Michael Schneider (composer)

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Michael Schneider (born September 6, 1964 in Göttingen ) is a Swiss composer and musicologist . Among other things, he works as a music journalist , cultural journalist and manager .

Life

Michael Schneider was born in Göttingen in 1964 and received piano and harpsichord lessons at an early age. He passed his Matura at the Alte Kantonsschule Aarau , where the composer János Tamás also taught. From 1985 to 1993 he studied musicology, modern history and art history at the University of Zurich and from 1990 to 1994 composition with Dimitri Terzakis at the Bern Conservatory . In 1988/89 he lived in Sydney , where he made contact with the Australian music scene. During the International Music Festival in Lucerne , Schneider attended master class courses with Edisson Denissow in 1991 and 1993 . In 1993 he was a founding member of the group of composers Groupe Lacroix .

Schneider worked from 1984 to 1993 as a music critic for the Aargauer Zeitung and the Badener Tagblatt . From 1993 to 1998 he was project manager at the Stapferhaus Lenzburg , from 1999 to 2001 he headed PAN Musikverlag in Zurich and then from 2001 to 2006 he headed the public relations department of the Museum der Kulturen Basel . In addition, he was artistic director of the Wettinger Chamber Concerts in Baden AG from 2000 to 2012 .

Schneider worked from 2006 to 2019 as managing director of the Swiss Arts Council, Künstlerhaus Boswil . In addition, he is active on a voluntary basis in several cultural foundations (including a board member of the Peter Mieg Foundation since 1990 ).

He is married and lives in Aarau .

Awards

  • 1997/2001/2005: Funding and work grants from the Aargauer Kuratorium

Works

Orchestral works

  • From a hike (Werner Wehrli) (1992/95) for chamber orchestra
  • Running on thin ice (1992/96) for orchestra
  • Rubin (2001) for string orchestra

Piano works

  • La beauté retrouvée (1991) for piano four hands
  • Desii e terre nuove (1995) for two pianos
  • Mandorla (1998) for piano
  • Football (2008). 4 studies for piano solo

Chamber music

  • Evokation (1991) for violin, clarinet and piano
  • Licht über Schatten (1993) for two flutes
  • Over enchanted levels (1994/95) for chamber ensemble
  • Kailash (1996) for horn and piano
  • touch (e)! (1996) for piano trio. Premiere December 7, 1996 Moscow (Moscow Rachmaninov Trio)
  • Schubert crosses the Danube near Vienna (1997) for string trio
  • 67 pas sur la nappe de l'étang glacé (1997) for oboe and a frozen lake (tape)
  • Shark Turtle Ray (1998/99) for oboe, viola and guitar. Premiere June 28, 1999 (8th MDR Music Summer , Museum of Fine Arts , Ensemble Sortisatio )
  • Distant calls (1999/2000) for saxophone quartet and piano
  • Voiles (2000). 3 sketches for 3 oboes
  • Let there be light (2000) for solo viola
  • Mandorla (1998/2001) for soprano saxophone solo
  • Painting / Orange (2007) for organ and saxophone
  • The chemical elements (2008) for flute, saxophone and vibraphone
  • Järvi (2009) for cello solo
  • Fanfare for Sandringham (1991/2010) for trumpet and trombone
  • Gran Partita (2011) for wind septet

Scenic music

  • The man in the moon (1991/92). Expressionist drama based on Georg Britting for 3 speaking roles, oboe, saxophone, violin, violoncello and percussion (1 player). Premiere November 27, 1992 Bern (ad hoc ensemble of the Junge Bühne Zurich and the Conservatory Bern, conductor: Jean-Luc Darbellay )
  • Im innsten Winter (requiem) (1999) for speaker, bass clarinet and guitar based on texts by Andreas Neeser. Premiere November 21, 1999 Lenzburg (Michael Wolf [speaker], Thomas Hunziker [bass clarinet], Martin Pirktl [guitar])
  • I dreamed of you every night (2003). Chamber opera (fragment). Libretto: Andreas Neeser . For four voices (SATB), chamber choir, live electronics and chamber ensemble (basset horn, cor anglais, percussion [1 player], viola, cello)
  • A Dictionary of Maladies (2002-2005). Chamber opera. Libretto: Jen Craig. For two deep voices (bass / bass baritone) and chamber ensemble (clarinet / bass clarinet, alto / baritone saxophone, bassoon / contrabassoon, electric guitar, percussion [2 players], cello, double bass). WP (in concert) August 26, 2005 Lenzburg

Vocal and choral music

  • Colors and Countenance (1996/97) for soprano and wind quintet. Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson , Emily Dickinson
  • Gorillas are sleeping at night (1997) for soprano, alto, mixed choir (SATB) and piano four hands with small percussion. Text: science language
  • Licht bei Vermeer (1997/98) for eight-part choir (SSAATTBB), basset horn and vibraphone. Text: Vincent van Gogh , Pieter Teding van Berkhout, Dirk Hannema, Catharina Bolnes, everyday language
  • Strasbourg configuration (1998) for voice and piano. Text: Hans Arp
  • All Shades of the Leaves (1998). 5 madrigals for soprano solo. Text: Ulrich Suter
  • I giganti nell'autosilo (1999) for a cappella choir (high voices). Text: Franz Hohler
  • Marquetry (1998/2000). 4 miniatures for soprano and piano based on texts by Ulrich Suter
  • Gand (2005) for baritone solo
  • Ballade (Dällebach Kari) (2011) for vocal quartet (SATB). Text: Mani Matter
  • Chue am Waldrand (2011) for vocal quartet (SATB). Text: Mani Matter

Discography

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed. With Kristina Ericson :) An insatiable longing. Werner Wehrli. The poetic creation. Sauerländer Verlag, Aarau 1994, ISBN 3-7941-3847-3 .
  • Hidden traces. Anne Frank and Switzerland . In: Stapferhaus Lenzburg (ed.): Anne Frank and we . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-905311-71-2 .
  • Peter Mieg. Life, work, reception . Amadeus Verlag, Winterthur 1995, ISBN 3-905049-64-3 .
  • The indescribable light and the winter shadows. On the musical thinking of János Tamás . In: Förderverein János Támas (Ed.): Fire pictures - Shadow sounds - János Tamás. Composer, conductor, educator . Müller & Schade, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-9520878-0-7 .
  • We can work it out. The beat scene in Switzerland (1964–67) . In: Stapferhaus Lenzburg (Ed.): A walk on the wild side. Youth scenes in Switzerland from the 1930s to today . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-905312-03-4 .
  • (Ed. With Gaby Fierz :) Celebrations in the light. Religious diversity in a city . Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2004, ISBN 3-85616-234-8 .
  • Schneider also wrote the biographical articles on Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich , Walther Geiser and Peter Mieg for the music lexica Music in Past and Present (MGG) and on Peter Mieg for the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland as well as specialist articles for the Swiss music newspaper - Schweizer Musikpädagogische Blätter .

literature

  • Schneider, Michael. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 418.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g biography . Michael Schneider's website. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c Biography ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2008 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. . Musinfo website. Retrieved January 8, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musinfo.ch
  3. ^ Groupe Lacroix in the Music Information Center Austria
  4. ^ Elisabeth Feller: Around the musical world in 12 years . In: Mittelland Zeitung , May 7, 2011.
  5. ↑ The Künstlerhaus team . Website of the Künstlerhaus Boswil. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen