Gerhard Müller-Hornbach

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Gerhard Müller-Hornbach (* 26 February 1951 as Gerhard Müller in Hornbach ) is a German composer , conductor and music educator .

Life

As a professor of composition and music theory , he taught from 1981 to 2016 at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts , where he headed the composition department and in 2005 co-founded the Institute for Contemporary Music (IzM), of which he was director.

Honors

Gerhard Müller-Hornbach was awarded the Rome Prize of the Villa Massimo , among others , and in 2006 he received the Johann Vaillant Composition Prize endowed with 2500 euros at the 6th Bergische Biennale . In 2009 Müller-Hornbach was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by the Federal President .

Compositions

  • Changes in D, 1976 (for orchestra )
  • Piano Trio , 1978 ( violin , cello and piano )
  • Moving Silence, 1985 (flute, oboe , violin, viola and violoncello)
  • Three night pieces based on poems by Eduard Mörike, 1985 (for mezzo-soprano (baritone), horn in F, cello and piano)
  • Gesänge der Schirin, 1983 (for soprano, viola d'amore and 21 strings)
  • We are part of the earth - composition of sound, light and movement after the speech of Chief Seattle, 1987 (solos, choir and large orchestra)
  • Passacaglia, 1980 (for orchestra)
  • Gesänge der Liebe, 1985/1986 ( soprano , baritone , choir and orchestra)
  • The Song of Danijar, 1995 (orchestra)
  • Five to eight - 5: 8, 1994 (vowels, dance, percussions)
  • String Quartet , 1985
  • In Sound, 1998 (solo cello, mezzo-soprano , 2 cellos, double bass , percussions)
  • ... until the shadows of the night dawn ..., 2003 ((alto) flute and drums (2 bongos, 2 congas, big drum)
  • Five miniatures based on poems by Robert Gernhardt, 2004 (voice, trumpet , double bass, drums)
  • Sisyphus, 2006 (treble recorder solo)
  • On the Knowing Forgetting, 2011 (flute and drums)
  • numerous chamber music works as well as compositions for school ensembles (including "water music" and "sound spaces")
  • Only one thing is granted to me, 2017 (composition based on poems and diary entries by the Holocaust victim Margarete Steiner, née Henschel, for soprano, flute, viola, violoncello, percussion), premiered on January 23, 2018 in Offenbach am Main
  • Im Spiegel der Angst - in search of anxiety -, 2017 (oratorio for 3 vocal soloists (soprano, tenor, baritone), 8-part mixed choir and 3 instrumental ensembles based on texts by Martin Luther , Ingeborg Bachmann , Martin Luther King , Khalil Gibran , Hannah Arendt , Henrik Ibsen , Gotthold Ephrahim Lessing , Erich Fried , Epikur , Fernando Pessoa and from the Bible ), premiered on October 20, 2018 in Mainz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "In the mirror of fear" - world premiere of Müller-Hornbach's Luther Oratorio in Mainz | nmz - new music newspaper. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Hornbach, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerhard Müller
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hornbach