Harald Bojé

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Harald Bojé, 1978 New Jazz Festival Moers moers festival

Harald Bojé (born December 9, 1934 in Göttingen ; † November 27, 1999 in Wuppertal ) was a German pianist (also electronium , synthesizer ), who emerged primarily as an interpreter of new music and improviser.

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Bojé studied piano at the Stuttgart Music Academy. In 1966 he won first prize as a pianist at the Gaudeamus competition for interpreters of new music. In the 1960s he was part of the Cologne New Music scene and played in the Cologne Ensemble for New Music with Mauricio Kagel .

Since the mid-1960s he participated in the interpretation of the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen and was a permanent member of the Stockhausen ensemble until the mid-1970s. During this time he was involved in all of Stockhausen's important projects. First at the Hamburg premiere of “Mixtur”; he also played the piano works regularly in the context of Stockhausen's concerts.

From today's perspective, the electronium Pi , which he modified and used in Stockhausen's chamber music , became more important in terms of sound . In the Stockhausen Ensemble he also became familiar with improvisation music (“Nachtmusik” / From the Seven Days 1969). At that time, Michel Portal and Jean-François Jenny-Clark , who later became famous as jazz musicians, also played there . In his own notes in 1969, Stockhausen described the musicians in his ensemble, characterizing Bojé musically as "the best dynamic force, stimulating and a (positive) agitator".

In the 1970s there was an encounter with Günter Christmann and Detlef Schönenberg , which was documented on the FMP record Remarks ; In 1978 he performed in this trio at the Moers Festival . In 1980 he performed with an improvisation group that included Wolfgang Schmidtke , Martin Zuhr, Matthias Burkert and Gerd Rataj.

The online source Discogs lists 40 entries in the incomplete discography as of November 5, 2019.

Pedagogical work: From 1971 he taught as a piano lecturer at the Wuppertal Music Academy, later as a professor at the Wuppertal Department of the Rhineland University of Music , where the academy was merged.

He also wrote a two-volume “piano lesson” that was published by Klett from 1982 onwards. His "Piano School for Beginners" was published by Universal Edition in the early 1980s. It was one of the first schools to use the resources of New Music for educational purposes. In his “Piano Literature for Advanced Students” ( Universal Edition ), he brought together works from the 20th century from classical music and jazz.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ First performance of Montage 1969
  2. ↑ cf. Karl H. Wörner Stockhausen: Life and Work , p. 26f .; this refers to the first version; Bojé was also at the premiere of the revised version in Frankfurt under Ladislav Kupkovič involved
  3. ↑ Cf. Rolf Gelhaar Leap of Faith ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Electronium / Electronium Pi ( Memento of March 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) and Malcolm Ball Early Electronic Instruments
  5. ↑ after: Richard Toop: Stockhausen's secret theater .
  6. ↑ discography .
personal data
SURNAME Bojé, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1999
Place of death Wuppertal