Richard Dünser

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Richard Dünser (born May 1, 1959 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian composer .

Life

Richard Dünser first studied composition with Francis Burt at the conservatory in his hometown and later at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . From 1985 to 1987 he perfected his compositional talent with Hans Werner Henze at the Cologne University of Music , in 1987 he received a composition scholarship in Tanglewood / USA.

From 1987 he taught at the Innsbruck Music Education Department of the Mozarteum Salzburg and at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory Tonsatz, in 1991 he became a full professor (today university professor) for music theory at the college (today university) for music and performing arts in Graz , where he has also been since 2004 leads a composition class. Dünser was composer in residence of the Wiener Concert-Verein (the chamber orchestra of the Wiener Symphoniker ) and, with Christian Roscheck, co-initiator of the concert series of the same name in the Wiener Musikverein (Brahmssaal).

His most important works, which are interpreted by international ensembles, conductors and soloists, include the orchestral piece “Der Wanderer” (1986) commissioned by the “ Neue Arbeiterzeitung ” (premiered in 1988 by the Wiener Symphoniker) and commissioned by the Alte Oper Frankfurt written String Quartet "elegy. An Diotima ”(world premiere in 1987), the violin concerto premiered at the Bregenz Festival in 1993 , its version of Schubert's opera fragment“ Der Graf von Gleichen ”, which premiered in 1997 as part of the Graz“ Styriarte ”and in 2003 in a new version at the Bregenz Festival Hall could be heard, as well as the ensemble piece "... breeding lilacs out of the dead land ..." (1998), composed on commission from the Klangforum Wien and premiered at the concert hall there. In recent years, the "Threnodie" for flute, clarinet and guitar (1999), " The Waste Land " for orchestra (2003, Bregenz Festival) as well as " Ophelia -Musik for guitar", "Muschelhut und Sandelschuh", have followed. which was premiered in October 2003 by Alexander Swete in London and was performed a year later in the Wiener Konzerthaus . His opera “Radek” had its world premiere at the Bregenz Festival in 2006, a commission in co-production with the Neue Oper Wien. Works for chamber orchestra and chamber ensemble, song cycles and chamber music of the most varied of instrumentation complement Dünser's list of works.

Awards

Numerous awards and commissions for compositions bear witness to Dünser's great success.

Richard Dünser on his work

“In my work, the extra-musical always plays an important role: autobiographical sketches, literary references, images, moods ... They penetrate the work and create with the structures inherent in it a fabric, a network of relationships and mutual influences.
Everything grows into one another and forms a larger, overarching whole, which dialectically can also include its opposite, breaks, unrelatedness, fragmentation.
When listening to it for the first time, different figures that seem quite free are very often subject to a precise formal plan:
developments, processes, atmospheric islands of sound, outbursts, silence are built into a multi-layered architecture of the composition.
Distant reflections, illusions, mirages, what is remembered, what has disappeared, what has reappeared appear as if from dark dreams and form the spiritual landmarks and sounds from within.
My music wants to reach out to listeners and viewers, to achieve resonance and social relevance, to win the audience as a partner without ingratifying oneself with them; Evoke reflection, sadness, but also enthusiasm and understanding. My ideal is that of a work of art that focuses and bundles all the parameters of music (and sometimes of theater, literature, the visual arts) in an overall dramaturgy and sums them up on a higher level and allows them to interact.
To this end, the compositional technique must be a complex one that plumbs the totality of the means, but tamed by a will to unity in diversity, with the aim of subordinating all means to a dramaturgical whole. "(RD)

Catalog raisonné

Opera

  • Radek , chamber opera in a prologue, 12 scenes and an epilogue, CFPeters;
  • The Graf von Gleichen, opera in two acts based on the sketches by Franz Schubert, D 918, Edition Gravis , Bad Schwalbach
  • Scene at the pond ( JMR Lenz ), opera scene, (S, T, Bar - AFl, ASax, Hr, Pos, Pf, EGit, Perc, Va, Vc, Kb), SSP;

Orchestral music

  • Meloi, SSP;
  • The hiker. Hymn for orchestra, Gravis edition
  • Fantasy in F minor (Franz Schubert), arrangement for orchestra, Edition Gravis
  • Suite for string orchestra based on five harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, Edition Gravis
  • Aubes I. Dialoge for saxophone quartet and string orchestra, Edition Gravis
  • Aubes II. Dialogues for Chamber Orchestra, Gravis Edition
  • Nebensonnen for string orchestra, South Styria Press / self-published
  • The Waste Land for orchestra, Edition Gravis

Solo concerts

  • Sinfonietta concertante for clarinet and string orchestra, Edition Gravis. World premiere with Alois Brandhofer , clarinet
  • Night triptych for piano and chamber ensemble, (Pf - 1/1/1/1 - 2/0/0/0 - 2 Perc - Hf - Cel - Str (solo or choral)), Edition Gravis
  • Violin Concerto (violin and orchestra), Edition Gravis

Works for ensemble

  • Hymn for large wind ensemble (4 clear, 4 Hr, 3 Trp, 3 Pos), Edition Gravis
  • … Breeding lilacs out of the dead land…, (Ob (Eh) Klar (Basskl), Alto Sax (Barsax), horn, piano, harp, percussion (2 players); viola, violoncello), Edition Gravis

Chamber music

  • Three variations on old folk songs for three guitars, Doblinger Verlag , Vienna
  • Caravallium for brass quintet, Doblinger publishing house
  • Zwieklang for violin and piano, Verlag Doblinger
  • Elegy. To Diotima. String Quartet No. 1, Edition Gravis
  • String Quartet No. 2, Edition Gravis
  • Day and night books for clarinet, violoncello and piano, Doblinger publishing house
  • Personae. Five pieces for saxophone quartet, Edition Gravis
  • Sestina for organ and three percussionists, Edition Gravis
  • Threnody for flute, clarinet and guitar, Doblinger publishing house
  • ... fresque de rêve ... for septet (Fl, Cl, Fag, Hrn, Vl, Va, Vc, Cb), Verlag Doblinger
  • Quatre Preludes ( Claude Debussy ) for Fl, Kl, and Git, Doblinger publishing house

Solo works

  • Three Inventions for Piano, Ed. Helb;
  • The Host of the Air for horn solo, Doblinger publishing house
  • Remembrance - Monument - Nachtgesang for piano solo, Edition Gravis
  • Quatre Tombeaux for guitar, Doblinger publishing house
  • Shell hat and sandal shoe - Opheliamusik for guitar
  • Memories. Dark Twilight for piano, Doblinger publishing house

Vocal works

  • Da down in the valley - 14 German folk songs by Johannes Brahms for soprano and chamber ensemble: flute, oboe (EH.), Clarinet, bassoon, horn, guitar, string quintet (11 instr.) Arranged by Richard Dünser, Edition Gravis , Bad Schwalbach
  • But my evening is already breathing cold. Four serious chants for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, Edition Gravis, Bad Schwalbach
  • I vart on the gates. Süsskind scenes for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble (Fl, Ob, Cl, Fag, 2 horns, piano, harp, percussion, string quintet), South Styria Press / self-published
  • The last things. Four songs based on texts by Thomas Höft , Doblinger Verlag, Vienna
  • Go under beautiful sun ( Friedrich Hölderlin ), song for soprano and piano, South Styria Press / self-published

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sinfonietta concertante for clarinet and string orchestra . Retrieved January 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Dünser, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz