Reinhard Febel
Reinhard Febel (born July 3, 1952 in Metzingen ) is a German composer .
Life
Reinhard Febel studied composition with Klaus Huber in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1979 and attended courses in electronic music at the IRCAM in Paris . Between 1983 and 1988 he lived as a freelance composer in London and from 1989 took over the professorship for composition and music theory at the Hanover University of Music and Theater . Over the years he spent a lot of time abroad with study visits, teaching and composition assignments; so in South America ( Chile , Peru , Uruguay , Argentina ), in New Zealand , in South Africa and Cameroon , in Skopje , Edinburgh and Riga . Since 1997 he has been Professor of Composition at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg .
Scholarships and Awards
- 1979: Scholarship from the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of Südwestfunk
- 1980: Beethoven Prize of the City of Bonn
- 1980: Composition prize at the composition seminar of the Künstlerhaus Boswil Foundation (Switzerland)
- 1984: Scholarship holder of the Villa Massimo in Rome
- 1984: Winner of the Steinbrenner Foundation Berlin
- 1988: Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize
- 1992: Lower Saxony artist grant
Works
| premiere | title | genre | Librettist and source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov. 10, 1983 - Munich, Bavarian State Opera | Euridice | Chamber Opera, 80 ' | Helmut Danninger , after Ottavio Rinuccini |
| May 15, 1988 - Kiel Opera | Night with guests | Musical theater | The composer after Peter Weiss |
| April 12, 1992 - Theater Dortmund | Seconds and Years of Caspar Hauser | Opera in three acts and nine pictures | Lukas Hemleb |
| November 6, 1994 - Darmstadt State Theater | Morel's invention | Opera in one act | Lukas Hemleb, based on La invencion de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| Sep 14 1996 - Theater Hagen | Beauty | Musical theater | Lukas Hemleb, according to a newspaper report |
| December 20, 2005 - WDR Cologne | Desert Inn | radio play | |
| May 10, 2001 - Bonn Opera | Visiting time | Musical theater. A game for three actors and music | The composer |
| June 22, 2003 - Philharmonie Berlin | Selva | Songs based on texts and melodies by Oswald von Wolkenstein | The composer |
| 1 Aug 2005 - Toihaus Salzburg / TRT Pocket Opera Festival | Frida | A dream based on Unos quantos piquetitos by Frida Kahlo | The composer |
| Aug. 1, 2007 - Toihaus Salzburg / TRT Pocket Opera Festival | Haunted house | Chamber music theater. A horror picture based on Haunted House by Edward Hopper | The composer |
| May 16, 2009 - Kiel Opera | Room 17 | Music theater based on the painting by Diego Velasquez called Rokeby Venus | The composer |
Fonts
- Reinhard Febel: Music for two pianos since 1950 as a mirror of the compositional technique. 2nd Edition. Pfau, Saarbrücken 1998, ISBN 3-930735-55-5 .
- Everything is in constant motion: Texts to the music 1976-2003. Edited by Rainer Nonnemann. Pfau, Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-89727-274-1 .
- Poisonous fish. Short stories . Conte, Saarbrücken 2009, ISBN 978-3-941657-01-4 .
- The sound of the forbidden. Historical novel . Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86913-107-8 (About Domenico Scarlatti).
literature
- Günter Katzenberger (Ed.): Reinhard Febel. Contributions to his musical work. Hanover Society for New Music. Ricordi, Feldkirchen 1994, ISBN 3-9803090-4-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinhard Febel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reinhard Febel biography and complete works overview at Ricordi
- Reinhard Febel Music Information Center Austria
- Reinhard Febel ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at SWR 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Febel, Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd July 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Metzingen |