Markus Hechtle

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Composer Markus Hechtle

Markus Hechtle (born June 17, 1967 in Karlsruhe ) is a German composer , author and university professor .

Life

After A-levels at the Kant-Gymnasium Karlsruhe and community service in the individual care for the severely disabled, Markus Hechtle studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe . Studies with Heiner Goebbels , Mathias Spahlinger , Thomas A. Troge and Walter Zimmermann complemented his training.

He works as a freelance composer with the Ensemble Modern , the Ensemble Intermodulation Budapest, the Aleph Guitar Quartet , the Klangforum Wien , the Ensemble 13 , the Ensemble SORI / Seoul, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg , the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR , the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Federal Youth Orchestra , the Austrian Ensemble for New Music and the New Vocalsolisten Stuttgart . The musical collaboration and the live sampling in the theater production "Max Black" by Heiner Goebbels led him to numerous guest performances at theaters in Europe and overseas between 1998 and 2015.

From 2009 to 2019, Hechtle taught composition at the Cologne University of Music and Dance , and has been Professor of Composition at the Karlsruhe University of Music since 2013. Markus Hechtle lives in Karlsruhe.

composer

Markus Hechtle's work includes different formats and genres, pieces for ensemble and orchestra, piano, guitar and percussion compositions as well as vocal music and musical theater. It defies any assignment to a certain technique or "school" of contemporary music , appears clear, transparent and sensual - usually using classical, acoustic instruments. The urgency and apparent simplicity of his music are the result of meticulous filing and the omission of all superfluous flourishes or effects: “Put the pen on the checkered paper and tremble forwards. Lead the line and avoid any unnecessary, unnecessary movement. Wait and then act in one movement. Don't be afraid of emptiness and loss. (...) Be simple. "

Markus Hechtle creates sound essences, surprises again and again with new, intimate timbres and leads to spaces of perception that allow breaks, pauses, a lot of time and also silence, as well as great tonal beauty and energy: “I stammer notes, keep pauses. I'm looking for the hidden, the lost. (...) I always start over, repeat, try to find tones, draw lines, set signs, lay tracks. With a trembling hand I draw music in the silence. "

Dialog is a central concept for the composer. He seeks exchange and conversation, be it with his interpreters, students, colleagues or even the audience: “I am convinced that the audience does not want to be served and also cannot be served! It wants to be surprised, confronted and taken seriously. That is why we go to the concerts to learn something, to experience something. It wants to react to it, confidently and decisively. "

Hechtle is committed to the free space in which art can take place, a free space that does not maintain itself and threatens to shrink if it is not preserved: “Music surrenders and surrenders itself in devotion, in an erotic relationship to the world , in a comprehensive form of communication. I am deeply convinced that therefore the defensibility of art lies in the defense of its weakness, in the maintenance of its vulnerability, in the emphatic representation of its vulnerability. "

author

Language is Hechtle's second medium. In numerous publications, radio programs, lectures and literary texts, he uses words to get to the heart of complex musical relationships. As a free thinker, he provokes with inappropriate opinions and hypotheses , asks surprising questions and leaves the answers to the readers and listeners.

He is always inspired by literature , his own writing is a central component of artistic work and form of expression for him: "In writing I can understand what I only feel in music, in writing I can feel what I am looking for in music I can only guess at what music makes possible to write. My writing is a gate and wall, my writing promotes and prevents, my writing is dizzy and reveals. My writing is like my composing. My writing is still not comparable to my composing. "

Teacher

Dialogue is also the top priority for the teacher Hechtle, because “you can't actually learn composition. But you can accompany the students, and I think that's the essential thing a composition teacher does. The composition teacher is a contact person, he is often the one who gets to see things for the first time and maybe first hears the ideas that the students have, and then a dialogue arises. And this dialogue is basically the essence of the composition lesson. "

In his class, he creates an atmosphere of openness in which the students can explore new things and express their insecurities and questions. “Only those who manage to expose themselves to their own experience, take them seriously, take them fully, can create identity. This is what matters in art, identities, personalities who take responsibility, who get by without referrals, without security, yes, without tradition. "

Hechtle is concerned with promoting a wide variety of personalities, their own aesthetics and free development: “I advocate a pedagogy of responsibility that acts without threatening gestures or shock. For a pedagogy that encourages the students to take their own imagination seriously, to trust their ideas and not first and foremost demand knowledge of the old in order to be able to be creative at some point. "

Compositions

  • Piano piece (1991) for piano solo, duration: ~ 10 ', premiered January 30, 1991, Schloss Gottesaue Karlsruhe (Daniel N. Seel)
  • Bongonom (1991) for ensemble, duration: ~ 8 ', premier 19 June 1991, Stephansaal Karlsruhe (ensemble of the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, conductor: Albert Julià)
  • Und Ritardandi (1991) for ensemble, duration: ~ 15 ', premier October 25, 1991 (ensemble of the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, conductor: Zsolt Nagy)
  • Sinn-Flut (1992) for ensemble, duration: ~ 14 ', premiere June 18, 1992, St. Bonifatius-Kirche, Karlsruhe (ensemble of the Karlsruhe University of Music, conductor: Zsolt Nagy)
  • NN, kleine Welten (1992) for ensemble, duration: ~ 18 ', premier December 11, 1992, Budapest / Hungary (Ensemble Intermodulation Budapest, conductor: Zsolt Nagy)
  • Fresco. Eine Sehnsucht (1993) for four guitars, duration: ~ 23 ', premiered December 13th, 1993, Prague / Czech Republic (Aleph guitar quartet)
  • Fresco. One perspective (1995) for large ensemble and 12-part soloist choir with live electronics, duration: ~ 26 ', premier January 17, 1995, Schloss Gottesaue Karlsruhe (ensemble for new music from the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, conductor: Zsolt Nagy)
  • von Herzen intimately (1997) for three percussionists, duration: ~ 38 ', premier June 8th 1997, Rote Fabrik Zurich / Switzerland (Jochen Ille, Nils Tannert, Donald Tulloch)
  • Minotaurus Study (1997) for ensemble, duration: ~ 11 ', premiere October 8, 1997, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden (Ensemble 13, director: Manfred Reichert), recording by mdr
  • sfumato (1999) music film by Andreas Brehmer and Markus Hechtle, duration: ~ 26 ', premiere of the live version March 3, 2002, Zurich / Switzerland (Aleph guitar quartet)
  • Klage (1999) for seven voices with the text of the same name by Jakob van Hoddis , duration: ~ 12 ', premiere 19 November 1999, broadcasting hall of the SWR Stuttgart, Festival Metaphor (Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, conductor: Manfred Schreier), recording by the SWR
  • screen (2001) for ensemble with amplifier, duration: ~ 15 ', premier February 9, 2001, Festival Présences, Radio France, Paris / France (Ensemble Modern, conductor: Stefan Asbury), recordings by Radio France, hr, DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Swiss radio DRS 2
  • Still (2003) for speaker and four male voices with accordion to the text Infinity by Giacomo Leopardi , duration: ~ 20 ', WP May 10, 2003, Witten Days for New Chamber Music, Rudolf Steiner School Witten (André Wilms, Teodoro Anzellotti, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart), recording by WDR
  • Handling (2003) with two pianos, duration: ~ 11 ', premiere May 12, 2003 State Opera Stuttgart , Kammertheater, concert series "Dialoge" (piano duo Friederike Haug / Jürgen Kruse), recording by SWR
  • Do not ask (2003), music for a short film and an interactive DVD by Andreas Brehmer and Sirko Knüpfer, duration: ~ 25 '(film) and 75' (longest version of the interactive DVD), premiere of the short film on November 7, 2003 Kubus of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • Portrait, Memory of a Strange Dream (2004) for clarinet, violoncello and accordion, duration: ~ 13 ', Premiere February 6, 2004 Theaterhaus Stuttgart , Festival ECLAT (Shizuyo Oka, Lucas Fels, Teodoro Anzellotti), recording by SWR
  • Movements with pauses (2005) for ensemble, duration: ~ 13 'WP April 30, 2005 Hans Rosbaud-Studio of the SWR Baden-Baden, portrait concert Markus Hechtle (members of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg), recording of the SWR
  • Blinder Fleck (2005) for ensemble, duration: ~ 07 ', premiere June 3, 2005 Theaterhaus Stuttgart, SWR concert series "Attacca - Geistesgegenwart", (NewEars.ensemble, members of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR , conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer), Recording of the SWR
  • Linie mit Schraffur (2006) for guitar quartet and clarinet, duration: ~ 11 ', premier 29 June 2007 Theaterhaus Stuttgart ( Aleph guitar quartet and Ernesto Molinari ), recording by SWR
  • Vertigo - vor dem Fall (2007) for ensemble, duration: ~ 13 ', WP April 22, 2007, Witten Days for New Chamber Music, WDR (Ensemble Modern, conductor: Lucas Vis), recording by WDR
  • Zurück (2007) for piano, duration: ~ 10 ', premier May 3, 2007, Kammerspiele Munich, as part of the award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2007 (Seon-Kyung Kim), recording by BR
  • Leeres Viertel (2009) for ensemble, duration: ~ 26 ', premier on May 27, 2009, Konzerthaus Berlin , (Ensemble Modern, conductor: Franck Ollu) recording by rbb and hr
  • Scene with Darkness (2010) for orchestra, duration: ~ 11 ', premier February 14, 2010, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Festival ECLAT, (Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR, conductor: Jean Deroyer), recording of the SWR
  • Fenster zur See (2011) for claves and orchestra, duration: ~ 14 ', premiere 11 November 2011 Neunkirchen, Gymnasium am Krebsberg (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neue Musik Leininger-Gymnasium Grünstadt, percussion ensemble Landesmusikgymnasium Montabaur, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, conductor: Roland Böer ), Recording by the umpire
  • Kleines Licht (2012) for ensemble without conductor, duration: ~ 10 ', premier on March 16, 2012, atrium of the Karlsruhe University of Design (HFG), (TEMA ensemble and students of the Karlsruhe University of Music, rehearsal: Gérard Buquet), recording from Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • Letter without Words (2012) for ensemble, In Memory of Changwon Park (1967–2011), duration: ~ 06 ', WP November 14, 2012, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul / Korea (Ensemble SORI / Seoul)
  • Minotaurus (2012) for speaker and ensemble, with the text of the same name by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , duration: ~ 75 ', WP 8 February 2013, Festival ECLAT, Theaterhaus Stuttgart (Nicola Gründel, Ensemble Modern, conductor: Clemens Heil), recording by SWR
  • Wordless Return (2013) eight scenes for ensemble, duration: ~ 23 ', premier November 23, 2013, Festival cresc., Staatstheater Darmstadt (Ensemble Modern, conductor: Brad Lubman), recording by hr
  • Fresco. Eine Refuge (2015) for orchestra, duration: ~ 17 ', premier January 10, 2016, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn ( Federal Youth Orchestra , conductor: Hermann Bäumer), recordings: RAI, BR0
  • Lichtung (2017) for orchestra, duration: ~ 16 ', WP January 19, 2018, Herkulessaal Munich (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Ilan Volkov ), recording by BR

Texts

  • 198 windows to an imagined world. Attempt on the elementary work of Mathias Spahlinger in his orchestral piece passage / paysage , book publication with CD, Pfau-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2005
  • Composition according to Rihm and Spahlinger , MusikTexte 110, 2006 and orientations , publication by the Institute for New Music and Music Education, Darmstadt, Volume 47, Schott-Verlag 2007
  • Art needs criticism , Neue Musikzeitung (nmz), December 2007
  • Rotten apple, wrong beard or philosophy as a disease to art ?, In Hören & Denk , Edition Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Schott-Verlag 2011
  • My writing as a gate , in touches , publication by the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt, Volume 52, Schott-Verlag 2012
  • I have no idea, but ...! , Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 3/2011, Schott-Verlag and Popular vs. elitist , Edition Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Schott-Verlag 2013
  • Redemption of Art , Contribution to the Conceptualism Debate, MusikTexte 145, 2015
  • Enduring time and shaking through time ... as the day goes by , melos online 01/2008, Schott-Music and MusikTexte 134, 2012, as well as excerpts in the program of the Witten Days for New Chamber Music 2007, WDR Cologne and in contemporary chamber music , Cloud Publishing House 2018
  • Memoirs - Recordings from a live sampler , via Heiner Goebbels, MusikTexte 156, 2018

Awards

literature

Web links

Audio samples

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b989d_3792db73999f4e09b2bbb4499f342e94.pdf
  2. ↑ https://texte.musiktexte.de/mt-156/206/aufzüge-eines-live-samplers
  3. ↑ https://www.hfmt-koeln.de/haben/lehrende/prof-markus-hechtle.html
  4. ↑ https://www.hfm-karlsruhe.de/hfm/03-Studium/dozentenverzeichnis/bios/hechtle_markus.html
  5. ↑ https://www.markushechtle.com/linie-mit-schraffur
  6. ↑ https://www.markushechtle.com/saetze-mit-pausen
  7. ↑ https://www.ensemble-modern.com/de/mediathek/texte/2001-05-01/fragebogen-markus-hechtle
  8. ↑ https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b989d_ea6665f6a0cb4e6faac4f1f4af4665e1.pdf
  9. ↑ https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b989d_62213c0dfb6041acaa56871c7f2bb47f.pdf
  10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krgz2h1EYUw
  11. ↑ https://texte.musiktexte.de/mt-110/203/verbindungen-nach-rihm-und-spahlinger , MusikTexte 110, August 2006, 5–10
  12. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX92s_CdWw4
  13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_rW2cwR72E
  14. ↑ https://texte.musiktexte.de/mt-110/203/verbindungen-nach-rihm-und-spahlinger , MusikTexte 110, August 2006, 5–10
personal data
SURNAME Hechtle, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music author and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe