Michael Reudenbach

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Michael Reudenbach (born September 13, 1956 in Aachen ) is a German composer . He appears as an interpreter of old and new music .

Live and act

After training as a church musician from 1976 to 1982, Reudenbach studied composition from 1986 with Joachim Blume in Cologne and Denis Cohen in Paris. In 1984 he took part in interpretation courses given by Philippe Herreweghe. In 1990/1991 he attended composition courses from Helmut Lachenmann and Mathias Spahlinger.

He taught music theory, analysis and ear training at the Church Music Academy in Aachen (1982–1999) and at the HfM Karlsruhe (1999–2016), composition at the Stuttgart Solitude Summer Academy (2005), at the Darmstadt Summer Courses (2006) and at the Dresden and Music Universities Stuttgart (substitute professorships between 2012 and 2015). Since the winter semester of 2016 he has been Professor of Composition / Music Theory at the HfMDK Frankfurt am Main.

Michael Reudenbach has received prizes and grants from the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR, among others .

Works

  • mirlitonnades pour petite flûte (1991)
  • Choral for voice and 5 instruments (1991)
  • Scenes, still images for 4 instruments (1992, 1993–1995)
  • duo pianism for 2 pianos (1993)
  • ... quotes, touches ... for bass clarinet, harp, double bass, drums and playback CD (1993, revised 2000)
  • Then for string quintet (1994)
  • Not yet - no longer for voices and playback CD (1997, revised 2014)
  • Counter singing for ensemble (1997)
  • Fond III for bass flute (also radio), cello and piano (1998)
  • (Bruch) piece (s) for 6 instruments (1999)
  • Reprint for 5 speakers, 41 instrumentalists and playback (2000–2001)
  • coming - overrides for 5 votes (2001)
  • Editing & continuation for flute, harp, guitar, piano and timpani (2003)
  • and but. Music for string quartet (2004)
  • Madrigal for ensemble (2005/2006)
  • Piece = work for 7 instruments (2006- ...)
  • Trio. Study for piano, violin and violoncello (2007)
  • ahto. Music for 8 instruments (2008)
  • Stratton for ensemble (2008/2009)
  • Trio 3 for basset horn, bass clarinet and piano (2009)
  • Still for five instruments (2012/13)
  • white radiation - light sound scans for robots, objects and 16 strings (2013-2014) - in collaboration with Joachim Fleischer (robot choreography and light)
  • 5 room studies for voices (2015-2016)
  • Untitled fragments for 2 x 3 instruments (2016)
  • Hossdorf's laboratory - 5 model experiments for ensemble in a 360 ° concert room (2016–2017)

Fonts (selection)

  • Loud and quiet (M. Reudenbach in conversation with Yvonne Charl). In: Unheard of - Concrete and Visual Poetry. Aachen 1999, pp. 129-131.
  • Toccatina. A memory. In: on (-) and listening, 14 essayistic reflections on the music and the person of Helmut Lachenmann. Hofheim 2005, pp. 55-65.
  • Memory images. In: Music cultures - Darmstädter discourses 2. Saarbrücken 2008, pp. 167–171.
  • From turning back. In: KunstMusik - Writings on music as art. Issue 13. Cologne 2010, pp. 37–45.
  • Free the future from the past? Free the past from the future? Thoughts on Mathias Spahlinger's “adieu m'amour - hommage à guillaume dufay”. In: Rückspiegel - contemporary composing in dialogue with older music. Mainz 2010, pp. 26–34.
  • Impulse and correction - observations on Im Nebel IV by Leoš Janáček (together with Kerstin Lücker). In: Leoš Janáček. Music Concepts Volume 7, 2nd expanded edition. Munich 2015. pp. 103–123.
  • white radiation. LichtKlang-Sampling - workshop text about a joint effort. In: MusikTexte. Issue 151. Cologne 2016, pp. 55–59.

literature

  • Stefan Fricke: Pieces to pieces. Some snippets from M. Reudenbach's (Bruch) piece (s). In: positions . 45, 2000, pp. 39-40.
  • Manfred Karallus: breakage, demolition, impression, scenes, stills ... On the musical work of M. Reudenbach. In: MusikTexte. 99, 2003, pp. 5-10.
  • Marion Saxer: Persevering in the paradox - Michael Reudenbach's “and but. Music for string quartet ”. In: New magazine for music. 2/2006, pp. 22-25.
  • Raoul Mörchen: Michael Reudenbach. In: Music in the past and present. Supplement. Kassel, Basel, London, New York, Prague 2008.
  • Raoul Mörchen: That it stays. The music of Michael Reudenbach. Text accompanying: edition-rz 10021-22 (see "CD recordings"), 2013.
  • Christian Kemper: Music in the subjunctive. In: Music & Aesthetics . Issue 68. Stuttgart 2013. pp. 118–123.
  • Markus Roth: Michael Reudenbach. In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Munich 2014.
  • Marion Saxer: Writing longing - letters to Emma Hauck's husband in compositions by Caspar Johannes Walter, Cornelius Schwehr, Jay Schwartz and Michael Reudenbach. In: unseen and unheard - artists react to the Prinzhorn Collection. Volume 2. Heidelberg: Collection Prinzhorn / Wunderhorn 2015. P. – 179.
  • Torsten Möller: Openness, open questions - the composer Michael Reudenbach. In: MusikTexte. Issue 151. Cologne 2016, pp. 51–54.

CD recordings

  • scenes, stills. works 1991 - 2009 , edition-rz 10021-22 (2 CDs), 2013.
  • Instrumental chamber music: play - criticism - parody. Music in Germany 1950–2000. German Music Council, RCA Red Seal / Sony BMG Music 74321 73595 2, 2007.
  • Darmstadt Aural Documents. Box 3 ensembles . NEOS 11230, 2016.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Reudenbach, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and continuo player
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen