Roland Moser

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Roland Moser (born April 16, 1943 in Bern ) is a Swiss composer and university professor.

biography

He received his musical training in Bern, Freiburg im Breisgau and Cologne . From 1969 to 1984 he was a teacher for theoretical subjects and new music at the Winterthur Conservatory , and since 1984 he has held a teaching position at the Basel Conservatory (class for composition, instrumentation and music theory). He was a member of the Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern . He lives with his family in Allschwil .

Awards

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So far, Moser has written around 50 works: for voices, chamber music, some pieces for various orchestras and also stage works. Moser publishes at Edition Gravis, German music publisher for serious music, in Bad Schwalbach.

Individual works

  • Ding (1973) for orchestra. (10 short sentences based on hexagrams 50-59 of the Chinese book of wisdom I Ching .)
  • Five Etudes (1975, for piano)
  • Before the Law (1981, for 2 choirs and small orchestra)
  • 12 Heinelieder . For voices with accompaniment (1970–1985, low soprano)
  • Bild-Refraction (2000, orchestral variations )
  • Oh but oh! Musical reflection on the cantata Just for everyone his own , BWV 163 by Johann Sebastian Bach . (Recitative with chorale. First performed by the JS Bach Foundation on November 16, 2012 in Trogen AR.)

Stage works

  • Brentano Fantasies (1988–1995, based on the times of Philipp Otto Runge for soprano, baritone and piano; texts by Clemens Brentano )
  • Avatar (Moser based on Théophile Gautier ), comical and fantastic opera.
  • Rahel and Pauline. Music theater (letter scenes), which focuses on the intimate correspondence of two extraordinary women in Berlin at the beginning of the 19th century: Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Pauline Wiesel. The main role is played by a mezzo-soprano , along with two actors and five instruments. An afterword comes from Imre Kertész . First performance September 12, 2007 in the Lucerne Theater as part of the Lucerne Festival . Commissioned by Pro Helvetia .

Chamber music

  • Neigung (1969–1972, for string quartet. As funeral music for Igor Stravinsky.)
  • String sextet in 2 movements. Passionato - tranquillo (approx. 18 min)
  • Wind quintet Small differences over a reason - 11 variations for wind quintet (2005)
  • S aitengrun d ...-...-... with Liszt and Schubert (2011). For cymbalom and nine deep string instruments

Literary

  • The composer Erich Schmid . In: Dissonanz 3, 1985, pp. 11-14.

Discography (selection)

  • Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern: Historical recordings 1968–1998, Musiques Suisses.
  • Oh but oh! Musical reflection on the cantata Just everyone their own , Cantata BWV 163 by Johann Sebastian Bach . In: Johann Sebastian Bach: Just everyone theirs. Miriam Feuersinger (soprano), Markus Forster (alto), Johannes Kaleschke (tenor), Markus Volpert (bass); Orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Rudolf Lutz (conductor). Including workshop for an introduction to the work. DVD. Gallus Media, 2013.

literature

  • Felix Falkner: From Mozart to Moser. Insights into 25 years of opera and operetta. In: 200 years of the St. Gallen Theater. (= Schweizer Theaterjahrbuch 66), Theaterkultur Verlag, Basel 2005, pp. 75–95.
  • Roman Brotbeck: Portrait of an Opera - "Avatar" by Roland Moser. In: Dissonance , 80 (2003).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize winners - Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Foundation. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Program (PDF; 251 kB) on the JS Bach Foundation website ( Memento from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Roland Moser: preliminary remark. Supplement to the above Program booklet.
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern