Mia Schmidt

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Mia Schmidt (born January 5, 1952 in Dresden ) is a German composer .

Life

She received lessons in piano, organ and music theory. After graduating from high school, she first studied pedagogy, psychology and sociology at the LMU Munich , then moved to the University of Applied Sciences for Social Sciences and graduated in 1977 with a degree in social education. This was followed by studying musicology and empirical cultural studies at the University of Tübingen with a master's degree in 1986. She then undertook composition studies with Milko Kelemen in Stuttgart and with Brian Ferneyhough , Klaus Huber and Mesias Maiguashca (electronic music) at the University of Music Freiburg and graduated in composition in 1989. During her studies and afterwards she worked in the social pedagogical field, at music schools and had a teaching position at the music college. In 1988 their daughter was born.

Mia Schmidt has been married to the composer Wolfgang Motz since 2006. She is u. a. Member of the woman and music working group (1987/1988 also on the board), GEDOK Freiburg, advisory board for music, IFK , GNM .

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Influenced by attending the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music , she became interested in composing with spectra , initially in the spectra of spoken language; then for selected spectra that can be derived from the intervals . These are used chordally and as modes . She refers quarter tones and timbre a varied tones in the composition. Her interest in questions of feminism permeates her work as well as questions of aesthetics or psychology.

Opera takes up an important part of her compositional work with the operatic trilogy "Todesarten" based on novels and fragments by Ingeborg Bachmann . “Requiem for Fanny Goldmann” and “Der Fall Franza” were performed in Graz. Mia Schmidt has also composed for amateurs time and again, and two works for musical theater were also created for children, “The Enchanted Magician” and “Pezzettino”, a story in music. Children can participate in both works.

In addition to music theater, her oeuvre includes chamber music, orchestral music, electronic works, sound installations and film music.

Awards and grants

  • Forum of Young Composers, Cologne 1985
  • VIII. GEDOK International Composition Competition, Mannheim 1985
  • Premio Europa, Rome 1985, 1st prize in the chamber music category
  • Award for the music protocol of the Styrian autumn, Graz 1986
  • IRINO - Prize for Chamber Music, Tokyo 1987, 1st Prize
  • Forum of Young Composers, Cologne 1992
  • First international composition competition of the Swiss Women's Music Forum, Bern 1992, 2nd prize
  • Johann Joseph Fux Music Prize of the State of Styria, 1998, 1st prize;
  • Johann Josef Fux Opera Composition Competition of the Province of Styria, 2000, 2nd prize
  • GEDOK Freiburg project award, 2015
  • Rosenberg Foundation, 1985
  • Heinrich Strobel Foundation of Südwestrundfunk 1995, 1999 and 2001
  • Johann Joseph Fux Composition Grant 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003

Works

stage
  • Pezzettino - A story with music for children of all ages , based on the story of the same name by Leo Lionni , 2010
  • The enchanted magician - based on the children's book “Such a long nose” by Lukas Hartmann , 2009
  • Malina - based on the novel of the same name by Ingeborg Bachmann
  • The Franza case - based on a fragment of a novel by Ingeborg Bachmann, 2000/2004
First performance at the Kunst-Uni Graz 2004,
  • Requiem for Fanny Goldmann - based on a fragment of a novel by Ingeborg Bachmann, 1998
World premiere at the Kunst-Uni Graz,
Orchestra, ensemble
  • Harmony multi-sound cluster improvisation concept with free and fixed parts, for 2 (amateur) wind orchestras and an ensemble of contemporary music 2008/2009
  • Coming from the Light Concerto for harp and orchestra, 2006/2008
  • Traumsequenz - for ensemble, 2001
  • Evening serenade - for small orchestra, solo double bass and tabla / baya , 1991
Choir / vocal ensemble
Chamber music
  • Clori for soprano and bassoon, 2017
  • Melancholie Blütenpracht 2 pieces for oboe and piano, 2012/2014
  • Oh how fleeting for organ and percussion ( vibraphone , singing bowls on drum), 2013
  • Sternenstaub for microintervallic trumpet (19-tone trumpet) and percussion, 2010/11
  • Lettres for string trio, 2003/2012
  • Dawn for oboe and piano, 2006, for oboe and violoncello, 2007
  • Farewell I and II for wind quintet and 2 metal plates, 1994/95
  • 5 pieces for wind quintet and double bass, 1992
  • Vollmond for alto, flute (sol / piccolo) and bassoon, based on a poem by Else Lasker-Schüler , 1986
  • Mondwein for string quartet, 1985
  • End of the year for mezzo-soprano, alto, flute, violin, violoncello and piano, based on a poem by Sarah Kirsch , 1984/85
Solo works
  • Allegretto allegato for piano (lightly prepared), 2018
  • JacoRanas for marimbafon , 2018
  • Lament and Answer for Euphonium , 2017
  • For Fanny for piano and tape , 1990/2016
  • alien for bassoon, 2013
  • A deux mains for piano, 2000/2013
  • Fantasia I and II for harp, 2003
  • Red poppy for solo trombone, 1983/84
Works for or with electronics
  • Aï∂a ∂omi for tape, based on a poem by Sappho , 1995
  • a rose is a rose for tape 1988
Sound installations
  • Lampe Hören sound concept (sound band and improvisation) for an interdisciplinary GEDOK project , 2015
  • Notte – Alba Quadrophone sound installation together with Wolfgang Motz, 2015
  • Die Jahreszeiten Quadrophone sound installation together with Wolfgang Motz, 2012

literature

  • Beinhorn, Gabriele, Farben - Töne - Feminismus, Die Freiburg composer Mia Schmidt, in: Music in Baden-Württemberg, GMG Baden-Württemberg Yearbook 2017/18, Stuttgart 2018, p. 405
  • Ross Griffel, Margaret, Operas in German, A Dictionary, Revised edition, 2018, p. 392
  • Klose, Ester, piece by piece, Pezzettino takes children of all ages on an exciting search for identity, in Vivavoce 91, Frankfurt 2011, p. 26
  • Schmidt, Mia, My feminist interest pervades my compositions, in approximation III to seven female composers, edited by Sonntag, Brunhilde and Matthei, Renate, Kassel 1987, p. 25
  • von Massow, Albrecht , The Process of Modernity, in Musical Subject, Freiburg 2001, p. 509
  • Schmidt, Mia, Sappho in percent, On the statistical representation of women in new music, in Musiktexte 3, 1986, p. 23
  • Schmidt, Mia, don't know what to do ... In search of a "female aesthetic", in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1994/4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicola Panzer, The Enchanted Wizard
  2. ↑ mehrklang Freiburg, Festival for New Musicians Mediation 2011
  3. ↑ Helke Sander, The Germans and their men . Retrieved January 4, 2019
  4. ↑ a b Art University of Graz
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Mia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden