Heinrich Hartl (composer)

Heinrich Hartl

Heinrich Hartl (born May 7, 1953 in Deggendorf ) is a German composer and pianist .

Life

Hartl studied organ, piano, Catholic church music and composition at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg. In 1985 he received a teaching position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

The spectrum of his compositional work ranges from choral music, chamber and orchestral music to musical-literary chanson and now includes over 140 works. Hartl crosses the border between new music and jazz ; At the center of his artistic expression is the moment of silence with the “concentration on the immaterial, the intangible, the transcendent ” (said Jens Voskamp in his laudation on the occasion of the 2006 Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize ).

He finds inspirational “moments of silence” “in literature, nature and ancient architecture. For him, poetry is 'like music, like color and light' - a remarkable comparison in view of the fact that Heinrich Hartl has been blind since he was born . "

Heinrich Hartl lives in Nuremberg . As a composer and pianist he works regularly with the Studio Franken of Bayerischer Rundfunk and gives concerts both in the region and abroad (concert tours have taken him to Latvia , Uzbekistan and the Ukraine ). His chanson program When ick mal dead (with the singer Jutta Czurda ) experienced 60 performances in the Stadttheater Fürth .

Prizes and awards

• 1985 Culture Prize of the Middle Franconia District
• 1994 1st prize at an international composition competition in the Czech Republic (for the string quartet Was im Stillen blooms op.61 )
• 1995 Culture Prize of the City of Nuremberg
• 2006 Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize of the Middle Franconia district
• 2012 Culture Prize of the City of Fürth

Compositions (selection)

Stage works

• Lina and Strano (op. 97). Fairy tale opera in 3 acts. Libretto: Godehard Schramm
• The world is a disk (op. 135). Chamber opera. Libretto: Elmar Tannert (* 1964). Premiere October 23, 2005 Nuremberg ( Pocket Opera Company ; Director: Peter Beat Wyrsch )

Vocal compositions

• Get up, become light (op. 5). 2 sacred concerts for soprano and organ. Texts: from the book of Isaiah
• Cantata (op. 27) for mixed choir and orchestra. Text: Bertolt Brecht , legend of the origin of the book Taoteking on Laotse's journey into emigration
• Two humoresques (op. 48) for youth choir and small orchestra. Texts: Peter Hacks and Christian Morgenstern
• The Temptation of Jesus (op. 51) for choir and orchestra. Text: from the Gospel according to Luke . Premiere 1993 Bayreuth (City Church)
• The Victory Festival (op. 75). Cantata for mixed choir and orchestra. Text: Friedrich Schiller
• Tamar (op. 80) for soloists, choir and small orchestra. Text: Martin Buber
• Da pacem domine ( op.95 ). Cantata for choir and orchestra
• Praise the Lord my soul (op. 109) for youth choir, children's choir, soprano, tenor, speaker and orchestra. Text: Psalm 103
• Who ever knew how to understand life correctly (op. 129). 4 chants for male choir a cappella based on poems by August von Platen . WP May 23, 2004 Erlangen ( Orangery )
• O magnum Mysterium (op.132). Motet for mixed choir a cappella. WP December 4, 2004 Nuremberg ( Frauenkirche ; musica-viva-chor Bamberg)
• In both hands (op.141). 6 meditations for soprano, baritone, 4- to 8-part mixed choir and orchestra. Texts: Paul Celan . Premiere December 2nd, 2007 Nuremberg ( Meistersingerhalle ; Kirsten Drope [soprano], Christian Hilz [baritone]; Hans-Sachs-Chor Nürnberg , Ensemble Kontraste; conductor: Julian Christoph Tölle). Recording ( BR  / Studio Franken )

1.  The jugs (“At the long tables of time ...”, from Poppy and Memory [1952]) - 2.  Psalm (“Nobody kneads us out of earth and clay again ...”, from: The Nobody's Rose [1968]) - 3 .  Sinfonia (Orchestra) - 4.  At both hands (from: The Nobody Rose ) - 5th  Crocus (from Zeitgehöft [ed 1976th]) - 6 (orchestral postlude)

Orchestral works

• Concerto gregoriano (op.6) for string orchestra (or string quartet)
• Two ragtime tangos (opp. 8 and 31) for string orchestra
• Concerto for marimba and string orchestra (op.32)
• Suite Mediterranée (op. 41) for accordion orchestra
• Dialogues (op. 49) for alphorn trio and string orchestra
• Concerto for harp and string orchestra (op.72)
• Lina and Strano ( op.81 ). Suite for accordion orchestra
• Changes (op. 115) for large orchestra. Premiere 2003 Nuremberg ( Nuremberg Philharmonic , conductor: Philippe Auguin ). Commissioned by the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg on the occasion of its 150th anniversary
• On Hope in Dark Times (op. 127) for cello orchestra

CD recordings (selection)

• Kami & Kaze - Nessi Tausendschön and Heinrich Hartl (1991)
• Trouble Bass - Lizzy Aumeier and Heinrich Hartl (1995?)
• Bohemia is by the sea (2000)
• Selma or the journey around the table (2002). Interpretation of texts by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
• When I'm dead - Jutta Czurda and Heinrich Hartl (2003)
• Life Song (2007)

Web links

• Works by and about Heinrich Hartl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Hartl's homepage , also contains catalog raisonné
• Medienwerkstatt Franken: The light is in the tones - Heinrich Hartl, pianist and composer, a portrait (video, running time: 10:36 minutes)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography on the website of H. Hartl
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.