Manfred Schubert (composer)

Manfred Schubert (born April 27, 1937 in Berlin ; † June 10, 2011 there ) was a German composer , conductor and music critic .

Life

Schubert was born the son of a lawyer in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In his youth he received violin and piano lessons ; He passed his Abitur in Berlin-Köpenick . From 1955 to 1960 he studied music education with Fritz Reuter , Georg Knepler and Siegfried Bimberg and Slavic studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1960 to 1963 he was a master student of composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Academy of Arts in East Berlin . From 1962 to 1990 he worked regularly as a music critic for the Berliner Zeitung , after that only sporadically. In 1978 he conducted the Staatskapelle Berlin at a guest concert in Lyon. From 1984 to 1985 he worked as a lecturer in composition and instrumentation at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin . From 1963 he lived as a freelance composer in Berlin.

His estate is in the possession of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage .

Works

Compositions (selection)

Orchestral works

• 1965: Dance studies , for small orchestra (15 ')
• 1966: orchestral music 66 (Paean) (7 ')
• 1966: Suite for orchestra (22 ')
• 1970: Divertimento for orchestra (14 ')
• 1971: Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (22 ')
• 1972: Hommage à Rudolf Wagner-Régeny , concert meditations for harp solo, 13 string instruments, percussion and celesta (20 ')
• 1974: Cantilena e Capriccio , per violino ed orchestra (16 ')
• 1979–82: Symphony No. 1 , for large orchestra (32 ')
• 1988: Concerto for two violins and orchestra (25 ')
• 1990: Vogelreden III , Capriccio for 6 flutes (1 player) and string orchestra (22 ')
• 1998–05: An ecumenical Te Deum , for four solo voices, speaker, eight-part mixed choir, organ and large orchestra (75 ')

Chamber music

• 1961: Music for seven instruments (12 ')
• 1963: 1st string quartet (16 ')
• 1966: Sonata per flauto solo (15 ')
• 1967: Moments musicaux , for wind quintet (12 ')
• 1967: Septet (11 ')
• 1967/68: Nachtstück and Passacaglia , for octet (17 ')
• 1970: II. String quartet (14 ')
• 1975: Evocazione , per undici esecutori (10 ')
• 1984/85: Vogelreden II , concert duo for flute and harp (12 ')
• 1987: Elegia con elgeganza , Canto aleatorio V per contrabbasso solo (9 ')
• 1987: Ramificazioni , Canto aleatorio VI per arpa sola (9 ')
• 2002: Trazóm Suédama , Trio for oboe, violin and violoncello (18 ')

Piano works

• 1960: Variazioni per pianoforte (11 ')
• 1961: I. Piano Sonata (10 ')
• 1963: 2nd piano sonata (11 ')
• 1967: Serenata semplice (3 ')
• 1969: Four harpsichord pieces (7 ')
• 1976: Esde Hafis , Canto aleatorio II per pianoforte solo (7 ')

Vocal music

• 1964: Eight songs , based on poems by Bertolt Brecht (9 ')
• 1964: Traumwald , four songs based on poems by Christian Morgenstern for baritone and string orchestra (6 ')
• 1973: Canzone amorose , concerto for baritone and large orchestra based on poems by Johannes Bobrowski (22 ')
• 1986: Nachtgesänge , after Carl Friedrich Zelter plus two interludes for medium voice and small orchestra ( Goethe ) (20 ')
• 1992: Miserere , for eight-part mixed choir and organ (8 ')
• 1996: Misericordia ejus , antiphon for 2 mixed choirs a cappella (12 ')
• 1995–97: Missa viadrina , for eight-part mixed choir a cappella (50 ')
• 2006: Second Romanticism , Seven Sonnets for medium voice and piano (32 ')

Volumes of poetry

• 1997–2009: Blue house on a red background ; Travel poems
• 1998–2006: Muse and Metier ; Artist problems
• 1993–2009: weather lights ; Poems between hope and doubt

Prices

• Composition Prize at the Prague Spring (1966)
• Ernst Zinna Prize of the City of Berlin (1966)
• Prize of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR (1966, 1969)
• Hanns Eisler Prize for Broadcasting in the GDR (1977)
• Recognition of the UNESCO International Composers' Tribune in Paris (1984)

literature

• Schubert, Manfred. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 4th edition. German Composers' Association, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-555-61410-X , p. 1162.
• Vera Grützner: Manfred Schubert . In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8 .
• Manfred Schubert. In: Peter Hollfelder : History of piano music. Volume 1. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1989, ISBN 3-7959-0436-6 , p. 328.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Hollfelder: History of piano music . F. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1989, ISBN 3-7959-0770-5 , p. 310.
2. ↑ He never heard his last work . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 11, 2011; obituary
3. ↑ Vera Grützner: Manfred Schubert , Composers of the Present (KDG), in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)