Friedrich Schenker

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Friedrich Schenker (2005)

Friedrich Schenker (* 23. December 1942 in Zeulenroda , Thuringia, † 8. February 2013 in Berlin ) was a German avant-garde - Composer and trombonist .

Life

Friedrich Schenker learned the trombone and piano as a child and made his first attempts at composition at the age of 10.

At the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin , he studied from 1961 to 1964 trombone with Helmut Stachowiak and composition with the Eisler -Students Günter Kochan . In addition to his studies, he autodidactically acquired the technique of dodecaphony and worked in a jazz band. After the instrumental state examination in 1964, he was employed as a solo trombonist in the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (until 1982). He continued his composition studies in evening classes at the Leipzig Conservatory until 1968 with Fritz Geißler .

In 1970 he founded the new music group Hanns Eisler with the oboist Burkhard Glaetzner and six other musicians from the Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . This special ensemble, to which Schenker's brother, the drummer Gerd Schenker belonged, became the most important interpreter of contemporary chamber music of the avant-garde of the GDR . Together with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky , it also moved in the field of new improvisational music .

As a master student of Paul Dessau at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) from 1973 to 1975, Schenker received important impulses for his artistic motivation and aesthetics. His membership in the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1986 was followed ten years later by admission to the Saxon Academy of the Arts and the Free Academy of the Arts (Leipzig) . Until 1989 he was a board member of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR .

Since 1982 Schenker has worked as a freelance musician and composer as well as a consultant for new music at the Leipzig Gewandhaus (until 1989) and received teaching assignments for composition and improvisation at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . Since 1990 he lived in Berlin. From 2000 to 2002 he was a theater composer at the Staatstheater Kassel .

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Friedrich Schenker died on February 8, 2013 after a serious illness in Berlin. He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder parishes .

Works

Vocal music

  • Cantata I (text: Wladimir Majakowski , Ger. Hugo Huppert ) for baritone and small wind orchestra (1967–1969)
  • Kammerspiel I (from Christian Morgenstern's Galgenliedern and Palmström ) for soprano, tenor, speaker and chamber ensemble (1972)
  • Guide for budding droolers (text: Wladimir Majakowski , German Hugo Huppert) for soprano and clarinet (1974)
  • The CHE cantata (in memory of Che Guevara , text: Bernd Rump ) for children's choir and instruments (1981)
  • The Peace Celebration (Text: Karl Mickel ), aria di bravoura for tenor and eight instruments (1982)
  • Preparation of a Holderlin ode (text: Karl Mickel based on Friedrich Hölderlin , Ronald Reagan and Marina Cvetaeva ), diary workshop for two voices, tape voice of a great mime and four instruments (1984)
  • Michelangelo Symphony (Text: Michelangelo , James Joyce , Hermann Broch ) for speaker, mixed choir, children's choir, organ and large orchestra (1985)
  • Ge Schwitters (Text: Kurt Schwitters ), five pieces for voice and saxophone (1986)
  • Dream ... Hope ... A German Requiem, dedicated to Karl and Rosa (Text: Jakob van Hoddis , Johannes R. Becher , Georg Heym , Rudolf Leonhard , Johannes Bobrowski , Karl Liebknecht , Rosa Luxemburg ) for alto solo, baritone solo, Speaker and Orchestra (1988)
  • Commedia per musica for large orchestra with children's choir (1989)
  • First Allemande for voices and ensemble (1990)
  • Paragraph AIDS (Text: Karl Mickel ) Cantata for women and men with instrumental ensemble (1990)
  • Fourth Allemande , symphonic historical spectacle for choir, orchestra, solo guitar, two brass bands, speaker and tape (1995)
  • Goldberg Passion (text: Karl Mickel ) for solos, choir, children's choir and orchestra (1999)
  • goethefauszweischnittchen (text: Friedrich Schenker) for voice and two tubas (2001)
  • The Dresden Art Practice (Text: Thomas Rosenlöcher ), cycle for baritone and clarinet
  • Les Trombones de Liszt (Text: Alphonse de Lamartine ) for voice, two trombones and orchestra (2004)
  • The Twelve (Text: Alexander Blok ) for voice, oboe, viola and harp (2005)

Stage works

  • Kammerspiel II >> missa nigra << (Latin mass / Alfred Polgar / Heinrich von Kleist / Theodor Körner ) for seven instrumentalists, conductor, actor, synthesizer, tape, live electronics and visual artist (1979 Leipzig, Old Town Hall)
  • Büchner ( Klaus Harnisch ) opera for solos, choirs and orchestra (1979; 1987 Berlin, German State Opera)
  • Bettina ( Karl Mickel after Bettina von Arnim ) opera for one performer (mezzo-soprano), children's choir, tape and ensemble (1982; 1987 Berlin, Theater im Palast)
  • Les Liaisons dangereuses / Dangerous Liaisons (the same after Choderlos de Laclos ) op. Ser. 2 acts for solos and orchestra (1993; 1997 Ulm, theater)
  • (N (A (CH) T) ( Novalis / Vladimir Majakovskij / Sergej Esenin / James Joyce , Søren Kierkegaard ) Theater for ten instruments (1995; 1996 Witten, theater hall)
  • Johann Faustus ( Hanns Eisler / Friedrich Schenker) opera for solos, choir and orchestra (2001; 2004 Kassel, State Theater)
  • Murder on Mount Säntis , chamber opera about a murder case from 1922, world premiere on June 4th, 2011 on Mount Säntis

Instrumental music

Orchestral works and concerts

  • 5 bagatelles for trombone and orchestra (1964–1970)
  • Little Symphony for Strings (1969)
  • Concerto for oboe and string orchestra (1969–1974)
  • Triple Concerto (Overture, Variations and Finale on the Rocco Aria from Beethoven's Fidelio ) for oboe, bassoon, clarinet and orchestra (1969, rev. 1981)
  • Bassoon Concerto (1970–1975)
  • Piece for virtuosos I for orchestra (1970, rev. 1985)
  • Chamber Symphony (1971)
  • Symphony ( In memoriam Martin Luther King ) (1971)
  • Electrization for beat or jazz group and orchestra (1973)
  • Epitaph for Neruda for 18 solo strings (1973)
  • Concerto for double bass and orchestra (1973)
  • Landscapes for large orchestra (1974)
  • Concerto for viola and orchestra (1975)
  • Flute Symphony (1976)
  • Sonata for Johann Sebastian Bach for large orchestra (1977)
  • Orfeo - dramma per musica , pezzi concertati (1978)
  • Fanal Spain 1936 (Hommage á Paul Dessau ) , ballad for large orchestra (1981)
  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra (1985)
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra (1986)
  • Music for wind instruments, harp, celesta and percussion (1988)
  • Solo for a Percussioniast with Small Orchestra (1990)
  • Divertimento (in adoration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) for chamber orchestra (1991)
  • ... into the Endless ... , orchestral piece for large orchestra (1992)
  • Concerto for 14 wind instruments (1992)
  • Symphony for Strings (1993)
  • Light music No. 1 (communicating tubes) , for trombone and brass ensemble (1996)
  • ... dal animato al presto ... , music for orchestra (1998)
  • Oboe Concerto (2002)

Chamber music

  • Sextet for clarinet and 5 wind instruments (1968)
  • Trioballade for oboe, bassoon / violoncello and clarinet (1968/69)
  • Horn Quintet (1969)
  • Audio piece with oboe for oboe and tape (1971)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1971)
  • Sonata for wind and percussion instruments (1973)
  • 3 bagatelles for bassoon and clarinet (1975)
  • Solo duo trio for violin / oboe, violoncello and clarinet (1975–1978)
  • Tirilijubili- piece for virtuosos III for small flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn (1976)
  • Frammenti di >> Orfeo- dpm << for oboe, cor anglais , trombone, percussion, viola, cello and double bass (1978)
  • Jessenin - Mayakowski - Recital for 8 instruments and tape (1979–1981)
  • Orfeo: gioco- grido- canto , recitá for oboe and trombone (1980)
  • Dona nobis pacem or Zur neue Zeit for oboe and violoncello (1982); for organ and 6 percussion (1983), for large orchestra (1984)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (Omaggio á Michelangelo Buonarotti e Dmitri Shostakovich ) (1983)
  • Ach Bach , concerti funebri e furiosi for 2 oboes and group of instruments (1984)
  • Good relationship with horses - new approach to Vladimir Mayakovsky for 8 instruments (1986)
  • Trio pieces for violin, violoncello and clarinet (1986)
  • Mikrokosmos for 2 oboes (1986/87)
  • Quintet for clarinet and 4 wind instruments (1987)
  • Witchcraft to Freeze the NAVY Version for 8 instruments (1990)
  • Second Allemande for 6 percussion sets (1990)
  • Age d´or , metaphorical music (after Arthur Rimbaud ) for trombone, tuba, harp and violin (1991)
  • Les Divertissements fantastiques des aventures musicaux for chamber ensemble (1993)
  • Third Allemande (Essai- Prelude to Beethoven's IX.) For ensemble (1994)
  • Les Chants d´amour des crapauds for violoncello and bass tuba (1994)
  • Trio for oboe, violoncello and clarinet (1998)
  • les Clarinettes des Vosges , clarinet quintet (2001)
  • Communicating tubes II for 4 trombones (2003)
  • RAVEN`S MUSIC (to EA Poe`s Never More ) for bass clarinet, violoncello / viola and drums (2003)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (Die vom Berge) (2005)

Solo forms

  • Monologue for oboe (1968)
  • Piano piece about ASCH (1972)
  • 3 pieces from >> Livre pour piano << for clarinet (1975)
  • Solo I come una musica di balletto for bassoon (1982)
  • Solo II for flute (1983)
  • Ombre di Michelangelo for clavichord (1984)
  • Solo III for violoncello (1985)
  • Solo IV for percussion (1985)
  • Solo V- Wintermusic for trombone (1986)
  • Danton fragments. Comments for that. (1988)
  • Solo IV (Béla) for viola (1991), dedicated to Eberhardt >> Béla << Klemm

Improvised music

Film music

Radio play music

Honourings and prices

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Schenker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Price of Criticism . In: Neue Zeit , March 6, 1990, vol. 46, issue 55, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Schenker, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeulenroda
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2013
Place of death Berlin