Michael Radulescu

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Michael Radulescu (2014)

Michael Radulescu (* 1943 in Bucharest ) is a German-Austrian composer , organist and university professor of German-Romanian origin.

Life

Radulescu was born to a Romanian father and a German mother. He studied with Anton Heiller and Hans Swarowsky at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . Since 1959 he has given concerts as an organist in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. From 1968 to 2008 he taught as a professor at the Vienna University of Music .

As a composer he was influenced by, among others, Paul Hindemith , Anton Webern , Arnold Schönberg , György Ligeti and Olivier Messiaen . He works as an editor of old organ music and acts as a juror at international competitions. As an organist, among other things, he recorded the entire organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach .

In 2005 he received the Golden Merit Award of the State of Vienna . In October 2007 he received the award for music from the Austrian Ministry of Education and Art for his musical life's work.

Compositions

Instrumental music

organ

  • Five Pieces (1972)
  • Chorale Fantasy Since Jesus Stood on the Cross (1976)
  • Choral fantasy O man, weep for your sin great (1978)
  • Seven chorales for the Passion (1981/1982)
  • Ricercari (1984)
  • Epiphaniai (1988)
  • Resurrexit (2001)
  • Madrigali (2010)

Solo works for strings / wind instruments

  • Capricci for treble recorder (transverse flute) (1974)
  • Suonata for viola solo (1985)
  • Threnodia for cello solo (1984)

Chamber music

  • Sonata for recorder (flute) and harpsichord (1967–1971)
  • Melencolia Recercare for recorder (flute) and percussion (1982)
  • Trio I for violin, viola and violoncello (1969)
  • Trio II for violin, viola and violoncello (1971/1973)
  • Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1967)
  • Sextet for two violins, two violas and two violoncellos (1994/95)
  • Tenebrae for 14 solo strings (four violins, four violas, four cellos, two double basses) (2016)

Chamber ensemble

  • Epiphaniai. Music for organ, four clarinets, four trombones, two double basses and percussion (2 players) (1987/1988)
  • Tenebrae for 14 solo strings (four violins, four violas, four cellos, two double basses) (2016)

Orchestral works

  • Concerto for harpsichord and 8 solo instruments (1965)
  • Variations for large orchestra (1973)

Vocal music

Works for solo voice

  • In the middle of life ... [Media Vita] for alto solo; (WP May 9, 2004, Charleville-Mézières / F)
  • Sonetti Recitativo à 6, for six solo singers a cappella (1985)
  • A sacred concerto for ten solo voices and percussion (2 players) (1979)
  • Four Old Testament Prayers for Alto Voice and Organ (1979)
  • Ecce virgo. Sacred concert, version for soprano and organ (1982/1994/2001)
  • De Poeta. (The Wessobrunn Prayer) Version for soprano and organ (1988/1991/1998)
  • Versi for soprano and organ (1991/1998)
  • Veni. Music for soprano, flute and three percussion groups (1996)
  • Soliloquia. Monologues for voice and orchestra (2007)
  • Soliloquia. Monologues for voice with two hanging cymbals (2008)

Choral music

A cappella choir
  • German Mass in F for mixed choir (1976)
  • Three motets for upper choir (1971)
  • Rex coeli , for mixed choir (1980/1981)
  • … De Lumine… , for 8-part mixed choir a cappella (2013)
Choir with accompaniment
  • De poeta (The Wessobrunn Prayer) for four choirs and tubular bells (3 players) (1988)
  • German twelve-tone mass for double choir and percussion (1969)
  • Beati for upper voices double choir, four flutes and two harps (1993)
  • Ebla's Song of Praise for mixed choir and organ (1986)
  • Noun music for three mixed choirs, two flutes and tam-tam (1997)
  • En Arche (i) - Four Invocations, for choir and instruments (flute, clarinet, 2 bass clarinets, 3 trombones, 2 double basses, percussion) (2010)
Choir and orchestra
  • Ebla's Song of Praise for mixed choir and orchestra (1994)
  • Passion and death of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. EINE PASSION, for alto solo, bass solo, 2 mixed choirs, 4 flutes, 4 double basses, 4 trombones, 4 viols, 2 percussion groups (2002–2003)

Fonts

  • Bey a reverent Musiq. Steps to interpret Johann Sebastian Bach's sacred sound speech based on his passions and the B minor mass. In: Erwin Ortner , Wolfgang Sauseng , Andreas Peterl (eds.): Viennese contributions to the organ and church music. Volume 2. Institute for Organ, Organ Research and Church Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Vienna 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive report of the Vienna City Hall Correspondence from June 2, 2005 , accessed on June 1, 2012.
  2. ↑ Radulescu receives the 2007 award for music ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdw.ac.at
  3. ↑ https://www.tobias-broeker.de/rare-manuscripts/mr/radulescu-michael/
personal data
SURNAME Radulescu, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian composer and organist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest