Peter Schindler (musician)

Peter Schindler, 2014

Peter Schindler (born April 26, 1960 in Altensteig , district of Calw ) is a German pianist , organist , composer , music producer and author .

Study and teaching

Schindler received his first piano lessons at the age of seven and his first organ lessons at the age of eleven. From 1973 to 1976 he studied at the Rottenburg church music school . From 1980 to 1988 he studied school music, composition, jazz and popular music at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts .

Musical creation and stylistic features

His works include chansons, instrumental pieces, sacred works, music for ballet and drama as well as musicals, singspiele and songs for children and young people, which are published by Carus-Verlag .

As an organist and pianist, he mainly performs his own compositions with various ensembles and performers at home and abroad. Concert tours with the Saltacello quintet he founded and the Pipes and Phones group have taken him to China, Denmark, France, Italy, Korea, Austria, Poland, Scandinavia, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and the United States.

The collaboration of the Saltacello quintet with the ballet of the Korean National Theater in the dance theater production Soul, Sunflower is one of the highlights of the intercultural collaboration.

Characteristic of SaltaCello is the pronounced ability puzzling to let poetic rayed moods arise. In the colorful dance of touching pieces, sadness and wit, classical and jazz, drama and dance alternated. This kaleidoscopic variability underlines the fantasy name Saltacello , in which the cello forms a constant as the center.

In addition to jazz as a foundation, chamber music moments and influences from South America can be heard at Saltacello . Impressions from numerous trips to Asia are also woven into the music.

The Mörikelieder set to music with Saltacello and the singer Sandra Hartmann were presented on CD and in concerts as a rose time cycle in 2004. In the lieder duo with Sandra Hartmann, this cycle was expanded into a chanson program a year later with the setting of texts by Claudius, Fleming, Goethe, Heine, Rückert, Schiller and von Wolkenstein. A jazz-inspired music brings texts from the Middle Ages, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods close.

The participation and musical direction in numerous theaters and independent musical theater productions enabled Schindler to discover and experience musical theater in all its diversity. This musical-dramatic and theater-pedagogical experience motivated him to devote himself to the musical genre. In an appealing, pedagogically unobtrusive way and with a high quality of text and music, he introduces children and young people to making music in his numerous children's songs and musicals.

With his Missa in Jazz , the idea joins in with elements of jazz - improvisation and a pulsating rhythm - to meet the ordinarium in a musical language of the 21st century.

Schindler calls the “love story” based on German texts by 26 poets from five centuries sun, moon and stars - a scenic cantata that deals with love, longing, passion, time, the cycle of life, dreams and death. Everyday and hilarious are sung about as much as the deepest. The world premiere took place on July 20, 2011 in the Beethovensaal of the Liederhalle Stuttgart .

Extensive CD recordings, published by the labels finetone music , Carus-Verlag Stuttgart , Sony Korea, Good International Korea.

Saltacello

Occupation:	Wolfgang Schindler:	violoncello
	Peter Lehel :	saxophone
	Mini Schulz :	bass
	Peter Schindler:	Piano, harmonium
	Markus Faller :	Drums

Pipes and Phones

Occupation:	Peter Schindler	Church organ
	Peter Lehel	Saxophone, bass clarinet
Guests:	Markus Faller	percussion
	Herbert Joos	Trumpet, flugelhorn
	Young chamber choir	Baden-Württemberg

Compositions and texts

Many of his works are published by Carus-Verlag Stuttgart .

Catalog raisonné

Musical dramaturgical works

Scenic cantata

• Sonne, Mond und Sterne (2011): Scenic cantata in two acts based on German texts from five centuries for soprano, baritone, 4-part. Choir, orchestra, piano and percussion 110 min

Musicals

• Witching hour at Eulenstein Castle (2000): grusical for choir, performing soloists, piano and rhythm section, 60 min
• Max und die Käsebande (2004): Criminal in two acts for choir, performing soloists, piano and rhythm section, 90 min
• Christmas is canceled! (2006): Musical at Christmas time, choir, performing soloists, string orchestra, 60 min
• Big star, now what? (2007): Singspiel for Advent and Christmas, choir, piano / 12 min
• König Keks (2008): musical opera in two acts choir, performing soloists, wind quartet, string orchestra, rhythm section, 95 min
• Zirkus Furioso (2010): Circus musical choir, performing soloists, artists, piano, wind quintet, string orchestra, rhythm section 70 min
• SCHOCKORANGE or the dream of a winning rhythm (2013): Rhythmical (trash musical) in two acts performing soloists, band quintet and brass quartet, 95 min
• Ox and donkey know more (2013): Nativity scene, choir, performing soloists, small orchestra and piano, 30 min
• Small stick, really big! (2014): A forest musical for choir, performing soloists, small orchestra, piano, rhythm section, 30 min
• Der Blaue Planet (2015): A musical about the weal and woe of the world for choir, performing soloists, small orchestra, piano, rhythm group, 60 min

Spiritual works

• Missa in Jazz (2001) in Latin 4-part. Choir, organ, saxophone, percussion, 70 min
• When I am dead, my dearest (2011) 4stg. Choir, piano, 5 min
• Missa secunda (2014) for 5-part. Choir, organ, wind quintet, 14 min

Song cycle

• Rosenzeit (2004/2014): song cycle, 29 chansons for one voice (mezzo-soprano or baritone) and piano, texts by Eduard Mörike, Matthias Claudius, Paul Fleming, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oswald von Wolkenstein, Friedrich Rückert, Friedrich Schiller, 120 min

Instrumental music

• Concerto for violoncello, piano and rhythm section (1994), 20 min
• Trio for tenor saxophone, violoncello, piano (1995), 18 min
• Trilogy Suite for saxophone, violoncello, piano and rhythm section (1997), 17 min
• Récit for organ and saxophone (1993), 12 min
• Organum Suite for organ and saxophone (1998), 15 min
• Blue Solitude, 15 pieces for piano solo (1999), 40 min
• approx. 50 individual pieces for cello, saxophone and rhythm section (Saltacello repertoire 1992–2005)

Ballet music

• Come neve al sole (1999), 7 min
• Soul, Sunflower (2006) saxophone, violoncello, piano and rhythm section, 90 min
• Princess Congjui (2009) large orchestra, 75 min

Audio books

• Hans, turn up steam! (with illustrations by Wolfgang Slawski) (2005)
• Winter's Tale (2007)
• Fairy tale samovar (2007)
• Of Princesses and Princes (2008)
• The Mermaid (2008)

Radio play music

• Tissue HR (1987)
• Arrived safely, write HR / BR soon (1988)
• In the hour of the lynx HR / Sachsenradio (1991)

Songs for children

• Songs for 1-2stg. Choir, piano and rhythm section
• Jungle Song (1981/1995)
• A Little Chicken Flies Around the World (1995)
• The Cheese Band (1995)
• In the bar to the fat dog (1996)
• Highest Railway (1996)
• Doctor Parsley (1996)
• King Punimo (1996)
• Be Welcome, Christmas Time (2013) 25 songs for winter and Christmas time

Children's hits with a joke

180 songs for 1-2 parts Choir, piano and rhythm section (volume 1−21 in the years 1996−2013): Texts by Hugo Ball, Barbara Berrien, Maik Brandenburg, Victor Blüthgen, Irmela Brender, Wilhelm Busch, Matthias Claudius, Paula Dehmel, Babette Dieterich, Annette von Droste -Hülshoff, Peter Dünow, Joseph von Eichendorff, Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Gustav Falke, Theodor Fontane, Alwin Freudenberg, Matthias Ernst Friedrich, Emanuel Geibel, Ferry Hirschmann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Göckeritz, Julia Hagemann, Peter Hammerschlag, Heinrich Hoffmann, Helmut Höfling, Edith Jeske, James Krüss, Sonny Kunst, Eduard Mörike, Christoph Mohr, Jutta Rath, Robert Reinick, Joachim Ringelnatz, Peter Schindler, Heinrich Seidel, Johannes Trojan, Jens Wormstädt, Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Discography

• On the way (1996)
• Pipes and Phones (1996)
• Second flush (1998)
• Live in Seoul (1999)
• Blue Solitude (1999)
• Suites (1999)
• Salted (2000)
• Spanish Heart (2000)
• Jeong (2001)
• Missa in Jazz (2001)
• Rose time (2004)
• Asian Habanera (2006)
• Joking Barber (2010)
• Sun, Moon and Stars (2012)

CDs for children

• Max and the Cheese Band (2005)
• Hans, turn up steam! (2005)
• Children's hits with a joke (2005)
• Big star, now what? (2006)
• Hoppel Hoppel Rhythm Club Vol.2 (2006)
• Hoppel Hoppel Rhythm Club Vol.3 (2008)
• Children's song project Carus (2011)

Reviews

• "Let the muse kiss you." With this sentence, the duo entered their program Rosenzeit , initially leaving the listener in the dark as to which poems they are actually about. But that was almost irrelevant, because when Hartmann begins to sing, she captivates her audience. Hartmann doesn't sing lyrics, she tells stories. And she does it as vividly as if it were her own. Sometimes breathy, gentle, tender and quiet, sometimes wild and fiery. Sometimes it lapses into a chant in order to conjure up the most beautiful melodies in a brilliant way in the next moment. Schindler is no less present: his sensitive piano playing accompanies and is so concise at the same time that piano and song can become one.
• "Since its premiere, Missa in Jazz has sparked such enthusiasm that it is still performed in a wide variety of formations in Germany to this day. With this composition, Peter Schindler opens up completely new approaches to the Latin mass texts that have been set to music time and again in music history (Bach's B minor Mass, Beethoven's Great Mass, ...). "
• “ Saltacello are the personified bridges between Korea and Germany, set in tones. Not with clumsy stadium rock to roar along with, but with a subtle, elegant mix of classical, jazz and various popular elements. "
• Soul, Sunflower , the dance production together with the German music ensemble Saltacello (Peter Schindler) was shown in several sold out performances in Seoul from October 2006 to April 2007. It is a unique project of cultural cooperation between Germany and South Korea. This production reinterprets the Korean dance Salpuri. Salpuri is a dance for the purification of the soul literally means: "wash off evil spirits". In the modern version, the movements shown represent human desires and longings. "
• “Schindler is not afraid to strike notes like folk songs , for example in Schiller's punch song . He gives Derbem a rustic kick ( the poor pork neck from the Wunderhorn garnished with a jazzy clarinet part), he masters the sheer euphony ( boy and violet ), also from the Wunderhorn, and, if necessary, pushes the action forward with energetic brass ostinati ( What is the world ) and with the biblical everything has its time in bitter depths, as we know it from Johannes Brahms. And last but not least, he succeeds in setting an icon of romantic lyric poetry, Eichendorff's Mondnacht , to music in such a way that you never miss Schumann's "original". "
• “Schindler is without a doubt one of the most important children's song composers of our time. All of his songs are small, self-contained stories that have been lovingly set to music in a wide variety of styles. "

Prizes and awards

• 2000 German Record Critics' Prize for the CD Suites with "Pipes and Phones"
• 2001 Special "Best Group" award at the "International Contest for Jazz and Church Organ" in Hanover with "Pipes and Phones"
• 2006 Prize of the German Record Critics with the "Hoppel Hoppel Rhythm Club"
• 2006 First Seoul Prize for the composition and performance of the dance performance "Soul, Sunflower" with the NTOK ( Korean National Theater ) Seoul
• 2007 Baden-Württemberg Cabaret Prize for the chanson program "Rosenzeit - Liebesleid" together with the singer Sandra Hartmann
• 2007 “Best Edition” in the category school and teaching literature for children and young people of the German Music Edition Award for the musical Christmas is canceled

Web links

• Official website
• Saltacello
• Saltacello on finetone.de
• Pipes and Phones on finetone.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://pcmedien.de/dtkvbw/tkf/tkf63H.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.saltacello.de/
3. ↑ http://www.peter-schindler.de/artist/pipes-and-phones/
4. ↑ Schwäbische.de
5. ↑ artnerchor.at ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung
7. ↑ pcmedien.de
8. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung ( Memento from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ nmz
10. ↑ German Music Edition 2007 on the website of the German Cultural Council , accessed on May 20, 2011