Michael Popp (musician)
Michael Popp is a German musician and composer. He is known in various band formations as a specialist in medieval musical instruments ( oud , fiddle , saz , tambour , shawm and others).
Life
Michael Popp received his first musical training as a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen and then studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg .
As a theater musician, he composed stage works such as Die Ahnfrau , Queentett and Richard III for various companies . , and was responsible for the musical conception of the staged performance of Ordo Virtutum ( Hildegard von Bingen ). He also worked as a stage musician in productions by Minne, Minne, Minne (Marstalltheater / Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel), Parzifal (Od-Theater, Basel), Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (Vienna Burgtheater) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Residenztheater Munich).
In 1985 he founded the Ensemble Estampie together with Sigrid Hausen and Ernst Schwindl . In 1991, together with Ernst Horn , he founded the medieval band Qntal and at the same time played as a live musician with Horn's dark wave band Deine Lakaien . In 2001 Popp got out of Deine Lakaien and continued to run Qntal together with Sigrid Hausen and the new band member Fil Groth.
From 2000 Popp became more and more concerned with the connection between medieval music and different traditional music styles. This led to the Marco Polo Project, which premiered in 2006 as part of the Masala Festival in Hanover, with Mongolian, Persian and Indian musicians, of which a live DVD was also produced.
Shortly thereafter, Popp founded the Al Andaluz Project as a cooperation between Estampie and the two Spanish groups L'Ham de Foc and Aman, Aman. This formation has recorded three CDs and is still active. In 2012 she received the German RUTH World Music Prize in Rudolstadt .
In 2009 Popp discovered a new field of activity. He happened upon the work of the earliest female composer, Kassia , whose hymns and chants from the 9th century he recorded with the newly founded ensemble VocaMe . A CD with works by Hildegard von Bingen with the same ensemble followed in 2012 and an album with songs by Christine de Pizan in 2015.
Recently he has turned back to his Ensemble Estampie. A CD with old Scandinavian music was released in early 2013.
Web links
- Works by and about Michael Popp in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Popp at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Popp, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |