Klemens Vereno

Klemens Eugen Vereno (born April 26, 1957 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian composer and university teacher.

Klemens Vereno created a diverse oeuvre . One focus of his work is vocal music and the oratorio . He is best known for the oratorios he wrote for the Salzburg Advent Singing .

biography

Klemens Vereno grew up in Salzburg. He soon began to make music (Orff Institute, recorder, children's choir from Radio Salzburg, violin) and to compose. In 1975 he graduated from the Musisches Gymnasium Salzburg and from 1972 to 1981 studied composition with Cesar Bresgen as well as violin, singing and conducting at the Salzburg Mozarteum ; Further studies in composition at the Music Academy of the City of Basel with Rudolf Kelterborn .

Teaching

Since 1978 Vereno has been teaching orchestration, vocal setting, musical setting, instrument studies and figured bass at the Mozarteum University . He also taught at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz from 1978 to 1985 and at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich from 2000 to 2008 . Since 2008 he has also been a lecturer at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg .

further activities

Since 1978 he has worked with the International Paul Hofhaymer Society and since 1981 has worked as an interpreter and composer in their concert series of old and new music . From 1988 to 1993 he was the conductor of the Salzburg Advent Singing in the Großer Festspielhaus . He has been a juror at the prima la musica youth competition since 1999. He was a founding member and has been Vice President of the IG Composers Salzburg since 2000 . Under his direction - together with Stefan David Hummel - many initiatives arose such as the Salzburg New Organ Music Days (1998), the founding of the composer's newspaper (1998), the New Church Music Day (2000) and the Salzburg Music Festival in 2002 and 2005.

Works (selection)

His compositions have been performed in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the USA. The framework was provided by the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , Camerata Salzburg , Salzburg Bach Choir , Basel Madrigalists , Theater der Stadt Heidelberg , St. Gallen Cathedral Organ Concerts , International Mozarteum Foundation , ORF ( Austrian Broadcasting ), oenm ( Austrian Ensemble for New Music ), Vocal Quintet Berlin , and much more.

Vocal works

• Three old Irish blessings for mixed choir (SATB) and string orchestra (2016)
• King Lear Symphony Three Scenes after William Shakespeare for baritone and orchestra (2016)
• Tenebrae for vocal sextet (STTTBar.B.) (Paul Celan) (2015)
• On a petrified threshold - lyrical scenes after Georg Trakl for nine solo voices, choir and chamber orchestra (2014)
• Three songs for gem. Choir a cappella ( Georg Trakl , Gerhart Hauptmann , Josef Weinheber ) (2007)
• Six songs after Bruno Hillebrand for baritone and piano (2004)
• Psalm Mass for solos, choir and three organs ( 1992/2002 )
• ... to give us life ... scenic Passion Oratorio (K. Vereno) (2000/2001)
• Second symphony ; Gesänge der Ferne for tenor and 45 solo instruments based on fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin (1999)
• Mira for vocal quintet (S.Ms.ATB) (Giovanni Battista Guarino) (1997)
• Paracelsus music for six solo voices and six-part choir (Frank Geerk) (1993) for the 500th birthday of Theophrastus von Hohenheim ( Paracelsus )
• Dream songs for tenor, alto and string quintet ( Christine Lavant ) (1992)
• Vita mortalium vigilia for vocal quintet (SATTB) (Christine Lavant) (1990)
• Magnificat for six-part gem. Choir a cappella (SSAATB) (1990)
• Three songs based on Georg Trakl for soprano, basset horn and guitar (1987)
• The Canticle of the Sun of St. Francis of Assisi for soprano, tenor, unison choir and chamber orchestra (1984/1998)

Orchestra and ensemble works

• Landscape with temple and jugglers for a large ensemble (2018)
• Dance from the series for youth wind orchestra (2014)
• Five scenes for chamber ensemble (2011/2012)
• Sinfonia for 16 wind instruments (2007)
• London Sketches for Orchestra (2005) - Second movement of the Viva! Mozart Suite by eight composers (commissioned by the Salzburg State Government for the Mozart Year 2006)
• Machtfestmusik for brass quintet and string orchestra (2003) on the 350th anniversary of the death of the founder of the University of Salzburg , Archbishop Paris Lodron
• Piccolissima Sinfoniettina for chamber orchestra ( 2002/2003 )
• Kristall , a magic square for 12 instruments in 4 groups (1998)
• Salzburg Cathedral Symphony for five organs and orchestra (1995/96) (also version with three organs)
• Musaik , music mosaic for 12 instruments (1994)

Solo and chamber music

• Pirouette for wind quartet (Picc, Ob, Eb-Kl, Fg) (2010)
• Danse mélancolique for wind quintet (Fl, Ob, Kl, Hr, Fg) and piano (2010)
• Farewell for violoncello and organ (2009)
• Tombeau for organ (for the International Bach Festival Salzburg 2008)
• Sonata profonda for six tubas (2007)
• Sonatina for violoncello and piano (2006)
• Sonata for two organs on the Gallus sequence by Notker Balbulus (2004)
• Three night pieces for piano (2003)
• Five Haiku for violin and piano (2003)
• Calendar pages I - XXXVIII : miniatures for 1 - 2 instruments in various scoring (2003)
• Sonata for trumpet and organ (2000)
• Invocations - Surround scene for eight Brass (1999)
• draft and present - two parables for chamber ensemble (Fl, Pos, Vl, Vc, Perc) (1999)
• shadows of stars for flute and guitar (1997/98)
• Sinai - Meditations for two organs (1997)
• Wind quintet (Fl / Picc, Ob / Eh, Kl / Es-Kl, Hr, Fg) (1995)
• Pentecost scene for five brass instruments, organ and percussion (1995)
• Fugue per violoncello solo (1994)
• Dream and Mirror - Metamorphoses over a nine-tone row from Mozart's Don Giovanni for four horns (1994) for the laying of the foundation stone for the rebuilding of Mozart's house on Salzburg's Makartplatz
• Sonata per violoncello e pianoforte (1994)

Processing (selection)

• C. Monteverdi Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria , new version of the opera for the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg (1987/88)
• J. Chr. Pepusch The Ballad of the Robber Mac New version of The Beggars's Opera (1983)
• GB Pergolesi Il maestro di musica new version of the opera (1986)
• WA Mozart Adagio in B minor KV 540 for string quartet (originally for piano) (1997);
  Adagio and Allegro in F minor KV 594 for 12 wind instruments and double bass (original for organ cylinder) (2004)
• F. Schubert Sonata in C minor D.958 1st movement - orchestral version (original for piano) (2007);
  Sonata in B flat major D.960 3rd movement - orchestral version (original for piano) (2001);
  Six German Dances for Orchestra (originally for piano) (2002/03)
• Gustav Pressel The Tailor of Ulm (1865) - New version of the opera (1982)
• P. Hindemith Lehrstück (1929) - preparation of a performance version (1982)
• C. Bresgen Marienmesse for choir and eleven wind instruments (originally with organ accompaniment) (1993); Lauda Sion for eight brass instruments (original for organ) (2007)

In addition, many song movements (also a cappella choir versions of piano songs by Schubert, Beethoven, etc.), arrangements for smaller ensembles, preludes and accompanying movements, etc.

Working for the Salzburg Advent Singing

• Give Us Peace - Oratorio (2016)
• Der Sterngucker - Oratorio (2014)
• The Star - Oratorio (2011)
• Who knocks? - Oratorio (text by K. Vereno) (2010)
• They brought us a message of a silent, holy night - oratorio (text by K. Vereno) (2008)
• Now Let's Start Singing - Oratorio (2006)
• Otherwise it would remain a dream - oratorio ( Tobias Reiser ) (1989; re-performances in 1990, 1991, 1995, 2005, 2012)

Web links

• Vereno at mica
• Vereno at the Mozarteum
• Works by and about Klemens Vereno in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Klemens Vereno