Johannes Harneit

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Johannes Harneit (born March 16, 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German composer, conductor and pianist.

Life and activity

Johannes Harneit studied composition with Günther Friedrichs and György Ligeti and conducting with Klauspeter Seibel at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . During his studies, together with the Danish composer Matthias Ronnefeld, he designed series of programs on classical and modern music and directed numerous concerts at the Kampnagel venue in Hamburg. Harneit conducted world premieres at the Bavarian State Opera, at the Bremen Theater and at numerous music festivals and specialized in contemporary music and new music theater.

Harneit has been engaged as a conductor at national and international opera houses since the 1990s. From 1992 he was director of studies and conductor at the Oldenburg State Theater and from 1996 at the Wuppertal theaters and at the music theater in Gelsenkirchen . In the 2001/02 season he moved to the Hanover State Opera , where he worked as music director until 2006. Here, among others, Luigi Nono's opera Under the great sun laden with love (director: Peter Konwitschny ) conducted. Harneit has made guest appearances at the Theater Basel , at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , at the German National Theater Weimar and at the Leipzig Opera House . As chief conductor at the National Theater Belgrade , he conducted all the great operas by Mozart , Verdi , Puccini and Richard Strauss .

For the fist at the Schauspielhaus Graz in a production by Peter Konwitschny contributed Harneit incidental music for. The premiere took place on December 15, 2012.

As a concert conductor, Harneit has worked with a number of renowned orchestras, such as the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln , the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart , the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg . Abroad, Harneit made guest appearances in Copenhagen (Danish Radio Orchestra), Budapest (Radio Symphony Orchestra) and Cairo (Cairo Symphony Orchestra), as well as with the Hanover Ensemble at the Edinburgh Festival . Johannes Harneit has been chief conductor of the Sinfonietta Leipzig since autumn 2003. In 2011 and 2012 he took over the management of the State Youth Ensemble for New Music in Schleswig-Holstein, where he worked with talented young musicians.

Harneit has received composition commissions from the Hamburg State Opera , the Alte Oper Frankfurt , the Scharoun Ensemble and the Beethovenfest Bonn as well as from the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the State Opera Hanover . From the beginning of September 2008 to the end of December 2011 he composed two operas for the Leipzig Opera based on texts by the East German artist Gero Troike ("Evening on the River" and "Flood", commissioned by the Leipzig Opera). The opera for children and adults "Alice in Wonderland" followed in 2013-14, which was commissioned for the children's choir of the Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia and premiered in Gera in April 2015 . Since 2001 the Harneits works have been published by the Sikorski publishing group .

In the 2014/2015 season Harneit was “Composer for Heidelberg” at the Heidelberg Theater and Orchestra .

Works

Orchestral works

  • Concerto for violin and orchestra (WP 2000, soloist: Christian Tetzlaff )
  • Concert pieces II for eight instruments (2000)
  • 3 Intermezzi per Le quattro stagioni di Antonio Vivaldi (2002)
  • Exposition for orchestra (2002)
  • In vain or reproduction prohibited (2002, joint production with Anna Viebrock with the participation of Jochen Neurath , Kay Iwo Nowáck, Sylvain Cambreling and the Klangforum Wien)
  • Schwingen for orchestra (2003)
  • X for three invisible orchestras (2003)
  • Rendezvous for orchestra (2003)
  • Concerto for cello and orchestra (2006)
  • Beethoven sketches for chamber orchestra (2006)
  • The Seven Last Words Arrangement of the work of the same name by Joseph Haydn for chamber orchestra (2014)
  • Symphony (2015)
  • Gate to the World for orchestra (2016)
  • Hamburg Bridges for orchestra (2016)
  • Spiritual Spaces for Orchestra (2016)
  • Piano Concerto written for Ensemble Resonanz (2017)
  • Symphonic Mirrors (2017)

Vocal music

  • idiot chamber opera based on texts by Konrad Bayer for speaking voices, tenor, mezzo-soprano, choir (1987, WP 2001)
  • Six pieces after Hölderlin for voice and keyboard instruments (1991)
  • Robert Walser songs for female and male voice and piano (1991)
  • Pollen cantata for high soprano, deep bass, mixed Choirs, children's choirs and large orchestra based on Novalis (1994)
  • Schnee cantata for boy's voice, mezzo-soprano, bass and small orchestra (1999)
  • Mattina (Intermezzo per Claudio Monteverdi) for six voices and chamber orchestra (2001)
  • III. KANTATE based on texts by Johannes Baader and Adolf Wölfli for soprano, detuned instruments and two speaking voices (2001)
  • The Youngest Day is now a scenic requiem for 16 singers (soprano, alto, tenor, bass and 12 choristers) and 16 instrumentalists (2003)
  • Canon after Robert Walser for voices and piano (2003)
  • Räuber Musiktheater by Torsten Beyer based on Robert Walser for soprano, piano, dancer and tape (2005)
  • Star songs for baritone and piano based on texts by Jürg Laederach (2014)
  • Alice in Wonderland opera for children and adults, based on Lewis Carroll, libretto: Lis Arends (world premiere 2015)
  • Flood - two suitcases in the cellar Chamber opera by Gero Troike (world premiere 2015)
  • A green sheet for soprano and piano based on the poem of the same name by Theodor Storm
  • Song of the Harp Girl for soprano and piano based on the poem of the same name by Theodor Storm 2017

Ensemble works and chamber music

  • Trio for violin, violoncello and pianoforte (1983 / rev. 1984)
  • Duet for violin and piano [Prima Parte] (1988)
  • Concert pieces for viola, piano and eight subdominant instruments (1990)
  • Sonata for 19 solo strings (1993 / rev. 1995)
  • Twelve movements for strings based on Eric Satie's "Petits Chorals" for strings (1995)
  • Wind quintet (1998 / rev. 2001)
  • Ottetto for eight instruments (2000)
  • Novel for piano and two percussionists (2000)
  • Duet for violin and piano [Seconda Parte] (2002)
  • Coloratura Joseph Haydn's Six Esterhazy Sonatas Hob XVI No. 21–26 for piano and ensemble (2002)
  • Triptych (13 × 3) (2003)
  • Without Life Death 26 chorales for chamber ensemble based on “Sexcenta Monodistichia Sapientum” by Daniel Czepko von Reigersfeld (2004)
  • Doubles for chamber ensemble (2005)

Descriptions based on the catalog raisonné Johannes Harneit (PDF) by Sikorski.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography (PDF) Sikorski websites
  2. ^ Niklaus Halblützel: One desk, two pianos . In: taz Hamburg , December 16, 1989, p. 29.
  3. ^ Karl-Robert Danler: Pictures of the horror . In: tz , May 18, 1990.
  4. ^ H. Rehberg, R. Wagner: A victory alone does not count . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , April 6, 2002 (double interview with Ralf Rangnick and Johannes Harneit).
  5. ↑ a b c composer portrait Johannes Harneit on the website of the music publisher Sikorski, accessed January 6, 2012.
  6. ^ Elisabeth Schwind: Wrestling in the wellness living area . In: NZZ , April 28, 2001.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Sandner: Torture of all kinds . In: FAZ , May 8, 2001, p. 47.
  8. ^ Paolo Petazzi: Dramma musicale dell'incertezza . In: Il Gazzettino , May 6, 2001, p. 21
  9. ↑ Christiane Weber: A journey into the interior . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , September 4, 2008.
  10. ↑ Tobias Wolff: Large pictures for free thoughts . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 10, 2009.
  11. ↑ Vaša Kozacič: Owde ce osečam kao kod kuce . In: Politika , November 2007, No. 19, Pozoričte Novine p. 3.
  12. ↑ Kenneth Walton: Revolutionary blast from the past . In: The Scotsman , August 27, 2004.
  13. ^ Richard Morrison: Edinburgh Opera: Al gran sole carico d'Amore . In: The Times , August 28, 2004.
  14. ↑ Tobias Gerosa: Music theater or what? In: Aargauer Zeitung , April 29, 2002, p. 11.
  15. ↑ Benjamin Herzog: What is a conductor doing in the dark? In: Basler Zeitung , April 30, 2002, p. 44.
  16. ↑ Burkhard Wetekam: With headline choir . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , July 7, 2003.
  17. ↑ Henning Queren: "Judgment Day is Now" premiere in the church . In: Neue Presse , July 7, 2003.
  18. ↑ Composition commissions also recorded in the Johannes Harneit list of works ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the music publisher Sikorski; Retrieved June 1, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / media.sikorski.de
  19. ^ Gewandhaus zu Leipzig (ed.): Blätter des Gewandhauses Leipzig, 2010/2011 season, program for "u Armonia Bläserensemble: Ensemble (Series II / 2)", November 21, 2010, p. 5.
  20. ↑ # x5D; = 15 & tx_theatre_plays [action] = show & tx_theatre_plays [controller] = Play & cHash = 0c688ddb37aa63fed42a696a2ad5889f Alice in Wonderland ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the pages of Theater and Philharmonie Tübingen ; Retrieved October 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tpthueringen.de
  21. ↑ Website “Composer for Heidelberg” ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the web portal of Theater und Orchester Heidelberg ; Retrieved October 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterheidelberg.de
personal data
SURNAME Harneit, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg