Oliver Korte

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Oliver Korte (born April 10, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German composer , music theorist , musicologist and university professor . He has been Vice President of the Lübeck University of Music since March 2020 .

Oliver Korte (2012)

Life

Korte studied composition, music theory and musicology in Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin . In addition, private composition studies with Gösta Neuwirth gave him important impulses . His compositions have been awarded several composition prizes and grants. In 2002 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the ecclesiastic action by Bernd Alois Zimmermann . After teaching positions at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and the Rostock University of Music and Theater as well as a position as a research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts , he was appointed professor of music theory and ear training at the Lübeck University of Music in autumn 2006 . He is co-founder of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH) and editor of the writings of the Lübeck University of Music . In the 2017/18 winter semester, he also taught as a visiting professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Korte is married and has two children.

Oliver Korte's main work so far is the opera Copernicus for singers, speakers, orchestra and electronics, premiered in 2015 at the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden . The composer calls the work an “opera spaziale” (“space opera”). This is due to the fact that a spatial concept is derived directly from the subject: strings, wind instruments and drums as well as loudspeakers and video projections are positioned around the audience in “Copernican rings”. The wind instruments, like wandering stars, move into ever new acoustic constellations. Korte assembled the libretto from various theses-like original texts from the Renaissance and some sound recordings from the 20th century. The work was received by the critics as a "multilingual, philosophical world theater".

Works (selection)

Oliver Korte, Copernicus , world premiere (2015)
  • Ways and Walls , Concerto for Orchestra (1987/88, rev. Around 1991)
  • Six songs based on texts by Joachim Ringelnatz for mezzo-soprano and piano (1989, No. 3: 1995)
  • Winter songs over eight Japanese haikus for soprano, alto, baritone, string trio, cor anglais, clarinet, piano, percussion (1990/91)
  • Lichtstück for flute, clarinet, bassoon, 3 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos, double bass, 2 percussionists (1991/92, rev. 2004)
  • Music for a Wolf for marimba solo (1992)
  • ... from the ashes for clarinet, horn, 2 percussionists, violin, double bass (1993)
  • Trio for violin, clarinet and piano (1994)
  • Scenes for orchestra (1994–1996)
  • hesitate ... silent for piano (1996)
  • all away for 12 solo voices or 3 choir groups distributed in the room (1998/99)
  • Lili Boulanger : Trois Morceaux (pour piano) , orchestral version by Oliver Korte (1999)
  • Glass , five elementary studies for 3 cellos (2000)
  • Frost , three elementary studies for glockenspiel and piano (2001)
  • Kies , three elementary studies for 4 clarinets (2002)
  • rien nul - music for Samuel Beckett , for flute (also bass flute), clarinet (also bass clarinet), prepared piano, violin, viola, cello (2002)
  • Compass. Three cardinal points for cello solo (2003/07)
  • Lili Boulanger : Hymne au Soleil , reconstruction of the orchestral version by Oliver Korte (2003)
  • Essay , cantata for soprano, choir and orchestra (2003-2005)
  • winter blue - lion colors for four-part mixed choir (2006)
  • The elements , concert for 2 percussionists and orchestra (2006/07)
  • Epiphany for small orchestra (2007)
  • Some Reflections on the Nature of Water for Mixed Choir (2008)
  • Copernicus material for 18 solo strings (2011)
  • Six micrologists for clarinet and piano (2012)
  • Copernicus , Opera spaziale (2015)
  • Epigram - Cryptogram - Pictogram for a speaking drummer (2017)
  • Lili Boulanger: Sous bois. Orchestra version by Oliver Korte (2018)
  • Ill Angels for violin, bass clarinet, percussion and piano (2018)
  • Ludwig W. for clarinet and vibraphone (2020)

Discography (selection)

  • 2003 - Jan Feddersen - Oliver Korte
    • Frost for glockenspiel and piano (2000),
    • Music for a Wolf for marimba solo (1992)
    • hesitate ... be silent for piano (1996)
  • 2010 - rien nul . Music for Samuel Beckett for sextet (2002) on the DVD insert in the book publication Raum in den Künsten. Construction - Movement - Politics , ed. by Armen Avanessian u. a., Munich 2010 (therein p. 167-174 also the article Empty rooms by Oliver Korte)
  • 2012 - Oliver Korte. elements
    • The elements . Concerto for two percussionists and orchestra (2006/07)
    • Compass for cello solo (2003/07)
    • Some thoughts on the nature of water for Chor (2008)
    • Frost for glockenspiel and piano (2000)
    • Epiphany for chamber orchestra (2007)

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Eduard Mutschelknauss: Composed text fields. Levels, layers, sound and language spaces in Oliver Korte's essay. In: Kerstin Hausbei u. a. (Ed.): Spaces of experience - Configurations de l'expérience. (= transversal. 2). Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7705-4168-5 , pp. 124-131.
  • Benjamin Lang: Basic sheet Oliver Korte. In: Hanns-Werner Heister , Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer (Ed.): Composers of the Present (KdG). 37. Subsequent delivery 11/2008.
  • Immanuel Ott: The measurement of space. Oliver Kortes Copernicus. In: The Tonkunst. Issue 1/2017, pp. 41-48, ISSN  1863-3536

Individual evidence

  1. News archive of the Lübeck University of Music
  2. ^ The information about the opera from: Copernicus. Program booklet, Landesbühnen Sachsen , 2015.
  3. Cf. Alexander Keuk , in: Dresdner Latest News , October 5, 2016: “His [Kortes], opera spaziale 'takes space literally: as heaven, as space of thought, as musical space. In the two-hour, five-act presentation, the consistent implementation of this approach was impressive. "
  4. Boris Gruhl, MDR Figaro , October 4, 2015.

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