Marius Felix Lange

Marius Felix Lange (born November 28, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German composer .

Life

Marius Felix Lange, born in Berlin in 1968, received violin lessons at the age of eight - and piano lessons at eleven . From 1980 to 1987 he was a young student at the Julius Stern Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts with Saschko Gawriloff and Tomasz Tomaszewski . At this time he received various awards at Jugend musiziert and other chamber music competitions and in 1987 was a member of the Festival Orchestra and the Orchestra Academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival under Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache .

He studied violin for a long time at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and in Klagenfurt . In 1993 he began studying school music in Stuttgart , and in 1997 jazz and popular music were added as a broadening subject. In 2001 he graduated with the 1st state examination. From 1998 to 2002 he studied film music and sound design at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and from 2001 to 2006 composition in Mannheim with Ulrich Leyendecker . In 2004 he received a scholarship from the Bayreuth Festival .

In 2002, Marius Felix Lange was the musical director of the opening production “Germany your songs” at the 1st Ruhrtriennale . In the following years he mainly wrote film music (until 2012) and operas. In 2005, for example, he composed the “Opera for Children and Adults” Das Opernschiff or Am Südpol, if you think it’s hot for a libretto by Elke Heidenreich . This was followed by the opera Schneewittchen , which premiered in 2011 at the Cologne Opera under the direction of Elena Tzavara and was staged as Blanche-Neige at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg by Waut Koeken as a French premiere at the end of 2012 . The Swiss premiere followed in 2015 in Friborg by opéra Louise in a production by Julien Chavaz . In 2013, Lange wrote the family opera Das Gespenst von Canterville , world premiere in November 2013 at the Zurich Opera House , new instrumentation and German premiere at the Komische Oper Berlin November 2014, Austrian premiere at the Volksoper Vienna on October 18, 2019. For the Junge Oper Rhein-Ruhr , a merger of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg , the Dortmund Theater and the Bonn Theater , he wrote the family opera Vom Mädchen who did not want to sleep in 2014 and The Snow Queen based on Hans Christian Andersen in 2016 .

2004: The Opera Ship or At the South Pole, you think, it's hot. Libretto: Elke Heidenreich
2011: Snow White. Libretto by the composer
2013: The Canterville Ghost. Libretto after Michael Frowin
2014: The girl who didn't want to sleep. Libretto: Martin Baltscheit
2016: The Snow Queen . Libretto by the composer
2018: war. Imagine he was here. Chamber opera for everyone aged 14 and over based on the book of the same name by Janne Teller with poetry islands by Nora Gomringer
2019: Momotaro, the peach boy. Libretto by the composer, world premiere on March 9, 2019 in the Philharmonie Luxembourg
2019: The song of the magic island or How the mad Roland came to his senses again. Libretto by the composer, world premiere on July 26, 2019 at the Salzburg Festival
2019: Schellen-Ursli. Libretto by the composer, world premiere on November 29, 2019 at Theater Basel

2015: Millistrade, musical fairy tale for speaker, voice and orchestra. Text: Linard Bardill

2009: The orchestra gets dressed for speakers and orchestra Text: Karla Kuskin

2012: The Sorcerer's Apprentice for medium voice and piano Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2017: Songs of the day for medium voice and piano based on poems by Theodor Storm and Friedrich Nietzsche
2017: Lieder der Nacht for medium voice and piano based on poems by Theodor Storm
2017: The Public Verleumder for medium voice and piano Text: Gottfried Keller

2004: 1st prize at the 1st International Composition Competition in Cologne for "The Opera Ship or At the South Pole, you think it's hot"
2012: “honorable mention” at Hilary Hahn's international encore composition competition for “Nutcracker's Nightmare”
2017: Nomination for the German Music Author Award 2017 in the category "Music Theater"