Peter Motzkus

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Peter Motzkus (born February 17, 1986 in Schwerin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) is a German composer and musicologist .

Life

Since 2016 Motzkus has been working as a freelance dramaturge for the contemporary vocal ensemble AuditivVokal Dresden . As part of this, he was involved in setting up the online documentation center Neue Dresdner Vokalschule , a cooperative archive project of the AVD and the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library .

In 2018 Motzkus took over the co- editing of the magazine Seiltanz - Contributions to Contemporary Music ( Berlin : Edition Juliane Klein KG ).

Works (selection)

  • Requiem (op. 35), texts: Rainer Maria Rilke
    • a) for soprano and trombone quartet
    • b) for voice and organ
    • c) Final piece , for voice and piano
  • Canto Tragico (op. 36), oboe, three-part choir (2 × SMB), violin, viola, cello, double bass
  • Quartetto # 1 (op. 42), for two bass clarinets and two violas
  • Solo # 1. TDOT 819 ( op.43a ), for Xaphoon
  • Symphony # 1 "I live, see, now hear with my heart". A Requiem for Paula Modersohn-Becker (op.41a), solos (STB), choir (2 × SATB) and orchestra
  • remarQUEantate. 12 episodic chapters on P. Bäumer's account of the First World War. A kind of oratorio cantata in two parts after Nothing New in the West by Erich Maria Remarque , (op. 44), 16 voices (4 × SATB) and chamber orchestra
  • Motet # 1 (Isa 49, Jer 1, Luk 1; op.45), 10 parts for two choirs (SAATB / SATTB)
  • Love Waltz songs (various authors; op. 49), mixed choir in various line-ups
  • Cantata # 2 ›der traenen‹ (P. Motzkus; op. 51), 8 voices (2 × SATB), zinc, baroque violin, baroque viola, baroque violoncello, chest organ
  • Motet # 3 ( Dota Kehr , Peter Motzkus; op. 54), 36 parts (6S, 8A, 10T, 12B), mobile playback devices - World premiere : Dresdner Kammerchor (conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann ) as part of a concert for the 30th Anniversary, February 11, 2016 in the Dreikönigskirche Dresden.
  • Telemusik # 1: Call Me Bach (op. 55), 4 voices (CCTB), smartphones - World premiere: AuditivVokal Dresden as part of the Dresden Bach Festival (91st Bach Festival of the New Bach Society ), September 28, 2016 in the Dresden City Museum .
  • Quintetto # 1 (op. 56), 5 voices (SMTBarB) - World premiere: AuditivVokal Dresden, jubilee concert for the tenth anniversary, June 1, 2017 in the German Hygiene Museum Dresden.
  • second part 598.mdb krähwinkel (op. 57), 2 to ∞ voices and mobile playback devices - World premiere: AuditivVokal Dresden, for the first “BürgerSingStunde” on September 13, 2017 in the Albertinum Dresden.
  • PMB ARIA . An attempt at an entry in the diary of the Dresden painter Paula Modersohn-Becker. Woman's voice, mobile player
  • controversial music , 2 contestants and 2 voices - world premiere: AuditivVokal Dresden, Martin Dulig and Horst Wehner during the 3rd choir festival "Meißen klingt ...", September 9, 2017 in the Meißen town hall .
  • Motet # 2 ›touché toupet‹ (P. Motzkus), 8 voices for two choirs (2 × SATB)

Literature (selection)

  • Angela Wingerath and the ›extra-normal voice‹. Resonance and alienation in the work of Michael Edward Edgerton , in: Tight dance. Contributions to contemporary music , ed. v. Stefan Drees, Gordon Kampe and Peter Motzkus, issue 16 (April 2018), Berlin: Edition Juliane Klein KG 2018 - pp. 28–37.
  • "Secret". Nikos Mamangakis ' music for the HEIMAT series , in: Filmmusik & Identity (= No. 13 (November 2017) of the Kiel Contributions to Film Music Research, published by the Kiel Society for Film Music Research 2017) - pp. 76–121.
  • “For me, the tonal language chosen often depends on the era in which the story is set.” Helmut Krausser as a composer , in: Tilting. Contributions to contemporary music , ed. v. Stefan Drees and Gordon Kampe, Issue 15 (October 2017), Berlin: Edition Juliane Klein KG 2017— pp. 11–25.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Dresden Vocal School: Documentation center on contemporary choral and vocal music creation. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  2. ^ Tight- rope dance - Contributions to contemporary music. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Michael Ernst: Four new vocal works for the 30th anniversary of the Dresden Chamber Choir. Dresden Latest News, February 9, 2016, accessed on June 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Festival brochure for the Dresden Bach Festival. Retrieved June 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Michael Bartsch: Dresdeners make music for the “citizens' singing hour” in the Albertinum. Dresden Latest News, September 14, 2017, accessed on June 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Meißener Kulturverein: Review of the 2017 Choir Festival. Accessed June 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Motzkus, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania