Pure Kontressowitz

Reiner Kontressowitz (born June 25, 1942 in Roßlau ) is a German musicologist and poet .

Life

After graduating from the Extended Oberschule (EOS) in Roßlau in 1961, Kontressowitz studied horn, drums, theory and composition at the Halle Conservatory from 1961 to 1963 and from 1963 to 1967 at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . From 1967 to 1969 he was an orchestra musician in Zeitz and in the Handel Festival Orchestra in Halle . He completed his studies in musicology at the Martin Luther University Halle from 1971 to 1975 with the diploma thesis: Concerts with Tomaso Albinoni .

From 1969 to 1981 he worked as an editor, then responsible lector for contemporary music and head of the concert and stage department of the Edition Peters publishing house in Leipzig and from 1981 to 1991 as a lector for contemporary music at the German publishing house for music Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig; There he was responsible for the program design and organization of the publisher's own and third-party events: for example the publishing series of events Studio DVfM, Werkstatt DVfM, Seminar DVfM and the Young Composers Working Group and Publishing Concerts 1982 and 1985 as an encounter in the Gewandhaus (big); 1985 in the Landestheater Halle , 1985 in the chamber music hall of the Cottbus Conservatory; 1987 in the chamber music hall of the Bose House ; 1990 in Alte Börse Leipzig . Kontressowitz was a member of the GDR Composers' Association . In 1990 he co-founded the Forum for Contemporary Music in Leipzig . From 1991 he was lecturer for public relations and from 1999 to 2006 lecturer for practical music (KlA stage works) at Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel.

He has lived in Leipzig since 1978 .

Publications

• Introductory lectures for the new Schubert edition at master classes in Bad Bertrich, Graz, Lichtenberg, Lübeck, Essen, Dresden, Leipzig, Weikersheim, Rostock, Esslingen, Moers, Marburg, in Switzerland (Lucerne and others) and in the Czech Republic (Prague)
• Introductory lectures on the New Mozart Edition as well as on the complete editions of the Bärenreiter Verlag
• Radio broadcasts about contemporary Swedish music and a portrait broadcast about the composer Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf in the MDR Leipzig

Articles in magazines and daily newspapers:

• New forms as mediators of contemporary music , in: LVZ v. Nov 18, 1982
• Concerto con molti compositori contemporanei , in Bulletin of the Music Council of the GDR, Berlin 2/1983
• Reinhard Pfundt - born 1951 composer portrait, in: Musik und Gesellschaft 11/1984
• Victor Bruns , in INFORM, Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1989
• Contemporary music for solo instruments, a series of editions by the German Publishing House for Music Leipzig in Bulletin of the Music Council of the GDR, Berlin 1/1990; among others

Book publications:

• Spiel-Horizonte with Burkhard Glaetzner about the group Neue Musik Hanns Eisler 1990
• Five approaches to the solo concerts by Friedrich Goldmann , Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, 2014

Lyric:

• lips above the clouds and chains on heavy feet with graphics by the Czech painter Jan Halla , Verlag Jürgen Ritschel, 2009
• memories - numb yourself crying with pictures by the Leipzig painter Gert Pötzschig, Verlag Jürgen Ritschel, 2011
• wolkenkuckuckshain with pictures by the painter Sabrina Quintero , Verlag Jürgen Ritschel, 2015

Music editions (editor): TOMMASO ALBINONI, CONCERTI - Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg

• Opus II / Opera Seconda - i. V. 2020

Concerti a cinque con due Violini, Alto Viola, Tenore Viola, Violoncello e Basso continuo (approx. 1700) • CONCERTI 1 - 6, SCORE ISBN 978-3-95755-632-5 , STIMMEN ISMN 979-0-50258-137- 4th

• Opus V / Opera V - i. V. 2019

Concerti a cinque con due / tre Violini, Alto Viola, Tenore Viola, Violoncello e Basso continuo (approx. 1707) • Volume 1: Concerti 1 - 6, SCORE ISBN 978-3-95755-633-2 , STIMMEN ISMN 979-0 -50258-144-2 • Volume 2: Concerti 7 - 12, SCORE ISBN 978-3-95755-634-9 , STIMMEN ISMN 979-0-50258-151-0

• Opus VII / Opera Settima - i. V. 2019

XII Concerti a cinque con Violini, Oboi, Violetta, Violoncello e Basso continuo (approx. 1715) • Volume 1: Concerti 1 - 6, SCORE ISBN 978-3-95755-635-6 , STIMMEN ISMN 979-0-50258-158 -9 • Volume 2: Concerti 7 - 12, SCORE ISBN 978-3-95755-636-3 , VOTES ISMN 979-0-50258-165-7

• Opus IX / Opera Nona - published in 2018, Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad

XII Concerti a cinque con Violini, Oboi, Violetta, Violoncello e Basso continuo (approx. 1722) • Volume 1: Concerti 1 - 6, SCORE ISBN 978-3-95755-637-0 , STIMMEN ISMN 979-0-50258-172 -5 • Volume 2: Concerti 7 - 12, SCORE ISBN 978-3-95755-638-7 , VOTES ISMN 979-0-50258-179-4

• Opus X / Opera Decima - published in 2018, Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad

XII Concerti a cinque con Violini, Violetta, Violoncello e Basso continuo (approx. 1736) • Volume 1: Concerti 1 - 6, SCORE ISBN 978-3-95755-639-4 , STIMMEN ISMN 979-0-50258-186-2 • Volume 2: Concerti 7 - 12, SCORE ISBN 978-3-95755-640-0 , STIMMEN ISMN 979-0-50258-193-0 Each Concerto is also published as a separate score edition, and single-part editions are also available.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reiner Kontressowitz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Musiktexte 33/37 (1990), p. 61.