Matthias Sannemüller
Matthias Sannemüller (born September 24, 1951 in Leipzig ) is a German violist .
Life
Sannemüller was born in 1951 in Leipzig as the son of concert master Horst Sannemüller and opera singer Philine Fischer . In his youth he learned the piano and violin from Klaus Hertel . From 1966 he attended the special school for music in Weimar . From 1969 to 1974 he studied violin with Dieter Hasch at the Liszt School of Music Weimar and viola with Dietmar Hallmann at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig . Until 1975 he was an aspirant there . In addition to his studies, he attended music seminars in Pécs , Brno and Weimar.
He got his first job in 1976 with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . A year later he was awarded a prize at the Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition . Since 1977 he has been principal violist in what is now the MDR Symphony Orchestra . From 1978 to 1992 he was a member of the Neue Musik Hanns Eisler group . Concert tours have taken him to Asia , Europe and the USA . Numerous world premieres were recorded on the radio with the Leipzig Consort . In 1983 he was appointed chamber musician and in 1988 chamber virtuoso . In 1988 he was appointed to the World Philharmonic Orchestra in Montreal. Four years later he founded the Sortisatio ensemble , which is dedicated to new music .
Sannemüller is a connoisseur of baroque music thanks to his membership in various chamber orchestras such as the Saxon Baroque Orchestra Leipzig and playing on the baroque scale . A CD recording of the Concerto for Viola in G major by Georg Philipp Telemann , a reproduction of the Concerti with Viola d'amore by Christoph Graupner , and the world's first recording of the reconstructed Viola Concerto in E flat major by Johann Sebastian Bach were made .
In 2006 he performed as a soloist in Latin America and South Korea .
Prizes and awards
As a member of the Neue Musik Hanns Eisler group, he received the following awards:
- 1980: Art Prize of the GDR
- 1986: Art Prize of the City of Leipzig
- 1988: Badge of honor of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR in gold
- 1989: Artist Prize of the Berlin Music Biennale
- 1991: Schneider Schott Music Prize Mainz
Discography
- 1996: New music for oboe ( Edel Classics )
- 1999: Thomas Buchholz : Eruption
- 1999: Thomas Müller : Kraino - I realize ( ConBrio Verlag )
- 2000: Viola da gamba concertata (Raumklang Records)
- 2006: Johannes Brahms : Choral Works (Edel Classics)
- 2010: Norbert Burgmüller : songs and chamber music ( Querstand )
- 2010: Thomas Buchholz: UNDEUTschLICHt - cycles for ensembles ( Kreuzberg Records )
The following CDs have been released with the Neue Musik Hanns Eisler group :
The following recordings were made with the Ensemble Sortisatio :
- 2003: Groupe Lacroix : 8 Pieces on Paul Klee ( Creative Works Records )
- 2004: Ensemble Sortisatio (cross stand)
- 2009: Jean-Luc Darbellay : A Portrait ( Claves Records )
Publications
As editor he published the following work:
- 2008: Karl Ottomar Treibmann : Tonspiele for viola ( Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag )
See also
literature
- Burkhard Glaetzner , Reiner Kontressowitz (eds.): New Music Group "Hanns Eisler" 1970–1990. Game horizons. Leipzig 1990, p. 54.
- Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-936618-86-0 , p. 288.
- Christoph Sramek (Ed.): The tones blinded me. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of the Dresden composer Jörg Herchet. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-930550-28-9 , p. 344.
Web links
- Works by and about Matthias Sannemüller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Matthias Sannemüller at Discogs (English)
- Biography of Matthias Sannemüller (PDF, 72 kB) at the Orchesterzentrum NRW
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cast list of the MDR Sinfonieorchester ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ↑ Ensemble Sortisatio Leipzig ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the contemporary music agency. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ↑ MDR chamber music ensembles. Sortisatio. Matthias Sannemüller and Axel Andrae in conversation ( memento of the original from August 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 7, 2011.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sannemüller, Matthias |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |