Lothar Voigtländer

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Lothar Voigtländer (born September 3, 1943 in Leisnig ) is a German composer .

Life

Voigtländer received his formative musical training in the years 1954 to 1962 as a choir boy and later as prefect of the choir in the Dresden Kreuzchor under Rudolf Mauersberger. From 1961 to 1968 he studied conducting with Rolf Reuter and composition with Fritz Geißler at the Leipzig University of Music and from 1970 to 1972 as a master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR with Günter Kochan .

Voigtländer has been working freelance in Berlin since 1973. In 1984 he founded the “Society for Electroacoustic Music ” together with Georg Katzer . In 1992 he received a visiting professorship at the University of Paris , was chairman of the Berlin composers 'association from 1990 to 1996, member of the federal board of the German composers' association and deputy chairman of the GEMA works committee . Voigtländer has been an honorary professor for composition at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden since 2001 , and has been a member of the GEMA Supervisory Board since 2006.

Voigtländer founded several concert series in Berlin. a. the "Long Night of Electronic Sounds". Electroacoustic work has taken him to the studios Bourges , Zurich, Basel , Hilversum, Freiburg (WDR), Budapest and Bratislava. Voigtländer has received international prizes and has won several awards at the Festival for Electroacoustic Music in Bourges (Grand Prix 1996). Voigtländer now lives in Berlin-Mahlsdorf . He is the father of star photographer Richard Voigtländer .

In 2015 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Works

Voigtländer's compositions include stage works, dance theater , electro-acoustic sound performances, sound sculptures, room-sound installations, motets and choral songs, solo songs, chamber music , orchestral and organ works .

(Selection, mainly published by Edition Peters, B & H / DVfM)

  • Ancient epigrams for mixed choir, text: Catullus, Sulpicia, Ausonius, 1975.
  • Three electronic studies for voice and tape, text: Erich Arendt, 1975.
  • Orchestral music I "Memento", Hommage á Shostakowitsch, 1975.
  • Four Minnelieder by Oswald von Wolkenstein for tenor and orchestra, 1977.
  • One song for high voice and piano, text: Federico Garcia Lorca, Louis Aragon and Friedemann Berger, 1977.
  • At the end of the rainbow (choir cycle) 8 songs for mixed choir a cappella based on texts by Berger, Kahlau, Morgenstern, Strittmatter, Rive and Ketschua-Lyrik. 1978, Ed. Peters 1983
  • forget ... mess ... o sweetie for vocals, 4 pos., 4 perc., text: Marc Braet, Erich Fried, Samuel Becket, EECummings, (1983, rev. with tape 2005).
  • Maikäfer flieg , electro-acoustic audio piece, 1985.
  • Litaneia , motet for baritone and 2 mixed choirs, 1985, rev. 1987.
  • Orchestral Music II , 1988.
  • II symphony. Harp Symphony , 1989.
  • Le temps en cause , chamber oratorio, text: Eugène Guillevic , 1990.
  • III. Symphony. Organ Symphony , 1990.
  • Trällerlieder , children's song collection, 1970–1990.
  • Adoratio , motet, text: Thomas v. Aquino, 1994.
  • Voici sound of fire! for soprano, double bass, 2 percussionists, tape, live electronics, pyrotechnics, Rheinsberg, 1995.
  • Guillevic recital , collage for 3 speakers and tape with painting by Dieter Tucholke, Berlin 1996.
  • Lichtklang Nr.2 , sound sculpture for the German Reichstag Berlin with the architect Wolfgang Heinrich Fischer, 1999.
  • Missa Electroacoustica in 4 parts, electro-acoustic compositions for videos by Veit Lup, steel sculptures by Reinhardt Grimm and choreographies by Iris Sputh, 2002.
  • Visages , KammerSzenario (chamber opera) in 8 parts (E. Guillevic) for S, 3 speakers, 3 dancers, 3 beats, piano trio, pos., Clear. and electronic space-sound compositions, Rheinsberg 2002.
  • glockenfern-glass sharpness-black , dance performance for 3 Chinese singing bowls and tape, 2005.
  • Orchestral Music III whatever trembles a little, that's in us , 2005.

Film music

Radio play music

literature

  • Albrecht von Massow , Thomas Grysko, Josephine Prkno (eds.): A prism of East German music: the composer Lothar Voigtländer. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015.
  • About Voigtländer performances by the Dresden Kreuzchor, in: Matthias Herrmann (Ed.): Dresdner Kreuzchor and contemporary choral music. World premieres between Richter and Kreile , Marburg 2017, 96–98, pp. 313–317 (Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchor, Vol. 2)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Lothar Voigtländer receives the Cross of Merit on ribbon. Press release of the Berlin Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs from February 10, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Voigtländer, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Quietly