Peter Mieg

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Peter Mieg 1927

Peter Mieg (born September 5, 1906 in Lenzburg ; † December 7, 1990 in Aarau ) was a composer , painter and publicist who shaped Swiss cultural life in many ways over the decades and made a name for himself beyond the national borders.

biography

Peter Mieg grew up in a family home where everything musical was a matter of course. The ancestors on the mother's side belonged to an old, middle-class Lenzburg family, the ancestors on the father's side, the Mieg , who had long been based in Basel, originally came from Alsace.

composition

During his school days, Mieg took piano lessons from Carl Arthur Richter , music director and composer in Lenzburg; first attempts at composition date back to 1918. After graduating from high school in 1927 in Aarau, Mieg studied art history , archeology , music history, and German and French literature in Zurich, Basel and Paris . At the same time he had piano lessons with Emil Frey in Zurich and Hans Münch in Basel. In 1933 Mieg wrote a dissertation under the title Morgenthaler, Moillet, Eppler - Studies on Modern Watercolor Painting in Switzerland . As a result, Mieg turned to journalism and worked full-time as an art, music and literary critic for the Basler Nachrichten , Weltwoche , Badener Tagblatt and various magazines.

In the years 1933–1939 he made the acquaintance of Paul Sacher and the composers Bartók , Conrad Beck , Stravinsky , Honegger and Martinů . In 1934 he became friends with the painter Marguerite Ammann and the painter Franz Max Herzog. In 1939 Peter Mieg moved back to Lenzburg, where he initially rented his father's house in Sonnenberg. He bought the property in 1955. During the war years , Mieg also worked as an adlat for the Lenzburg town clerk. Numerous trips abroad to music festivals in Austria, France, Italy and Germany followed as a correspondent .

From 1942 onwards, Mieg was advised by Frank Martin on compositional issues for several years . At the beginning of the 1950s the real breakthrough as a composer came, in particular with the Concerto da Camera per archi, pianoforte e timpani (1952) and the Concerto per clavicembalo e orchestra da camera (1953), which was also performed by the Berlin Philharmonic in 1956 Silvia Kind as a soloist. As a result, Mieg composed exclusively on commission, for example the music for harpsichord, two wind instruments and four strings (1954) for Radio Basel, the symphony (1958) for the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , the concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 (1961) for the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne , the Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra (1962) for the Bern Chamber Orchestra and the Triple Concerto dans le goût italien (1978) for the Festival Strings Lucerne . Numerous performances at home and abroad began. A friendship began with the composer Gottfried von Eine , the conductor Edmond de Stoutz - Mieg wrote numerous works for the Zurich Chamber Orchestra he directed - and the composer Alexander Tscherepnin .

The focus of Mieg's work is clearly the musical oeuvre , which comprises around 135 compositions and in which he has developed a neoclassicism of personal stamp. The focus is on instrumental concerts, chamber and piano music.

painting

As a watercolor and gouache painter, Mieg did not enter the public regularly with exhibitions until 1961; his oeuvre includes hundreds of still lifes , especially pictures of flowers and fruits, as well as landscapes .

Write

With Peter Mieg as the author, the volume Lenzburger Poetik or Imaginäre Speech auf die Dichtkunst in and around Lenzburg was published in 1967 , in 1978 the three bizarre stories of Hannibal, later Sport and Miss Marple, and on his 80th birthday in 1986 the memoirs of Laterna Magica .

Peter Mieg was a homme d'esprit, a comprehensively educated and well-read personality, in which sensitivity was paired with cheerfulness and subtle irony. He died in 1990 at the age of 85 in Aarau Cantonal Hospital .

Varia

Peter Mieg was the great-nephew of the composer Fanny Hünerwadel (1826–1854) and the cousin of the historian Jean Rudolf von Salis (1901–1996). It also served as a template for the figure of the eccentric composer and painter Edmond de Mog in the novel Brenner by Hermann Burger (1942–1989), Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1989, pp. 68–82.

Peter Mieg Foundation

Foundation, endowment

The Peter Mieg Foundation was established by Peter Mieg by will and has existed in Lenzburg since 1991. It is administered by a five-member board of trustees. The purpose of the foundation is to look after the artistic legacy of the composer, painter and publicist Peter Mieg. The memory of Peter Mieg is to be preserved through the performance and reproduction of his musical works, the exhibition of his pictures, the publication of unpublished writings and other suitable activities.

Museum and Archive

Until 2019, the foundation owned the "Sonnenberg" house on Schlossgasse in Lenzburg, a town house from the 18th century surrounded by a picturesque garden . The foundation also has an archive that has been located in the Müllerhaus in Lenzburg since 2018. Peter Mieg's musical legacy has been accepted into the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel.

Discography

CDs

  • Swiss Aspects , Argovia Philharmonic , including Peter Mieg: Concerto da camera per archi, pianoforte e timpani (1952), Coviello Classics, Cov 31314, 2014
  • Peter Mieg: Selected Works : String Trio (1937), String Quartet No. 1 (1938), Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (1957), Toccata-Arioso-Gigue for String Orchestra (1959). Performers: Streiff Trio, Carmina Quartet , Camerata Zürich , Marc Kissóczy (cond.), Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Sebastian Tewinkel (cond.), Musiques Suisses CD 6239, 2006
  • Gaudibert-Meier-Mieg concerts : ao Peter Mieg: Concerto for two pianos and orchestra (1939-42) , Bruno Schneider Horn, Felix Renggli flute, Adrienne Soos and Ivo Haag, piano, Orchester de Chambre de Neuchâtel under Jan Schultsz --- Musiques Suisses MGB CD 6234, 2005.
  • Swiss music for flute and piano: including Peter Mieg: Sonate (1963), Musiques Suisses MGB CD 6222, 2004.
  • Peter Mieg: Triple Concerto dans le goût italien pour violon, alto, violoncelle et orchester à cordes , Mit Nacht und Nacht for tenor and orchestra , Morceau élégant pour flûte et harpe , music for harpsichord, two wind instruments and four strings. Sonata for violoncello and piano . Performers: Beromünster Radio Orchestra , Erich Schmid (cond.), Tenor Ernst Haefliger ; Festival Strings Lucerne , Mario Venzago (cond.); Primož Novšak , Karl-Andreas Kolly et al., Jecklin Edition JS 314–2, 1996
  • Peter Mieg: Symphony (1958), Rondeau symphonique (1964), Combray (1977). Performers: Orkiestra Symfoniczna, Polskie Radio i Telewizja (Warszawa), André Froelicher (cond.), Gallo CD-681, 1991.
  • String Trio (1984). Performers: Novšak Trio: Primož Novšak (violin), Michel Rouilly (viola), Susanne Basler (cello). Pro Arte Musicae PAM-CD-PT1008, 1990.

Records

  • Peter Mieg: Triple Concerto dans le goût italien pour violon, alto, violoncelle et cordes (1978), violin: Gunars Larsens, viola: Wilhelm Gerlach, cello: Curdin Coray, Festival Strings Lucerne , conductor: Mario Venzago , Concerto per clavicembalo e orchestra da camera (1954), harpsichord: Ernst Gerber, solo flutes: Anna-Katharina Graf and Sunna Bircher, Festival Strings Lucerne, conductor: Rudolf Baumgartner , EX LIBRIS 1981
  • Peter Mieg: Sonata IV pour piano (1975), piano: Jean-Jacques Dünki , "Doris" pour alto (1977), viola: András von Tószeghi, duo pour flûte et alto (1977), flute: Günter Rumpel, viola: András von Tószeghi, Sonate pour flûte et piano (1963), flute: Günter Rumpel, piano: Stefi Andres, ALOIV 1978
  • Peter Mieg: Chamber music: Morceau élégant (1969) pour flûte et harpe, flute: Peter-Lukas Graf , harp: Ursula Holliger, Les Plaisirs de Rued (1971) pour flûte solo, flute: Peter-Lukas Graf, Quintuor (1969) pour flûte, 2 violons, violoncelle et clavecin, flute: Peter-Lukas Graf, violins: Alexander von Wijnkoop, Eva Zürbrügg, violoncello: Walter Grimmer, harpsichord: Ernst Gerber, Lettres à Goldoni (1971) pour piano, piano: Dinorah Varsi , Les Charmes de Lostorf (1971) pour 2 flûtes solo, flutes: Anne Utagawa and Dominique Hunziker, Sur les Rives du Lac Léman (1968) pour violon et piano, violin: Thomas Füri, piano: Urs Voegelin, Les Jouissances de Mauensee (1971) pour 3 flûtes solo, flutes: Peter-Lukas Graf, Anne Utagawa and Dominique Hunziker, Claves Records 1976
  • Concerto pour deux flûtes et orchester à cordes (1974), flutes: Dominique Hunziker and Anne Utagawa, Festival Strings Lucerne, direction: Rudolf Baumgartner, Ariola Eurodisc 1975.
  • Peter Mieg: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 (1962), piano: Annette Weisbrod, Mit Nacht und Nacht (1962), chants for tenor and orchestra based on texts by Cyrus Atabay, tenor: Ernst Haefliger , Basel Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Armin Jordan
  • Toccata - Arioso - Gigue for string orchestra (1959), Stadtorchester Winterthur , conductor: Clemens Dahinden, Working Group for the Promotion of Swiss Music, undated
  • Chamber concerts . Vanguard, 1959: Serial of Swiss Composer's League, no. 42-43. Cassation for 9 instruments , 4 quatuors vocaux , Concerto da Camera per archi, pianoforte e timpani . Performers: Rudolf am Bach (piano); Zurich Chamber Orchestra , Edmond de Stoutz (cond.), Instrumental ensemble, Räto Tschupp (cond.), Pamela Ricci, Marie Lise de Montmollin, Eric Tappy , Gaston Presset, Maroussia Le Marc'Hadour.

Further reading and films

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/aargau/lenzburg/ueberraschung-in-sachen-mieg-haus-burghalde-chefin-ist-kaeuferin-136062786
  2. ↑ https://www.paul-sacher-stiftung.ch/de/sammlungen/ko/mieg-de-20191009.html
personal data
SURNAME Mieg, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenzburg
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1990
Place of death Lenzburg