Günther Wiesemann

Günther Wiesemann

Günther Wiesemann (born October 12, 1956 in Hattingen ) is a German composer, pianist, organist and percussionist.

Live and act

Günther Wiesemann first started out as a jazz pianist. Inspired by the collaboration with writers such as Erich Fried and Max von der Grün , he returned to his passion for contemporary music and text setting in the early 1980s and studied composition with Jürg Baur in Cologne.

From 1981 he presented his first chamber music works. In 1987 Wiesemann received the commission for the opera Bread and Games , a kind of modern parable from Max von der Grün. In 1990 Wiesemann accepted a five-year teaching position for new music at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg . In the same year he was asked to set up the clinical music therapy division in the Velbert / Heiligenhaus Clinic. Since 1989 Wiesemann has been doing intensive concerts as a pianist , organist and percussionist with his own ensembles. He is mainly involved in chamber and church concerts.

Wiesemann's catalog raisonné currently includes around 500 works from all genres of contemporary music. In addition to the typical contemporary features, his musical language shows a concentration on specific instrumental sound effects. In addition, Wiesemann's works often contain bridges to historical musical styles.

Selected works by 2017

Orchestral works

• alimenti di vita (orchestral work related to Schumann) (1994)
• Third Symphony (1997)

Musical dramatic works

• Courage (III) for soprano and orchestra (1992) (based on texts by Oskar Ansull, Erich Fried, Bertolt Brecht and Ingeborg Bachmann)
• oggi stesso , Requiem for soprano, baritone, two speakers, choir, solo violin, tape and orchestra (based on a libretto by Christoph Klimke and a poem by Hellmut Lemmer) (commissioned by the Konzertgesellschaft Schwerte and the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW, 1994 / 97)

Stage works

• Bread and Games , opera in two acts based on a libretto by Max von der Grün (1987–91), first version at the Dortmund Opera House 1989, second version commissioned by the Bruckner Festival, Linz 1991

Chamber music

• Six plays and activities for the flute trio (1986/93)
• permutations and circulations for brass deco (1986/92/93)
• Finishing - inwardly unison , 2nd string quartet (1993)
• mascara de suenos , 4th string trio (1994)
• Inner circle II , for violin, piano or organ and percussion (2000/2008)
• red madder , 5th string quartet (2003)
• Tailwind, integratio for violin or viola, piano and percussion instruments (2008)
• la rotonda, Kehrtrichtung for viola, piano or organ and percussion instruments (2012)

Music for the church

• caelis aeternis for violin (viola), organ, speaker and small percussion instruments, etc. a. on the chorale "O world, see your life here" with its own text with reference to the chorale (2005/2006)
• Xenia for viola, organ, triangle, vibraton and gong (2010)
• For peace, for grace, and for violin, organ, speaker, gong, triangle and singing bowls (2012/13) (based on a text by the composer)
• in luce aeterna for violin, organ and percussion (2014)
• The daily novelty of heaven for viola, organ, triangle, cymbals and tubular bells (premiered in 2016 in Altenberg Cathedral)

Publications

• CD Philharmonic Brass, telos records, Solingen, 1995
• CD Florestan Quartet, kreuzberg records, Berlin, 1998
• CD Gaudeamus Quartet Brasov, Entercom Saurus Records, 2006

Awards

• 1985: Winner of the Dramatiker Union Berlin as a scholarship holder of the Steinbrennerstiftung (jury chairman Wolfgang Fortner and Aribert Reimann)
• 1991: 1st prize at the Bonn / Leipzig piano composition competition (East German Cultural Council)

Web link

• Homepage of Günther Wiesemann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Home. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .