Jan Müller-Wieland

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Jan Müller-Wieland at the Schamrock Festival of Women Poets 2014

Jan Müller-Wieland (born March 30, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German composer and conductor.

Life

From 1986 to 1991 he studied composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. He also took composition lessons with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne and Rome and with Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood Music Center. From 1993 to 2007 he lived as a freelance composer in Berlin. Jan Müller-Wieland has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg since 2003, and since 2007 Professor of Composition at the University of Music and Theater in Munich .

He composed over a hundred works, including fifteen full-length works for music theater, four symphonies, numerous orchestral works, as well as chamber music and vocal music. Clients were u. a. the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, the Hamburg State Opera, the Senate of Berlin, the German State Opera Berlin , the Munich Biennale, the Munich Philharmonic, the London Sinfonietta, the Holland Festival, the Expo 2000 , the Bonn-Chance series of the Bonn Opera and Bonn Beethoven Festival, the Musikfabrik NRW, the Ensemble Resonanz, the Ensemble Acht, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Feldkirch Festival, the Kassel Music Days, Ruhrtriennale, the BIK - Office for international cultural projects, the Beethovenhaus Bonn.

His work Egmonts Freiheit or Böhmen lies by the sea was selected for the gala concert of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin in the Konzerthaus Berlin for the gala concert on the 25th Day of German Unity on October 3, 2015.

honors and awards

Müller-Wieland has received numerous prizes (advancement award for composers from the Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikstiftung, Hindemith-Preis of the Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestival, advancement award of the Hamburg Bach-Preis, main award of the Lübeck Possehl-Stiftung, etc.) as well as grants in France and Italy and America (Cité des Arts Internationales in Paris, Villa Massimo in Rome, Tanglewood Music Center, Fellowship program of the Leonard Bernstein Foundation). In 2011 he was in the "Opera" and 2016 in the category "Music with voice" for the German music author award of GEMA nominated.

Works

Stage works

  • The guest performance (1991). Comic opera in one act based on Frank Wedekind
  • Cain (1992). Chamber opera based on the Old Testament
  • Insurance (1995). Opera in two acts after Peter Weiss
  • The Nightingale and the Rose (1996) based on Oscar Wilde
  • Untitled comedy (1998) based on García Lorca
  • The fairy tale of the 672nd night (1999/2000) by Hofmannsthal and Birgit Müller-Wieland
  • Nathan's Death (2001) after George Tabori and Lessing
  • King of the Night (2003) u. a. based on the book of Job and poems by Pia Tafdrup
  • The crazy or nocturnal fishing (2005) after Micaela by Marcard
  • The Hero of the Western World (2004) Comical opera in three acts, based on John Millington Synge
  • Little Red Riding Hood's Lullaby (2007) scene based on Andrea Heuser
  • Aventure Faust (2008) 3 scenes based on Goethe, Heine and Birgit Müller-Wieland
  • Fanny and screw (2009) based on Kai Ivo Baulitz
  • The small ring (2010) u. a. after Wagner and Hebbel by Birgit Müller-Wieland
  • The Knacks (2010) based on Roger Willemsen
  • Der Freischuss (2011) u. a. after Weber and Luise Rist
  • Egmont's Freedom or Bohemia is by the Sea (2014)
  • Maria (2018) An expulsion for female speaker, speaker, four men's solos, choir, orchestra - text by the composer (inter alia freely based on the Gospel of Matthew)

Orchestral works (selection)

  • Gottesspur (WP 2020) for bassoon / contrabassoon, electronics and large orchestra
  • A dream, what else (2008) freely based on Kafka and Kleist
  • Triptych (2004)
  • Luftstück (2002) for percussion and orchestra
  • Ballad of Ariel (2002) for violin and large orchestra
  • Symphonies Nos. 1 to 4 (1986 to 1993)
  • Cello Concerto (1997)
  • Vibraphone concert (1994)
  • Marimba concert (1992)
  • Morning Poem (1991) for large orchestra

Chamber music (selection)

  • Ecstatic and Instinctive (1989) for two pianos and two percussionists
  • Lullaby (2004) for piano trio
  • String Quartet No. 1 (for the Keller Quartet, Budapest)
  • String quartet No. 2 ("Flanzendörfer-Wrackmente" with baritone)
  • String Quartet No. 3 ("second moon" for the Joachim Quartet)
  • Capriccetti (2nd cycle) for piano
  • Father Image for violin and piano
  • The Homecoming for tenor and piano (among others after Joseph Roth)
  • New work after Ernst Toller (WP 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Egmont in the Konzerthaus Berlin: From the everydayness of war. In: Der Tagesspiegel . 5th October 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Wieland, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg