Harald Weiss (composer)
Harald Weiss (born May 26, 1949 in Salzgitter ) is a German composer and director .
Life
Weiss completed his preliminary studies at the Lower Saxony Music School in Braunschweig in the subjects violin , piano , composition and ear training . From 1968 to 1972 he studied school music , conducting and composition at the State University for Music and Theater in Hanover, followed by a percussion course at the Hamburg University of Music .
Numerous engagements as a conductor and interpreter with various formations followed. From 1973 to 1976 Weiss was resident composer at the Städtische Bühnen in Bielefeld and from 1973 to 1983 lecturer for rhythm and arrangement at the State University for Music and Theater in Hanover.
In 1980 he received a Lower Saxony artist grant in the music division. In 1983 he received a scholarship from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Art before moving to Mallorca in 1984 . A year later he received a work grant from the city of Berlin .
In 1986 Weiss received a scholarship from Villa Massimo and a study visit to Rome . Six years later, the opera “Amanda's Dream” was premiered in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. In 1993 he received another Lower Saxony artist grant, this time in the film section. In 1997 the opera “Das Gespenst. Music theater for children and adults ”premiered. In 2000, supervised and white on the Expo 2000 the project "Travel through the night. A performance on water and on land in seven stations ”.
Awards and honors
- 1975 Winner of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk composition competition
- 1976 Prize at the international composition competition of the city of Hamm
- 1977 Prize at the international composition competition of the State Theater Braunschweig
- 1982 Lower Saxony Culture Prize
- 1984 Culture Prize of the City of Bielefeld
- 1984 Bernhard Sprengel Prize for Music
- 1991 "Amadeus" in silver at the national competition "Creative Music"
- 1992 Golden and Silver Pyramids for the video clip MarkenART at the photokina in Cologne
- 1993 Prize of the television broadcaster Premiere at the Videofest Berlin
- 1993 Prix special du jury, Mondial de la Video in Brussels
- 1995 Award for the piece of the year of the Bahia Aplaude in Salvador , Brazil
- 2010 Isadora Prize of the Iwanson Sixt Foundation for Contemporary Dance "for its services to contemporary dance"
- 2012 Praetorius Music Prize
- 2019 Pro Musica Nova Prize for his life's work
Works
- Arche , musical theater (1984)
- Masked ball , musical theater (1985)
- Ade , music theater (1987)
- Winter chants , voice and instruments (1988)
- Amanda's dream , musical theater in two acts and a break (1988-91)
- My Wooden Dancing Shoes , percussion and voice (1990)
- The other paradise , an acoustic film (1995)
- Das Gespenst , musical theater for children and adults (1995/96)
- Journey into the night , tape composition (2000)
- Silent Walls , string quartet (2003)
- Prayer for violin and string orchestra (2006)
- Night music for solo guitar, guitar choir, string orchestra and drums
- Bremen Requiem for soprano, boy soprano, tenor, flugelhorn, choir and orchestra. A commission for the 32nd German Evangelical Church Congress in Bremen (2009)
- Black before eyes and there was light! , Requiem for boy choir, chamber orchestra, boy soprano, soprano and tenor solo. Dedicated to the Hanover Boys Choir . World premiere: October 31, 2009, NDR -Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen, Hanover
- White Night , for baritone solo, children's choir (four parts), mixed choir (twelve parts), two cellos, double bass, organ and percussion 2014, commissioned by Singakademie Stuttgart , world premiere: September 28, 2014, Markuskirche Stuttgart
Web links
- Works by and about Harald Weiss in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Harald Weiss
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weiss, Harald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzgitter |