Peter Manfred Wolf

Peter Manfred Wolf (born June 27, 1958 in Hamburg ) is a German composer and university professor.

Career

Wolf received lessons in music theory and ear training from the composer and conductor Artur Grenz, who emerged from the Hindemith School. At the Musikhochschule Lübeck he studied school music, music theory (Roland Ploeger), piano (Peter Roggenkamp) and composition (Roland Ploeger, Friedhelm Döhl) and then musicology at the University of Hamburg. He also completed a postgraduate course in composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the State University of Music Karlsruhe. From 1988 to 1995 he was a full-time lecturer for music theory / composition at the Detmold University of Music / Department Dortmund. In 1995 he took up the professorship for music theory / composition and composition at the Rostock University of Music and Theater. From 2004 to October 2012 he was also Vice Rector for Studies and Teaching. Benjamin Lang, Sven Daigger and Caspar de Gelmini are among his students. Peter Manfred Wolf has initiated and directed festivals and projects on the subject of New Music (“Open Days”, “Contra Points”, etc.), including the “Bridges - New Music in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania” festival that has been taking place since 2004 at the University for Music and theater Rostock.

Peter Manfred Wolf's catalog raisonné includes scenic works, orchestral and chamber music of the various ensembles as well as vocal music and solo works.

Works (in selection)

• Piano piece I (1982/83)
• ... non troppo ... for piano (1990)
• SOLD OUT for piano solo (1991)
• Ab- UmBruch ... fragment. Scene sequence for piano (1993)
• Cantilena sacra ... Cantilena sacra for organ (1994)
• VERSANGLICHT for oboe, violin, viola and violoncello (1995)
• end-limit ... play for violoncello solo (1998)
• Ritual III - Playroom for Orchestra (2002)
• Sketch - Job Material for Horn Solo (2006)
• Dreaming. Job Material I for brass quintet (2006)
• Over the Sea - Job Material II for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola and violoncello (2006)
• Tracks for piano four hands (2007)
• . ... Fern. for soprano, oboe, violin and piano based on a text by Frido Mĕtšk (German by Kito Lorenc) (2007)
• Lamento for soprano and chamber ensemble (2007)
• Terrain for string orchestra (2010)
• In the dark. Five album sheets for violin and organ (2012)
• Job. Material for orchestra (2014)

Publications

• Musical Analysis Techniques. Developed and presented using selected examples , Hagen 1992.
• Reflections on the position and effect of composition and music theory in everyday university life , in: Glücksmomente. For the inauguration of the new building of the Rostock University of Music and Theater , ed. by Wilfried Jochims, Rostock 2001.
• Festival planning: Processes and risks, together with Birger Petersen, in: Culture Entrepreneurship - The artist as an entrepreneur. Documentation of the 5th lecture series on entrepreneurship and regional development , ed. by Gerald Braun and Martin French, Berlin 2010, pp. 218–298.

Web links

• Peter Manfred Wolf in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Profile at the Rostock University of Music and Theater