposia Microtones that at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in cooperation with the Ekmelic Music Society were held every two years to 1991, 1985 and 1987 under his direction.

Awards

Works

Between 1950 and 1970 he composed around 50 compositions in the neoclassical, free tonal style . These include two operas, a ballet, a symphony, five concerts for solo instruments and orchestra, music for string and wind orchestras as well as choir and piano music.

  • Symphonic scenes for piano and orchestra , 1953
  • The Pied Piper , Opera in Five Pictures, 1957
  • Concert piece for tenor trombone and orchestra , 1958
  • ... and the parrot laughs , opera farce in one act, 1960
  • Music for string orchestra , 1961
  • Concerto breve for violoncello and orchestra , 1962
  • Straw, coal and bean on a journey , fairy tale based on the Brothers Grimm, 1963
  • Rondel , song based on a poem by Georg Trakl, 1963
  • Five piano pieces at an unstable tempo , 1965
  • Wind quintet , for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, 1965
  • Concerto for clarinet, horn, bassoon and orchestra , 1967

All works created after 1970 are in the ekmelic tone system ; including the opera Odysseus , the 2nd symphony, four Ekmelia as well as choral and chamber music with new numbering of the opus numbers.

  • From a storm night , based on eight poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, for soprano, baritone, mixed Choir and Orchestra, Op. 1, 1971
  • Welle der Nacht , based on a poem by Gottfried Benn, for soprano, 2 oboes, string quintet and harp, Op. 2, 1973
  • Ekmelie No. 1 , for orchestra, Op. 3, 1974 (2nd version 1986)
  • Ekmelic Singing for Violin Solo, Op. 5, 1975
  • Initial No. 1: Like weak fountains and Initial No. 2: Silence , for string quartet, Op. 6, 1976/1978
  • The Hour of Pan , for String Septet and Flute, Op. 7, 1975
  • Alapa and Dhrupad , for Clarinet, Guitar and Tablas, Op. 9, 1980
  • Indago , for 2 harps and ekmelic organ, Op. 10, 1976
  • Odysseus , opera in six pictures, from the songs of Homer's Odyssey, Op. 12, 1979
  • Ekmelic Movement for String Quartet , Op. 13, 1976
  • Parakusis , for violin, clarinet, bass clarinet and guitar, Op. 14, 1977
  • Symphony No. 2: galactica , four parts in one movement for orchestra, Op. 16, 1980
  • Ekmelic Rhapsody , for 6 harps, Op. 20, 1986
  • Kallisteia , fragments of poems by the Greek poet Sappho, for soprano and 5 harps, Op. 21, 1985
  • Lord, our earth , prayer of the United Nations, for acc. Choir a cappella, Op. 22, 1984
  • Ekmelie No. 4 , for orchestra, Op. 23, 1986
  • The best of life , song based on a poem by Paula Grogger, Op. 24, 1986
  • Igonta , for 3 trumpets and 3 trombones, Op. 25, 1988

literature

  • Horst-Peter Hesse : Breaking into a New World of Sound: Reflections on the Ekmelic Music of the Austrian Composer Franz Richter Herf (1920-1989) . In: Perspectives of New Music . tape 29 , 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 212-235 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Richter Herf: The Ekmelic Organ . Ed .: Institute for Basic Musical Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mozarteum Salzburg. Salzburg 1975.
  2. ^ Rolf Maedel, Franz Richter Herf: Ekmelic Music . Edition Helbling, Innsbruck / Neu-Rum 1983, p. 4 (publ. No. 3916).
  3. ^ Website of the International Society for Ekmelic Music , accessed March 12, 2013
  4. ^ Franz Richter Herf: Works in Ekmelic Music . Edition Helbling, Innsbruck / Neu-Rum 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Judge Herf, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herf, Franz (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1989
Place of death Salzburg , Austria