Klaus Miehling

Klaus Michael Miehling , (born August 24, 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a German harpsichordist , composer and musicologist .

Life

Klaus Miehling received his diploma in early music with a major in harpsichord at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 1988 and received his doctorate in musicology from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1993 . He lives as a freelance musician and author of musicological texts in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Work and public appearance

Miehling's catalog raisonné includes more than 300 opus numbers over 1100 compositions, vocal and instrumental, some for historical and some for modern instruments. In doing so, he distances himself from the currents of modern music .

Miehling published several publications in which he called all styles of pop music (which he consistently referred to as violent music ) as the cause of crime, moral decline and drug abuse . His theses are often controversially discussed and almost exclusively rejected by the public.

He also goes public on political issues. He represents positions from the spectrum of the political right and right-wing populism . He denies, for example, man-made climate change, criticizes Germany's refugee policy and denies the Federal Republic of Germany the status of a constitutional state .

honors and awards

• 2002 Finalist at the International Competition for Choral Composition of the City of Harelbeke in Belgium with the Seven Chansons of eight voices based on Paul Verlaine op. 85,
• 2008 finalist in the composition competition of the Comunità Evangelica Luterana di Napoli with Due Salmi Italiani per quattro voci op.130 .
• 2009 one of ten winners of the Longfellow Chorus Composers Competition with Endymion op. 150/7 in Portland (Maine) , USA.
• 2010 3rd prize in the composition competition "Unity through diversity - Church makes music" of the German Music Council for the fanfare op. 169/1.
• 2011 recognition (as the only work) at the composition competition of Corale Monteverdi, Cles (Italy) for Lectio Domenicae Secundae Adventus op. 193.2 (no prizes were awarded).
• 2012 “Highly commended” rating at the Recital Music Carol Competition in Templecombe (England) for The First Nowell op. 203/4 for four-part mixed choir and organ.
• 2013 One of four winners ex aequo with the Fantasia tertia fugata op. 207/3 for five viola da gamba at the Leo M. Traynor Competition for New Viol Music.
• 2015 “First German composer” in category A and “menzione speciale” at the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione "Maurice Ravel" in Bergamo (Italy) for the clarinet concerto op. 177.
• 2016 "First German composer" in category A and "menzione speciale" at the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione "Maurice Ravel" in Bergamo (Italy) for the Concerto in G for two violins and orchestra op. 231. 
• 2017 "Honorable Mention" in Category C (Chorus) at the RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Competition (Illinois, USA.) For two choral songs based on Ch.-MR. Leconte de Lisle , op. 93. / “Special mention” and “Special Prize” in the “Classical” category at the Soundtrack Competition of the Associazione Ravel in Bergamo (Italy) for eight movements from the ballet music op. 80. / Finalist at the Concours de composition LAUDEM in Montréal (Canada) with Tubas cum cytharis , Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day for four part mixed Choir and Organ op.267 .
• 2018 "First place German composer" and "Honorable Mention" in categories A and C at the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione "Maurice Ravel" in Bergamo (Italy) with the seven orchestral songs based on Renée Vivien op. 245a (category A) and the concert in D for viola da gamba, baroque string orchestra and Bc op. 51 (category C).

Publications (monographs)

• The tempo in baroque and pre-classical music , (Wilhelmshaven 1993, 3rd revised edition 2003), ISBN 978-3-7959-0590-3
• Handbook of Early New English Pronunciation for Musicians , (Hildesheim 2002), ISBN 978-3-487-11777-5
• Violent Music - Violence of Music , (Würzburg 2006), ISBN 978-3-8260-3394-0
• Violent music. Popular music and the decline of values , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86931-605-5
• Speaker off! Forced PA system versus acoustic self-determination , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86931-606-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Miehling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence
• grades
• Short biography on musicalion.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dennis Roth: Klaus Miehlings "Judas Passion": 300 years too late. In: Badische Zeitung. March 6, 2013, accessed August 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Some of them are available free of charge as e-books on his homepage.
3. ↑ Anselm Müller: Attention, violent music! In: fudder.de. December 7, 2006, accessed August 9, 2019 . 
4. ^ Christian Wickert: Violence Music - Violence of Music. In: Criminologia. Institute for Criminological Social Research , March 11, 2013, accessed on August 9, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Klaus Miehling: Why you should quit the Climate Church. In: The European . August 9, 2019, accessed August 9, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Sophie Claassen: Was the Huffington Post hacked by a right-wing conservative troll? In: VICE . September 15, 2015, accessed August 9, 2019 . 
7. ^ Klaus Miehling: Germany's rule of law? A sobering analysis by Dr. Klaus Miehling. In: Epoch Times . September 22, 2019, accessed August 9, 2019 .