H. Johannes Wallmann

Heinrich Johannes Wallmann (born February 23, 1952 in Leipzig ) is a contemporary Berlin composer .

Life

Johannes Wallmann is the son of the theologian Heinrich Wallmann , he studied music in Weimar from 1968 to 1973 and was a master class student for composition with Friedrich Goldmann at the East Berlin Academy of the Arts in 1980/81 . His works include compositions for landscape and spatial sound , for chamber music and orchestral music, as well as musical combination and self-organization systems . He developed the basis for a new aesthetic theory and, after many years, completed work on a book entitled Integral Modernism - Vision and Philosophy of the Future (Pfau-Verlag 2006), which on an interdisciplinary basis was an alternative overall concept of culture-democracy-ecolonomy - Ethics designs. In 2009 his book The Wende went wrong - or why biography is more than just a purely personal matter in which he can a. deals with the consequences of National Socialism and Real Socialism (Kulturverlag Kadmos).

From 1975 to 1979 Johannes Wallmann was a member of the Staatskapelle Weimar . In 1977 he founded the Neue Musik Weimar group , which he directed until 1986. In 1980 he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize . He received the Hans Stieber Prize at the Hallische Musiktage in 1981 . From 1976 to 1986 he received "art-philosophical training" from the painter Kurt W. Streubel . During this time "Synopsis" was created - music in space with pictures by Streubel, a work commissioned by the Berlin Wind Association . Since then he has dealt intensively with parallels and connections between the visual arts and music as well as interdisciplinary issues.

In 1986 Johannes Wallmann submitted an application based on cultural policy and was able to travel to West Germany with his family in 1988. In 1990 he initiated the interdisciplinary construction works Klangzeit Wuppertal . Artists and scientists from all over Germany and many other countries took part in it. With the Bauhütte Klangzeit, he tied in with those ideas of the Weimar Bauhaus that aim at cultural renewal and the integral interaction of the arts. For the first international sound art festival, Klangzeit Wuppertal 1991/92, the artists of Bauhütte Klangzeit developed and realized numerous sound art projects for the public Wuppertal urban and landscape area.

Johannes Wallmann poses with his work among other things. concrete connections between music and architecture as well as music and landscape. He composed many of his works especially for architectural and landscape conditions. In 1996/97 he wrote for the Berliner Dom Innenklang - music in the room for 4 orchestral groups and sopranos , in 2002 Man-Do - music in the room for the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic, 2003/04 for the Wörlitzer Park (UNESCO World Heritage Site) Der Blaue Sound - landscape sound composition for distant vocal and orchestral groups .

Numerous radio recordings were made of his works, for example by Deutschlandradio , MDR , NDR , BBC , WDR , HR , SR and BR . Some of his works, such as the Glocken Requiem Dresden - Composition for 129 networked Dresden church bells (world premiere on February 12, 1995 in Dresden ), Klang Felsen Helgoland - landscape sound composition (world premiere on August 31, 1996 at 850 meters on the steep coast of Helgoland ) or Innenklang (world premiere on June 7, 1997 in the Berlin Cathedral) were broadcast live on the radio .

Johannes Wallmann took on teaching positions in the architecture department at various universities on topics such as acoustic ecology and the city as a sound space . He has received numerous awards and invitations for his work.

Selection of works

Chamber music and orchestral compositions, see below (link to list of works)

Bells Requiem Dresden - Composition for 129 networked Dresden church bells

Klang Felsen Helgoland - landscape sound composition

Inner sound-outer sound - music in space for 4 orchestral groups, sopranos and soundscapes ( Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin )

intars 2138 ( Dresden Philharmonic )

Light sound landscape of green sound ( Bad Berka / Weimar)

Man-Do - music in the room for 6 instrumental groups for the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic , world premiere by the Berlin plucked orchestra

The blue sound - landscape sound composition for distant vocal and orchestral groups for the Wörlitz system ( Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau )

Bells Requiem XXI for three distant choir groups, 137 bells and electronic sounds (texts in German, Hebrew, high Arabic).

On October 21, 2006, the world premiere of his new piece Im Sparkeln der Sterne with twelve saxophones took place in the Kulturpalast Dresden

Reiner Kunze cycle DER BLAUE VOGEL - music in the room for baritone and chamber ensemble to poems, adaptations and texts by Reiner Kunze; World premiere in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic (October 27, 2009).

Solo-Univers - 5 new concerts for soloists and orchestra , world premiere by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and soloists from top orchestras in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic (October 28, 2010).

Wallmann, H. Johannes: INTEGRAL MODERN - Vision and Philosophy of the Future, Saarbrücken; Pfau-Verlag, 2006, 306 pages, ISBN 978-3-89727-332-0

Wallmann, H. Johannes: The turning point went wrong or why biography is more than just a purely personal matter, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2009, 351 S., ISBN 978-3-86599-095-2

literature

Anka Giesa: The Bell Requiem Dresden by Johannes Wallmann , in: The Dresden Church Music in the 19th and 20th centuries , ed. by Matthias Herrmann, Laaber 1998, pp. 573-580 ( Musik in Dresden 3 ), ISBN 3-89007-331-X

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Wallmann, H. Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wallmann, Heinrich Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer for spatial sound and landscape sound
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig