Herbert Lauermann

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Herbert Lauermann (born November 7, 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer .

Education and professional activity

Herbert Lauermann completed private music studies from 1970 to 1975 with Ernst Vogel, from 1975 to 1979 he studied music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and at the same institute from 1979 to 1983 composition with Erich Urbanner. From 1976 to 1998 he taught music education at the Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium in Stockerau . Since 1987 he has been a teacher of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and since 2003 associate professor for composition at the same institute.

Artistic activities

Herbert Lauermann works as a composer for the Carinthian Summer Festival , the Danube Festival , the Chamber Music Days in Schloss Eckartsau, the Musikverein Wien, the Society for Music Friends, the West German Broadcasting Corporation, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, the Ensemble Continuum New York, the Styrian Autumn Festival , the Viennese Chamber Opera, the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music , the Vienna Mozart Year 2006 , the Ulm Theater and ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater , from which he has also received numerous commissions.

In addition to his composing work for soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras, one of the main focuses of his work is music theater. His work Kar - Musiktheater für Berg (Libretto: Christian Fuchs) was published in 1994 in the lower hollow of the dam wall of the barrier of the Great Mühldorfer See at the Reisseck at 2500 meters above sea level by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater in cooperation with Reisseck-Malta-Touristik ( RMT), Österreichische Draukraftwerke AG ( ÖDK ) and Verbund . The room in the dam has a reverberation time of around three to five seconds and a room temperature of four to six degrees Celsius. Lauermann had to take these factors into account when composing the work. The story of the libretto goes back to a true incident in 1972: after decades an old woman is confronted with the (young) corpse of her bridegroom; it had been released from the glacier: shortly afterwards she died after trying on the wedding dress. Both were buried in the same grave. In the libretto, the librettist Christian Martin Fuchs used quotes from The Mine of Falun by ETA Hoffmann and Unexpected Reunion by Johann Peter Hebel and the book Kohelet . The music-theatrical approach of the director Herbert Gantschacher now consisted in narrating a simple drama in "rooms" that do not allow for "normal" theater: the drama of a woman, the drama of life, that in the cycle of nature, of becoming and passing away passes: the life that is not lived.

Awards

Herbert Lauermann has been awarded several prizes for his artistic work. In 1980 he received the Theodor-Körner-Stiftung's advancement award , 1981 and 1985 the state grant for composition of the Republic of Austria, 1982 the advancement award of the state of Lower Austria, 1990 the advancement award of the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture for the opera Wundertheater , 1994 the award of the “Austro-Mechana”, in 1994 the Maecenas Prize for Kar , in 2000 the Culture Prize for Music of the City of Vienna and in 2001 the Appreciation Prize for Music from the Province of Lower Austria. In 2006 he was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor for his services to the Republic of Austria .

Compositions (selection)

  • "Verbum I - for piano" 1978
  • "Equus I - for chamber ensemble and speaking voice" 1979
  • "Verbum II - for violin solo" 1980
  • "Chamber Symphony - for 11 Instruments" 1984
  • "Phantasy on me - for orchestra" 1984/1985
  • "Round - for female voice, clarinet, violin and piano" 1986
  • "Bagatelles - for saxophone quartet" 1986
  • "Caccia - (" AH! Dov´è il perfido? ") - for orchestra" 1989
  • "Desert - for Chamber Orchestra" 1990
  • "Cave music for five brass instruments" 1991
  • "Sinfonietta - for orchestra" 1993
  • "Waves - for (hammer) piano solo" 1994/1995
  • "Verbum IV -" To the Sun "for large orchestra" 1995
  • "Pasticcio - for strings (in memoriam Ernst Vogel)" 1997
  • "Our Father - Meditation for Mixed Choir and Organ" 2005
  • "Raddar - Speech-Sound Collage" 2005/2008
  • "Bäslebrief - for speaking choir, piano, keyboard and CD player" 2005

Music theater (selection)

  • Simon . Church opera, world premiere in 1983 in Ossiach by the Carinthian Summer.
  • The couple . Psychological chamber piece based on the novella by Francisco Tanzer, libretto arranged by Francisco Tanzer and Herbert Gantschacher, world premiere in 1986 at the Vienna Chamber Opera, German premiere in 1996 at the Semperoper in Dresden as part of the Dresden Days for Contemporary Music by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater.
  • Miracle theater . Opera with libretto by Christian Martin Fuchs, first performance in 1987 at the Vienna Chamber Opera.
  • Miracle theater . Version for small orchestra, world premiere in 1990 as part of the “Week of Encounters” in Klagenfurt.
  • Prologue and epilogue for the staged concert A silence full of sounds with deaf actors and chamber music ensemble, world premiere in 1992 at the Akzent Theater in Vienna by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and the Dresden State Theater.
  • Kar - music theater for the mountain . Libretto by Christian Martin Fuchs, world premiere in the lower cavity of the dam of the Great Mühldorfer See at the Reisseck in Carinthia at 2500 meters above sea level by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater.
  • Black and white . Composition for musical-literary chess, first performance in 1998 at the Donaufestival in Krems an der Donau by ACCUS with performances in Scheibbs, Vienna, St.Pölten, Salzburg, Mürzzuschlag, Erfurt, Ruse.
  • Liberation . Opera in two acts based on a novel by Francisco Tanzer, premiered in 2001 by the Ulm Theater.
  • Coloman the process . Music theater for mixed choir, world premiere in 2004 at the Weinviertel Festival in Stockerau.

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personal data
SURNAME Lauermann, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria