Michael Stegemann

Michael Stegemann (born March 27, 1956 in Osnabrück ) is a German musicologist , composer and author.

Life

Stegemann studied musicology , Romance studies , philosophy and art history in Münster and Paris . As a composition student he attended Olivier Messiaen's master class . He wrote his dissertation on Camille Saint-Saëns and the French solo concert from 1850 to 1920. After working as editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1981 to 1986 and teaching at the University of Münster , he worked as a freelancer until 2002.

Since the summer semester of 2002 he has been Martin Geck's successor in the chair of historical musicology at the Institute for Music and Musicology at TU Dortmund University . He initiated the " Music Journalism " course, which has been offered since the 2010/11 winter semester.

Michael Stegemann composed numerous vocal and instrumental works. He created radio play music for the WDR Cologne and the broadcaster Free Berlin . At the Forum of Young Composers of the Gema , he was awarded first prize in 1983 for his orchestral work Carceri d'invenzione .

In 2001 he made his debut as a director at the Salzburg Festival . He brought Arthur Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher on stage. L'Irato by Étienne-Nicolas Méhul was staged in 2005 in a version designed by Stegemann and in its production at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn.

Stegemann moderates live radio broadcasts such as the Klassikforum from WDR 3 and writes music features for broadcasters. In collaboration with the ensemble of the Berliner Schaubühne he created, for example, Hector Berlioz - a composer's psychogram , news of the latest fate of the conductor Johannes Kreisler - three radio fantasies in ETA Hoffmann’s manner and, on the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution , Ah, ça ira , “Allons enfants” - The music of the French Revolution (1989), Don Antonio Vivaldi: Le quattro stazioni - A long life's journey to death (1991), The death of Piotr Ilyich - three radiophonic scenes (1993). Stegemann also wrote around a dozen radio plays - including several crime novels - for WDR.

The SDR Stuttgart produced the series Glenn Gould Gesamt in 1992/93 , which was taken over by numerous broadcasters. It comprised 52 parts. In 1997, the Schubert Almanac followed, which, with 365 parts, was the largest series that ARD had ever produced. Stegemann received the German Critics' Prize for the series Mozart or Die Entführung in die Musik , which he created in 2006 together with Karl Dietrich Graewe . In 2011 a 21-part series about Franz Liszt followed .

The radio play composition The Glenn Gould Trilogy from 2007 has received multiple awards, including the German Audiobook Prize in 2008 , and the radio play composition The Glenn Gould Trilogy from 2007 was nominated for the Grammy preselection .

Besides Glenn Gould, Stegemann's main areas of research are French and Russian music. The first performance of the newly edited Requiem Op. 48 by Gabriel Fauré took place in 2012 by Sir Simon Rattle , the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin , after Stegemann's scholarly and critical edition of this work, which was created together with Christina M. Stahl, was published. This edition was awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2012. Since 2016, Stegemann has been the scientific director of the 36-volume complete edition of the œuvres instrumentales complètes by Camille Saint-Saëns at Bärenreiter-Verlag (Kassel).

Stegemann has been a member of the jury for the German Record Critics' Prize since 2011 .

He wrote several monographs on composers, a novel on Franz Schubert with the title I am finished with all dreams and other works.

In 1983 Stegemann was awarded the Hector Berlioz Medal. In 2016, the French Ministry of Culture appointed him Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Fonts (selection)

• Camille Saint-Saëns and the French solo concert from 1850 to 1920 . Schott, Mainz a. a. 1984. ISBN 3-7957-1787-6
• Camille Saint-Saëns (= Rowohlt's monographs 389). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988. ISBN 3-499-50389-1
• Glenn Gould. Life and work . Piper, Munich 1992. ISBN 978-3-492-03584-2
• Maurice Ravel (= Rowohlt's Monographs 538). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996. ISBN 978-3-499-50538-6
• Franz Liszt. Genius on the sidelines . Piper, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-492-30193-0

Web links

• Michael Stegemann , TU Dortmund
• Literature by and about Michael Stegemann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ He is a musical all-rounder | Composer Prof. Michael Stegemann | SWR1 people , September 18, 2019
2. ^ Homepage of the Bärenreiter-Verlag for the complete edition of the instrumental works by Camille Saint-Saëns
3. ↑ Vita on www.musik.tu-dortmund.de
4. ^ Homepage Prize of the German Record Critics
5. ↑ Musicologist Michael Stegemann appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres