Johannes Fritsch

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Johannes Fritsch (born July 27, 1941 in Auerbach (Bensheim) , † April 29, 2010 in Bonn ) was a German composer and at the same time a publisher, studio operator, magazine editor and author. Since 1984 he has been Professor of Composition at the Cologne University of Music and Dance .

Life

From 1961 to 1965 he studied music, sociology and philosophy at the University and the University of Music and Dance Cologne in Cologne with Bernd Alois Zimmermann, among others . In the following years he turned to a wide variety of musical activities, including working as a violist with the Stockhausen Ensemble and taking part in the World Exhibition in Osaka for Germany . On February 8, 1963, he took part in the Bonn stage for sensual perception - KONZIL with “MOVEMENTS II 24 '1963”. In 1966, Fritsch received the support award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for music and in 1971 the award of the Paris Biennale. Since the 1970s, other prizes followed, such as the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship from the City of Cologne in 1978 or the Robert Schumann Prize from the City of Düsseldorf.

Fritsch wrote music for all major and well-known theaters in Germany. In addition, Fritsch was one of the founders of Feedback Studio Cologne in 1970 (together with Rolf Gehlhaar and David Johnson ) and has been the main actor at Feedback Studio Verlag - the first German composer publisher - since 1975 : He was a producer of compact discs , editor of the Feedback Studio Papers , magazine dedicated to electronic music, publisher of contemporary music scores and concert promoter. In 1979, 1982, 1984 and 1986 he was with Peter Ausländer and the WDR organizer of the world music congresses in Vlotho . During the student protests in 1968, Fritsch took a stand against the Vietnam War with his collage composition Modulation IV .

His composition students included personalities as diverse as Georg Hajdu , Hans W. Koch , Siegfried Koepf , Harald Muenz , Oxana Omelchuk , Marcus Schmickler , Volker Staub and Caspar Johannes Walter .

Johannes Fritsch in Japan 1987, photo by Hiroshige Kanoh, time up studio

Fritsch also worked as a lecturer at the Darmstadt spring conferences and was a founding director of the Cologne Society for New Music and a long-time advisory board member of the Cologne Art Station Sankt Peter . Shortly before his death, his writings, lectures, interviews and work comments appeared in the anthology On the content of music .

literature

  • Rainer Nonnenmann and Robert von Zahn (eds.): Johannes Fritsch: About the content of music. Collected writings 1964-2006 (Kölner Schriften zur Neue Musik Volume 10) , Schott Music, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7957-1950-0 .

Web links

Commons : Johannes Fritsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Johannes Fritsch (2008)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Hergen Lübben , Stage for Sensual Perception - KONZIL (Bonn, 1961–1963) / INFORMATION · MATERIALS: Programs · Plakate · Register , Bonn 1961/2012; P. 17 f., 20. (Accessed January 9, 2016.)
personal data
SURNAME Fritsch, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Auerbach (Bensheim)
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2010
Place of death Bonn