Johann Gottlob von Wrochem

Johann Gottlob von Wrochem (born June 17, 1938 in Greifenberg in Pomerania ; † July 8, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German pianist and composer .

Career

He was born as the second child of the farmer and later (Berlin-) Zehlendorf city councilor Hanswerner von Wrochem and Annemarie von Wrochem, born Herrmann born. He received his first piano lessons at the age of six and was a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor in 1949 ; The 11-year-old's stay in the bombed Dresden left lasting memories.

He studied piano at the music academies in Detmold, Hamburg and Berlin (West), a. a. with Hans Richter-Haaser, Conrad Hansen and Heinrich Elter (concert exam 1963); However, the second-named was particularly influential, and Wrochem made this technique his own. He attended a master class given by Stefan Askenase, but rarely took part in competitions.

In addition to his solo activities (London debut 1970, Wigmore Hall ), festival appearances a. a. in Berlin, Osaka, Athens, von Wrochem was always active as a chamber musician, first for a short time with his brother Klaus von Wrochem ( Klaus the violinist ), from 1965 to 1979 with his brother ( Ulrich von Wrochem , viola) and 1983 to 2006 with his Son ( Claudius von Wrochem , cello). Some of Berlin's orchestral musicians, organists and university professors were also among his chamber music partners, as were singers. Due to his ability to acquire new pieces quickly, his solo and chamber music repertoire grew rapidly, and he became increasingly interested in unusual program concepts, rarely performed composers and contemporary music. This also included his commitment to the music of German and Jewish expellees (interpreter award of the Esslingen Artists' Guild in 1992) and his frequent participation in concerts by the Neue Musik group in Berlin (West).

The composers he premiered include Maki Ishii , Marek Kopelent , Makoto Shinohara , Isang Yun and others. v. a. As a soloist with orchestra, he performed the 5th piano concerto by Beethoven, the Mendelssohn concerto in G minor, the piano concerto by Khachaturjan, the polychromy by W. Steffen and the double concerto by KA Hartmann in Germany and Japan.

In 1964 he married the textile designer Renate von Wrochem (née Gabler), with whom he had sons Claudius and Johannes. In addition to English, French, Italian and Latin, he has dealt intensively with written and spoken Japanese and Hungarian for many years.

Teaching

Von Wrochem had been working as a piano teacher since the 1960s, initially at Berlin music schools, and now as a lecturer at the University of Education and the University of the Arts (today UdK) Berlin. In addition to teaching in Germany, he gave several courses in Japan and taught as a visiting professor at the American College of Greece in Athens.

Compositions

Von Wrochem was an autodidact as a composer, equipped with solid theoretical knowledge and perfect pitch. He acquired contemporary composition techniques selectively and according to interests, e.g. B. in its use of serial processes , random operations, graphic notation and scenic elements. The line-ups for which he wrote were often in autobiographical and professional contexts. Therefore works for piano and small chamber music ensembles predominate.

No.	title	year	occupation	Edits
1	Theme and Variations I for piano (Préludes somnambules)	1963	piano
2	Theme and variations for piano	1964	piano
3	Piece for violin, viola and piano	1962	Vl, Va, Klav
4th	Dance movements for violin and piano, scenic improvisation	1963	Vl, clav
5	Piano sonata	1963	Klav
6th	Songs for voice and piano	1965	Voice, clav
7th	Duo for viola and piano	1966	Va, clav	Vl, clav
8th	Mysterium for Bb clarinet and piano	1965	Sure, Klav
9	Choral with chorale prelude and fugue	1971	Klav
10	Duo for two cellos	1973	2 Vc	Vc, Kb
11	Two songs with piano based on texts by Anni-Ruth Brillebach	???	Voice, clav
12	Concrete music	1977	Vl, Vc, Klav	Kl, Vc, Klav / Va, Kb, Klav
13	Mountain meadow at the forest lake	1979	Klav
14th	Transfigured night	1981	Vl, Bbar, Klav
15th	Brass trio	1982	Kl, Ob, Fg	s. "the moon" / 2 Kl, Fg
16	the moon	1982	Klav
17th	Opossumdenuoviverecentumannos	1982	big orchestra
18th	"The Shine" for baritone and piano	1983	Bar, clav
19th	Prelude, fugue and tango	1984	Bandoneon, clav	Or, clav
20th	Three composition studies for harp solo	1985	Hfe
21st	Piece for cello and piano	1984	Vc, clav
22nd	Genshiryokuhatsudensho	1985	Vc, Bbar
23	The golden sun	1986	Arranged for 26 wind instruments
24	The one word	1987	Sopr, Klav
25th	Solo piece for clarinet in Bb	1987	Kl	Sx
26th	The young OM at the Malaga guitar school	1986	Git, Klav
27	Everything flows	1987	Sopr, Pos, Or
28	Mr. Reibeholz on the Rio de la Plata	1988	Klav
29	The Lord's Prayer	1989	Kl, Or
30th	in the slope of the night	1990	Sopr, Vc
31	Bassoon quartet	1990	3 Fg, KFg
32	The great peace	1991	Spr, Klav
33	3 songs	1991	Sopr, BKl, Klav
34	pictures of an exhibition	1992	Klav
35	Solo piece 2 for clarinet in Bb	1992	Kl
36	Three piano works on Andalusian impressions	1994	Klav
37	Plucked orchestra music in A	1996	Plucked.
38	Shrill in the branches	1998	Sopr, Hfe
39	ABC Toccata	2000	Or, Spr
40	"I wanted to fly and I invented the wings"	2001	Spr, Klav
41	"And what does Ursula say about that?"	2006	Klav, Spr
42	Largo for French horn and piano	2013	Hn, Klav
43	5 minutes	2008	Bajan, Glashfe
44	"From tasty fish"	2009	Klav.
45	Trio for piano and 2 other instruments	2009	Klav, any 2 melody instruments.
46	Melodrama for piano and speaking voice	2010	Klav, Spr
47	Melodrama, setting of 6 montages by Siegfried Kühl	2010	Vc, git, piano, electr., Voices
48	"Expose the face stone"	2011	Klav, voice
49	Piano piece	2012	Klav
50	Piece for French horn and piano	2013	Hn, Klav

Web links

• Welcome to the website of Johann Gottlob von Wrochem
• by.wrochem

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary
2. ^ The American College of Greece