Janko Jezovšek-Jizou

Janko Jezovšek-Jizou (formerly Janko Jezovšek , born February 28, 1945 in Maribor , Lower Styria , German Empire ) is a composer, educator, publisher, editor, organizer and performer of his works who lives in Neuberg (Hesse) .

He mainly works with his mechanical jukeboxes , the punch engine he developed himself, a music box with paper tape, and the mechanical sound film machine, the cinema punch engine, especially for and with non-musicians, theater and puppeteers, dancers and those who who consider themselves unmusical.

Jezovšek-Jizou's creative work can be described as artistic-pedagogical education for everyone: from mechanical-multimedia workshops, composition workshops, concerts, advanced training for adults to international academies of childhood and creativity.

His first songs, choirs and instrumental compositions, as well as the most important work in the composer's opinion, »Das Bächlein«, were written during his school days. From 1963 studied composition ( Milko Kelemen ) and conducting in Zagreb. With Silvio Foretić , Jezovšek led the first ensemble for contemporary music in the Balkans. In 1965 he continued his studies with solo singing ( Helmut Krebs ) and electronic music ( Herbert Eimert ) in Frankfurt and Cologne.

With his music theater opera mobile he works all over Europe, with a focus on German-speaking countries. He initiated creative festivals in Germany, Austria and Slovenia, including for chamber vocal music schola cantorum in Hugo Wolf's native Slovenj Gradec; laboARTorium at the International Youth Culture Center Bayreuth; sang & Klang - Whitsun Music Days in Lauterbach, Hesse; Children's family festival weeks in the Stubai Valley / Tyrol and Neuberg / Mürz.

Works

• Be careful, grades! A composer unpacks (1945–2045): chanting conversations with the audience - cabaret music
• We are the orchestra, 1957: “Das Bächlein” - a healthy environment symphony, UA casino hall of the Maribor Theater
• Skazinir-Razjaromir, 1960: Romantic fairground potato theater robber knight opera parody / Do-it-yourself opera, premiered at TAMS-Theater Munich 1976
• Sound works / Soundscapes / Zvokrajine / Zvukobrazi, since 1963
• Requiem, 1963: for 6 solo voices, 3 trumpets, clarinet and organ, premiered on August 17th, 1963 in the Maribor Cathedral
• Half Prelude for tape, 1964
• Requiem Ivana Juzusa, 1965–1974: premiered on May 6, 1965 in the Istra concert studio, conducted by Silvio Foretiæ and Janko Jezovšek
• Ugly Eentlein or Dad Schwanenei, 1966: Animal fairy tale pantomime tone painting in four seasons after HC Andersen but without words, premiere at Schauspielhaus Frankfurt / Main 1966, TV production RTV Ljubljana
• Music for Dore Hoyer , 1967: last choreographies of the great expressive dancer , UA Theater des Westens Berlin
• Music for Yuriko Kikuchi, 1967: International Academy of Dance Cologne
• Music for Iris Scaccheri , 1968: Dore Hoyer in memoriam
• Temple cleansing? Church music theater, 1968: Premiere Hochstädter Church
• Balkanal, 1969: Synthetic Folk Oratorio (with Silvio Foretić)
• Way of the Cross, 1969: Premiere of the Alte Nikolaikirche Römerberg Frankfurt / Main
• Carmilhan, 1969–1975: Quadrophonic electronic brain opera based on W. Hauff for a breathing person, UA Steirischer Herbst Graz 1975
• Birth of Jesus, 1971: Christmas micro-oratorio for solos, choir and obligatory
• Spevi - Gesänge - Songs, 1974: Schola cantorum Slovenj Gradec, synthetic composition
• Mozartyrium, 1975: Fictional mass for piano, solos, choir and orchestra, UA Mozartheum Salzburg
• Bunker Bio-Oper, 1984: Physiotherapeutic-medical struggle for survival of a person left over after the last nuclear war, premier festival of contemporary chamber music Radenci
• Zauberspiegel or The Snow Queen: pantomime based on HC Andersen
• Kaspar never comes back: Total puppet theater
• Nebelpsalter: an audible church music based on texts by Meinhard Ansohn, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Jens, Reiner Kunze, Kurt Marti, Fritz Julius Rohrer, Jürgen Spohn, Rudolf Otto Wiemer, Hildegard Wohlgemuth and Lothar Zenetti, EA Peterskirche Frankfurt
• Crepitaculum 8 scenes from the children's room, 1978: competition, aggression and violence in the sandpit, premiere with Simone Rist in Hanover
• Märchenwald, 1983: Gesamtkunststückeworking game puzzle, EA Fulpmes
• My favorite game, 1984: Psychodrama from the nursery, EA Fulpmes
• Martin Krpan, great folk opera of a small people, 1985: WP Fulpmes
• Infinite symphony for any voices and / or instruments
• Mondhaus - Fifty-two steps, 2006: Haiku by Ulrike Dietrich v. Siebenstern, UA Rüdigheimer Kirche

literature

• Leksikon jugoslavenske muzike . Volume 1. Zagreb 1984.

Web links

• Janko Jezovšek-Jizous website
• Page about Jezovšek at the Institute of Music Information Science at the University of Maribor (Slovenian)