Günter Neubert

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Günter Neubert (born March 11, 1936 in Crimmitschau , Saxony ) is a German composer and sound engineer .

Life

After graduating from a secondary school in Crimmitschau in 1954, Neubert studied school music from 1954 to 1955 at the Leipzig University of Music and from 1955 to 1960 the sound engineer at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin . He finished his studies in 1960 with the state examination and diploma . From 1959 to 1965 he was a guest student with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny . From 1965 to 1967 he was the latter's non-scheduled aspirant and acquired the qualification to teach music theory at the Berlin University of Music. From 1968 to 1971 he was a master class student for composition with Wagner-Régeny and Paul Dessau at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin (East) .

From 1960 to 1961, Neubert was assistant sound engineer at the GDR radio in Berlin. From 1961 to 1991 he worked as a sound director at the radio in Leipzig. From 1978 to 1989 and from 1999 to 2006 he was a lecturer at the Leipzig University of Music. He was also a lecturer at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden from 1978 to 1989 . In 1987 he became a private lecturer . In 1990 he became a board member of the Saxon Music Association , which he headed from 1998 to 2000. After all, from 1992 to 2000 he worked as a sound engineer for the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .

From 1992 to 1995 he was a board member of the German Composers' Association . Here he headed the series The Extraordinary Concert and initiated the sponsorship award for young composers and musicologists . From 1995 to 2001 he was a member of the Saxon Music Council and chairman of the Saxony Regional Association of the German Composers' Association. In 1996 he was a founding member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts . Since 2009 he has been chairman of the Grieg meeting place in Leipzig (Notenspur station 3 of the Unesco initiative Leipzig ). He is a member of the board of trustees of the Hans Stieber Foundation , which regularly awards the Hans Stieber Prize . He is also on the board of trustees of the friends and supporters of the MDR Rundfunkchor e. V. active.

From 2001 to 2005 he composed an oratorio with texts by Karl May and Isaiah , which was premiered on November 22, 2006 in Dresden.

Neubert lives in Ferch , Brandenburg.

Prizes and awards

Compositions (selection)

Chamber music

  • 1959: Five children's pieces for piano. Premiere 2006 Dresden
  • 1961: Small, cheerful suite . 8 miniatures for 6 wind instruments and percussion
  • 1963: Twelve pieces for clavicord
  • 1963: Music for string quartet in 5 movements. Premiere 1997 Salzburg. Stadler Quartet
  • 1964: Sonata for horn and piano. WP Peter Damm , Gunther Hauer
  • 1965: Sonata for piano
  • 1965: Music for flute solo
  • 1966: Five short character studies for piano. Premiere 2006 Dresden
  • 1968: Three performance pieces for trumpet and piano
  • 1968: Music for wind quintet . Premiere 1968 Leipzig
  • 1969: Piano piece for Wagner-Régeny . UA
  • 1969: Piano piece for Paul Dessau . UA
  • 1971: Intermezzo of a lover . Capriccio for four violoncellos (using a theme from the Rosenkavalier ). Premiere in Rostock in 1971
  • 1973: Chamber music in concert
  • 1975: Kaminstück for Matthias Claudius for solo guitar
  • 1978: Four impressions after Barlach for piano
  • 1978: Goccia-Capriccio per flauto e chitarra . Premiere 1978 Leipzig
  • 1979: Chamber symphony for nonet. Premiere 1981 Leipzig (Small Hall of the Gewandhaus )
  • 1980: Makrokosmos I (planetarium music ) for 4 instruments, percussion and multi-channel recording. Premiere 1980 Schkeuditz / Leipzig. New Music Group Hanns Eisler
  • 1982: Musical essays based on Grüty . WP 1982 Berlin. New Music Group Hanns Eisler
  • 1983: Triptych (in memory of Max Beckmann ) for English horn, viola, double bass and guitar. Premiere 1984 Leipzig. Leipzig Consort . New Music Group Hanns Eisler
  • 1984: Contrasts for double bass solo. WP 1987 Leipzig
  • 1984: Partita on Da pacem for organ solo. Premiere 1984 Altenburg (Castle Church)
  • 1985: Meditation on a series of notes from the last chorale of the St. Matthew Passion by JS Bach for solo organ. WP 1985 Göttingen (St. Jacobi)
  • 1986: Dithyramb for two percussionists. Premiere 1986 Berlin
  • 1986: Kreuzspiel for harp solo
  • 1986: Mors et vita . Composition for 3 sound groups and tape playback based on texts by Friedrich Hölderlin . Premiere 1988. Hanns Eisler's New Music group
  • 1993: Ritmo e canto . Trio pieces for flute, bassoon and harpsichord. Premiere 1993 Leipzig
  • 1994: Wake up for trumpet and organ. WP 1994 Münster (Nicolai Church)
  • 1996: Triptych II for English horn, bassoon, viola and guitar. UA 1996 Leipzig ( Alte Handelsbörse ). Ensemble Sortisatio
  • 1995: Reflections for two horns . Premiere 1995 Altenburg ( State Theater )
  • 1997: Schlagspiel Dialog . Premiere 1997 Leipzig ( Museum of Fine Arts )
  • 2000: Silbermann hymn for two organists. WP 2000 Freiberg (Petrikirche)
  • 2000: Steps to a royal theme - Septetto super theme hideaway . UA 2000 Leipzig (Alte Handelsbörse). Rhenish Bach Collegium
  • 2002: Cantus e Toccata for two violins and piano. WP 2002 Bamberg (Auditorium Maximum of the University)
  • 2003: Requiem per organum (Sonata da chiesa) . WP 2003 Dresden (Kreuzkirche). Martin Schmeding
  • 2008: String Quartet No. 2 . Premiere 2008 Leipzig (Gewandhaus). Gewandhaus Quartet
  • 2010: New Dances in mutation for woodwind quintet (2010). Premiere 2011 Leipzig (Gewandhaus Wind Quintet)
  • 2011: Scene for alto saxophone and conga (2011). WP 2012 Chemnitz
  • 2011: Three solfeggias for flute solo. Premiere 2012 Rheinsberg
  • 2012: a happy thing . Scene freely based on a poem by Friedrich von Logau for two violins with small percussion instruments
  • 2015: Animal maris cantans - The singing fish . Small radio play scene for piano quartet with small percussion instruments based on a story by Werner Heiduczek . WP 2016 Hoyerswerda
  • 2016: Irini - Peace for piano solo. WP 2016 Dresden

Orchestral works

  • 1967: String music in three parts. Premiere 1969 Dresden
  • 1969: Orchestral music on a theme by Robert Schumann . Premiere 1971 Karl-Marx-Stadt (Opera House)
  • 1971: Concert suite for violin and small orchestra. Premiere 1971 Leipzig (Old Town Hall)
  • 1978: Concerto ritmico per pianoforte ed orchestra . Premiere 1978 Borna
  • 1979: Notturno - Nachtgedanken for 19 strings. Premiere 1979 Eisenach (Wartburg)
  • 1981: Partita for two wind choirs and orchestra. Premiere 1982 Frankfurt an der Oder
  • 1985: Symphony in one movement (Sinfonia infernale) . Premiere 1986 Berlin
  • 1989: Orchestral music I: The crying given away . WP 1990 Halle. Handel Festival Orchestra Halle
  • 1989: Choral metamorphoses for “Sun of Justice” for large orchestra. WP 1990 Leipzig (Gewandhaus)
  • 1989: Orchestral Music II: The given crying . Premiere 1993 Gera
  • 1990: Concerto for double bass and orchestra . Premiere 1996 Chemnitz (Opera House)
  • 1997: bridges . Premiere 1997 Weimar
  • 2007: Five short character pieces for small string orchestra. Premiere 2007 Göttingen

Songs / vocal chamber music

  • 1961: Three songs for baritone and piano. Texts: Jacques Prévert
  • 1964: Five psalm songs for soprano and a keyboard instrument (piano, organ)
  • 1966: Two songs for soprano, piano and guitar (ad lib.). Texts: Wilhelm Busch . Premiere 2006 Dresden
  • 1967: Day-night chants for soprano and piano. Texts: Hans Franck
  • 1971: Variations on a little piece from the “Musical Armory” , Leipzig in 1719, for soprano and nine instruments. Premiere in Leipzig in 1971
  • 1974: Heine Liedsong for tenor and piano. WP 1999 Berlin
  • 1987: Memento for mezzo-soprano, baritone, speaker and instrumental ensemble. Texts: Friedrich Wolf . UA 1987 Berlin (Academy of Arts). Musica Viva Ensemble Dresden
  • 1992: Morgenlied, Abendlied for alto recorder, soprano and piano (1992). Texts: Caspar David Friedrich . WP 2005 Markkleeberg
  • 1993: Let me stir your soul for baritone, flute, harp and string quartet. Texts: John Gracen Brown. WP 1994 Dresden
  • 1998: Between the Worlds. Ode to someone far away for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble. UA 1998 Leipzig (Alte Handelsbörse). Annette Jahns , Musica Viva Ensemble Dresden
  • 2006: love song for mezzo-soprano and piano. Text: Werner Heiduczek . WP 2006 Leipzig (City Library)
  • 2006: Bell verses based on texts from the 100th Psalm for bass, tubular bell chimes and organ. Premiere 2006 Leipzig (Bethanienkirche) -Schleussig. Gotthold Schwarz , Johann Georg Baumgärtel, Stephan Paul Audersch
  • 2010: At the open window . Five songs for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano. Texts: Werner Heiduczek. WP 2010 Leipzig (Moritzbastei)
  • 2010: On your sweetheart . Seven songs for baritone and piano. Texts: Paul Fleming . WP 2010 Dresden (Saxon Academy of the Arts)
  • 2012: To this . Five songs for baritone and piano. Texts: Manuela Sandhop. Premiere 2012 Weimar

Choral works

  • 1962: Benediktbeurer love songs for mixed choir a capella. Recording in 1964/65 of the Leipzig Radio Choir
  • 1968: Passion chants for mixed choir a capella
  • 1969: Folksong arrangement for three female voices, flute, oboe, clarinet, guitar (1969) 6´
  • 1976: Encounters for two mixed choirs a capella. Texts: by Wolfgang Jähnig. Premiere 1976 Leipzig (Old Town Hall)
  • 1977: The competition . Small cantata using the song The Cuckoo and the Donkey . Premiere 1977 Leipzig (Old Town Hall)
  • 1982: Three bird choirs for children's choir a capella. Texts: Dieter Mucke , Hoffmann von Fallersleben
  • 1987: Two motets for mixed choir a capella
  • 1987: An die'Menschheit for eight-part choir a capella. Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin . Premiere 1993 Hamburg. NDR choir
  • 1991: Three tailor's songs . Premiere 1993 Leipzig (Old Town Hall). Children's choir of the MDR
  • 1991: Open the gates . Advent Introit for two mixed choirs and organ. WP 1991 Göttingen (St. Jacobi)
  • 2001: Psalm motets for choir a capella. Premiere No. 3: 2001 Leipzig (Thomaskirche). Thomanerchor, Georg Christoph Biller (conductor). WP complete: 2002 Dresden (Martin Luther Church)
  • 2001: The light above us . Motet for choir a capella. UA 2006 Leipzig (Thomaskirche). Thomanerchor, Georg Christoph Biller (conductor)
  • 2006: The Lord is my Shepherd - my Shepherd is the Lord . Motet for two choirs a cappella. Text: Psalm 23rd premiere 2006 Dresden (Frauenkirche). Christfried Brödel (Head)
  • 2007: Five three-stanza chants for children's choir with a small percussion. Texts: Georg Maurer. Premiere 2007 Dresden (Dreikönigskirche). Philharmonic Children's Choir Dresden
  • 2007: Cantate Domino . Motet for double choir a capella. Text: Psalm 96. Premiere 2007 Dresden (Frauenkirche). Philharmonic Children's Choir Dresden
  • 2017: Wessobrunn prayer for choir a capella. Premiere 2017 Stein am Rhein. Christfried Brödel (Head)

Vocal symphonies

  • 1973: To the future . Orchestra songs for baritone (or mezzo-soprano). Texts: Harald Gerlach (1973). Premiere 1974 Ilmenau
  • 1975: As mighty as death. Orchestra songs based on texts from the Bible, premiered 1975 Gera
  • 1983: Nineveh laudatory speech. Oratorio, premier Göttinger Symphonie Orchester , NDR, 1983 Hanover.
  • 1983: Of human weaknesses. Based on texts by Martin Luther, UA 1983 Dresden
  • 1991: … live from any origin. Orchestra songs based on texts by Ingeborg Bachmann, premiered in 1991 in Hanover
  • 1987: Hymn to Mankind for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra based on texts by Friedrich Hölderlin, premiered 1993 Hamburg as a cappella cycle
  • 1975: As mighty as death . Orchestra songs for mezzo-soprano, baritone and large orchestra. Hebrew texts, translated by Manfred Hausmann . Premiere 1975 Gera. Roswitha Trexler , Siegfried Lorenz
  • 1980: Lessing colors for tenor, mixed choir and orchestra. Premiere 1981 Dresden
  • 1983: Of human weaknesses . Five chants for bass and chamber orchestra. Texts: Martin Luther ( table speeches ). Premiere 1983 Dresden (Gobelinsaal of the Sempergalerie). Theo Adam , Chamber Orchestra of the German State Opera Berlin, Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
  • 1983: Laudate Nivine . Oratorio for bass baritone, choir, children's choir and orchestra. Texts: from the books of Amos and Jonah from the prayer of Manasseh. Premiere 1983 Hanover (NDR)
  • 1988: Hymn to humanity for mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, choir, organ and orchestra. Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin (1988)
  • 1989: the new century . Songs for baritone and orchestra. Texts: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1989). Premiere 1990 Dresden. Jürgen Kurth, Dresden Philharmonic, Jörg-Peter Weigle (conductor)
  • 1991: … to live of any origin . Songs for baritone and orchestra. Texts: Ingeborg Bachmann . WP 1991 Hanover (Lower Saxony State Theater) Hanover. Wolfgang Hellmich, Lower Saxony State Orchestra, George Alexander Albrecht (conductor)
  • 2005: Animal maris cantans - The singing fish . Musical allegory for speaker, children's choir (with percussion instruments) and orchestra. Text: Werner Heiduczek . UA 2005 Dresden ( Kulturpalast ), Dresden Philharmonic
  • 2005: Where the Lord doesn't build the house . Oratorio for alto, bass, speaker, choir and orchestra. Texts: Isaiah , Psalm 127, Karl May . UA 2006 Dresden ( Martin Luther Church ). Sinfonietta Dresden
  • 2008: Da Pacem, Domine . Oratorio for the Peace of Westphalia, for soprano, bass, speaker, choir, organ and small orchestra. WP 2008 Münster (Lambertikirche)
  • 2011: Choral cantata: A solid castle is our god for mezzo-soprano, bass-baritone, mixed choir and instrumental ensemble. WP 2017 Münster (Church of the Redeemer)
  • 2019: Glockenweihemusik for brass, timpani and bells. WP 2019 Leipzig (Nikolaikirche). Christfried Brödel (Head)

Stage works

Radio play music

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Neubert: Thoughts on the oratorio "Where the Lord does not build the house ..." , ADU-Verlag No. 210 (online) ; see G. Neubert: Catalog raisonné. Orchestral works No. 23 , neubert-verbindungen.de .
personal data
SURNAME Neubert, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Crimmitschau , Saxony