Martin Herchenröder

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Martin Herchenröder (born January 12, 1961 in Iserlohn ) is a German composer, organist and musicologist.

Life

Martin Herchenröder studied school music , church music , composition (D. Gostomsky), organ ( Ludger Lohmann and Wolfgang Stockmeier ) and composition ( Jürg Baur and Hans Werner Henze ) at the Cologne University of Music as well as musicology , German and pedagogy at the University of Cologne .

In 1992 he took on a position as a lecturer for composition at the Augsburg Conservatory before taking up the professorship for music theory at the University of Siegen two years later , where he is still active today. There he founded the Studio for New Music at the University of Siegen . At the same time, from 1992 to 2009, he worked as a lecturer for composition at the Cologne University of Music, where he gave major lessons and regularly led student projects.

Lectures, workshops and master classes took him to universities and music colleges in Germany and abroad, such as McGill University in Montreal, the University of Chicago , the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing, the New York University and the Juilliard School of Music in New York. In 1998 he was visiting professor for organ at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, in 2015/16 he was visiting professor for composition and organ at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Since 2008 he has been a visiting professor in the organ and composition departments of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York. Herchenröder also works as a concert organist. Regular concerts have taken him to many European countries, Canada and the USA. His duo partners are Paulo Alvares (piano), Friedrich Gauwerky (violoncello), Daniel Hees (drawings), Carin Levine (flute) and Markus Stockhausen (trumpet).

Works

Herchenröder's compositions are in the tradition of modern music. His early works show influences from the Second Viennese School , from Olivier Messiaen and György Ligeti . The combination of expressivity and structure also shows that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach has shaped it . Herchenröder's style can be described as process-dynamic (e.g. path ... stations), which also asserts itself in fragmentary structures (e.g. contacts). Tension arises from a change between gradual or eruptive development and sometimes sharp contrasts (e.g. period II: currents). The starting point of his work is a musical image, which afterwards looks for its musical structures (e.g. phoenix and dragon). His sources of inspiration are very diverse. So has z. B. Sound grid language Search its origins in literature, with poems by the poet Paul Celan. Herchenröder also found inspiration in the fine arts (series Paul-Klee-Blatt IV), theater (Shakespeare's Sturm in the composition The Tempest), philosophy (e.g. appearance), psychology (e.g. islands of the present ) as well as in the natural sciences (e.g. zeitraum I: ad fontes).

Catalog of works (selection)

Works for orchestra

  • 1990 Let it grow
  • 1994/95 way ... stations
  • 1997 Islands of the Present. Drei Moments musicaux for string orchestra
  • 2004 Landscapes - inside, outside. Concert for two guitars and orchestra

Works for ensemble

  • 1987 Tristan. Imaginary ballet scenes. For wind instruments, percussion and piano
  • 1987 Psalm 1987
  • 2013 power play. For eight violoncellos

Chamber music

  • 1989 Tongitter - voice search. For two guitars
  • 1990 Mosaic II. For flute and organ
  • 1992 The Tempest. Imaginary theater after William Shakespeare. For flute and guitar
  • 1993 plays about death. For violoncello and piano
  • 1995/96 contacts. For violoncello and piano
  • 2000 speaking tongues. For trumpet and organ
  • 2001/06 Poems and Variations. 1st string quartet
  • 2003 trio
  • 2007 Phoenix and Dragon. For saxophones and organ
  • 2015 Voyages d'hiver. For flute and string trio
  • 2018 Orion. For violoncello and organ
  • 2020 Rubaiyat. For flute and piano

Works for solo instruments

  • 1991 Paul-Klee-Blatt III: Lines from night light. For organ
  • 1991 Metamorphoses of an idyll. For piano
  • 1996 period I: ad fontes. three melodies. For organ
  • 2001/08 period II: currents. Pentecost pieces. For organ
  • 2003 winter night music. For violoncello
  • 2003/10 winter night music. For viola
  • 2003 Toccata. For organ
  • 2004 meteor. 2. Etude. For piano
  • 2007 Paul-Klee-Blatt IV: Rubble. 3rd Etude. For piano
  • 2008 Toccata and Lament. For organ
  • 2009 third attack. For flute
  • 2009 trees and stones. 4. Etude. For piano
  • 2011 Paul-Klee-Blatt V: Sea Lights. For organ
  • 2013 Three Shakespeare Songs. For guitar
  • 2013 microsleep. For flute
  • 2017 miniatures. For violoncello
  • 2017 Raindrop Toccata. For organ
  • 2017 Ophelia's Tears. For organ

Vocal music

  • 1988 chants based on texts by Paul Celan
  • 1988 songs based on Mörike poems
  • 1991 Fashionable Mozart miniature
  • 1991/92 Hölderlin fragments. For baritone and piano
  • 1991–93 Holderlin fragments. For baritone and string orchestra
  • 1999 in terra pax. Cantata for speaker, solos, choir and orchestra
  • 2005 way to Jerusalem. Cantata for mixed choir and chamber orchestra
  • 2005 bagatellodrama
  • 2011/12 publication. Cantata for two mixed choirs, solos and orchestra
  • 2017 God's silence (from deep need). Cantata for mixed choir, solos and orchestra
  • 2020 hymn of praise / calls. For 4-8-part mixed choir and organ

Fonts (selection)

Monographs and Editions

  • Structure and association. György Ligeti's organ works. Edition Lade, Schönau 1999.
  • Bengt Hambraeus: Organ Works 1977–2000. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2003.
  • University of Siegen - Studio for New Music - The posters. With a foreword (German / English). universi, Siegen 2013.
  • ROOM MUSIC. Edited by Ulrich Exner and Martin Herchenröder. Book and DVD. Schaff, Hamburg 2014.
  • Urban sounds. Stadtklang: Siegen - New York. Edited by Ulrich Exner and Martin Herchenröder. Book and DVD. universi, Siegen 2016.
  • Lost places. Edited by Ulrich Exner and Martin Herchenröder. Book and DVD. universi, Siegen 2018.
  • Hamlet. The Organ as Scrying Glass: Images from Shakespaere's Hamlet. The Davidsson Organ and dance Collaborative. Edited by Martin Herchenröder. Book and DVD. universi, Siegen 2020.

items

  • An oratorio in search of the original gospel. To Wolfgang Stockmeier's "Jesus". In: Musik und Kirche 5/1991, 250–260.
  • Composition according to Messiaen. In: Musik und Kirche 4/1993, 188–196.
  • “Sentieri musicali…” - some observations on the musical quotation in works by Jürg Baur. In: Mitteilungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Rheinische Musikgeschichte 85/1998, 22–32.
  • New organ music from Canada. In: Musik und Kirche 3/1999, 168–180.
  • New organ music after 1960. In: Rudolf Faber & Philip Hartmann (eds.): Handbuch Orgelmusik, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002, 663–706.
  • From Darmstadt to Stockholm: Tracing the Swedish contribution to the development of a new organ style. In: Kerala J. Snyder (Ed.): The Organ as a Mirror of Its Time, Oxford University Press, New York 2002, 303-321.
  • Schönberg, Bach, Miró and the Middle Ages. To Wolfgang Stockmeier's “Dancer listens to organ music in a Gothic cathedral”. In: Heinemann, Michael & Wissemann, Antje (ed.): "... near heaven". For Wolfgang Stockmeier: A book by friends and colleagues for his 75th birthday on December 13, 2006, Strube, Munich 2006, 15–29.
  • New organ music in the USA. In: Musik und Kirche 4/2009, 250–259.
  • The composer and the organ in the 21st century. In: Hermann J. Busch (Ed.): The organ between yesterday and tomorrow. Report on the 10th Colloquium of the Walcker Foundation for Organ Science Research 23. – 25. September 2003 in Siegen. Siegen 2011, 100–114.
  • With Hermann J. Busch: The German-speaking Lands. In: Christopher S. Anderson (Ed.): Twentieth-Century Organ Music. Routledge, New York 2012, 43-75.
  • With Hermann J. Busch: France. In: Christopher S. Anderson (Ed.): Twentieth-Century Organ Music. Routledge, New York 2012, 140-170.
  • Composing for Historically Informed Organs. In: Annette Richards (ed.): Keyboard Perpectives V: The Yearbook of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies 2012. The Westfield Center 2013, 135-146.
  • With Sibylle Schwantag: Integrated Organ Research. In: Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet-Hakim (Ed.): Orgues et Imaginaires. In memoriam Hermann J. Busch (1943–2010). Presses universitaires, Bordeaux 2015, 47–52.
  • The Rediscovery of the Organ by the 1960s Avant-Garde. In: Sverker Jullander (Ed.): ORGAN PROSPECTS AND RETROSPECTS. Texts and Music in Celebration of Organ Acusticum, Piteå, Sweden. Luleå 2016, 97–112.
  • Impositions. Organ music after 1962 - a provocation? In: On the subject: Provocation. Diagonal. Journal of the University of Siegen. Issue 39, V&R unipress, Göttingen 2018, 103–121.

literature

  • Martin Herchenröder. In: Finscher, Ludwig (Hrsg.): The music in past and present. Personnel part. Volume 8. 2nd revised edition, Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 2002, Sp. 1370.
  • martin herchenröder. dream walks. edition hell volume # 8. Catalog and CD. Stöckmann, Götz (Ed.), Universi, Siegen 2019.

Discography

  • Herchenröder, Martin (organ): Organ works. Johann Sebastian Bach, Jürg Baur, Girolamo Frescobaldi (1995), WDR / Koch Schwann 3-1846-2.
  • Davidsson, Hans; Herchenröder, Martin & Schmitt, Christian (organ): Martin Herchenröder. Lines of night light. Organ Works (2015), Neos 11504.
  • Gauwerky, Friedrich (violoncello) & Severin von Eckardstein (piano): Martin Herchenröder. Winter night music. Music for Violoncello and Piano (2018), Neos 11815.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c MGG Online. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Martin Herchenröder. In: Culture Handbook District Siegen-Wittgenstein. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Vita. In: University of Siegen. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  4. ^ Faculty. In: Organ, Sacred Music, and Historical Keyboards. Retrieved July 21, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Herchenröder, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, organist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn