Jens-Peter Ostendorf
Jens-Peter Ostendorf (born July 20, 1944 in Hamburg ; † March 7, 2006 in Norderstedt ) was a German composer and pioneer of experimental, new music.
Life
Jens-Peter Ostendorf was already composing at the age of 10; at the age of 14 he played his compositions; at 17 he performed his first own composition in public. After graduating from high school for boys in Eppendorf (today High School Eppendorf ), he began to study music theory and composition at the State University of Music in Hamburg with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and Diether de la Motte in 1964 . He was also trained in school music and conducting with Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg . His role models were György Ligeti , Steve Reich and Luigi Nono . In 1968 the Bach Prize, a scholarship from the city of Hamburg, enabled him to work in the composition studio of Stockhausen and to participate in its collective composition “Music for a House” in Darmstadt.
From 1969 to 1978 he was head of the stage music department at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and in the same year founded the group “Hinz & Kunzt”, an ensemble for scenic music that was particularly committed to the work of Hans Werner Henze . As part of the “Hinz & Kunzt” group, Ostendorf was particularly involved in Henze's “ Cantiere ” in Montepulciano, Tuscany, where the Cologne University of Music later established itself.
In 1972 he began studying experimental music and began studying experimental phonetics at the University of Hamburg. In 1973/74 he received a Villa Massimo scholarship from the German Academy in Rome. There he made friends with the French composer Gérard Grisey , co-founder of the group “L'Itinéraire”, whose material-oriented aesthetic Ostendorf has shared ever since. The Roman workshop talks encouraged Ostendorf to intensively deal with the physical requirements of timbre. In 1976 further invitations from Villa Massimo followed and in 1977 a work stay at the Villa Romana in Florence.
In 1979 Ostendorf ended his engagement with the Thalia Theater Hamburg and worked as a freelance composer.
First he traveled to the Sahara and the island of Djerba for study purposes , made tape recordings of Tuaregg chants and songs by the Djerba Jews. A six-month scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris followed.
In 1980 Ostendorf worked at the renowned Parisian IRCAM Institute (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique) and received a professorship for music theory, composition and analysis at the University of Bremen . One of his students was Peter Friemer. In 1981 and 1983 he traveled to Cuba to carry out musical and music-sociological studies. There he took part in the congress for electronic and computer music and supervised broadcasts of the Cuban Radio in Havana.
As part of the composers' competitions of the Hamburg State Opera , his opera William Ratcliff after Heinrich Heine was premiered on February 15, 1982 at the Opera Stabile , the experimental stage of the Hamburg Opera.
Ostendorff's compositions thus received national attention, because the composer understood the entire Ratcliffs tragedy as a layering of different images, an interplay of acting, singing, pantomime, radio play, voices and dialogical self-talk with live orchestra, image and tape recordings. His second opera, called Murieta , after Pablo Neruda's glamor and death Joaquin Murieta , was a commission from the Cologne Opera, which premiered there on October 25, 1984. His fourth opera Questi Fantasmi ...! was premiered on December 5, 1992 by the Koblenz City Theater as a commissioned work for the city's 2000th anniversary.
These premieres made Ostendorf known as an innovator in music theater, so that in 1987 the city of Gütersloh celebrated a six-day portrait of Ostendorf. For this purpose he composed the orchestral works Mein Wagner (1983) and Psychogramme (1984), which were invited to Kiev as part of the “New Music from the Federal Republic” days and premiered there together with his opera William Ratcliff .
Jens-Peter Ostendorf lived and worked in Hamburg and Formentera / Spain. In addition to operas for modern music theater, he also wrote film scores. In the mid-90s his work dried up due to an incurable disease.
Works (selection)
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Web links
- Literature by and about Jens-Peter Ostendorf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography and works on sikorski.de
- Report from March 18, 2006: The Hamburg composer Jens-Peter Ostendorf is dead on Abendblatt.de
- ZDF broadcast. Report with interview and opera excerpts from 1992
- Film list Films with music by Jens-Peter Ostendorf on zweiausendeins.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ostendorf Jens Peter on media.sikorski.de, accessed on September 15, 2013 (PDF; 123 kB).
- ^ William Ratcliff Musiktheater in 3 acts on sikorski.de, accessed on September 15, 2013.
- ^ Ostendorf, Jens-Peter (composer) - Ostendorf, Jens-Peter (libretto) (author) Murieta on theatertexte.de, accessed on September 15, 2013.
- ↑ Ostendorf, Jens-Peter (composer) - Ostendorf, Jens-Peter (libretto) (author) Questi Fantasmi…! at theatertexte.de, accessed on September 15, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Ostendorf, Jens-Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 2006 |
| Place of death | Norderstedt |