Michael Bach (musician)

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Michael Bach (born April 17, 1958 in Worms ) is a German cellist , composer and visual artist . He also gained fame with his development of various models of a round arch for string instruments. As an author he publishes under the name Michael Bach Bachtischa .

Michael Bach on the cello with the round arch he designed

Life

Musician and composer

Michael Bach studied cello with Gerhard Mantel , Boris Pergamenschikow , Pierre Fournier and János Starker .

The cellist has performed in solo concerts around the world, including the Donaueschinger Musiktage , the Musica Strasbourg Festival, the Akiyoshidai Festival in Japan, the Carnegie Hall New York, Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Alte Oper Frankfurt / Main. He made significant contributions to the art of contemporary cello playing. His book publication Fingerboards & Overtones (1991) develops ideas regarding the overtone and polyphonic playing on the cello.

Michael Bach has also appeared as a composer since 1994 ( see below ). He describes his works as "free of compositional conventions". Apart from the pitch, they usually do not contain any time information. An exception are his live electronic conceptions, which often require a strict timeline ( NURHAUFFÜGUR , tubular pieces ).

Michael Bach's cellistic and compositional work has been awarded the Gaudeamus Amsterdam, Kranichstein Darmstadt, Record Academy Prize Japan, Millennium Prize Würzburg prizes.

BACH. Bow

A BACH bow

From 1990 onwards, Bach developed the BACH.Bogen named after himself, a round bow for string instruments, which, thanks to its high arch and a mechanism for relaxing the bow hair, allows more than two strings to be played at the same time , so that full-tone, sustained chords are possible. In addition to a round arch for cello , models for violin , viola and double bass were also created . The BACH sheet was presented in Paris in 2001, at the invitation of Mstislaw Rostropovich , who had accompanied this new development from 1997 to 2001.

By 2015 Michael Bach had constructed a total of more than 50 prototypes of the BACH arch in 25 years of development work, which led to arch models with various shapes of the arch. The arches were continuously optimized in detail. For example, in the newer models , the movable frog is not only operated by the thumb, like the metal lever on the first model of the BACH.Bogen, but also held on the opposite side by the middle finger and ring finger, which allows significantly better control.

John Cage , Dieter Schnebel , Walter Zimmermann and Hans Zender composed for the round arch in collaboration with Michael Bach.

In 2012 the BACH.Bogen received the 1st prize of the exhibition project "BACHLÄUFE - Johann Sebastian Bach's Traces in Modernism" in Arnstadt.

Fine arts and visual-acoustic projects

Exhibition of fingerboards in Trier 2012

In cooperation with the visual artist Renate Hoffleit , he has realized string installations and sound installations in public spaces, which are often performed with specially written compositions and performances. Your projects (between e and f) ² in Stuttgart and IM KLANGSTROM in Ulm were supported by the Innovation Fund Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg. The project Schloss Kapfenburg strung ... was listed in the Guinness Book of Records in 2000 .

Michael Bach's visual works include fingerboards , photo collages, drawings and sculptures. They are shown at international exhibitions. The special postage stamp for “75 Years of the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany 1996” uses the visual-acoustic work 18-7-92, Aufzüge zu Ryoanji (1992).

Lately, experimental video productions have been made, which have been shown in the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (“videocello”) and in the Chagall Museum in Nice.

Compositions

  • Untitled (1992) for cello and playback tapes, premiere of the Donaueschinger Musiktage 1994
  • Notation 2 for 15 STRINGS and 5 Players (1992), WP Donaueschinger Musiktage 1994
  • 55 Sounds (1995) for cello, WP Schloss Monrepos , Ludwigsburg 1995
  • 50 Sounds for Accordion, WP ZKM Karlsruhe 2010
  • + Murbach for cello, SWR Printemps Rhénan 2000
  • AEGC for Microtonal Piano, UA International Music Academy Schloss Kapfenburg 2000
  • Karpfens'bug for String Players and Singers, UA International Music Academy Schloss Kapfenburg 2000
  • Karpfens'teich for wind instruments, UA International Music Academy Schloss Kapfenburg 2000
  • 57 Sounds for Organ, WPR Rheinischer Frühling 2001
  • Notation for Chamber Orchestra , UA SWR Rheinischer Frühling 2001
  • NURHAUFFÜGUR 1-7 for Cello and Live-electronics, WP Donaueschinger Musiktage 2000
  • 5 Pitches, 13 Notes (2005) for Cello, UA MANCA Festival, Nice, France 2005
  • 18-7-92 (1992/2004) for Cello and pre-recorded Media, UA Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008
  • namen.los for Clarinet, premier meeting point Rotebühl, Stuttgart 2008
  • ONE13 for Cello and pre-recorded Media (co-author: John Cage), UA Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008
  • versbruch - a fingerboard for Kirchner (2010) for cello, UA Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen 2010
  • locus amoenus (2014) for cello with round arch, WP Domnick Collection, Nürtingen 2014
  • Vierumuns (2015) for four voices, WP (EXVOCO) Stuttgart City Library 2015
  • 273 "for Dieter Schnebel (2018) for cello with round arch, premiere at the Stuttgart Art District, 2018

World premieres

  • 1986 First performance of the SOLO (1965) by Karlheinz Stockhausen with digital delay machines. Michael Bach, cello and the experimental studio of the SWF, directed by Hans-Peter Haller, in Freiburg (SWF).
  • 1986 First performance of the sonata in E flat major , opus 64 by Ludwig van Beethoven with Bernhard Wambach in Karlsruhe.
  • 1987 First performance of the cadences (1913) by Arnold Schoenberg for the cello concerto in G minor by Matthias Georg Monn with the orchestra of the Beethovenhalle of the city of Bonn under Georg Schmöhe.
  • 1991 World premiere of ONE8 and 108 for cello with round arch and large orchestra (1991) dedicated by John Cage , Michael Bach and the SDR Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Stuttgart (without conductor).
  • In 1992 the first performance of the composition " Mit These Hands" (1992) by Dieter Schnebel , dedicated to Michael Bach, together with William Pearson at the "Heinrich Böll Week" in Cologne.
  • 1993 World premiere of ONE13 (1992) for cello with arched arch and three loudspeaker feeds , composition by John Cage and Michael Bach Bachtischa, at the Musica Festival in Strasbourg.
  • 1998 First performance of TIERKREIS by Karlheinz Stockhausen in the version by Michael Bach Bachtischa for cello with round arch in Bayreuth.
  • 2004 First performance of the previously unknown, four-part Capriccio 1828 for solo violin by Niccolò Paganini in the arrangement for cello with round arch by Michael Bach Bachtischa in Worms.
  • 2008 World premiere of the new version of ONE13 (1992/2006) for cello with round arch, composition by John Cage and Michael Bach Bachtischa, in San Francisco and Stuttgart.
  • 2010 World premiere of his own composition - a fingerboard for Kirchner for cello with a round arch in the Galerie Stihl Waiblingen.
  • 2014 premiere of his own composition locus amoenus for cello with round arch, Domnick Collection, Nürtingen.
  • 2015 World premiere of his own composition vierumuns for four voices, EXVOCO Stuttgart, Stuttgart City Library.
  • 2018 World premiere of his own composition 273 "for Dieter Schnebel for cello with round arch, Stuttgart Art District.

Publications

  • Fingerboards & Overtones, Pictures, Basics and Designs of a New Cello Game . edition spangenberg, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-89409-063-4
  • The BACH arch . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Mainz 5/1996
  • The suites for violoncello by Johann Sebastian Bach . In: Das Orchester , Mainz 7–8 / 1997
  • New timbres and nuances in the game . In: Neue Musikzeitung , Regensburg 5/1997

Blogs

In the two blogs the bach update and the cello upgrade , Michael Bach documents and analyzes projects and aspects of contemporary music as well as new insights into the solo works for violin and cello by Johann Sebastian Bach .

literature

  • Rudolf Gähler : The round arch for the violin - a phantom? ConBrio-Fachbuch, Volume 5. ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-930079-58-5
  • Joan Retallack (Ed.): MUSICAGE . Wesleyan University Press, Hanover 1996, ISBN 0-8195-5285-2 , pp. 246-290, 296
  • Nicolas Slonimsky, Laura Kuhn (Eds.): Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . Centennial Edition, Vol. 1. New York 2001, pp. 173/174
  • Jeremy Barlow: The Bach Bow . In: Early music today . London 2003
  • Lexicon of the violin . Laaber-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-89007-544-0

Radio and TV

radio

  • 1998, SWR2: portrait broadcast, moderation: Sabine Fallenstein (60 min.)
  • 2000, SWR2: Broadcast on the BACH.Bogen, moderation: Sabine Fallenstein (10 min.)
  • 2007, Sveriges Radio: Interview about the BACH.Bogen, moderation: Andreas Lindahl (20 min.)
  • 2016, SWR2: portrait broadcast, meeting point Klassik extra on December 31, 2016 (90 min.)

watch TV

  • 1990, TV Asahi: Daimei no Nai Ongakukai ( 題名 の な い 音 楽 会 ). Michael Bach with the Tokyo City Philharmonic conducted by Naozumi Yamamoto, Shibuya Public Hall, Tokyo
  • 1994, SWR television: concert on October 14, 1994 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The compulsion to freedom . In: Die Zeit , No. 50/1991. "The value of this pioneering work for composers and interpreters cannot be overestimated."
  2. ↑ Nicolas Slonimsky, Laura Kuhn (Ed.): Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . Centennial Edition, Vol. 1. New York 2001, pp. 173/174
  3. ↑ a b Presentation of the BACH bow in Paris (2001) cello.org (English)
  4. ↑ Demonstration of various models of the BACH.Bogen Video on YouTube (9:11 min.), First part of the series Introduction to round arches for string instruments by Michael Bach; here 2:25 to 7:25.
  5. ↑ BACH.Bogen: Compositions ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2018 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. bach-bogen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bach-bogen.de
  6. ↑ Michael Bach wins the Thuringian General Bach Run Prize , December 3, 2012
  7. ↑ Impulses for the music school life in the nmz region , edition 11/2002.
  8. ↑ Special postage stamp “75 Years of the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany” (1996) ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. michael-bach-bachtischa.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michael-bach-bachtischa.de
personal data
SURNAME Bach, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bach Bachtischa, Michael (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist, composer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms