Paul Engel

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Paul Engel (born November 14, 1949 in Reutte , Tyrol ) is an Austrian composer and conductor .

Life

Paul Engel comes from a well-known Tyrolean family of musicians, the "Engel family", with whom he went on concert tours around the world from early childhood up to 1981. With his siblings he could be seen as Pauli Engel in the Heimatfilm Die singenden Engel von Tirol in 1958 . He received his first musical training from his father and his older siblings, later at the Tyrolean State Conservatory Innsbruck a . a. in the subjects of piano, violin, flute, conducting and music theory.

He completed his studies at the State University of Music in Munich with Günter Bialas and Wilhelm Killmayer (composition), Volker Banfield and Rosl Schmid (piano), as well as Jan Koetsier , Fritz Schieri and Wolfgang Winkler (conducting).

From 1974 to 1987 he was a lecturer in music theory and ear training at the University of Music in Munich, and he also taught at the Starnberg Youth Music School .

From 1988 to 1998 he led the Echingen orchestral seminar (from 1994 Eching Symphony Orchestra) as a conductor and worked with important orchestras and ensembles such as the ORF symphony orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra , the Munich Philharmonic , the Munich Chamber Orchestra , the Bamberg Symphony , the Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional Santo Domingo .

His compositions have been featured at major international festivals, such as the Salzburg Festival , the Munich Biennale , the Munich Music Summer, the Tyrolean Festival, the Styrian Autumn , the Contemporary Music Festival “Klangspuren Schwaz”, and by major interpreters such as the Vienna Piano Trio, Edgar Krapp , Alfons Kontarsky et al. a. listed.

Paul Engel has been working as a freelance composer, conductor and musician since 1987. In 2010/2011 he lived and worked as a scholarship holder of the international artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg . Paul Engel has lived in Wiesbaden since August 2011.

Awards

  • 1972 Richard Strauss Prize in Munich
  • 1980 Composition Prize of the "Summer Music Days" in Hitzacker
  • 1981 First prize in the composition competition of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, Frankfurt
  • 1982 Prize of the City of Munich
  • 1983 Prize of the Ministry of Education and Art, Vienna
  • 1995 The Eching Symphony Orchestra, which he directed, received the “Recognition Prize” from the Freising district's cultural award
  • 1996 Tyrolean State Prize for Art
  • 2010 scholarship from the international artist house Villa Concordia, Bamberg

Selection of works

Orchestral works / symphonic music

  • Metasinfonia for orchestra (1973)
  • 3 symphonies for large orchestra (1978; 1982; 1983/84)
  • Violin Concerto (1980)
  • Encounter symphonic music for choirs, large orchestra, instrumental groups, solo instruments (second version 1986/87)
  • Echoes of dance scenes for large orchestra (1986/87)
  • Cello Concerto (1987)
  • Meru for large orchestra (1988/94)
  • To Jupiter Hommage à WAMozart for large orchestra (1991)
  • Correlation I a counterpart for orchestra and eight remote horns (1994)
  • Pan-Tasien for solo flute and chamber orchestra (1996/97)
  • Hannibal's Elephants for large orchestra (1998)
  • Beluhovan-Musik an Hommage Tyrolienne for piano and orchestra (2002)
  • Iphigenia Fanfare for Orchestra (2002)
  • Four mutations for string orchestra (2003)
  • Cassiopeia for organ and orchestra (2005)
  • Sirius for large orchestra (2007)
  • Orion , music for viola and orchestra (2014)

Choral works

  • Pater Noster for choir and orchestra (1978)
  • Te Deum for choir, 9 brass instruments, organ and percussion instruments (1988)
  • Eos for large choir, trumpet and organ (1996)
  • Correlation II for choir and orchestra (2006)

Chamber music and solo works

  • Spheres , music for flute and temple blocks (1973)
  • Somnium Pacis for piano (1976)
  • 4 string quartets (1970; 1981; 1986; 1988)
  • 4 piano trios (1978; 1979; 1988; 1994/96)
  • Fantasia quasi Cappriccio for piano (1978)
  • West Eastern songbook for soprano and ensemble (1983)
  • 5 sonograms, piano duos and solo works (1991–1999)
  • Phoenix or The end of the world takes place for the Tagesschau for baritone and octet (1995)
  • Messanza II for nine wind instruments (1995)
  • Synesthesia for chamber ensemble (1997)
  • The Timpani by Haydn for harp and violoncello (1998)
  • Calliopes descent from Mount Olympus Fifth Piano Trio (2000)
  • Freedom - Liberté - Three Piano Pieces (2001)
  • The Bang of Haydn for violoncello and piano (2004)
  • Sahara for clarinet and chamber ensemble with playback (2004)
  • Tschaikowsky ante Portas for 10 woodwinds (2004)
  • Risposte alle Rime di Petrarca for baritone, string quartet and accordion (2005)
  • The Albatros was wrong for baritone and piano trio (2005)
  • The Homecoming for baritone and piano (2006)
  • Resonances for wind quintet and piano (2007)
  • Tilleske or what is the humor in music? for clarinet and string quartet (2008)
  • The Wandering Music for the Schubert Year for clarinet, string trio and accordion (2008)
  • Arrive for piano and brass quintet (2008)
  • Transformation for violin and piano (2009)
  • Vogel as Prophet Schumann collage for ensemble (2010)
  • Im Feuerofen after Daniel III for dramatic soprano and chamber ensemble (2010)

Musical theater

  • Daniel Opera in 2 acts (1991/93)
  • The blue stone musical theater for young people (1993/94)
  • Boehlendorff scenic oratorio for 6 singers, choir and an orchestra with instruments from the Beethoven period (1998)

Discography

  • Te Deum Philharmonic Chamber Choir Estonia, Ensemble Art of Brass Vienna, Franz Hauk, organ; GMCD 7245
  • Calliopes descent from Olympus, Sonogram I Christos Kanettis, Reinhard Latzko, Alfons Kontarsky; GMCD 7261
  • Paul Engel Five timelessnesses, mutations, Freedom - Liberty - Liberté; CD 200401 Carmen Verlag
  • Ocean Adventures digital music; Cook 351049

literature

  • Silvia Albrich-Warger: The Engel family. Haymon, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-85218-281-6 .
  • Bernhard Günther (Ed.): Lexicon of contemporary music from Austria. Music Information Center Austria, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901837-00-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Culture Prize 1995 of the Freising district (PDF) , accessed on January 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ Kulturpreis im Landkreis on Kreis-freising.de, accessed on January 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Angel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutte , Tyrol