Rainer Fabich

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Rainer Fabich (born November 14, 1958 in Steingaden ) is a German composer , film composer , musician and lecturer .

Life

Fabich studied instrumental music (major: clarinet, artistic diploma) at the Munich University of Music and Theater and musicology and communication studies (master's degree, doctorate) with a focus on film music at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . His book Music for the Silent Film - Analyzing Description of Original Film Compositions is now considered a standard work on European film music from the silent film era in the years 1895–1928.

From 1998 to 2008 he was a lecturer for film music at the University of Television and Film Munich (Documentary Film Department). As a guest, u. a. at international symposia (Vienna, Salzburg, Cologne and Paris), the universities of Berlin, Rostock and Trento / Italy, the University of Music, Munich and the international film festivals in Munich, Berlin and Cannes / France. Fabich is and was a board member of the DKV ( German Composers Association , since 2007), of FFACE (Federation of Audiovisual Composers of Europe, from 2007–2015) and of ECSA (European Composers Alliance) of the CC ( Composers Club , from 2000–2010) and the German Academy for Television (2010–2014). He is also a member of the German Film Academy , the evaluation committee of the GEMA Supervisory Board, the Economic Committee of the German Music Council, and a founding member of FFACE, the German Film Composers Union (DEFKOM), the German Academy for Television and the First Bavarian Film Phoniker.

Works

Fabich writes instrumental works (orchestral and chamber music), lieder, songs and film music. His catalog raisonné includes over 500 compositions. In addition to 15 CD releases, radio and TV commissioned compositions, he composed the music for more than 60 feature, television, documentary and experimental films. He created the music for multimedia sound installations and for international events (e.g. Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, opening “El Castillo del Mar ” / La Gomera , Spain). He is also known as a musician (clarinet and saxophone), music teacher and through his work on the theory and history of film music.

orchestra

  • This is my life - Film Music song , from the film: Der Glanz der Schattenwirtschaft / United Street Sellers Republic , premiere: Münchner Rundfunkorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Ulf Schirmer, Night of Filmmusik 2016, Munich
  • Sea of ​​sadness - Concert piece, In memoriam to the boat people, soprano saxophone and strings, 2016
  • Mentawai - Film music suite, premiere: Münchner Rundfunkorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Frank Zacher, Nacht der Filmmusik 2011, Munich
  • Yak - Film music suite , premiere: Münchner Rundfunkorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Heiko Mathias Förster, Nacht der Filmmusik 2009, Munich
  • Ulysses - Prelude to an Odyssey (2007)
  • Pegasus - Ride on wings (2006)
  • Castillo del Mar , version for soprano saxophone, piano and orchestra, premier: Münchner Symphoniker, cond.: Heiko Maria Förster, Nacht der Filmmusik 2006, Munich
  • Dance of the Borsovi , premiere: Münchner Symphoniker, Nacht der Filmmusik 2004, Munich

saxophone

  • Mr. Marley´s Tape Delay (Saxophone Quartet, 2016)
  • Rastaman (saxophone quartet, 2016)
  • Jamaican Love Call (saxophone quartet, 2016)
  • Quattro Donne (for soprano saxophone and cello, 2014)

piano

  • Piano Pure (2018)
  • 4teens Reggaes (2007)
  • Scenes for piano (2005)
  • Four Nocturnes (2005)
  • Impresiónes Latinas (2005)
  • Memoirs of a Frustrated Hedonist (1995)

CDs

  • z-Minga III - Bavarian Worldmusic (2017)
  • The Shine of the Black Economy / United Street Sellers Republic (Soundtrack, 2015)
  • Sop Sax Tunes (2014)
  • D-Hymns II - german mulit traxx (2012)
  • Yak! Mali-Shomal, Film Music Suites by Rainer Fabich (2010)
  • z-Minga II (2009)
  • D-Hymns (Intercultural Versions of the Deutschlandlied, 2006)
  • Piano Pur (Soloist: Michaela Pühn, 2005)
  • Film music Rainer Fabich (2003)
  • Castillo del Mar (2002)
  • z-minga.de (2002)
  • Fajora's Voyage (1999)
  • Mentawai (1999)
  • Back on earth (1995)
  • Seize the moment (1993)
  • Sky Connection (1987)

Film & TV music (selection)

  • Case number XY, R: Matthias Kopp, ZDF 2018
  • Picture book Germany: Völklingen and the Warndt , D: Claas Danielsen , ARD / SR 1999/2000
  • Picture book Germany: Winter im Tölzer Land , D: Sigrid Esslinger, ARD / BR 2002, 2004, 2008
  • Butrint , in the series: Treasures of the World, D: Monika Kovacsics, 3SAT / SWR 2003, 2007
  • Castillo del mar - Chronicle of Forgotten Places , D: Reinhold Rühl, DVD 2005
  • Cirkus Krone , R: Ulrich Frantz, BR 1996
  • The shine of the shadow economy, D: Jan Kerckhoff, BR / ARTE, 2015/2018, German Business Film Award 2015, Prix Victoria in Gold / International Business Film Festival Vienna, 2016
  • The coffins of Imeni and Geheset , Michael Leutner, Dt. Archaeological Inst. Cairo, DVD 2007
  • A completely normal day , D: Till Noever, Premiere World 2000, 2001
  • Faadumo , R: Yvonne Rüchel-Aebersold, HFF 2004
  • God and the World: Dear and Mighty , D: Hubert Schöne, ARD 1994, 2000
  • Stop crying, Hermann , D: Margrét Rùn, Icelandic Broadcasting 1990, WDR 1991, 1 Plus 1992
  • Inshallah , D: Michael Holzinger, ARD / SDR 1991, 2000, 2002
  • Sounds between eyes and ears , together with Enjott Schneider , R: Michael Verhoeven , Sat 1, 1986
  • Children made of stone , with Enjott Schneider, D: Volker-Maria Arend, WDR 1989, 1990, 1 Plus 1993
  • Childhood in the Gulag , series: Lebenslinien, D: Ralph-Jürgen Schönheinz and Galina Kirsunova, BR 2002, 2002, 2007
  • Laura of Albania , R: Margrét Rùn, Erasmus / Rùn-Film 1994
  • Machame. A German Doctor in Africa , with Enjott Schneider, D: Christian Doermer , RTL 1991
  • Marienhof . TV series, musical single tracks in approx. 30 episodes, from ARD 1992
  • Memoirs of a Frustrated Hedonist , D: Claas Danielsen, WDR / BR 1998
  • Mentawai (silent film), D: Wilhelm Dachwitz, 1928/96, RTL, SAT 1, 1997
  • Mission is Possible , D: Christian Doermer , SAT 1, 1996
  • Monk or Massage , R: Christian Doermer, SAT 1, 1998
  • Die Nacht des Marders , D: Maria Theresia Wagner , 1988, WDR 1989/91, BR, 1 Plus 1992, WDR 1995, VOX'97, 98, 99, 2001, 2002, Bavarian and German Film Awards 1989
  • Ohrid , in the series: Treasures of the World , D: Monika Kovacsics , 3SAT / SWR 2003, 2007
  • Pentecost from Mentawai , D: Christian Doermer, SAT 1, 1998
  • Polarstern , with Enjott Schneider , R: Angela Lütgenmeyer, BR 1984, WDR 1985
  • Le repos du guerrier / The pillow of rest (reconstruction), D: Roger Vadim , ARD III, BR, SR, 1988/89
  • Roter Vogel , with Enjott Schneider, R: Dagmar Damek , ARD 1988, 1 Plus 1989, BR 1994
  • Shomal - Riviera der Mullahs, R .: Stefan Tolz / Filmquadrat, theme evening: IRAN, ARTE / SWR 2003, Phoenix 2004, SWR 2005
  • Die Spinner im Gartetal , with E. Schneider, D: Martin Choroba / Stefan Weller, SWF, NDR 1986
  • South German freedom. Art of the Revolution , D: Hans Lang, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich, 1994
  • Südsee oder Synthesizer , R: Christian Doermer , SAT 1, 1996
  • Tzimi , together with Jannis Kaimakis, R: Robert Hältner , BR 1985, Greek TV
  • Over the highest passes in the world - With a yak caravan through Dolpo (Nepal / Himalaya). D: Jan Kerckhoff, BR / ARTE, 2009
  • Our life, our happiness , D: Christian Doermer, SAT 1, 2000
  • What shall we do with our Old , together with Enjott Schneider, D: David W. Griffith , ca.1910 (silent film), live performance on the occasion of the Munich Film Festival, 1988
  • Yak! - In the mountains of the Himalaya (Tibet / Nepal), D: Jan Kerckhoff, BR / ARTE, 2009, 2016

Radio and radio play music

  • Faust , selected scenes from Goethe's drama in the series: World Culture from the Province - The Epoch of Weimar Classicism . 3rd episode: World residents in Weimar , 30 min. Speaker: Gert Heidenreich , Peter Fricke , Michael König , Peter Liek, Werner Rehm, Helmut Stange. Author: Dieter Borchmeyer , music: Rainer Fabich, director: Erwin Reutzel, BR 2002, 2004
  • Guilt and atonement , audio image based on Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewskij , in the series Werk und Zeit , 30 min, author: Peter Michael Schenkel, music: Rainer Fabich, director: Erwin Reutzel, speaker: Markus Boysen , Thomas Holtzmann , Enzi Fuchs, Michael Habek, Jörg Hube , Esther Hausmann , Gerd Anthoff , Volker Spar, BR 1991/1992 , 1998
  • Jan, my friend , audio image after Peter Pohl in the reading sample series , 30 min, speaker: Niki von Tempelhoff, Günther Sauer, author: Peter Michael Schenkel, music: Rainer Fabich, director: Erwin Reutzel, BR 1990, 1992, 1997
  • The thoughtful chickens by Luigi Malerba , director: Horst Raspe, editor: Reinhold Wittmann, speaker: Horst Raspe, music: Rainer Fabich, miniatures for baritone saxophone, BR 1987, 1995/7

Fonts

  • The era of silent film music   in: Sound of the Century , a multimedia joint project (book, CD, DVD, radio broadcasts) by 80 authors from 12 countries: Eds. Gerhard Paul and Ralph Schock , Bonn 2013
  • Listening to cinema and understanding film music and its background in: Special Filmmusik , mip journal, Rum / Innsbruck 19/2007, p. 58 ff.
  • "Metropolis". Notes on Gottfried Huppertz's silent film composition (1927) . In: Filmmusik - Musik der Zukunft , in: Musikforum (37th year), Issue 94, Mainz 2001, p. 37 ff.
  • Metropolis in / out of ruins. The premiere version, the surviving variants and fragments, script, score, censorship cards, reviews, photos, retold by Enno Patalas (film) and Rainer Fabich (music). In Enno Patalas: Metropolis in / out of rubble, Bertz-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-929470-19-5
  • Music for the silent film - analyzing description of original film compositions , in the series: Europäische Hochschulschriften, series 36: Musicology, Vol. 94, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-631-45391 -4
  • Cinema by Erik Satie - Aspects of a film music score. Together with Norbert Jürgen Schneider, in: MELOS. Quarterly journal for contemporary music, Mainz, 3/1986; Content: Satie's collaboration with René Clair, Francs Picabia, Dadaism, musique d'ameublement , Paris in the 1920s
  • Film Music: Ivan the Terrible by Sergej Eisenstein / Sergej Prokofjew , Master's thesis (Institute for Musicology, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bockholdt), Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 1985. Contents: History of origin, collaboration between Prokofiev / Eisenstein, analysis of the music and selected Film sequences, numerous music samples

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personal data
SURNAME Fabich, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, film composer, musician and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Steingaden