Gerd Kühr

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Gerd Kühr (born December 28, 1952 in Maria Luggau , Carinthia ) is an Austrian composer and conductor who feels obliged to both modern / avant-garde and tradition.

Life

Kühr studied history and music education as well as conducting and composition at the Salzburg Mozarteum . Conducting courses with Gerhard Wimberger (“Mozarteum”), Hans Swarowsky and Sergiu Celibidache followed. He continued his composition studies with Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer and Hans Werner Henze in Cologne .

Act

Kühr had and still has numerous appearances - concerts and operas - in Austria, Italy , Germany , Russia and Guatemala . Performances and radio recordings under his direction took place among other things. a. in Vienna , Cologne, Munich , London , Paris , Rome , Moscow , Hong Kong . As a composer, he has delivered numerous commissioned works for orchestra, ensemble, chamber music and choir, which have been performed, for example, at Wien Modern , the Almeida Festival , the Huddersfield Festival , the Styrian Autumn , the Musikprotokoll , the Musica Viva , the World Music Days , the Schleswig-Holstein- Music Festival and the Bregenz Festival .

From 1985 to 1994 Kühr taught at the Graz University of Music . From 1992 to 1994 he held a visiting professorship for composition at the Mozarteum Salzburg and from 1994 to 1995 at the Graz University of Music . Since 1995 he has been a full professor and head of a composition class at this university.

Works

Stage works (operas)

Instrumental music, everything

  • Móma (1981), six variations on a Macedonian folk song for English horn
  • Quasi una variazione (1981), for piano based on a waltz by Antonio Diabelli , (composed at the invitation of ORF)
  • Five Aphorisms (1979), for English horn and string trio
  • For string quartet (1980/81)
  • For Sonus (1982), for brass quintet, (commissioned by the Walter Buchebner Society)
  • Conversation on “Fast a Rondo” (1982), for two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba
  • Agaue's Klage (1983), based on the Bacchen des Euripides for percussion ensemble (four players)
  • 210 Secondi (1984/85), Fantasia breve per flauto, clarinetto, violino e Montepulciano
  • Styrian serenade (1986), for violin, violoncello and piano, (Hans Werner Henze on his 60th birthday)
  • For wind quintet (1990), (commissioned by the Mozart community in Graz)
  • Sept pour Deux (1992), Seven short pieces for flute and piano
  • Portraits (1993), Eight Musical Gestures for Violoncello and Piano
  • Croquis et Agaceries d'un gros Bonhomme en Bois (1994), by Erik Satie , arranged for brass quintet by Gerd Kühr
  • Con Sordino (1995/96), for two violins, viola and violoncello, (commissioned by the Wiener Konzerthaus)
  • Agleia is looking for Pollicino - and finds Hans (2001), for piano four hands, (dedicated to Hans Werner Henze on his 75th birthday)
  • Trialog (2001/02), for clarinet, violoncello and piano
  • Trialog II (2003), for flute, bass clarinet and piano
  • Stop the Piano (2006), for piano and tape, (commissioned by the Salzburg Festival )
  • Trialog III (2006/07), for clarinet, bass clarinet and piano
  • Mittersiller Miniaturen (2007), for flute (also alto flute), clarinet in Bb, drums (vibraphone, snare), electric guitar (also mandolin) and cello (the score was created as part of the Mittersill Composers Forum 2007)
  • Come una Pastorale (2008/2009), for clarinet, violin and violoncello
  • The Violl Waye (2009), for viol, chamber music

Instrumental ensembles

  • March, march! , (1981) Collage based on marching motifs by Franz Schöggl for instrumental ensemble
  • Nachtstück (1982), “A Harp Journey Through the Night” for harp and instrumental ensemble
  • Si Naturale (1991), for 12 musicians (Hans Werner Henze on his 65th birthday)
  • Fourteen times one (1991/92), solos for ensemble (commissioned by the 20th century ensemble)
  • Without Answer (1993), for six instrumentalists
  • Streifton (1993), for ensemble (commissioned by Musikprotokoll Graz and ZKM Karlsruhe)
  • Two times seven (1993/94), seven movements for ensemble (commissioned by the 20th century ensemble)
  • Sei Omaggi (1995), for clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, violin, cello, piano and percussion (commissioned by the "Friends of the National Theater" - Bavarian State Opera Munich )
  • stop and go and black and white (and sometimes blue) (1999/2000), for instrumental ensemble (commissioned by the Salzburg Festival)
  • Revue instrumentale et électronique (2004/05), spatial composition for instrumental ensemble and feeds (commissioned by steirischer herbst)
  • serihenweise (2008), twelve pieces for ensemble (commissioned by the ensemble die reihe)

Orchestral works

  • Five Aphorisms (1979/82), for large orchestra
  • Our Measure is Reality (1982), based on Walter Buchebner's diary for baritone, choir and orchestra
  • Lamento e Conforto (1983), Elegy for large orchestra, (commissioned by ORF)
  • Music for the Fire Mystery (1985), for wind orchestra, suite based on works by Austrian baroque composers (HIF Biber and JJ Fux)
  • Scenes from an Alpine Valley (1988), Small Suite from the opera Stallerhof (arranged by David Paul Graham), for wind orchestra
  • Eso Es (1989), orchestral piece, (commissioned by ORF)
  • Concertare (1990/91), for a clarinetist and orchestra, (commissioned by ORF for the Salzburg Festival in 1991) Further performances took place in 1992 at the "Wien Modern" festival.
  • "Mundo Perdido" (1992), for chamber orchestra, (commissioned by the First Austrian Spar-Casse - Bank for the Festival Wien modern 1992)
  • Matchstick and Strike Plate (1994), Five pieces for youth orchestra (commissioned by the Austrian Musical Youth)
  • ... à la recherche ... (1995/96), for piano and orchestra, (commissioned by ORF)
  • Ricordarsi (2001/02), for string orchestra and piano four hands, (commissioned by the Wiener Concert-Verein)
  • Movimenti (2004/06), for violin and orchestra, (commissioned by the Vienna Mozart Year 2006)
  • Line point area space (2004/07), for orchestra, (commissioned by ORF)
  • Introductio - Meditatio - Magnificat - Epilogus (2007/08), for high soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra, texts from the Gospel according to Lukas , by Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , (composition commissioned by Bayerischer Rundfunk)
  • KLANGSPLITTER (2009), for orchestra, (for the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra on the 40th anniversary)

Vocal works

  • Four songs based on poems by Miller Williams (1978), for baritone, flute, oboe, clarinet and piano
  • Four poems by Rose Ausländer (1981), for mixed choir
  • Walt Whitman for President (1984), Music on three poems by Walt Whitman for soprano and seven players
  • Palimpsest (1989/90), music for mezzo-soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra based on poems by Erika Burkart and Georg Trakl , (commissioned by the City of Zurich )
  • Wortlos (1990), reminiscent of Stallerhof for mixed choir a cappella
  • L'Infinito del Sogno (1993), for mixed choir based on poems by Giacomo Leopardi and Algernon Charles Swinburne , (commissioned by the Arnold Schoenberg Choir)
  • Idea 94 (1994), musical scenes for soprano, violoncello and piano on sonnets by Shakespeare , Spenser , Swinburne and Drayton and on texts by Lichtenberg , (commissioned by ORF / 3sat)
  • Scala quasi unisona (1997), choral piece for at least two singers or better more
  • De Loin (1998/99), Hommage à Perotinus Magnus for vocal quartet and ensemble, (commissioned by ORF / EBU for January 1, 2000)
  • No autumn poem (2003), song for baritone and piano based on the poem of the same name by Hans-Ulrich Treichel , (commissioned by the A • DEvantgarde festival in Munich)
  • Three Shakespeare Sonnets (2003), for mixed choir a cappella, (composed for the Styriarte 2003 and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir)
  • When I grow up (2003/04), for Children's Choir and Brass Quintet (Words: Petra Ernst), (Commissioned by the International Children's Choir Festival Halle / Saale)
  • O Camerado Close! (2006), for vocal quartet (based on a poem by Walt Whitman), (commissioned by the ensemble schnittpunktvokal)
  • An die Musik (2006), for mixed (youth) choir based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke , (commissioned by the Styrian Singers Association)
  • Kroküsse (2006/07), for male voice and instrumental ensemble based on a poem by Lothar Knessl
  • Hush, hush! (2008), for upper voice choir - Text: Petra Ernst (very loosely based on Franz Pocci ), (commissioned by the Styrian Singers Association)
  • An die Musik based on a poem by Detlev von Liliencron (2009), for mixed choir (commissioned by the Styrian Singers Association)
  • Now where? Search for traces for speakers, choir and orchestra based on texts by Goethe , Lichtenberg and Heine (2012), melodrama for speakers, mixed choir and orchestra (commissioned by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna for Ignaz Kirchner , the Wiener Symphoniker and the Wiener Singverein )

Film music

Awards

Movie

The director Wolfgang Hackl visualized in the film Kühr - Idea 28 '27 , produced in 1994 on behalf of ORF / 3sat , personal impressions and pictures on the occasion of the genesis and reproduction of the composition Idea 94 by Gerd Kühr, which was created in the same year .

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personal data
SURNAME Kühr, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühr, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Maria Luggau , Carinthia