Jörg Herchet

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Jörg Herchet (born September 20, 1943 in Dresden ) is a German composer .

Life

Jörg Herchet grew up as the son of a driver and a worker in modest circumstances. As a schoolboy he first received recorder and violoncello lessons, later piano and singing lessons. Even then, he wrote his first smaller compositions.

From 1962 to 1965 he studied composition with Johannes Paul Thilman and Manfred Weiss , violoncello with Clemens Dillner and piano with Ilse Brähmer at the Academy of Music "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden . The use of a Franz Kafka text in his composition interfragmentarium on the works of Franz k. für klavier und alt led to upheavals with the university, whereupon Jörg Herchet continued his composition studies at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in East Berlin with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny from 1967 to 1969 . His diploma thesis on the subject of the importance of the music-theoretical writings of Schönberg and Hindemith for the development of a theory of composition was rejected on the grounds that a theory of composition "must lead to Hanns Eisler and not to Pierre Boulez ". He also studied musicology (including with Georg Knepler ) at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

After Jörg Herchet had initially worked as an assistant in the bookstore and received organ lessons from Gerald Stier and Herbert Collum from 1969 to 1970 , he became a master student of Paul Dessau from 1970 to 1974 . In 1974 Herchet moved back to Dresden and lived there as a freelance composer. He gradually became known for works whose cast was gradually enlarged by Jörg Herchet. The orchestral composition composition for flute and orchestra from 1976 was a first great success . During the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 1980 his composition for trombone, baritone and orchestra was premiered.

From 1981 he received teaching assignments for composition and composition at the "Carl Maria von Weber" University of Music. There he was appointed professor for composition and analysis in 1992. His students include Thuon Burtevitz , Michael Flade , Reiko Füting , Johannes Korndörfer , Sergej Newski , Tobias Eduard Schick, Bernhard Schneyer , Theodor Schubach , Karoline Schulz , Johannes Voit and Lydia Weißgerber. Jörg Herchet retired in 2009 and now lives in Weinböhla .

Awards

Compositions (selection)

  • Composition 1 for organ (1981)
  • Name of god . Composition 3 for organ (cycle; 1990–)
  • The spiritual year. (Cantata cycle for the spiritual year; 1978–)
  • Bußkantata composition for soprano, alto, baritone, choir, harp, percussion and organ (based on the text by Jörg Milbradt, 1978). World premiere by the dedicatee Meißner Kantorei 1961 and Erich Schmidt .
  • Composition for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano (1978), premiered in Berlin 1979 by the Berlin Wind Association
  • Night watch. Composition for music theater (1987)
  • Overburden. Composition for music theater (1996/1997). Libretto : Jörg Milbradt (based on motifs from Und Pippa tanzt! By Gerhart Hauptmann ). Premiere 1997 Leipzig, conductor: Lothar Zagrosek
  • Composition for flute (also alto flute) and orchestra (1976)
  • Cantata para la Fiesta de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (Cantata for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe ) (2013) Text: Jörg Milbradt, after Valeriano, Antonio: Nican Mopohua / Traducción del Nuatl al Castillano por Mario Rojas Sanchez. Puebla 1989. Partially premiered on April 2, 2013 in Puebla (Mexico). World premiere of the entire work on May 7, 2014 in Dresden.

Discography

  • CD Composition 1 for 2 violins, viola and violoncello. Arditti Quartet . Wergo 1986.
  • CD Name of God: Organ Works. Gary Verkade. Cross stand 2008.
  • CD The spiritual year 1. Four cantatas. Meissner Kantorei 1961 . Christfried Brödel . Cross stand 2012.
  • CD The spiritual year 2. Four cantatas. Meißner Kantorei 1961. Christfried Brödel, elole piano trio . Cross stand 2013.
  • CD The Spiritual Year 3. Three cantatas. Meißner Kantorei 1961. Christfried Brödel; Matthias Geuting. Cross stand 2017.
  • CD Beatitudes. Composition I for organ Piece VIII. Dominik Susteck , organ. Cross stand 2013.

literature

  • Christoph Sramek (ed.): The sounds blinded me . Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad Publishing House, Altenburg 2003.
  • About Herchet performances by the Dresden Kreuzchor, in: Matthias Herrmann (ed.): Dresdner Kreuzchor and contemporary choral music. World premieres between Richter and Kreile , Marburg 2017, pp. 144–146, 155–159, 239, 325 (Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchor, vol. 2)
  • Patrick Beck: “At the fixed point of the soul” - conversation with Jörg Herchet. In: Ostragehege , magazine for literature and art, issue 52, Dresden 2008.
  • Felicitas Nicolai: "... the fact that I couldn't find a home in the church really pained me ...". Jörg Herchet in conversation about his cantata cycle “The Spiritual Year” on August 22, 1995. In: Matthias Herrmann (Ed.): The Dresden Church Music in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Laaber, Laaber 1998, ISBN 3-89007-331-X . Pp. 581-596. (= Music in Dresden , 3)

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Herchet, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden