Rolf Maedel

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Rolf Maedel (born March 17, 1917 in Berlin ; † January 9, 2000 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian composer , conductor and music theorist . Together with Franz Richter Herf he developed the Ekmelic Tone System .

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Rolf Maedel was born the son of a gunsmith and received piano lessons from the age of 7. He graduated from the Humboldt School in Berlin in 1936 and attended the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory until 1937. He then studied at the State Academic University of Music with professors W. Wolf (piano), K. Thomas (choir conducting), W. Gmeindel (conducting) and E. Pepping (composition) and in 1938 passed the music teacher examination in piano and choir conducting. During his military service he also took part in so-called Wehrmacht tours, one of which led through Salzburg. Because of their success, he was given two study vacations at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he studied with Clemens Krauss , Walter Lampe , Friedrich Frischenschlager and Meinhard Zeilinger until 1943.

Concert announcement August Pazelt and Rolf Maedel 1960

After the war, Rolf Maedel was initially a freelance artist. Under the influence of Johann Nepomuk David , a large number of piano and chamber music compositions and songs were created during this time. He worked as a freelancer at RWR (as a soloist, accompanist and radio play composer) and undertook several tours and concert tours through Europe, as a lied and instrumental accompanist, as a member of the Salzburg Chamber Trio , as a conductor and as assistant to Bernhard Paumgartner . In 1947 he was appointed as a contract teacher at the Mozarteum, from 1950 he was musical director of the opera studio founded by Bernhard Paumgartner. In 1962 he was appointed professor, in 1974 as associate professor and in 1976 as full professor and retired in 1987.

From 1970 he devoted himself together with Franz Richter Herf to the research and systematization of microtones . This led to the development of Ekmelic music . In 1972 he co-founded the Institute for Basic Musical Research and in 1981 the Society for Ekmelic Music (later International Society for Ekmelic Music ).

Essential works

  • Trio for violin, violoncello and piano in d , 1947
  • Sonata for violoncello and piano in d , 1951
  • Five serious chants , after Christian Morgenstern , 1957
  • Trio for flute, cor anglais and harp , 1957
  • String quartet in C , 1959
  • Concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra , 1963
  • Intrada , In memoriam Franz Richter Herf, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1991
  • Concerto for viol and string orchestra in C , 1965

Publications

  • Rolf Maedel, Franz Herf: Ekmelic Music. Options for expanding our sound system . Reprint of the Institute for Basic Musical Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts “Mozarteum” in Salzburg. Salzburg June 1972.
  • Rolf Maedel: The transcendental sound system . In: Writings of the Mozarteum University . No. 1 . Katzbichler, Munich / Salzburg 1975.
  • Rolf Maedel, Franz Richter Herf: Ekmelic Music . In: Writings of the Mozarteum University . No. 4 . Katzbichler, Munich / Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-87397-473-8 .
  • Rolf Maedel: Microtones. Structure, sound value, relationships . Edition Helbling, Innsbruck / Neu-Rum 1983.
  • Rolf Maedel, Franz Richter Herf: Ekmelic Music . Edition Helbling, Innsbruck / Neu-Rum 1983.
  • Rolf Maedel: Microtonal Functional Models . In: Franz Richter Herf (ed.): Microtones I . Report on the international symposium, microton research, music with microtones, ekmelic music, 10. – 12. May 1985 in Salzburg. Edition Helbling, Innsbruck / Neu-Rum 1986, ISBN 3-900590-01-X , p. 185-189 .
  • Transformation . In: Franz Richter Herf (Ed.): Microtones II . Report on the international symposium, microton research, music with microtones, ekmelic music, 22. – 24. May 1987 in Salzburg. Edition Helbling, Innsbruck / Neu-Rum 1988.
  • Extension of the traditional functional theory to microton ranges . In: Horst-Peter Hesse (Ed.): Microtones IV . Report on the international symposium, microton research, music with microtones, ekmelic music, 2. – 5. May 1991 in Salzburg. Musikedition Nymphenburg, Munich 1993.
  • Back to the sources. Relationships between sound systems - a comparison . In: P. Neubäcker and Free Music Center Munich (ed.): Harmonik und Glasperlenspiel 1993 . 1994 (online).

Web links

Commons : Rolf Maedel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Maedel - biography . Website of the Mozarteum University Salzburg. Retrieved February 21, 2014
  2. ^ Website of the International Society for Ekmelic Music , accessed on February 21, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Maedel, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2000
Place of death Salzburg , Austria