Jörg Widmann

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Jörg Widmann

Jörg Widmann (born June 19, 1973 in Munich ) is a German clarinetist and composer . He lives in Munich and Berlin .

Education and career

In 1980 Widmann received his first clarinet lessons . A year later he became a composition student of Kay Westermann (* 1958), and later of Hans Werner Henze , Wilfried Hiller , Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm . He completed his clarinet studies at the University of Music in Munich and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York . After receiving his master class diploma in Munich in 1997, he continued his studies at the Karlsruhe University of Music . Between 2001 and 2016, he was professor of clarinet at the Freiburg University of Music, succeeding Dieter Klöcker . Since 2009 he has held a double professorship for clarinet and composition at the Institute for New Music at the Freiburg University of Music, and since 2017 he has been a composition professor at the Barenboim-Said-Akademie Berlin.

Musical creation

Jörg Widmann is equally successful as a clarinetist and as a composer. As a soloist he is a guest with major orchestras at home and abroad and has performed with conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi , Sylvain Cambreling and Kent Nagano . Several clarinet concerts are dedicated to him and were premiered by him: in 1999 he played the music for clarinet and orchestra by Wolfgang Rihm as part of " musica viva " and in 2006 with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cantus by Aribert Reimann .

Jörg Widmann devotes himself to different genres in his compositional work. For example, he designed a trilogy for a large orchestra about the projection of vocal forms onto instrumental ensembles. It consists of the works Lied (premiered in 2003 and recorded on CD by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott ), Choir (premiered in 2004 by the German Symphony Orchestra with Kent Nagano ) and Mass , which was performed in June 2005 by the Munich Philharmonic under the direction of Christian Thielemann was premiered. In 2007, Pierre Boulez and the Vienna Philharmonic premiered his orchestral work Armonica . Centrally located in the chamber music work are his string quartets: I. String Quartet (1997), followed by choral quartet and Jagdquartett that by 2003 Arditti Quartet premiered. In 2005 the world premieres of the IV. String Quartet and of Trial on the Fugue (V. String Quartet with Soprano) by Juliane Banse and the Artemis Quartet completed the series, which is intended as a large quartet cycle.

After the world premiere in 2012 at the Bavarian State Opera , a new Berlin version of his opera Babylon was performed in 2019 at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden under the direction of Andreas Kriegenburg and the musical direction of Christopher Ward .

From the 2019/20 concert season, Jörg Widmann will be composer, conductor and clarinetist for three seasons as “Artist in Residence” with the WDR Symphony Orchestra. He also holds the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall for the 2019/20 season .

Honors, memberships

Works (selection)

  • Absences School Opera (1990)
  • Kreisleriana concert piece for violin and chamber orchestra (1993)
  • 1st string quartet (1997)
  • Five fragments for clarinet and piano (1997)
  • Night piece for piano, clarinet and violoncello (1998)
  • Fever Fantasy for piano, string quartet and clarinet (with bass clarinet) (1999)
  • Implosion for orchestra (2001)
  • Light Study I for Orchestra (2001)
  • Free pieces for ensemble (2002)
  • ad absurdum for trumpet and orchestra (2002)
  • 2nd string quartet (choral quartet) (2003)
  • Hall study for piano (2003)
  • The face in the mirror, music theater in 16 scenes, libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig (2003)
  • 3rd string quartet (hunting quartet) (2003)
  • Song for orchestra (2003)
  • Choir for Orchestra (2004)
  • Skeleton for percussion (2004)
  • Light study (I – VI) for violin, viola, accordion, clarinet, piano and orchestra (2004)
  • 4th string quartet (2005)
  • Experiment over the fugue (5th string quartet with soprano) (2005)
  • Mass for large orchestra (2005)
  • Air for horn solo (2005)
  • Labyrinth for 48 string instruments (2005)
  • Elegy for clarinet and orchestra (2006)
  • Echo Fragments for clarinet and orchestral groups (2006)
  • Second labyrinth for orchestral groups (2006)
  • Armonica for glass harmonica and orchestra (2007)
  • Violin Concerto (2007)
  • Con brio for orchestra (2008)
  • Antiphon for orchestral groups (2008)
  • Oboe concerto (2009)
  • Babylon , opera in 7 scenes, libretto by Peter Sloterdijk (2012, revised version 2019)
  • Third labyrinth , for soprano and orchestral groups (2014)
  • Funeral March , for piano and orchestra (2014)
  • Viola Concerto (2015)
  • Arche , oratorio for soprano and baritone solo, boy soprano, girls and boys as speakers, children's choir, two mixed choirs, organ and large orchestra (2016)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 (2018)

Widmann's works are published exclusively by Schott Music .

Discography

literature

  • Markus Fein: In the wake of sounds - conversations with the composer Jörg Widmann. Edition Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Mainz 2005, ISBN 978-3-7957-0535-0
  • Georgine Maria-Magdalena Balk: Between tradition and innovation - “The face in the mirror” by Jörg Widmann and Roland Schimmelpfennig. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-72776-1
  • Siglind Bruhn : The music of Jörg Widmann. Edition Gorz, Waldkirch 2013, ISBN 978-3-938095-16-4
  • Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich (Ed.): Traces - The composer Jörg Widmann. Edition Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Mainz 2013, ISBN 978-3-7957-0847-4

Web links

Audio samples

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Opera Unter den Linden: INSIGHTS BY Jörg Widmann. March 5, 2019, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Babylon | State Opera Berlin. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ Artist in Residence Widmann 1
  4. ^ Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair Jörg Widmann. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ member entry of Jörg Widmann at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, accessed on 11.06.17
  6. ↑ Jörg Widmann receives the Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music 2018: Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b OPUS KLASSIK. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Review Kent Nagano - Widmann: "Arche" from the Elbphilharmonie. In: concerti.de. November 7, 2018, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  9. ^ ECM Records: ECM Records. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Widmann, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clarinetist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich