Martin Mumelter

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Martin Mumelter (born May 12, 1948 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian violinist and author living in Germany . He comes from a family with roots in Tyrol and Italy.

Life

Mumelter studied violin in Innsbruck and Philadelphia , began his international concert career during his studies and after a decade had made over 200 productions for European broadcasters. From youth to Mumelter especially interested in Modern Music and the classical, his LP recordings include the violin concertos of Arnold Schoenberg , Alban Berg , BA Zimmermann , Alfred Schnittke and numerous works that Mumelter were devoted, including the violin concertos by Erich Urbanner Richard Dünser and (2018) Adriana Hölszky . The most important chamber music productions include the complete recording of the violin sonatas by Charles Ives (with the pianist Herbert Henck ), works by Béla Bartók , Charles Ives (piano trio), John Cage and many Austrian composers.

He has performed with a number of important orchestras, including a. the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Staatskapelle Berlin , the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and has been heard at festivals such as the Bregenz Festival , the Sagra musicale umbra, the Easter Festival Hall in Tirol, the Festival for Early Music in Innsbruck. A special focus is the participation in festivals and concert series of the modern age, including "musica viva" in Munich and the Biennale Berlin (today Maerzmusik ), where he was awarded the Critics' Prize.

In 1971 Mumelter took over a violin class at the Conservatory in Innsbruck as the successor to the US violin star Guila Bustabo , which he supervised until 1975 in addition to his concert activities and the direction of the symphony orchestra of this school. In the touring programs of his ensemble “Mumelter's Concertodrom” he juxtaposed improvised and composed music of the most varied of styles. This ensemble included specialists in early music as well as the prominent jazz musicians Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl . The Concertodrome was one of the first forms of event that systematically and with great success, especially among young people, crossed the boundaries between “underground” and “serious music” and between composition and improvisation. For many years Mumelter ran his own series of lecture concerts and chamber music in his hometown of Innsbruck. In 1981 Mumelter was first appointed as a visiting professor, then in 1985 as a full professor for violin at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg , where, in addition to his violin class, from 2006 to 2015 he also headed the Institute for New Music he designed. Mumelter currently lives near Munich.

As an author, Martin Mumelter published prose texts and radio plays at an early age, and Otto Grünmandl initially supported him in making them for Austrian and Swiss broadcasters . Initially, the works were published under the pseudonym Martin Sarba in order to draw a line between musical activities and to avoid confusion with authors of the same name, with whom Mumelter is not related. Later Mumelter also published non-fiction books with a philosophical-cultural-critical content: “Playing for life. From dealing with music ”(1994),“ Proust for President! Does artistic thinking save us? ”(2004) and the didactic work“ Standard Questions in Violin Lessons ”(2009). In 2015 his first novel "Spiegelfuge" was published, in 2017 the novel "Die Arien des Commissario Scalzi" was further developed from the drafts of his second wife, the opera singer Magdalena Pattis, who died in 2007. Mumelter has 4 children and has been married again since 2015.

Recognitions

  • 1971: Laureate of the Gaudeamus competition for the interpretation of new music in Rotterdam
  • 1979: Critics' Prize at the Berlin Music Biennale
  • 1985: Emil Berlanda Prize

literature

Web links

Website Martin Mumelter


personal data
SURNAME Mumelter, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck