Michael Bastian White

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Michael Bastian White (2009)

Michael Bastian Weiß (born August 30, 1974 in Deggendorf ) is a German composer and philosopher .

Life

From 1995 he studied musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (Master's thesis on medieval author theory, 1999). He received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty in 2004 with a thesis on the emergence of philosophical aesthetics in the 18th century. At the same time he studied composition with Hans-Jürgen von Bose and received his artistic diploma in 2005 and his master class diploma in 2007.

As a composer, Weiss has written works for vocal and instrumental ensembles, including large and small orchestras, various chamber music ensembles and music theater. While he was still a student, his opera project Maybe I Was An Aztec , for which he wrote the libretto himself , received an award from the First International Opera Workshop in Rheinsberg Castle. This was followed by commissions for compositions from the Adevantgarde Festival, the Siemens Culture Foundation and the “Les muséiques” festival in Basel. He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and received the Deggendorfer Culture Prize as well as the music grant from the City of Munich. His debut CD with pieces for keyboard instruments was listed as one of the “Best Albums of the Year” by Zeit-Online in 2009. His works are published by the music publisher V. Nickel, Munich.

Since 2005, Weiß has been teaching philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he conducts courses on the theoretical and practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant and the philosophy of German idealism , on aesthetics and art philosophy as well as on the philosophy of modernity. In addition, since 2007 he has been teaching as a philosopher and composer in changing interdisciplinary constellations (including musicology, literary studies, and art and film history). Weiß works primarily on questions of aesthetics and German idealism, especially Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, and modern philosophy. He gave lectures in France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and Georgia, among others. In addition, he published lexicon articles and essays on philosophical as well as music and literary topics. In 2016 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the theoretical late philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte . From 2008 to 2011, Weiß was the scientific coordinator and lecturer of a humanities course within the Bavarian elite network . He has been an academic senior councilor since 2019 .

In addition, Weiß has been writing as a concert critic for the feature pages of the Landshuter Zeitung since 1995, as a CD reviewer for “Klassik heute” since 1998 and since 2014 for the Munich “ Abendzeitung ”. He also wrote for “Applaus”, the Neue Musikzeitung, “Rondo”, “amadeo” and for independent concert agencies. Since 2010 satires have appeared at irregular intervals in the satirical magazine "Titanic" (letters to readers, criticism of humor, from experts for connoisseurs).

Musical works (selection)

  • The appearance of the Spinozist god. Cantata for bass solo op.23 (2018)
  • String Quartet No. 1 "How do you do" op. 22 (2018/19)
  • Etudes on three tones that are only related to each other for piano solo op.21 (2017/18)
  • Sonata for violin solo op.20 (2017)
  • Man, this rare earth for brass quintet op.19 (2015, premiere at the ADevantgarde Festival)
  • Easy songs based on epigrams by Erich Kästner for voice and piano, harmonica and Chinese recitation plates op.18 (2014/17)
  • Minutes. Songs for high voice and piano op.17 (2012)
  • Clemens Krauss, eight chants for soprano based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, instrumentation for orchestra (2017/18, world premiere with Petra Lang, Paris 2018)
  • Five romantic songs for mezzo-soprano and piano op.16 (2011)
  • Sudelbuch based on texts by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg for mezzo-soprano solo op.15 (2011)
  • Sonata about darkness (Fragmenta Missarum pro Defunctis). CD, Neos 2009
  • Primal words, thaletic. For flute, piano, percussion and speaker op.14 (2008)
  • Sonata on the Dark. For harpsichord solo (Symphony No. 2) op.13 (2006)
  • Appearance of Jupiter. Study on music by Mozart and by Bose for orchestra op.12 (2005, alternative versions for cello and piano / violin and piano)
  • Maybe I was an Aztec. Opera (since 2002)
  • Pentatomy. For clarinet / bass clarinet, violoncello and piano op.11 (2004)
  • Malafrantzoss. Ensalada for mezzo-soprano and renaissance instruments op.10 (2003)
  • Ghost variations by Robert Schumann. Instrumentation for small orchestra with own meditations op.8 (2005)
  • Fragmentae missarum pro defunctis. For piano solo and large orchestra op.7 (2000/2001)
  • Petite Symphonie Parisienne. For flute, violin and celesta op.6 (1997/2002)
  • Niklas. Autopoietic entertainment and funeral music for solo cello and small orchestra op.3 (1997)
  • If namely the vine juice. Aria after Friedrich Hölderlin for septet op. 2 (1996-2000)

Texts

  • Maybe I was an Aztec . Libretto for his opera, in: Siegfried Mathus (Ed.), Operas of the 21st Century. Libretti, Rheinsberg 2004, pp. 31-46.
  • Life as life. Johann Gottlieb Fichte's late science teaching . Würzburg: Ergon (published in spring 2019).
  • Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak / Maxime Chédin / Michael Bastian Weiß (editors :): Fichte - Schelling: Lectures croisées / Gekreuzte Lektüren . Würzburg: Ergon 2010.
  • The author as an individual. The turn to the subject in aesthetics and art of the 18th century . Hildesheim: Olms 2007 (Europaea Memoriae).

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personal data
SURNAME White, Michael Bastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Deggendorf , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany