Helmut Schmidinger

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Helmut Schmidinger (March 2007)

Helmut Schmidinger (born May 11, 1969 in Wels , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian composer .

Life

Schmidinger received important musical impulses from Gertrud Jetschgo (Landesmusikschule Wels), then studied piano (with Heinz Walter) and oboe (with Arthur Jensen ) at the then Mozarteum University of Music and Performing Arts , where he studied composition with Gerhard Wimberger , Hans-Jürgen von Bose and Gerd Kühr studied. He attended master classes with Friedrich Cerha and Ernst Helmuth Flammerer in composition and with Dexter Morrill in computer music and live electronics.

As a guest in Tokyo, New York, Prague or Paris and at festivals such as the Lucerne Festival , the Bregenz Festival , the Carinthian Summer or the Bruckner Festival Linz , Schmidinger shows himself to be a composer who confesses to tradition and is in an inspiring dialogue with the past constantly redefined and original reference approaches highlighted and ultimately commented on in his personal language. In this way he does justice to contemporary and lively communication with the recipients - his main concern as a composer and musician. In his work as a music artist and editor of older works, the reference to music history is reflected in the close proximity to the sources. The music mediator Schmidinger is characterized by intensive pedagogical experience, which he creatively implements in composition pedagogical concepts for young people and students. Concert organizations (Wels subscription concerts, Treffpunkt Neue Musik, Jeunesse Wels) complement his positions in musical life.

A music school in Graz was named after him in 2019.

style

With “... between thin slices ...” (five interludes for large orchestra, commissioned by the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen) Helmut Schmidinger presented his op. 100 in 2010/11. Alluding to the reduced “sandwich position” of contemporary works in current works Concert programs (an “in-between existence” within much-played classical music standards) conceal sensual-lyrical, percussive-gripping and “between the lines” iridescent-colored music that is inspired by texts by Goethe, Rilke, Schiller and Bachmann. The incipit “between” is common to these poems. Referring to literature is only one of the strategies in Schmidinger's varied work with extra-musical references. The work processes are different: Certainly in “.... probably not in such a serious concert” (2003/04) for violin, violoncello and piano the idea of ​​the “inner monologue” based on Schnitzler's lieutenant Gustl is the musical style and the rhythmic texture, thus attracting Schmidinger in the final Chapter (2005) for violin, speaker, snare drum and string orchestra (commissioned by the Wiener concert-Verein), the idea to form the guided along the text piece (solo concert) from the content comparison of Individual and collective in Kästner's original of the same name. The interval construction, which functions as a cipher, reflects Kästner's textually staged time stages. Something else happens when Schmidinger builds humorous music around cooking recipes ( Blunzenknödel, Stülltes Gansl ) or puts sounds on old cider presses ( “Where the Bartl gets the cider” ). He adopts the "original sound" of Mozart or Mahler from their "word compositions" - be it that Schmidinger in "... and I long for him to death" (2010/11) (oscillogram for soprano and chamber ensemble based on letters from Gustav Mahler to Anna von Mildenburg) "fictitious" emotions of the Mildenburg follow the "real" letters of Mahler, or whether it is that he honors the "exploited" anniversary boy in Mozart year 2006 alternatively by sending letters apart from the much-cited "Bäsle correspondence" as a text fundus serve and become part of the song cycle “... that they give shade and light” for baritone and orchestra.

Schmidinger almost always bridges the gap to composers of the past by consistently avoiding direct musical quotations. His work always surprises with ingenious varieties of new reference ideas. As commissioned by the city of Augsburg on the occasion of the 58th German Mozart Festival, the cycles (2008/09) for string quartet draw their constitutive sound material from the interval reference of the key sequence of Mozart's string quartet cycles.

The type of work clearly determines the tonal language. The passionate promoter of youth composes for young performers in a different tone, likes to address intimate and subtle matters with a chamber music cast and subtle tone and expresses his affinity for musical drama and narrative moments through a large number of complex performers. Schmidinger's desire to compose close to the instrument is realized primarily through dedicatory pieces - among the interpreters you can find Christian Altenburger , Wolfgang Holzmair or Ildikó Raimondi . Dennis Russell Davies and Krzysztof Penderecki conducted his works.

Works (selection)

A complete catalog of works can be found on the composer's website.

Stage works

  • Lynx, the Lynx (2012) - A children's opera for the New Music Theater Linz
  • Die Nasenwurst (2011) - A children's opera for the Carinthian Summer Festival
  • For example Franz (2010/2011) - chamber music theater for an actor, a singer and a string quartet
  • Operation "Fly Flap" (1996) - a crimical for young people in 3 acts

Orchestral works

  • A pencil sharpener unpacks (2011/2012) - Revelatory stories to write down for narrator and orchestra
  • "... between thin slices ..." (2010/11) - 5 intermezzi for large orchestra
  • “There I sit in my wasteland” (2009) - Symphony in five movements for string orchestra
  • "... if he always hears such a giant marching behind him" (2007) - Nachklänge for orchestra

Solo concerts

  • "... the sound of the wings touching each other ..." (2009/10) - Concerto for violin, violoncello and string orchestra
  • Metamorphoses on “Joseph Haydn” (2009) - Concerto for violin and orchestra
  • “The Last Chapter” (2005) - Rondo based on the poem of the same name by Erich Kästner for violin, speaker, snare drum and string orchestra
  • Weißkunig's last ride (2000) - Toccata for timpani and chamber ensemble or orchestra
  • "... not before the drums fall silent ..." (1997) - Concertino for 2 small drums and chamber ensemble

Chamber music

  • “... is probably not the right thing to do in such a serious concert” (2003/04) - ten movements from “Leutnant Gustl” by Arthur Schnitzler for violin, cello and piano
  • Cycles (2008/09) - for string quartet
  • “I only mix three craters for the sensible” (2007/08) - for clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello
  • “Just a touch! - und er ist Zeit “(2002) - a fantastic continuation of Schubert's DV 703 for string quartet

Vocal works

  • “... and longing for him to death” (2010/11) - oscillogram based on letters from Gustav Mahler to Anna von Mildenburg for soprano and chamber ensemble
  • Gefülltes Gansl (2010) - for mixed choir
  • “Where the Bartl gets the cider” (2008/09) - sayings, poems and stories about cider for baritone and piano
  • "... that they give shade and light ..." (2006) - a song cycle based on letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for baritone and orchestra

Awards

  • 2015 "Music Teacher Award for Excellence" in the category "Best Print Resource Award" for LISTENING LAB
  • 2014 "Recommendation" at the VDS Media Prize for LISTENING LAB (publisher and author together with Constanze Wimmer)
  • 2012 Anton Bruckner scholarship from the state of Upper Austria
  • 2012: Culture medal of the city of Wels in gold
  • 2012: "Composer-in-Residence" at the festival in St. Gallen (Styria)
  • 2009: State grant for composition from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
  • 2008: “Composer-in-Residence” at the LOISIARTE Festival
  • 2006: Anton Bruckner grant from the Province of Upper Austria
  • 2005/06: "Composer-in-Residence" Wiener Concert-Verein
  • 2004: Award "Prädikat Praxiserprobt" from 275 submissions from the Association of German Music Schools for "Jet Set Trio in 3 minutes"
  • 2004: Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
  • 2004: Promotion Prize for Music of the Republic of Austria
  • 1998: “Composer-in-Residence” at the Composers Forum Mittersill
  • 1996: State grant for composition from the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Art
  • 1995: Award of the "Theodor-Körner-Foundation"
  • 1994 Representative of the Mozarteum University at the European Interconcerts
  • 1993: Talent promotion bonus for composition from the province of Upper Austria
  • 1992/93: Scholarship from the Carl Michael Ziehrer Foundation
  • 1991: First prize in the composition competition of the "Jeunesse musicale"
  • 1990: Performance scholarship from the Mozarteum University

literature

  • Bernhard Günther (Ed.): Helmut Schmidinger, in: Lexicon of contemporary music from Austria, Vienna 1997, p. 967ff.
  • Alexander Rausch: Helmut Schmidinger, in: Österreichisches Musiklexikon, ed. by Rudolf Flotzinger, Vol. 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, Sp.
  • Zdenek K. Slaby and Petr: Helmut Schmidinger, in: Svet Jine Hudby, Volvox Globator, 2002, p. 505ff.
  • Alison Robuck: The Story of Homer's 'The Odyssey' in Helmut Schmidinger's 'Vier gefiederte Wort des Odysseus', in: Programmatic elements in selected post-1950 works for solo oboe, dissertation, Illinois 2004.
  • Ulrike Aringer-Grau: Schmidinger premiere in the Stefaniensaal, in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, 3/2010, Vienna 2010.
  • Antonia Bruns: Entertaining - not always with a happy ending. New or edited pieces for chamber music with strings, in: Neue Musikzeitung, 85th year, 2009/10, Regensburg 2009.
  • Otto Paul Burkhardt : The essential is the in-between, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 2012/02, p. 74, Mainz 2012.
  • Markus Fleck: Just a touch! - and it's time, in: Schweizer Musikzeitung, July 2005.
  • Flora Königsberger: Schmidinger in the Wiener Musikverein, in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, vol. 65/6/2010, Vienna 2010 p. 55f.
  • Martin Lehmann: what touches us ..., in: Schweizer Musikzeitung, October 2007.
  • Ludwig Werner Merkle: Shaken, not stirred. Inspired by Mozart: piano trio as a musical dice game, in: Neue Musikzeitung, 85th year, 2009/09, Regensburg 2009.
  • Eveline Sontacchi: Electrically. Portrait of Helmut Schmidinger , Vienna: Böhlau 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-23292-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Helmut Schmidinger Music School Graz - SKZ 601540. Accessed January 10, 2020 .
  2. Culture medal for the artistic director of the Wels subscription concerts ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. wels.at, October 2, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wels1.at