Group 8 Cologne

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The Group 8 Cologne (short also: Group 8 ) was a group of Rhenish composer who was from 1969 to 1972. It included Peter Michael Braun , Bojidar Dimov , York Höller , Hans Ulrich Humpert , Georg Kröll , Heinz Martin Lonquich , Manfred Niehaus and Rolf Riehm .

At the suggestion of Bernd Alois Zimmermann , composers of the next generation founded Group 8 Cologne in 1969 . Initially it was planned to call the group informal , with the composers referring to Adorno's essay “Vers une musique informelle”. “The members of GROUP 8 are interested in exchanging experiences, solving professional problems together, developing new forms of music making and thus making them public,” they wrote in their advertising brochure. The plan was for the joint performance of compositions by individual members and other works of new music , the joint development of improvisation practice and the development of collective compositions by all or some members. New possibilities of composition and performance should be developed. However, the result is only a joint composition by all seven composers, since Peter Michael Braun left after their first joint concert in 1969. The joint discussion was also important to the members.

By 1972 the group realized several joint projects and also took part with a collective improvisation in the first "convertible concert" that took place in 1970 in the WDR building in Cologne. Then most members of the group no longer felt it would make sense to continue the work in view of the compositional individuality and the different viewpoints of the members, which contradicted the ideal of a collectively justified collaboration, and the group dissolved.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Wagner "A triad with a system". Citizen culture, institutional support and the free music scene in Cologne. In: Kulturamt Köln (Hrsg.): Free music in Cologne. Data - facts - background. Cologne: Verlag Dohr 1994, pp. 11-38
  • In five rooms . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1970, p. 180 ( online - Mar. 2, 1970 ).

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