Oliver Korte
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 .
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)
- 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)
- Chronicle Alban Berg . In: Anthony Pople (Ed.): Alban Berg and his time. Laaber 1999, pp. 8-25.
- To Bernd Alois Zimmermann's later serial technology. In: Music Theory. Issue 1/2000, pp. 19-40.
- with Richard Grasshoff: decomposition. A production strategy in literature and music. In: Andreas Haus, Franck Hofmann, Änne Söll (Ed.): Material in the process. Aesthetic Productivity Strategies. Bonn 2000, pp. 123-136.
- Galina Ustvolskaya . Music as a spiritual ritual. In: Oliver Schwab-Felisch, Christian Thorau, Michael Polth (Eds.): Individuality in Music. Stuttgart 2002, pp. 309-319.
- The ecclesiastic action by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Investigations into a poetics of failure. (= Berlin Music Studies . Volume 29). Sinzig 2003, ISBN 3-89564-102-2 .
- Biagio Marini and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. In: Stefan Drees (Ed.): Lexicon of the violin. Laaber 2003, pp. 414-416, 776-777.
- with Klaus Martin Kopitz : "Written on his death-bed". A Beethoven - Autograph from the possession of Johann Andreas Stumpff . In: Johannes Laas, Cordula Heymann-Wentzel (Hrsg.): Music and biography. Festschrift Rainer Cadenbach for his 60th birthday. Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2804-X , pp. 179–196, (books.google.de)
- Basic sheet Benjamin Schweitzer . In: Hanns-Werner Heister , Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer (ed.): Contemporary composers. 29. Subsequent delivery, Munich 2005.
- "An extremely complex structure of the timbre". Compositional strategies in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's pas de trois. In: Music Concepts Special Volume Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Munich 2005, pp. 51-64.
- Antoine Brumel , Guilielmus Monachus . Falso bordons in practice and theory. In: Hanns-Werner Heister , Wolfgang Hochstein (Hrsg.): Music and. A series of publications by the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . New series, Berlin 2008, pp. 247-259.
- Geographical location and event space. Tunjuk for large orchestra. In: Torsten Möller (Ed.): "If A is, is A". The composer Dieter Mack . Saarbrücken 2008, pp. 120-136.
- Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz and Rainer Cadenbach with the assistance of Oliver Korte and Nancy Tanneberger. 2 volumes. Henle, 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 .
- Empty spaces. In: Armen Avanessian u. a. (Ed.): Space in the arts. Construction - Movement - Politics. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4658-9 , pp. 167-174.
- Night and light. The "Kindertotenlieder" . In: Oliver Korte, Peter Revers (ed.): Gustav Mahler . Interpretations of his works. 2 volumes. Laaber 2011, Volume 1, ISBN 978-3-89007-045-2 , pp. 467-497.
- Macrocosm - Microcosm. About the Influence of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony on the Work of Anton Webern . In: Elisabeth Kappel (Ed.): The Total Work of Art: Mahler's Eighth Symphony in Context. (= Studies on Valuation Research . Volume 52). Universal-Edition, Vienna 2011, pp. 202–213.
- Il ya un temps pour tout: la phase sérielle de Zimmermann. In: Pierre Michel , Heribert Henrich, Philippe Albèra (Eds.): Regards croisés sur Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Actes du colloque de Strasbourg 2010. Editions Contrechamps, Genève 2012, pp. 69-86.
- The seventh and eighth symphonies . In: Oliver Korte, Albrecht Riethmüller (ed.): Beethoven's orchestral music and concerts. (= The Beethoven Handbook. Volume 1). Laaber 2013, pp. 174-215.
- Drone and parallel movement. On the articulation of tonal fields with Gustav Mahler. In: Elisabeth Kappel (ed.): The plaintive song : Mahler's “Opus 1” - synthesis, innovation, compositional reception. (= Studies on Valuation Research . Volume 54). Universal-Edition, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7024-7182-8 , pp. 164-200.
- with Holger Best: A radio broadcast of Mahler's piano quartet movement in A minor in 1932. In: News on Mahler Research. No. 66, Vienna 2013, pp. 43–50, ISSN 1608-8956
- The Fauxbourdon model in Johann Sebastian Bach's choral setting . In: Birger Petersen (Ed.): Johann Sebastian Bach and the choral movement of the 17th and 18th centuries. (= ContraPoints . Volume 1). Olms, Hildesheim 2013, pp. 40–50.
- Reconstructing Antoine Brumel : How to Bring the Chanson “Dieu te gart, bergere” Back to life. In: Journal of the Alamire Foundation. Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2016, pp. 165–179.
- "Shadow sounds". Microtonality in Dieter Mack's percussion concert “Wooden”. In: MusikTexte. Volume 150, August 2016, pp. 79-82.
- From the circular paths of thought. To the libretto of my opera Copernicus. In: The Tonkunst. Issue 1/2017, pp. 34–40, ISSN 1863-3536
- Ludwig van Beethoven , Symphony No. 7, A major , op. 92. Facsimile based on the autograph from the Biblioteka Jagiellońska , Kraków, ed. and introduced by Oliver Korte, with a preface by Lothar Zagrosek , Laaber 2017, ISBN 978-3-946798-13-2 .
- Subject and violence. The Dona nobis pacem from Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem for a young poet . In: Oliver Korte (Ed.): World - Time - Theater. Nine studies on the work of Bernd Alois Zimmermann. (= Writings of the Lübeck University of Music. Volume 2). Hildesheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-487-15664-4 .
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
- ↑ News archive of the Lübeck University of Music
- ^ The information about the opera from: Copernicus. Program booklet, Landesbühnen Sachsen , 2015.
- ↑ 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. "
- ↑ Boris Gruhl, MDR Figaro , October 4, 2015.
Web links
- Literature by and about Oliver Korte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Oliver Korte on the website of the Lübeck University of Music
- Homepage Oliver Korte
- Interview with Oliver Korte
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Korte, Oliver |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, musicologist and university lecturer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |