Michael Toepel

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Michael Töpel (* 1958 in Bremen ) is a German composer and musicologist .

Life

He studied composition, piano, music theory, musicology and school music for high schools in Bremen and Lübeck. From 1984 to 1988 he taught at the Lübeck University of Music . Since 1988 he has been working as a lecturer in a music publisher specializing in new music. In addition to his own compositions, Michael Töpel published piano reductions and edited works, including first editions by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Johannes Brahms , Hugo Distler and Jean Barraqué .

He has also published a textbook on music theory as well as book chapters, essays and interviews in the specialist press, he has written CD booklet texts and articles for the music encyclopedias MGG and The New Grove. In addition to his work as a composer, he also creates works of fiction in the form of poetry and short prose.

In 2016, Töpel was the winner of the composition competition " 500 Years of Reformation " by the Merseburg publishing house with the Confessio for organ " A solid castle ".

Works (selection)

  • Petits Fours: Four pieces for violoncello and piano (11 '), ISMN: 979-0-2007-2117-1
  • Variations on a Mozart fragment from 1782 for string quartet (9 '), ISMN: 979-0-2007-2118-8
  • Sonata for flute and piano (20 '), ISMN: 979-0-2007-2162-1
  • Four songs for soprano and piano on own texts (9 '), ISMN: 979-0-2007-3246-7
  • "All who seek you try you". Motet for mixed choir and horn based on texts by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Six songs based on texts by Gerhart Hauptmann
  • Te Deum ("Adoration - Preservation", "Confession - Assistance" and "Assistance - Hope") for soprano, baritone, choir and chamber orchestra (37 ')
  • Funeral music for violin, violoncello and piano
  • Piano quintet
  • Poema for recorder and piano
  • Campana for tubular bells and orchestra
  • Confessio for organ “A solid castle” (2016), ISMN: 979-0-2007-2440-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Merseburg publishing house. In: www.merseburger.de. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Töpel, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen