Paul Hertel

Paul Hertel (born May 9, 1953 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer , music producer and conductor .

Life

Hertel's grandfather was a sculptor , his father, Otto Hertel, horn player in the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera , and Hertel's brother, Alfred Hertel , was the first oboist in the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper and with the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler. Paul Hertel's musical training began early. At the age of five he received violin lessons, later piano and guitar.

After passing the Matura at the Hernalser Gymnasium Geblergasse , Hertel studied theater studies at the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate in theater studies in 1978. At the same time he had started studying composition (with Heinrich Gattermeyer ) and composition (with Erich Urbanner ) at the Hochschule für Musik . In 1983 he also completed this course with a diploma. Further studies with Alfred Uhl provided in-depth instruction in composition. In addition, Hertel completed specialized courses in electroacoustics (with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati ), jazz harmonics (with Heinz Czadek ) and choral conducting (with Günther Theuring ).

Composition in the field of incidental music

Paul Hertel began his own creative work while still a student. Since 1979 he has created a series of works that have been performed at concerts at home and abroad as well as at festivals such as “Aspects Salzburg”, “ Styrian Autumn ”, “Austria Today” ( Konzerthaus Wien 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990), “ Cité Internationale des Arts ”as well as at festivals in Huddersfield and Ville-d'Avray . In 1985 Hertel was hired by the Theater für Vorarlberg (later Vorarlberger Landestheater Bregenz ) as stage composer and musical director. Hertel created the music for new theater productions in the period that followed. Depending on whether there is original music - as in Nestroy pieces -, these compositions are to be regarded as an arrangement or, in the case of plays without music - for example in Schiller's Maria Stuart - as a new composition.

For some pieces, the original music - partly in the style of the time, partly with deliberate style breaks in compositional or instrumental terms - was added. These compositions usually consist of individual numbers connecting scenes or mood music similar to film music. A total of around 25 stage music was created, including for the Schwäbisch Hall open-air theater, the Vienna Volkstheater , the Chur Theater and the United Theaters in Graz . Inspired by the numerous stage compositions made for existing pieces, Paul Hertel wrote his first full-length musical and dramatic work in 1988, the musical Askalun , which premiered in Pforzheim .

In an adapted new version, Askalun was shown at the 1992 Wiener Festwochen in a circus tent in front of the Votive Church. After the successful performance of the children's opera Rabautz, also in 1988, his own music-dramatic work took a back seat for 15 years in favor of the composition of stage music, film and television music and works of new music. Later, the composition of chamber operas and especially children's operas again became the focus of creative work. The most important work in this genre is Elster and Parzival , a work commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin . The world premiere on March 29, 2003 followed in September 2006 - also at the Deutsche Oper Berlin - the world premiere of the shortened new version.

In 2015, Hertel created Sisi - The Move Trilogy Suite for the newly founded Synchron Stage Vienna . A three-movement suite for large orchestra was developed from the partly small fragments of the handwritten score of the Sissi film trilogy .

Orchestral and chamber music

Instrumental and vocal compositions for large orchestra and chamber orchestra make up the largest part of the opus numbers in Paul Hertel's work. Here, too, a great variety of styles can be recognized, from the classic string quartet form to the piece for brass. Hertel has distributed the solo instruments fairly evenly between strings and winds. The pieces range from the two-minute miniature to the expansive one-hour piece. The solo song is also a central compositional concern of Hertel. The text templates are very different and range from the 1000 year old Chinese poem to the erotic texts of Wolf Wondratschek .

Producer, promoter and organizer of contemporary music

While studying at ORF in Vienna, Hertel began a series on contemporary music, made understandable for the audience. He later organized series of concerts and promoted newer music in general. In 1979 Hertel co-founded the “Project World Premiere” (today “Creatives Centrum, Vienna”). During the 21 seasons that he artistically supervised this series of events, over 800 works (including 220 world premieres) by around 250 composers were performed at more than 200 concerts worldwide.

In concert series at the Vienna Konzerthaus , in the Auditorium Maximum of the University of Vienna and at the Vienna City Festival, many young, now renowned artists had the opportunity to present their works to a broad public for the first time. Concerts at previously unfamiliar locations as well as concerts in connection with poetry readings paved the way for current music to attract new audiences. Wolf Wondratschek , HC Artmann , Wolfgang Bauer u. a. took part in these concert readings and reading concerts.

Between 1994 and 1998 Hertel was the producer of the group Streetgang - "Seven kids from five nations". The young singers were funded by the “Youth for Europe” program of the EU and the Vienna Integration Fund and had numerous appearances. a. on ORF, at the Vienna Danube Island Festival and at the Hallamasch Festival. At the youth song contest “Blue Pearl of Rovinj” in 1994 the group came second.

Since 2005 Paul Hertel has been giving guest lectures at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz on the subject of “Project-related multimedia composition”.

Film and television productions

During his music studies, Paul Hertel had already designed music programs as a freelancer for ORF / radio, WDR and Deutschlandfunk. A series of programs that should bring contemporary music closer in an understandable way deserves special mention. In total, Paul Hertel was the designer and presenter of around 200 programs.

He also appeared in music and theater broadcasts as an assistant director for ORF / television. Through these creative activities, Hertel had also acquired a wealth of knowledge in the field of drama, which he was able to incorporate into his own compositional work. This also includes experience in dealing with film and television music, an area that is usually neglected in current composition lessons. In 1982 Hertel received his first commission for a television production. In the meantime, he has composed the music for 18 feature films and television films, and in some cases also produced it. These were productions in which a wide range of styles from baroque to electronic music had to be covered. An important work in this area is the ORF's order for a five-part series on the occasion of the celebrations for Austria's 1000th anniversary. In 1987, Hertel was elected to the “Free Academy of the Arts Mannheim” (today “Free Academy of the Arts Rhein-Neckar”) for the film music “The Good Place” (production: Sabbelli-Film).

Paul Hertel's compositions are characterized by the inclusion of contradicting stylistic elements. The respective choice of means and their combination result in a very personal style, which is sometimes only developed for a single piece. Hertel does not shy away from using simple traditional forms and stylistic devices and giving them an individual character. To make the musical into a central position, to incorporate the avant-garde and in turn to fertilize it again through contemporary composition techniques, is at the center of Hertel's creative interest. (Ilse Schneider, 2007)

author

Paul Hertel is the author of radio programs on ORF and Ö1, he has written radio plays for WDR and Deutschlandfunk, scripts, specialist articles and short stories.

Memberships

Since 2000, Paul Hertel has been a member of the board of the AKM (state-approved society of authors, composers and music publishers reg. Gen. mb H.) as a representative of serious music composers.

Since 2001 he has been managing director of the Society for Austrian Music GFÖM and since 2002 a member of the board of trustees of the Austrian Music Council ÖMR. He has been the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ÖMR since 2004.

Works

Original compositions for TV and film (selection)

• 1982 "Stories from Steinbichler", TV film, producer: Schönbrunnfilm for ORF and ZDF, book: Herbert Rosendorfer, director: Zoltan Pataky, (with Kurt Nachmann , Hans Holt , Rudolf Lenz , Marte Harell , Dietrich Siegl and others)
• 1984 "Solo with Herrenbegleitung", TV film, producer: ORF, book: Wolfgang Boesch, director: Alois Hawlik, (with Gabriele Jacoby , Ernst Anders, Serge Falck, Fritz von Friedl and others)
• 1984 "Not even piano", TV film, producer: ORF, book: Wolfgang Boesch, director: Zoltan Pataky, (with Alexander Wächter, Ruthilde Boesch, Toni Böhm and others)
• 1986 “With Strange Eyes”, documentation, producer: ORF, book and design: Hubert Nowak
• 1987 “Der gute Ort”, documentary film, producer: Sabbelli Film for SWR, script and director: Ulrich v. Dobschütz * 1987: "The Death of the Moth", short film, producer: Cut & Copy, script: Franz Plörer and Karim Karimi, director: Karim Karimi, (with Sandra Kreisler, Herbert Gnauer, Herbert Slawik)
• 1987 "Peter hat Angst", educational film, producer: Institute for Marriage and Family, book: Brigitte Cizek, Lilette Klara Kainz, director: Karim Karimi (with Gudrun Tielsch, HG Nenning and others)
• 1988 “Allentsteig”, documentation, producer: ORF, book and design: Reinhard Linke
• 1989 "With tailcoat and top hat - 150 years of the Vienna-Brno Railway", game documentation, producer: ORF and Czechoslovak TV, book and design: Günter Richter, (with Helga Papouschek, Libor Pantucek, etc.)
• 1992 "Jews in Lower Austria - Securing Evidence", documentation, producer: ORF, book and design: Reinhard Linke
• 1994 “Green Ashes”, feature film, producer: Attack for Artcenter, script and director: Ebrahim Hatamikia, (with Attila Pessyani, Barbara Bobulova, Zlata Piskova and others) - Honorary Degree: Best Composer of Film Music
• 1996 “1000 Years of Austria”, five-part series for the Austrian Millennium Celebration, producer: ORF, official contribution to the anniversary celebrations, book and design: Franz Eiselt and Reinhard Linke
• 1996 “People, Myths, Milestones”, documentation, producer: ORF, book and design: Franz Eiselt
• 1997 "Mr. Summer's Journey Against the Current", game documentation, script and direction: Danielle Proskar, (with André Pohl and Mercedes Echerer)
• 1998 “Time never stands still”, documentation, producer: ORF, book and design: Franz Eiselt
• 2001–06 “Familienfasttag”, TV spot, producer: SL-Video
• 2000 Five nature films: Canyonlands, Canyon de Chelly, Fire Canyon, Danube Delta, Monument Valley, documentaries, producer: Arcadia / Global Television
• 2006 “An Approach” - Harald Leupold-Löwenthal on his 80th birthday, documentation, producer: Cinecraft for Bayern-alpha, script and direction: Christian M. Kreuziger
• from 2006 various feature music for regular SWR broadcasts
• 2011 Production for ZDF / arte: “Leben über den Wolken”, Crete, first broadcast on September 8, 2011 at 6:15 pm on arte

Stage works

Incidental music (selection)

• 1985 “Just rest!”, Johann Nestroy, arrangement / new composition
• 1986 " Schluck und Jau ", Gerhart Hauptmann, new composition
• 1987 "Lumpazivagabundus" I, (version for Schwäbisch Hall / Bregenz Festival), Johann Nestroy, arrangement / new composition
• 1987 “Maria Stuart”, Friedrich Schiller, new composition
• 1988 "Witch Hunt", Arthur Miller, new composition
• 1988 "What you want", William Shakespeare, new composition
• 1989 op. 23/9 “Leu” (The Hall World Theater), Oliver Storz, new composition
• 1989 “Faith and Home”, Karl Schönherr, new composition
• 1990 "Figaro is divorced", Ödön v. Horváth, editing
• 1990 "The Swabian Creation", Sebastian Sailer / Hubertus Gertzen, new composition
• 1990 "Jedermann", Hugo von Hofmannsthal, new composition
• 1990 "marriage strike", Julius Pohl, new composition
• 1991 “The Mad of Chaillot”, Jean Giraudoux, new composition
• 1991 "Posada", Walter Serner, new composition
• 1991 "Wilhelm Tell", Friedrich Schiller, new composition
• 1991 "Lumpazivagabundus" II, (version for the United Theaters Graz) Johann Nestroy, arrangement / new composition
• 1992 "Lambert Veigerl", Lotte Ingrisch, arrangement / new composition
• 2008 "outside the dark number is raging", Kathrin Röggla, arrangement / new composition

Music and dramatic works (selection)

• 1987 “Abschiedsstück”, mini-opera, (awarded the Theodor-Körner-Preis ), text: Wolf Wondratschek
• 1988 “Rabautz”, children's opera, text: Paul Hertel / Roswitha Egli
• 1988 “Askalun”, musical, text: Manfred Bender
• 1992 "Askalun", musical, text: Manfred Bender / Wickerl Adam (Viennese version)
• 2002 "Under The Bridge", musical, (commissioned by EXPO 02), text: Andreas Spörri / lyrics: A. Spörri / Paul Hertel, (music with Andreas Spörri)
• 2003 “Elster und Parzival”, children's opera, (commissioned for the Deutsche Oper Berlin), text: Paul Flieder
• 2006 "Elster und Parzival", abbreviated new version, text: Paul Flieder (Deutsche Oper Berlin)
• 2006 “Die Kaiserin”, chamber opera, text: Paul Hertel / Claudia Toman
• 2010 “Rabautz”, children's opera - workshop version: “Children play for children”, text: Paul Hertel / Roswitha Egli
• 2010 “Der Mozartautomat”, (composition grant from the Wiener Symphoniker), text: Paul Hertel / Claudia Toman

New music (selection)

Symphony orchestra

• op. 19 "Overture for machine theater"
• op. 51/77 "Three orchestral pieces from the emigration"
• op. 60/02 "Mystic Orchestra"
• op. 69/03 "Grand Mystic Orchestra"
• op. 70/03 "The Sunrise Orchestra"
• op. 72 "Spring"
• op. 77/33 "The Vile Tango II"
• WoO (2015) "Sisi - The Movie Trilogy Suite"
• op. 102 ”Happy Birthday Johann Strauss” 1. Happy Fledermaus to You | 2. Happy Blue Danube to You | 3. Happy Radetzky March to You

String orchestra

• op. 40 "See he comes hopping over the woods"
• op. 50 "wood"
• op. 51/16 "End and Beginning"
• op. 51/12 "Remembrance"
• op. 51/13 "Hotel Metropol - Moscow"
• op. 60 "Mystic Strings"
• op. 75/07 "Elster and Parzival Suite"
• op. 98 “Tronic” for string orchestra

Symphonic wind orchestra

• op. 15/42 "Gesomina"
• op. 27 "Northern Railway March"
• op. 64/2 "The Phoenix / 2"
• op. 70 "The Sunrise Dance"
• op. 70/02 "The Sunrise Dance II"
• op. 87 "Four Movies"
• op. 94 "The Joker"
• op. 99 "up-and-coming"
• "Gute Nacht" from " Winterreise " by Franz Schubert arr. And edited by Paul Hertel

Brass band

• op. 64 "The Phoenix"

Chamber orchestra

• op. 60/04 "Mystic Chamberorchestra"
• op. 77/13 "Der Gemeinheitstango", (transcription from the opera "Die Kaiserin")

Chamber music (selection)

Woodwinds

• op. 01 "Wind Quintet"
• op. 02 "Wind sextet with percussion"
• op. 26/2 “Multiphonics I”, for oboe and piano
• op. 32 “Multiphonics II”, for Ob / Vl / Vlc
• op. 37 “Mourning Work”, for oboe solo
• op. 46 “Multiphonics III”, for Ob / Vl / Vlc / Pfte
• op. 47 “Breath of a dying bird”, for flute solo
• op. 51/36 "Ende & Anfang", for flute quartet
• op. 51/32 “Remembrance”, for flute quartet
• op. 51/33 “Hotel Metropol”, for flute quartet
• op. 59 "3 Phrases pour le film muet"
• op. 67/13 “Café Ritz - Tango”, for flute quartet
• op. 68 "Three New Pieces for Oboe and Piano"
• op. 75/13 “Lied der Elster M03” from “Elster und Parzival”, transcription for oboe solo
• op. 76 "Three fine miniatures for oboe and piano"

Strings

• op. 17 "String Quartet"
• op. 28 “Five Chinese dragons in light yellow”, for solo violin
• op. 28/2 “Five Chinese dragons in light yellow”, for solo viola
• op. 48 "Horizont", for piano quintet
• op. 51 “Emigrant Trio”, for piano trio
• op. 67 “Café Ritz”, for cello and piano
• op. 67/02 “Café Ritz”, for string quartet
• op. 67/23 “Café Ritz”, for flute quartet
• op. 67 / 31–33 “Café Ritz”, for viola and piano
• op. 67 / 91–93 cello concerto in Café Ritz
• op. 71 “Astoria Lounge”, for violin and piano
• op. 77/23 “Der Gemeinheitstango” (transcription from the opera “Die Kaiserin”), for violin and cello
• op. 86 "Three Comics for Two Violins"
• op. 86 / 11–13 "Three comics for two violas"
• op. 91 "The refreshing violin concerto"

Various occupations

• op. 16 / 1–3 "Three songs based on Chinese texts from the first millennium" for soprano and piano
• op. 16 / 11–13 “Three songs based on Chinese texts from the first millennium” for mezzo-soprano and viola d'amore
• op. 20 “Mantra”, for percussion sextet
• op. 30 / 0–4, “Five pieces for 'Cristal' and percussion” (“Cristal” = “glass harmonica” by the brothers Francois and Bernard Baschet)
• op. 31 “Marchfelder Nebel”, for piano
• op. 33 “Six light blue silk cords”, for solo guitar
• op. 38 "Mannheim Piano Piece"
• op. 41 "Gold", for mixed choir
• op. 49 "Seven New Pieces for Piano"
• op. 53 “Jupiter”, for organ
• op. 65 “Tango and so”, for brass quintet
• op. 73 “Turn to the light”, for organ
• op. 75/21 “Four Chants of the Grail”, for organ
• op. 75/31 “Four Chants from the Grail”, for organ and oboe
• op. 75/41 “Four Chants of the Grail”, for organ and flute
• op. 81 "Solid Brass", for horn quartet
• op. 88 “Workers' Song and Fiesta” for brass quintet
• op. 89 “Three Red Wings” for harp solo
• op. 90 “It's just a Surprise” for zither and accordion

Teaching works (selection)

• op. 04 "Klavierstück 04.81", evaluation piece at "Jugend musiziert"
• op. 34 “Swieta's Garden”, lesson booklet / lecture pieces
• op. 44 "Rhythm and Fun", lesson booklet / lecture pieces
• op. 49 “Seven New Pieces for Piano”, recommended work title for courses with New Music, level of difficulty: medium to difficult
• op. 68/01 "Three completely new pieces for clarinet and piano", instruction booklet / lecture pieces
• op. 70 “The Sunrise Dance”, for youth wind orchestra
• op. 70/02 “The Sunrise Dance II”, for youth wind orchestra
• op. 92 “The 7 New Tangos”, for accordion
• op. 92/02 “The 7 New Tangos”, for zither
• op. 92/03 "The 9 New Waltzes" arranged for zither by Wilfried Scharf

Sound carrier (selection)

• Edition Moderne CASA 001: "Casablanca No. 1"
• Allround AME-01: "For all children at all seasons"
• ARCADIA EV – 103 / 39103–2: "Enchanted Locations"
• COSMOS 375.293: "PSI"
• STAR MUSIC 90.0115: "Green Ashes"
• Edition Moderne CASA 005: "Casablanca No. 5"
• Gramola 98711 EPU 9303: "The blue hour"
• ARCADIA EV – 196 / 39196–2: "Easter Island"
• ARCADIA EV – 197 / 39197–2: "Bridge of Sighs"
• LIFESTYLE LS – 518–2: "Odyssey to Mankind"
• LIFESTYLE LS – 525–2: "Dreamscapes"
• WM-PRODUCTION CDM 5070-2: "Antonspark"
• LIFESTYLE LS – 539–2: "Powerful Silence"
• AMOS 5877: "Symphony in Brass II"
• AMOS 5880: "Live from Mid Europe"
• EPU 9901: "New Classic"
• PREISER / PR 90548: "Imma too little and never too much"
• EN VOGUE 124: "Bizarre"
• MAX 830: "Nature Scores"
• CAPRICCIO 5051: "102 Masterpieces"
• PREISER / PR 90761: "Emigration of Strings"
• MOLENAAR MBCD 31.1117.72: "The Phoenix"
• Vienna Classics Records VCR 65 362: "Sisi - The Movie Trilogy Suite"

Web links

• Works by Paul Hertel in the catalog of the German National Library
• paulhertel.at