Magret Wolf

Magret Wolf (* 1960 ) is a German composer .

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Magret Wolf grew up in Munich , learned violin and piano and began composing at the age of seven. From 1974 she studied composition and music theory with Richard Langley in Norfolk (Virginia) , from 1980 to 1986 in Munich and Vienna Jewish studies , musicology and philosophy . Magret Wolf studied composition again with Peter Kiesewetter from 1981 to 1982 and took part in the Darmstadt summer courses for new music in 1982 and 1984 . In 2006 she gave master classes in composition at Bilkent University Ankara. She lives and works in Berlin .

Her most important works include Gilgal for horn and orchestra (1989) and the ballet music Kain weHewel for percussion quintet (1993). After a personal encounter with the Kyrgyz poet Tschingis Aitmatow in Brussels in 1997 , Wolf secured the rights to the novella The Boy and the Sea (Пегий пес, бегущий краем моря) and on this basis wrote the libretto and the music for the opera Kirisk - the boy and the sea , which is her main work.

Works (selection)

Incidental music

• Ballet music KAIN weHEWEL Music for Ballet for Percussion Quintet (1993), WP Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern 1994,
• Oper Kirisk (2000) Commissioned by the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. Libretto by the composer based on Tschingis Aitmatov's Der Junge und das Meer , WP Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern 2000

Orchestral music

• Gilgal for horn and orchestra (1990), commissioned by the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra, written for Meir Rimon (horn), premiered in Tel Aviv 1990
• Sefirot (1992), UA Tel Aviv 1992, Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra
• Ofan for 2 clarinets, percussion and 22 solo strings (1995/96), UA Tel Aviv 1996, Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra
• Studies in Breath and Sound for large orchestra (1995/98), UA Sinfonischer Sommer Riedenburg 1998, Moscow Symphony Orchestra

Chamber music

• The poet's portrait sextet for oboe, horn, trombone, percussion, harp and double bass (1996), premiered in Kaiserslautern 1996, Ensemble Forum 21
• Tekassim for oboe, horn, trombone, harp, percussion and double bass (1996/97), WP Kaiserslautern 1997, Ensemble Forum 21
• Composition for saxophone quartet and string orchestra (2004), written for the Rascher Quartet
• beSHALECHET for 4 percussionists, accordion, string quartet (2008), commissioned by musica viva, Munich

Vocal music

• Tchinah for zither, soprano and viola (1996), written for Georg Glasl, UA Bedediktbeuern 1998
• Rimonim for soprano and flute (1992), written for Adelheid Maria Thanner, premiered in Munich 1994
• Fuor Yiddish Songs for soprano, alto, tenor, piano (2003), commissioned by the Jüdischen Kulturtage Berlin, premier Berlin 2003
• Seven Songs for soprano, singing saw and zither (2007/2008)

Web links

• Works by and about Magret Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library