Rainer Lischka

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Rainer Lischka (born April 25, 1942 in Zittau ) is a contemporary German composer . In addition to his teaching activities as a professor of composition and composition / ear training at the Dresden University of Music, he created chamber music, vocal, orchestral and stage pieces as well as compositions for music schools and children's choirs.

Life

Concert announcement by the Chicago Chamber Orchestra on January 9, 2011 in the Preston Bradley Hall of the Chicago Cultural Center
Rainer Lischka with the soloists of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet after a performance of the “Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra” on March 6, 2010 in the Dresden Kulturpalast
Cover picture of the score display "The voices of the animals" (Verlag Neue Musik, 1972)

Rainer Lischka received accordion and later piano lessons at the age of ten. After graduating from high school in 1960, he began studying music education at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden. Lischka studied piano with Theo Other and Wolfgang Plehn. He received optional composition lessons from Manfred Weiss . In 1962 he chose composition as his first major. His teachers were Johannes Paul Thilman (composition), Günter Hörig (arrangement) and Conny Odd (stage music). The "cross-genre composing and improvising" played an essential role in Lischka's artistic creation from the start. In 1966 he received his diploma and followed a three-year traineeship in composition with Johannes Paul Thilman. From 1969 to 1971 he received the Mendelssohn Scholarship .

From 1970 to 2007 Rainer Lischka taught composition and composition / ear training at the Dresden Music Academy . In 1992 he was appointed professor for composition / arranging at the same place of work.

Lischka's compositions are strongly rhythmic and often appear very lively and dance-like. His sense of humor is particularly evident in his works for children and young people. For him, “entertainment and lightness”, which in serious music are often considered superficial, are “artistic qualities that are worth striving for, albeit difficult to produce”. George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein are often used to describe Rainer Lischka's music : “At the height of contemporary compositional technique, Lischka has a very special one with continuation of impulses from jazz and various rhythmic-dance elements that are reminiscent of Gershwin and Bernstein Tonal language developed that gives both interpreters and listeners pleasure, which has become quite rare in new music. "

Impulses from jazz are evident in the "Night Piece" for string quartet and percussion, which premiered in 1997 in the Gobelinsaal of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister , a result of close cooperation with the jazz musician Günter "Baby" Sommer .

Last but not least, Rainer Lischka also pursues “music-pedagogical intentions” in many of his works. One focus of his compositional work is choral music for children. One of his most successful pieces is "The Voices of the Animals" (1972). This is a four-part, artistic choral setting that is sung around the world to this day. For his children's choir compositions based on nursery rhymes and texts by Alfred Könner , Heinz Kahlau and Heinz Günter Behnert, he received first prizes from the OIRT broadcasters in Budapest in 1974, in Berlin in 1976 and in Warsaw in 1980. There has been a long and productive collaboration with the children's choir of the Dresden Philharmonic and its director Jürgen Becker. But choral compositions were also created in cooperation with the Rundfunkkinderchor Berlin, the children and youth choir of the city of Halle (Saale) and the girls' choir Basel in conjunction with the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet .

Several of his chamber music and orchestral works were premiered by the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Dresden Philharmonie, such as the orchestral piece and commissioned work "Akzente" (WP 1984), the "Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra" (WP 1990) and the "Tresillo- Concertino “for trumpet and chamber orchestra (premiere 2001). Rainer Lischka's compositions have been heard in the USA, Poland, Hungary, Finland, Japan, China, Brazil, Austria and Switzerland.

Rainer Lischka is a member of the German Composers' Association and the Saxon Music Association . He lives and works in Dresden.

Works (selection)

Chamber music

  • 1964 piece in four movements
  • 1973 contacts for alto flute, vibraphone and double bass
  • 1975 Three sketches for bass tuba / bass trombone and piano
  • 1988 Wind Octet Suite sereine
  • 1989 Divertimento for string orchestra
  • 1997 String Quartet Nachtstück for violoncellos and percussion
  • 1998 TAKTFEST saxophone quartet
  • 1999 Tango per due for violin and viola
  • 2003 Duo notturno for cor anglais and harp
  • 2006 Prompt (3 pieces for violoncellos)
  • 2008 String Quartet Tanguidad
  • 2010 turns for flute, piano, double bass and drums
  • 2010 Tritone Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano
  • 2010 lures for flute, violoncello and piano
  • 2011 Kater Bassetto (basset horn trio)
  • 2012 Dulcinea for violoncello and piano

orchestra

  • 1983 accents
  • 1988 concert for trombone and orchestra
  • 2001 Tresillo Concertino for trumpet and chamber orchestra
  • 2005 concert for saxophone quartet and orchestra
  • 2010 Fantastic Physics
  • 2011 Concertino latino for violoncello and chamber orchestra
  • 2014 Concertino delizioso for double bass and strings
  • 2014 Marianne Suite for accordion orchestra

Choir

  • House inscriptions (SATB)
  • The Ship of Fools (SATB)
  • Dresden Glockensprüche (Choir I: SSA, Choir II: SAA)
  • Irish Blessing (Choir: SSATBB + Alto Saxophone)
  • Remember (SSATBB)

Pieces for children's choir

  • The watchmaker's shop (one with piano)
  • The Voices of the Animals (SSAA)
  • Meißner Glockenspiel (SSAA with piano)
  • Luther Proverbs (SSA with saxophone quartet)

organ

  • 1983 Homage to Gottfried Silbermann
  • 1997 Introduction and Passacaglia
  • 2006 Prelude and Fugue
  • 2006 Narcissus for cor anglais and organ
  • 2007 Great God, we praise you / Te Deum Laudamus
  • 2013 Solos Deo Gloria
  • 2014 Christian, you are the bright day

musical

Awards

  • 1974 1st prize at the OIRT composition competition for children's choir, Budapest
  • 1976 1st prize at the OIRT composition competition for children's choir, Berlin
  • 1980 1st prize at the OIRT composition competition for children's choir, Warsaw
  • 1986 Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize from the city of Dresden
  • 1995 2nd prize at the composition competition for the 2nd International Robert Schumann Choir Competition in Zwickau (category women's choir)

Discography

  • 1978 “Das drummelte Echo”, in: Music from the big ones for the little ones, LP, NOVA
  • 1998/99 “Match”, in: Trombonly & Friends, Detmold Instrumental Classes Introduced, Vol. 4, CD, Detmold University of Music
  • 2001 "Brilliant Bass", on: Brilliant Brass - SemperBrass, CD, German records
  • 2007 “Akzente” and “Tresillo-Concertino”, on: Dresden Concerts, Rainer Lischka and his teacher Johannes Paul Thilman, in the series Zeitgenossen - Musik der Zeit, Vol. 28, CD, Hastedt Verlag & Musikedition
  • 2008 “The Voices of the Animals”, on: Choral music a cappella 1950-2000, CD, German Music Council in cooperation with RCA Red Seal / Sony Music Entertainment
  • 2008 “Hommage à Gottfried Silbermann”, on: Hommage à Gottfried Silbermann, Hansjürgen Scholze on the Silbermann organ in the Dresden Cathedral, CD, MOTETTE
  • 2015 "Lock calls", on: Mating Calls, CD, profile (Edition Günter Hänssler)

student

Many of Rainer Lischka's students work today, depending on their personal profile, in various areas of public musical life. They include u. a. Michael Fuchs, Erik Kross , Steffan Claußner, Thomas Kupsch, Rolf-Thomas Lorenz , Hans Hütten, Andreas Scotty Böttcher, Torsten Rasch , Paul Taube, André Engelbrecht, Lars Juling, Thomas Berlin, Malte Rogacki, Wolfgang Torkler, Michael Kaden, Peter Andreas , Frieder Zimmermann, Silvio Schneider , Jörg Nassler, Stefan Jänke , Martin Müller, Andreas Kersting , Andreas Gundlach , Jochen Aldinger , Holger Miersch, Stefan Flügel, Hans-Richard Ludewig, Micha Winkler, Renard Aust and Robin Hoffmann .

literature

  • Thomas Kupsch: Rainer Lischka, in: Hanns-Werner Heister (Ed.): Composers of the Present (KDG), loose-leaf work, 52nd edition, 10/14, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86916-361-1 , p 1f.
  • Volker Hahn: Rainer Lischka on his 60th birthday, in: Sächsischer Musikrat eV (Ed.): Musik in Sachsen, issue 2/2002, Dresden 2002, p. 54.
  • Rainer Lischka, leaflet, Dresden 1992.
  • Lischka, Prof. Rainer, in: Wilfried W. Bruchhäusr (Ed., On behalf of the German Composers 'Association): Contemporary composers in the German Composers' Association. A manual, 4th edition, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-55561-410-X , p. 792.
  • Gerhard Dietel: Johannes Paul Thilman / Rainer Lischka, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 168th year, issue 6, 2007, p. 78.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Hahn: Rainer Lischka on his 60th birthday , in: Sächsischer Musikrat eV (Hrsg.): Musik in Sachsen, issue 2/2002, Dresden 2002, p. 54.
  2. ↑ http://www.lischka-kompositionen.de/
  3. ↑ Dieter Härtwig: Cheerful with serious demands , in Dresdner Latest News (DNN), 17th vol., No. 96 of April 25, 2007, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Thomas Kupsch: Rainer Lischka , in: Hanns-Werner Heister (Ed.): Composers of the Present (KDG), Loseblattwerk, 52nd edition, 10/14, Munich 2014, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Lischka, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau , Saxony