Moritz Eggert

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Moritz Eggert (2016)

Moritz Eggert (born November 25, 1965 in Heidelberg ) is a German composer and pianist .

Life

Moritz Eggert was born as the son of Mara Eggert and Herbert Heckmann . After early piano studies, he began his training at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main , first in theory and piano with Wolfgang Wagenhäuser , then in composition with Claus Kühnl . After graduating from high school, he studied piano at the Frankfurt University of Music with Leonard Hokanson . In 1986 he moved to Munich to study composition with Wilhelm Killmayer at the Munich Music Academy . Later he studied with Raymund Havenith (piano) and Hans-Jürgen von Bose (composition). In 1992 he spent a year as a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (composition with Robert Saxton ).

In 1989 Moritz Eggert won a prize at the International Gaudeamus Competition for interpreters of new music. As the first pianist, he presented the complete works for piano solo by Hans Werner Henze in one evening.

Together with Sandeep Bhagwati , he founded the A • DEvantgarde festival for new music by young composers in 1991 , which has taken place annually since then.

Eggert's best-known works include the piano cycle Hämmerklavier . In addition to orchestral and chamber music, a special focus of his work is the music theater genre . So far he has written 7 full-length operas and several works for dance theater and ballet . His most recent most important works are Scapa Flow for large orchestra, and the full-length song cycle Neue Dichter Lieben - 20 settings of love poems by contemporary authors.

His more recent works include the opera Die Schnecke (together with Hans Neuenfels , 2004, Mannheim) and the football oratorio Dieiefe des Raumes ( Ruhrtriennale , also commissioned by the cultural program of the 2006 World Cup), written together with Michael Klaus .

Moritz Eggert composed the music for the opening ceremony of the 2006 soccer World Cup and a new opera for the Bonn Opera ( Freax , together with Hannah Dübgen , 2007), which sparked a scandal about Christoph Schlingensief's refusal to direct . A collage of all 22 Mozart operas ( Vom zarten Pol ) for the opening concert of the Salzburg Festival was broadcast live across Europe on July 23, 2006. In the 2006/2007 season, six productions of Eggert's operas were shown at home and abroad. His footballet for the Vienna Opera Ball in 2008 was the first contemporary music performance there. In 2009 his Inn project to sing on the water was performed at the Erl Festival.

Eggert was a member of the board of the German Composers' Association for three years and has been Professor of Composition at the Munich University of Music and Theater since 2010. Moritz Eggert has also been a full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature since 2010 . He writes articles for print and online media and runs the “Bad Blog of Musick” for the Neue Musikzeitung .

honors and awards

Moritz Eggert has received several awards as a composer, including the composition prize at the Salzburg Easter Festival , the Schneider Schott Music Prize Mainz (1996), 1st prize at the SMCQ “Ad Referendum” competition in Montréal , the Siemens sponsorship prize and the Alexander prize -Zemlinsky Prize. In 1994/95 he lived in Paris for six months on a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris . As a winner of the Rome Prize, he spent a year in the Villa Massimo in 1996/97 .

Selection of works

Musical theater

  • Mister Orlong's Supper (opera for actors, 1988)
  • Paul and Virginie (puppet opera, 1990)
  • We are at home (Chamber Opera, 1991, 1998)
  • Lunu (Abstract Opera 1992)
  • Bright Nights (Great Opera, 1997)
  • The Other (Short Opera, 2000)
  • Dr. Popel's nasty trap (opera for children, 2002)
  • The last days of the VIRUS (Opera, 2003)
  • The Snail (Opera, 2004)
  • Freax (Opera 2007)
  • Left Hand (Opera, 2009)
  • All these days (Opera 2012)
  • Tragedy of a friendship (music theater 2013)
  • Devil's Kitchen (cookery opera for children, 2014)
  • Terra Nova - or the white life (Opera 2015)

Dance theater, ballet, performance

  • Avec ma main brulée (performance, 1997)
  • Fleeting encounters (dance theater, 1997)
  • Present, I need present (Tanztheater, 1997)
  • A visit to the mine (dance theater, 1999)
  • The Trap (incidental music, 1999)
  • Millennium Shuffle (Dance Theater, 1999)
  • In the sandpit (dance theater, 2000)
  • In search of the sound (radio play, 2001)
  • The gaze of the raven (orchestral ballet 2013)

Chamber music

  • Little Escape (1st string quartet, 1993)
  • Hammer Piano (for piano solo, 1994)
  • Out of breath (for 3 recorders and one player, 1995)
  • Bad Attitude (for cello and piano, 1995)
  • Et in Arcadia Ego (2nd string quartet, 1997)
  • Tableau (movement for a clarinetist and pianist, 1997)
  • Melodie 1.0 (for violin, cello and typewriter, 1998)
  • Nemesis (for solo drum set, 1998)
  • Croatoan II (for string quartet and percussion, 1999)
  • Fast Forward (for cello and piano, 1999)
  • Continuum (for cello and piano, 2000)
  • Vermillion Sands (for guitar, 2000)
  • Narcissus (for soprano recorder and percussion, 2001)
  • La Risposta (for cello and piano, 2002)
  • pong (for septet, 2002)
  • Riff (for two electric guitars with effects devices, 2002)
  • Symphony 2.0 (for 4 kazoos with any instruments, 2002)
  • Ostinato (for organ solo, 2003)
  • Processional : Fanfares / Signals (for trumpet solo, 2003)
  • Leipzig Noir (for 2 speakers, beats and chamber ensemble, 2014)
  • Les Temps Modernes (drum quintet, 2015)

Orchestral works

  • The 12 strokes of the sundial (for chamber orchestra, 1986)
  • Vexations (for chamber orchestra, 1993)
  • Adagio (for 32 strings, 1996)
  • Symphony 1.0 (for 12 typewriters, 1997)
  • Number Nine I-III (for orchestra, 1998)
  • Goldberg plays (for piano and ensemble, 2000)
  • Internet symphony (for orchestra, 2000)
  • Illumination (Finale from Processional, for jazz big band and orchestra, 2009)
  • My Sleep Is A Dream (for orchestra, 2013)
  • 1,2,3 (for chamber orchestra and sampler, 2013)
  • Aura (for clarinet and orchestra, 2014)
  • PG Dada (for ensemble, 2015)

Vocal music

  • Hibernalische Gesänge (1997) for vocal quartet (vocalises)
  • Büchner portrait (1997) for baritone and piano
  • Krausseriana (1999) for baritone and piano. Texts: Helmut Krausser
  • New Poets Love (2000). Song cycle
  • ausklang (2001) for baritone and piano
  • Die Kriegsirre (2001) for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • wide unclasp (2002). Song cycle for female voice and jazz ensemble
  • Paradise Berlin (2002/03). Song cycle
  • A Poet Dies (2004) for tenor baritone and piano. Texts: Ludwig Steinherr
  • Ballack, du geile Schnitte [1] (2006) for soprano and accordion. Texts: from the guest book on Michael Ballack's website . Premiere May 1st, 2006 Munich ( soccer globe ; Irene Kurka [soprano], Stefan Hippe [accordion])
  • Night. Tick. All (for recorder and choir, 2014)
  • I accept the terms of use (for baritone and string orchestra, 2014)
  • From heaven and the whole world (for boys' choir, 2014/15)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of A • DEvantgarde . Retrieved January 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Prof. Moritz Eggert. Academy of Sciences and Literature , accessed July 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ PM: Moritz Eggert receives the Louis Spohr Music Prize 2016. Neue Musikzeitung , March 29, 2016, accessed on July 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eggert, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg