Klaus Martin Kopitz

Klaus Martin Kopitz (1995)

Klaus Martin Kopitz (born January 29, 1955 in Stendal ) is a German composer and musicologist . He became known in particular with his album Mia Brentano's Hidden Sea. 20 songs for 2 pianos . In the US , it made it onto the annual “Want List” of the classic magazine Fanfare in 2018 . The CD Mia Brentano's River of Memories followed in 2019 . A mystery trip . She was also on Fanfare's annual best list and was also awarded the German Record Critics' Prize .

composer

Kopitz grew up in Tangerhütte near Magdeburg , where he graduated from high school in 1973 . 1975-1980 studied at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin in the subjects composition , piano and musicology . From 1985 to 1987 he was a master student of Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Academy of Arts of the GDR and attended courses in the electronic studio of the academy founded by Georg Katzer . He then directed the drama music at Theater Neustrelitz . During this time he realized several film scores , including music for the last DEFA film The Visitor by the Israeli film director Dror Zahavi , as well as music for theater and radio play .

Under the pseudonym Mia Brentano , he published Mia Brentano's Hidden Sea in 2018 . Oliver Buslau attested to this music “a continually surprising panorama from classical to free tonal, from jazzy to minimalistic .” The American music critic Huntley Dent calls the album “unique among current and past releases” (unique among current and past releases).

The advanced follow-up project Mia Brentano's River of Memories , published in 2019, also received great recognition . Stylistically, it spans a range from jazz-inspired chamber music to electronic music and sound collages that incorporate elements of radio art and radio plays . Dave Saemann confessed in an extensive review: “This is the most moving new album I've heard in some time.” (This is the most moving new album I've heard for some time.) At the end he summed up: “Mia Brentano , if other composers would only listen and learn, probably is the future. "(Mia Brentano, if other composers would only listen and learn, the future is probably.)

Musicologist

From 1982 to 1984 Kopitz initially pursued private studies with the Swiss musicologist Harry Goldschmidt . In 2000 he received his doctorate in musicology under Helmut Loos and in 2002, together with Rainer Cadenbach, founded the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts , which was funded by the German Research Foundation. From 2006 to 2008 his Beethoven research was financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

In addition, he published the complete works of the composer Norbert Burgmüller for the first time , supported by the Working Group for Rhenish Music History , the Kunststiftung NRW and the Landschaftsverband Rheinland . The seven-volume edition was published by Verlag Dohr in the series Denkmäler Rheinischer Musik .

Since 2012 he has been working at the Saxon Academy of Sciences on the complete edition of Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence .

Awards

• 1978: Prize of the chamber music competition of the GDR Music Days, for moments. 13 changes for string quartet
• 1991: Hanns Eisler Prize of the German broadcaster Kultur , for The Silence of the Abandoned Room for 3 speakers ( Icelandic , Amharic and Yoruba ), vocal tones, guitar , noises and electronics (1990)
• 1991/92: Scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation
• 1992: Prize at the forum for young composers of the WDR Cologne , for the silence of abandoned space
• 2003: German Music Edition Award in the category “Scientific Sheet Music ”, for Norbert Burgmüller : Complete String Quartets (Verlag Dohr, Cologne, 2002)
• 2009: German Music Edition Award in the category “Scientific Sheet Music”, for Norbert Burgmüller: Complete Piano Works (Verlag Dohr, Cologne, 2008)
• 2019: Prize of the German Record Critics in the category "Grenzgangs", for Mia Brentano's River of Memories

Discography (selection)

• 1994 - Herbst-Musik for 2 guitars (1985/86); Klaus & Rainer Feldmann , guitar, on: Autumn music. Contemporary guitar music from Berlin composers - New Classical Adventure
• 1995 - moments. 13 changes for string quartet (1976/77); String quartet of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin ( Egon Morbitzer , 1st violin , Bernd Müller, 2nd violin, Alfred Lipka , viola , Karl-Heinz Schröter, violoncello ), on: Music in the GDR , Vol. 3, Instrumental Chamber Music - Berlin Classics
• 2018 - Mia Brentano's Hidden Sea - 20 Songs for 2 Pianos ; Benyamin Nuss & Max Nyberg (piano) and Asja Valčić (violoncello) - Mons Records
  • When it Rained , Christina's World , Early Birds , Miss Ada , Misty Morning , Along the River , Slapstick , A Silent Place , Children , My Huckleberry Friend , A Storm is Coming , Canajoharie , Wherever You Are , On the Train to Maine , Footprints , Mama Mia's Moonshine Bar , Remembering Stella , Summernight Tales , Wake up , 4 o'clock am
• 2019 - Mia Brentano's River of Memories - A Mystery Trip ; with Benyamin Nuss (piano), Andy Miles (clarinet), Johannes Ernst (saxophone), Hans Dekker (drums), Klaus Martin Kopitz (synthesizer) a. a. - Mons Records
  • Blue Moon , Under the Surface , Les Champs magnétiques , Floating , The Visitor , Wide Open Landscape , Silver Rain , The Silence of the Abandoned Space , Over the City of Glass , Angry Mia , Septemberland , Lily of the Valley , Ghosts (for Paul Auster ) , Dancing in Twilight , Brahms Is Sleeping

Fonts (selection)

Books

• The Düsseldorf composer Norbert Burgmüller . A life between Beethoven - Spohr - Mendelssohn , Cologne: Dohr, 1998, ISBN 978-3-936655-34-6
• Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz and Rainer Cadenbach with the assistance of Oliver Korte and Nancy Tanneberger, 2 volumes, Munich: Henle, 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2
• Nota Bene Norbert Burgmüller. Studies on a contemporary of Mendelssohn and Schumann , ed. by Tobias Koch and Klaus Martin Kopitz, Cologne: Dohr, 2009, ISBN 978-3-936655-61-2
• " I only believed in music ". Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter , Memories of Norbert Burgmüller , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz, book accompanying the exhibition for the 200th birthday of Norbert Burgmüller at the Heinrich Heine Institute , Cologne: Dohr, 2010, ISBN 978-3-936655-76-6
• Beethoven, Elisabeth Röckel and the album sheet “ Für Elise ” , Cologne: Dohr, 2010, ISBN 978-3-936655-87-2
• Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz, Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5
• Correspondence between Clara Schumann and correspondents in Berlin 1856 to 1896 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz, Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 18), Cologne: Dohr, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86846-055-1
• Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with Joseph Joachim and his family , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 2), Cologne: Dohr, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86846-013-1
• Justus Hermann Wetzel , letters and writings , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz and Nancy Tanneberger, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8260-7013-6

Essays

• Antonie Brentano in Vienna (1809-1812). New sources on the " Immortal Beloved " problem . In: Bonner Beethoven Studies , Volume 2 (2001), pp. 115–146, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• Who wrote the text for Beethoven's choral fantasy ? An unknown account of the premiere . In: Bonner Beethoven Studies , Volume 3 (2003), pp. 43–46, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• Beethoven's essence - thoughts on a “ borderline personality ” . In: The “male” and the “female” Beethoven. Report on the International Musicological Congress from October 31 to November 4, 2001 at the University of the Arts Berlin , ed. by Cornelia Bartsch , Beatrix Borchard and Rainer Cadenbach . Beethoven-Haus, Bonn 2003, pp. 137–162
• with Oliver Korte , "Written on his death-bed". A Beethoven autograph from the possession of Johann Andreas Stumpff . In: Music and Biography. Festschrift for Rainer Cadenbach , ed. by Cordula Heymann-Wentzel and Johannes Laas, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004, pp. 179–196 ( digitized version )
• Beethoven and the tsarist family. Known and unknown about the Academy of November 29, 1814 and the Polonaise op.89 . In: Bonner Beethoven Studies , Volume 5 (2006), pp. 143–149, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• Beethoven and his reviewers. A look behind the scenes of the Allgemeine Musical Zeitung . In: Beethoven and the Leipziger Musikverlag Breitkopf & Härtel , ed. by Nicole Kämpken and Michael Ladenburger, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 2007, pp. 149–167
• Beethoven as a Composer for the Orphica : A New Source for WoO 51 . In: The Beethoven Journal , Vol. 22, No. 1 (Summer 2007), pp. 25–30, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• An unknown request from Beethoven to Emperor Franz I. In: Bonner Beethoven Studies , Volume 6 (2007), pp. 101–113, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• Haydn's apartments in Vienna. Some comments and corrections . In: Die Tonkunst , Vol. 3, No. 3 from July 2009, pp. 324–328, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• Beethoven's childhood sweetheart Johanna von Honrath (1770–1823). A contribution to her biography . In: Bonner Beethoven Studies , Volume 9 (2011), pp. 155–158, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• Beethoven was appointed to the court of Jérôme Bonaparte in Kassel . A search for clues . In: Die Tonkunst , Vol. 5, No. 3 from July 2011, pp. 326–335, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• “The transfigured Haydn still shines before me” - a plea for a collection of all contemporary statements about the composer along with a small selection of unknown or so far only incompletely known sources . In: Almanach für Musik I (2011) , ed. by Christoph Dohr , Cologne: Dohr 2011, pp. 65–118
• The Beethoven portrait by Ferdinand Schimon . A portrait created for the Bonn Reading Society in 1815 ? In: Contributions to Beethoven's biography and creative process. Rainer Cadenbach in memory , ed. by Jürgen May, Bonn: Beethoven-Haus 2011, pp. 73–88, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• “You knew Mozart ?” Unknown and forgotten memories of Beethoven, Haydn , Hummel and other contemporaries of Mozart . In: Mozart Studies , Volume 20 (2011), ISBN 978-3-86296-025-5 , pp. 269-309
• with Torsten Oltrogge, a poet called Louis du Rieux and Schumann's fairy tale pictures op. 113. Approaches to a mysterious admirer of the composer . In: Thoughts. Journal of the Saxon Academy of Sciences , Issue 11, 2013, pp. 112–140, saw-leipzig.de (PDF)
• The early Viennese performances of Beethoven's chamber music in contemporary documents (1797–1828) . In: Friedrich Geiger , Martina Sichardt (ed.): Beethovens Kammermusik (= Das Beethoven-Handbuch , edited by Albrecht Riethmüller , Volume 3), Laaber 2014, pp. 165–211
• Christiane Apitzsch (1806–1838), Robert Schumann's lover “Charitas”. An identification . In: Thoughts. Journal of the Saxon Academy of Sciences , Issue 13, 2014, pp. 26–53, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• Beethoven's "Elise" Elisabeth Röckel . New aspects of the creation and transmission of the piano piece WoO 59 . In: Die Tonkunst , Vol. 9, No. 1 from January 2015, pp. 48–57, klaus-martin-kopitz.de (PDF)
• The Letter to the Immortal Beloved . Facts and fictions , in: The Beethoven Collection of the Berlin State Library . “This kiss to the whole world!” , Ed. by Friederike Heinze, Martina Rebmann and Nancy Tanneberger, Petersberg: Michael Imhof 2020, pp. 156–163

literature

• Gisela Nauck, thinking about John Cage . Klaus Martin Kopitz and Ellen Hünigen in conversation , in: Positions , Issue 2/1988, pp. 6–8
• Jacqueline Kharouf, Speaking Its Own Language: An Interview with Klaus Martin Kopitz on Mia Brentano's Hidden Sea , in: Fanfare , vol. 42, issue 1 (September / October 2018), pp. 84–90
• Jacqueline Kharouf, A Critical Distance: An Interview with Composer Klaus Martin Kopitz , in: Fanfare , vol. 43, issue 1 (September / October 2019), pp. 97-102
• Reinhard Lemelle, Mia Brentano. Between dream and reality , in: Rondo , issue 4/2019, p. 22 ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fanfare , vol. 42, issue 2 (November / December 2018), pp. 190f. and 205f. ( online )
2. ↑ Fanfare , vol. 43, issue 2 (November / December 2019), p. 150f. and 166
3. ^ Entry in the German National Library
4. ↑ Oliver Buslau , Kopitz 'other page , in: Rondo , No. 3/2018, p. 62 ( online )
5. ↑ Fanfare , vol. 42, issue 1 (September / October 2018), p. 89 ( online )
6. ↑ Fanfare , vol. 43, issue 1 (September / October 2019), p. 102f.
7. ↑ Best list 4th quarter 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Martin Kopitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Martin Kopitz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website of Klaus Martin Kopitz (with bibliography)
• Website by Mia Brentano
• Lexical contributions on the website "MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet"
• Klaus Martin Kopitz is Mia Brentano , WDR 3 TonArt, April 10, 2018