Peter Michael Braun

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Peter Michael Braun (born December 2, 1936 in Wuppertal ; † February 21, 2019 in Kirchheimbolanden ) was a German composer and university professor .

Career

Braun studied at the music academies in Cologne and Detmold with Frank Martin , Bernd Alois Zimmermann , Giselher Klebe and Herbert Eimert . From 1957 to 1961 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He then received an annual scholarship from the city of Cologne and study visits to the Villa Massimo in Rome and the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris . He worked on behalf of the Goethe Institute in Asia and taught at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music . From 1978 to 2001 he was professor of composition and music theory at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Heidelberg-Mannheim . In 2014 he received the Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize from the Esslingen Artists' Guild .

He composed music-dramatic, orchestral, chamber music, church music, vocal and electronic works and wrote music theory writings. He also worked as a pianist and conductor . For a short time he was a member of Group 8 Cologne . He was a founding member of the Harmonik-Zentrum Germany.

Works

  • Blessed counterpoint for strings, 1952/88
  • Sonata in G for piano, 1954/2005
  • Scherzo for orchestra on a German folk song 1956/91
  • 1st string quartet , 1957
  • Excursion for orchestra, 1958/71
  • Interstellar for four orchestral groups, 1959
  • Tracks for any voices / instruments, 1959/70
  • Alambic , Semaine musicale for conductor (s) and bel. Instruments, 1964/72
  • Transfer for large orchestra, 1965/68
  • Variety for large orchestra, 1965/69
  • Events electronic music, Hommage à Edgar Varèse , 1966/68
  • Landscape for large orchestra, 1966/71
  • Entelechy for voices and orchestra based on texts by Rainer Maria Rilke , 1972
  • Problems and Solutions for Strings, 1973/74
  • Enough is not enough! Five poems by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer for mixed choir, 1973/74
  • Junctim 2nd string quartet, 1974/75
  • Ambience for orchestra, 1974/76
  • Eichendorff or “Die Freier” , music theater based on a comedy and poems by Joseph von Eichendorff , 1974/92
  • Echec for one or more pianists, 1975
  • Serenata Palatina for orchestra, 1975/82
  • Sound probes , Radiofonisches Pan- Akustikum , 1976
  • The Sleeping Beauty for cello solo after La belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault , 1976/77
  • Two chants for mixed choir based on texts by Nikolaus Lenau and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , 1976/89
  • Miró Music for three pictures by Joan Miró for flute and piano, 1976/2005
  • Kashima Kikio (The Journey to Kashima Shrine) based on a story by Matsuo Bashō for alto or baritone and strings, 1977
  • Aria (Eichendorff: "Waldmädchen") for coloratura soprano and orchestra, 1977/80
  • Three chorales for four trombones, 1979
  • Bach Dances for orchestra based on an episode from “Reise in der Zeit”, 1979/2000
  • Ballet (Eichendorff: "Frühlingsdämmerung") for orchestra with speaker ad. lib, 1980/87
  • Neue Welt for mixed choir with instruments ad lib. (After Friedrich Hölderlin ), 1983
  • Orchestral piece Recherche , 1983/85
  • The beautiful Lau or “How to (again) learn to laugh” , fairy tales in music based on motifs by Eduard Mörike , 1984/86
  • Alborada (Eichendorff: “Morgenlied”) for soprano and orchestra, 1987
  • De Profundis for vocal ensemble or mixed choir, 1993
  • Die Juden , chamber opera based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , 1994/95
  • Sanctus for female choir or mixed choir, 2 instr. ad lib. and piano, 1995
  • Dans le Silence , Poème de Rêva Rémy for speaker, vocal ensemble ad lib. and 10 instruments, 1996
  • Die Herrlichkeit Gottes , symphonic cantata based on texts from the Old and New Testaments for tenor or baritone solo, mixed choir and orchestra, 1997/2000
  • Prologue to Poetry and Truth (Goethe: “Wanderers Sturmlied” and “Meine Göttin”) for a speaker, tenor and small orchestra, 1997/2003
  • Neue Menschen , chamber opera based on texts by Else Lasker-Schüler , Gerhart Hauptmann and Peter Hille , 2001-03 rev. 2007 and 2013
  • Weimar Waltz for symphonic wind orchestra, 2004
  • The Lord's Prayer for soprano solo, mixed choir and organ, 2004
  • From " Lebensglut " Herta Sökefeld for soprano, baritone and piano (2005)
  • Passus est et resurrexit for mixed choir, large organ and orchestra, 2005
  • Fanfare in memory of Gustav Mahler for trumpet and piano (2006)
  • Das Feuer Gottes Oratorio for three solo voices (soprano, alto, bass), mixed choir, large organ and orchestra based on texts from the Old and New Testaments (2002–2009)
  • Evolution for string quintet or string orchestra (2006-12)
  • Quintet "Die Lebensinsel" based on a picture by Arnold Böcklin for five wind instruments (2009/10)
  • Poetry and Truth Music-dramatic episodes based on texts by Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Lenz and others (1997-2013)

Publications

  • A harmonic approach to music theory , Cologne-Rodenkirchen, Tonger, 2000, ISBN 3-920950-16-X
  • Vote against. On the 'New Music' situation around 2000 , Wilhelmshaven, Noetzel, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7959-0896-6
  • Music survives. Part I - from the diaries 1956–1981 , Darmstadt, Synergia 2012
  • Chromatic and other freedoms in Das Neue Mannheimer Mozartbuch, Wilhelmshaven, Noetzel, 2010, ISBN 3-7959-0916-3
  • Music survives. Part II 1981-1989 Roßdorf, Synergia 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Michael Braun - Obituary notice
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Peter Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2019
Place of death Kirchheimbolanden