Marque (musician)

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Marque (2016)

Marque (born September 2, 1972 in Altstätten , Switzerland ; actually Marcus Nigsch ) is an Austrian composer , singer , music producer and songwriter .

Life

The musician, who grew up in Feldkirch , released his first album Wanna Make Love to You in 1995 and played almost all of the instruments himself. He had his final breakthrough in 2000 with his hit single One to Make Her Happy from his third album Freedomland , for which he was awarded the Amadeus Austrian Music Award . Nigsch studied composition at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory with Herbert Willi .

In 2005 he took sixth place in the Austrian preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the songs Who You Are and eighth with In the Universe . In 2007 Marque composed chorales for the ecumenical welcome celebration “Moving Souls” for the Gymnaestrada , which were premiered by the Feldkirch Chamber Choir . The texts of these chorales come from the Austrian playwright Fritz Schindlecker .

In 2008, 2010 and 2011 Marque wrote the soundtrack for the ORF series Die Lottosieger . In 2010 he was co-author and producer of the album Soul Is Heavy by Nigerian singer Nneka under the pseudonym “The Slag” . In 2011 Marque released the album Untimely Adventures in a limited edition under the name Geordie Gill . The record contains old English songs mixed with neoclassical arrangements.

In 2012, Marcus Nigsch's classical composition Fröhjaar (trio for violin, cello and piano) was awarded 3rd place in the composition competition of the Franz-Josef Reinl Foundation. In the same year he was also the winner of the Vienna Film Music Prize.

In 2013 he composed the semi-opera Dangerous Liaisons for the Vorarlberger Landestheater based on the letter novel by Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos as well as the film music for Die Mamba by Ali Samadi Ahadi with Michael Niavarani and Christoph Maria Herbst . In 2014 Nigsch wrote the Singspiel for chamber orchestra , Das große Welttheater , in an arrangement by Michael Wallner based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca , which was played in several open-air performances in Bildstein by the Vorarlberg State Theater .

In 2018 he was unanimously awarded the composition prize of the State of Vorarlberg. In particular, the imaginative and generally understandable musical language was emphasized as an outstanding artistic characteristic. Furthermore, the jury of the extended art commission attested that the composer had an unbelievable abundance of creativity and inventiveness in addition to his “outstanding craftsmanship”.

Marcus Nigsch is a member of the European Film Academy , the Academy of Austrian Films and the Austrian Association of Composers .

Nigsch lives in Feldkirch .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2000 Freedomland - - CH56 (6 weeks)
CH
First published: June 2000

More albums

  • 1995: Wanna Make Love to You
  • 1997: Fonkononia
  • 2000: 1994-1997: Best of
  • 2003: Pirate of My Soul
  • 2004: Transparent
  • 2011: Untimely Adventures (as Geordie Gill)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1995 Something in My Eyes
Wanna Make Love to You 		DE78 (8 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: October 1995
2000 One to Make Her Happy
Freedomland 		DE14 (19 weeks)
DE 		AT3
gold
gold

(17 weeks)AT 		CH26 (25 weeks)
CH
First published: April 2000
Electronic Lady
Freedomland 		DE32 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT5 (16 weeks)
AT 		CH89 (1 week)
CH
First published: September 2000
2001 Reaching for the stars - AT28 (7 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: January 2001
with Joni Madden
Rose without a thorn DE85 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT49 (12 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: May 2001
2002 Wonderman
Pirate of my Soul 		DE61 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT57 (6 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: July 2002

More singles

  • 1996: Sophisticated Mother
  • 1996: God Gave Me a Sign
  • 1997: Charlie's Letter
  • 1997: She Walks
  • 2000: River
  • 2002: Two More Lonely People
  • 2003: The Reason Why
  • 2004: Sorry but I Wonder
  • 2004: superstar
  • 2005: Who You Are

Film music

  • 2008–2011: The lottery winners 30 episodes (TV series)
  • 2014: The Mamba
  • 2015: Orient in the Occident (TV documentary)
  • 2015: The Blunt King
  • 2015: Everything under control
  • 2016: The Queen of Vienna (TV documentary)
  • 2017: The Green Lie
  • 2018: Viva la Vulva (TV documentary)
  • 2019: Exploring Hans Hass
  • 2019: The Unyielding - Three women and their path to the right to vote (TV documentary)
  • 2020: Save the village

Theater music

Awards

Amadeus Austrian Music Award

  • 2001: Newcomer of the Year, national - Freedomland
  • 2001: Single of the year, national - One to Make Her Happy

Composition Awards

  • 2012: 3rd place Fröhjaar , trio for violin, cello and piano (Franz Josef Reinl Foundation)
  • 2012: Winner of the Vienna Film Music Prize (donated by the City of Vienna)
  • 2014: Winner of the Art Prize of the State of Vorarlberg
  • 2018: Composition Prize of the State of Vorarlberg

Austrian film award

swell

  1. ↑ Marcus Nigsch receives the composition prize of the State of Vorarlberg 2018 - magazine for culture and society. Retrieved June 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
  3. ↑ a b gold / platinum database AT

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Marque
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nigsch, Marcus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer, music producer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Altstätten , Switzerland