Georg Furxer

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Georg Furxer (* 1981 in Dornbirn , Vorarlberg) is a Viennese composer and winner of the Gustav Mahler Composition Prize 2005. He works as a musician and pianist in Berlin.

Career

He took lessons in ear training and analysis from Ivan Karpati . He learned conducting with Guntram Simma and singing with Peter Cavall . He then attended composition studies at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory with Herbert Willi . Georg Furxer then studied composition and piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna . In the first section with Dietmar Schermann and Wolfgang Suppan . Piano with Karajeva. Since then he has been studying with Michael Jarrell and Detlev Müller-Siemens . He conducted his studies with Hans-Peter Sattler in the field of media composition. Work with electronic means, recording technology, also applied music. Performance of a commissioned composition at the Wiener Musikverein , May 2005

Compositional style

From an interview with the music documentation center of the State of Vorarlberg : My compositional style and the advantage that my generation of composers have in my opinion have a lot in common. Our lead and our curse is to have a greater distance. For me this means two things: Firstly: Never having seen the waves of Donaueschingen, Darmstadt, etc., which has a lot of consequences. Second: the music, if you manage to see from a different perspective than the contenders of a cause. For me this means a greater calm in the composition process as well as in the works themselves, and a greater awareness of the means. If, for our previous generations, certain means, forms and materials corresponded to the time, we, as those who have never heard the real bang, are in my opinion asked more than ever to examine each of these means under the microscope, to fathom, what kind of way it has taken, and in how far it can be used today (for itself). This is what makes a composer of my generation a good composer, among other things. Tonal means are also not excluded here, as is any tool that I am convinced of being useful for a specific cause.

Awards

Performances

List of works

Source: Music Documentation Office of the State of Vorarlberg

  • 2 songs based on texts by Joseph von Eichendorff
  • 3 pieces for 2 clarinets
  • Vienna Suite for violin and piano
  • A summer night music for clarinet , viola and bassoon
  • The First of February for four solo voices
  • Once Again (No. 1) for 2 saxophonists and 2 clarinetists
  • Ussegüggsla for trombone solo
  • Farewell for piano and string quintet
  • 2nd string quartet
  • Game I, II for piano solo, 2005.
  • A World to Walk In for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, horn, harp, piano, 3 percussionists, violin, viola, cello and double bass, 2005.
  • Commissioned composition for the Jeunesse and the brass ensemble Sonus Brass, 2006.

Early works

  • 1st string quartet
  • 2 movements for singers / speakers and large orchestra based on texts by Georg Trakl
  • Song cycle based on texts by Heinrich Heine

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Furxer - Compositional stylistic features. (No longer available online.) Music documentation center of the State of Vorarlberg, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikdokumentation-vorarlberg.at
  2. ↑ a b Georg Furxer - biography. (No longer available online.) Music documentation center of the State of Vorarlberg, archived from the original on November 15, 2016 ; accessed on November 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikdokumentation-vorarlberg.at
  3. ↑ The state's composition grant awarded to Georg Furxer. musicaustria.at, October 4, 2010, accessed on November 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Georg Furxer - list of works. (No longer available online.) Music documentation center of the State of Vorarlberg, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikdokumentation-vorarlberg.at

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personal data
SURNAME Furxer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and winner of the Gustav Mahler Composition Prize 2005
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn , Vorarlberg