Michael Mautner

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Michael Josef Alexander Mautner (* 1959 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian composer , conductor and author .

Michael Mautner (2016)

Life

Michael Josef Alexander Mautner was born in Salzburg in 1959 and grew up in the Itzling district . After graduating from the Musisches Gymnasium Salzburg in 1978 , he studied composition with Gerhard Wimberger and conducting with Bernard Conz, Mladen Bašić and Michael Gielen at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg from 1979 to 1985 and musicology and philosophy from 1978 to 1984 at the University of Salzburg . During his student years he completed summer courses and master classes with Witold Lutosławski , Henri Duttilleux, and Hans Werner Henze, among others .

During his studies from 1980 to 1984 he was the musical director of the Elisabethbühne Salzburg (today: Schauspielhaus Salzburg ), where he published his first compositions for the theater. From 1986 to 1993 he worked as a freelance composer and conductor in Paris, including as a guest conductor with the Orchester Padesloup . Between 1987 and 1989 he worked for the Syracus Opera Company , NY, during several study visits .

From 1994 to 2005 he taught applied composition at the Mozarteum University . Since 2016 he has led the course Music and Related Arts - Project-Oriented Composition . Since 2002 he has been musical director at the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna, where he also works as a composer and music dramaturge. Since 2005 he has worked as an editor for scholarly and critical editions of musical theater works for the Hermann Wien publishing group .

He has been music curator at Galerie Konzett since 2014 , where he and Philipp Konzett designed the series KonzettKonzeptKonzert KKK (Art - Music and Practice in between). He is a member of the Austrian Association of Composers (ÖKB) and the International Society for New Music (IGNM). Michael Mautner writes libretti ( State Operetta - die Austrotragödie ), feature sections and book contributions for specialist literature. He lives and works in Vienna.

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Mautner composed orchestral music, vocal works, chamber music, with a special focus on stage works; He also created works for theater, film and TransArt projects (music in connection with the visual arts). In 1982 he was the first composition student at the Mozarteum to receive a composition commission for the opera class at the house ( Körner's morning after Friedrich Schiller ). In 1995 Michael Mautner started the multimedia music theater project COM.MEDIA based on Dante Alighieri . On October 19, 1996, the performance of Dantes' Fest in the gasometer that had not yet been converted took place , a simultaneous reading of Dante's Divine Comedy with music and video installations - read by 33 people and a soloist ( Tobias Moretti ). From 1997 to 2001 the parts Rasend im Standstill followed - Dante's Inferno , Pleasure and Pain at the same time - Dante's Purgatorio and When the waters close again - Dante's Paradiso . Dante's Inferno, adapted by Michael Mautner, was broadcast for the first time on TV in 2000 in the series " kunst-pieces " on ORF .

From 2001 to 2011 he created musical works for and with the artist and designer Franz West for exhibitions, films and room sound installations. In the summer of 2016, the stage version of the film Staatsoperette by Franz Novotny and Otto M. Zykan, created by Irene Suchy and himself, with its musical additions, was premiered with great success at the Bregenz Festival under the title Staatsoperette - die Austrotragödie .

style

Michael Mautner writes free tonal music, which contains both atonal sounds and traditional tonalities, whereby he designs the overall course according to dramaturgical principles ("Music is a form of communication, a narrative technique of the inner worlds."). The compositional basis of his autonomous musical works is a combination of twelve-tone technique or series technique and musique spectrale . Through permutations of the respective row, he opens up harmonic fields and shapes them according to spectral criteria (overtones of the sounds). For this he also uses microtonal elements, which he notates according to the ekmelic tone system (72 degrees within an octave).

He is working on a harmony theory of microtonality in order to open up new ways of music beyond the dominance of noise.

For his work in the field of applied music (film, theater, TransArt) Michael Mautner works in a broader style.

Awards (selection)

  • State grant for composition (1985)
  • Prix ​​du Center Acanthes (1982)
  • Silver Bear in the youth film / music category (for " Tunnel Child "), Berlin International Film Festival (1990)
  • Promotion Prize of the State of Salzburg (1994)
  • 1st prize at the composition competition of the City of Vienna / Austro Mechana for the Mozart year 1991 ( string quartet set )

Catalog of works (selection)

Works for music theater (selection)

  • 1996: Dante's Festival (simultaneous reading as a concert installation based on Dante Alighieri )
  • 1997: Racing at a standstill - Dante's Inferno (multimedia music theater based on Dante Alighieri )
  • 1999: Pleasure and pain at the same time - Dante's Purgatorio (multimedia music theater based on Dante Alighieri )
  • 2001: Before the waters close again - Dante's Paradiso (multimedia music theater based on Dante Alighieri )
  • 2001: Wests und Zobernig's doubts (Singspiel; concept: Franz West and Heimo Zobernig )
  • 2005: The Nose (Children's Opera)
  • 2015: Die Onion - Kurtoper (short opera based on Kurt Schwitters )
  • In preparation: Time of the Wolves - Die Gauneroper (Drama opera based on the Beggars Opera by John Gay )

Orchestral works (selection)

  • 1985: Concerto for piano, 2 pianists and (reduced) orchestra
  • 1992: United Colors
  • 1995: As if out of nowhere
  • 1993/94: cadences of wind and silence
  • 1995/96: Chamber symphony in the colors of the rainbow
  • 1998: Sub umbra alarum tuarum (Psalm 57)
  • 2004: The Minister for Women (Austrian version)

Vocal music (selection)

  • 1986: Cantos I-IV
  • 1989: versions
  • 2007: Intelletto d'amore
  • 2009: The questions had answers (text and concept: Franz West )
  • 2013: A la Nuit
  • 2015–17: Sing

Chamber music / ensemble pieces (selection)

  • 1983: dream game
  • 1987: String quartet movement on a motif by Gerhard Wimberger and a theme by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • 1990: 39.4
  • 1990: Les Voix d'Orphée I-III
  • 1992: Sinfonietta for octet
  • 1994: Counterparty - 18 Metamorphoses for violin and piano
  • 1995: Quasi una sonata profunda
  • 1997: Between the Lines
  • 2003: Levitazione
  • 2010: Finis amplius Africae

Music for theater (selection)

  • 1984/85: Faust - Part I and II (music for the tragedy in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )
  • 1988: Turandot (incidental music for Carlo Gozzi 's Chinese fairy tale)
  • 1992: Quartet (incidental music for the eponymous piece by Heiner Müller )
  • 1999: Operetta (incidental music for the play Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz )
  • 2002: Austrian Psycho (music for the stage version of Franzobel's crash novel )
  • 2004: Harmonie, a family idyll with choir singing in three acts (music for the play of the same name by Franz Molnár )
  • 2005: Above things (sound installation and stage music for the comedy by Martin Suter )

Music for film (selection)

  • 1987: Leon Labadie (soundtrack for the court-metrage of Ann Chakraverty)
  • 1989: Tunnelkind (soundtrack for the eponymous film Tunnelkind by Erhard Riedlsperger )
  • 1993: The Gray of Heaven (soundtrack for the film of the same name by Ralph Werner )
  • 1994: The Night of Nights (soundtrack for the film of the same name by Xaver Schwarzenberger )

literature

  • Michael Mautner: When the expected scandal happens. Die Presse, online: July 15, 2016, print edition: July 16, 2016, last accessed on May 18, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://chronik.bregenzerfestspiele.com/de/chronik?dp_search_year_nid=1424&cnid=1412&spos=7630
  2. ↑ https://www.akzent.at/home/spielplan/1035/Staatsoperette--Die-Austrotragdie
  3. ↑ When the expected scandal happens. In: DiePresse.com. July 15, 2016, accessed January 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mautner, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mautner, Michael Josef Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, author and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg