Otfried Büsing

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Otfried Büsing (born November 29, 1955 in Delmenhorst ) is a German composer and professor of music theory .

Life

Büsing made his first attempts at composition in elementary school, starting with improvisations on the piano. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Hanover University of Music and graduated in church music (A), school music , music theory and composition ( Alfred Koerppen's master class ). Subsequently, in the 1980s he taught at the Hanover University of Music (organ improvisation) and the Detmold University of Music (lecturer in music theory). In 1991 he took over a professorship for music theory at the Freiburg University of Music , where he has lived and worked ever since. He is married to the cantor and concert organist Jakoba Marten-Büsing and has two children.

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Büsing, whose compositional handwriting can be characterized by the terms of selective row technique , material counterpoint and spectral synthesis , which he himself coined , composes works for almost all genres. His works range from experimental piano music ( Orion for midi piano - 2010) to organ and chamber music as well as song cycles to orchestral music ( Affaire 1998) and the chamber opera Picnick im Felde (1997) based on Fernando Arrabal . And I tell a central position in his oeuvre is an uncompromisingly modern addition to the seven-movement fragment of Bach's Markus Passion BWV 247 based on texts by Walter Jens (retransmission of the Markus Gospel).

Büsing's works met with a wide response at home and abroad. Special cooperation with the State Opera Unter den Linden (Berlin), the Theater Magdeburg , the Malmö opera och musikteater (Musiktheater Malmö), the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe , the Dresden Symphony Orchestra , the Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg, the Nuremberg Philharmonic , the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra , the Ensemble Aventure, Ensemble SurPlus and the Offenburg Ensemble.

There are productions and recordings of many compositions from all major German-speaking television and radio companies as well as cooperation with Ukrainian television and radio.

All works are published by the German Edition Gravis .

Awards

  • 1981: Lower Saxony young talent scholarship for composition
  • 1985–87: Scholarship from the Mozart Foundation in Frankfurt
  • 1988/89: Study visit to the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
  • 2000: Composition Prize for Church Music Baden-Württemberg

Works (excerpt)

Stage work

  • Picnic in the field (1996/97). Musical and scenic farce based on Fernando Arrabal

Orchestral works

  • Affair (1998). For large orchestra
  • Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (2001)
  • Picnic in the field (1997/2007). Suite from the opera of the same name

Choral works

Vocal music

  • And I tell (1993). Completion of the Bach fragment of the Markus Passion BWV 247 according to Walter Jens (retransmission of the Markus Gospel). For 4 vocal solos and 6 instruments
  • Carissima amica (1998). 5 chants based on letters by WA Mozart . For soprano and piano
  • Looks! He comes on the clouds! (1997). Based on texts from the Apocalypse of John (transmission: Walter Jens ). For coloratura soprano, 3 trumpets, percussion and organ
  • The Table and the Chair (2005). Three nonsense songs for middle voice and grand piano with secondary instruments
  • Songs from an Island (2006). After Ingeborg Bachmann . For bass baritone and piano
  • Calypso (2009). For 3 tenors, 3 baritones and bass

Chamber music

  • Break (1995). For piano and chamber ensemble
  • Sounds and Strikes (1996). For woodwind quartet and piano
  • Images virtual (1998). For clarinet, bass clarinet and piano
  • String Music (2003). For violin and piano
  • Enthousiasis (2004). For string quartet
  • Flair (2006). For four flutes
  • Scena concertante (2006/7). For violin and cymbal (fortepiano)
  • mare sonorum (2009). For viol consort

Piano music

  • 32 Variations on a Theme by Beethoven (1986)
  • Strepitolino f (1999). For 1 grand piano for four hands with secondary instruments
  • Sonata 1 (2000)
  • into the distance / risalendo la lontananza (2008)
  • Orion (2010). For midi piano

Organ music

  • Horizont / Horizon (1994)
  • Change (1998)
  • Jacob's Dream (2008)
  • The sea of ​​glass (2008). For large organ and organ positive

Solo works for other instruments

  • music for a very old saxophone (2001)
  • Astron (2004). For clarinet and piano resonances
  • Five Preludes (2005). For guitar
  • Kingfisher (2014). Garklein recorder

Edits

  • Voice in the dark . Based on piano songs by Hellmut Coerper. For soprano and orchestra
  • March in B flat major for orchestra. After the march Op. 99 for wind orchestra by Sergei Prokofjew
  • Fantasia and Fugue in D minor for organ. Based on the violin sonata in G minor by Johann Sebastian Bach

Individual evidence

  • Rudolf Lück (2008): "Otfried Büsing". In: Music in the past and present . 2nd, revised edition. Edited by Ludwig Finscher. Supplement band. Kassel: Bärenreiter
  • Hartmut Möller: "Otfried Büsing". In: Contemporary composers . Edited by Hanns-Werner Heister. Munich: Ed. Text + criticism

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personal data
SURNAME Büsing, Otfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst