Mark Moebius

Mark Moebius (born September 8, 1973 in Summit , New Jersey , USA ) is a German composer .

Life

Mark Moebius was born in 1973 in New Jersey, USA. After finishing school, he began studying composition with Hans Zender at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts from 1994 to 1997 . This was followed by postgraduate studies with Hans-Jürgen von Bose at the Musikhochschule in Munich. Since 2006 he has been living as a freelance composer in the Uckermark. He has received composition commissions from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Herrenhaus Edenkoben, the Heidelberg Theater and Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bielefeld Theater, and the Berlin Academy of the Arts.

Scholarships and Awards

• First prize at the Günter Bialas composition competition (1999)
• Postgraduate scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria (2000/01)
• Opera workshop Rheinsberg (2002)
• Scholarship from the Herrenhaus Edenkoben (2003)
• Scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (2005)
• Scholarship from the Akademie-Musiktheater-heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation (2006–2008)
• Composer for Heidelberg of the Theater & Orchestra Heidelberg (2007/2008)
• Working grant from the state of Brandenburg (Schloss Wiepersdorf)

Works

Since meeting his teacher Hans Zender , Mark Moebius has been working on a “New Harmonics”. Unlike Hans Zender, however, he is not interested in an even greater subdivision of the twelve-tone octave chroma into a seventy-two octave plasma; instead, he tries to refine the hearing awareness for more distant overtone and sub-tone series of sounds. With this he cancels Schönberg 's verdict that higher-numbered overtones are only more distant dissonances that one simply has to emancipate to twelve-tone. Rather, he is concerned with a harmonious understanding of these higher-numbered overtones: precisely because they have their defined place, they do not have to be "liberated", but are constitutive for a generally revived understanding of harmony. That overtones are good not only to static compositions but may also carry scenic and dramatic architecture, proved Mark Moebius for his operas aurora , Idilia Dubb and pine nuts do not grow in bags . Recently, Moebius has been developing a kind of “fractal” composing by breaking down mostly simple elements (or “motifs”) into their constituent components (movement, rhythm, pitches, harmony, etc.) and subjecting them to a continuous mutation , which occurs through gradual change the musical parameter is caused.

The works of Mark Moebius appear in Edition Peters .

Stage works

• Northern Lights (Rheinsberg Opera Workshop, 2004)
• Idilia Dubb (Koblenz, 2005)
• Pine nuts don't grow in bags (Text: Paula Fünfeck), Premiere: November 25, 2007, Theater & Orchester Heidelberg
• Helge's life . Opera (together with Karola Obermüller ). Libretto:? (after Sibylle Berg ). Premiere May 31, 2009 Bielefeld ( theater )
• Always with the flow Children's opera. (Quillo House, Falkenhagen, Uckermark)

Orchestral works

• Symphony (2000)
• Achromatic Point for string orchestra (2005)
• Portrait of a business woman for piano and orchestra

Chamber music

• 3rd string quartet Akrostichon (2000)
• Two new fantasy pieces for violoncello and piano (2002)
• String Trio (2003)

Web links

• Homepage of Mark Moebius
• Works by and about Mark Moebius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Appreciation of the composer on the homepage of the Herrenhaus Edenkoben