Rolf Urs Ringger

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Rolf Urs Ringger 2008 in Zurich

Rolf Urs Ringger (born April 6, 1935 in Zurich as Rolf Richard Albert Ringger ; † June 26, 2019 ) was a Swiss composer and publicist .

Life

Rolf Urs Ringger already studied music during his seminar in Küsnacht ZH . So he took u. a. from 1954 to 1956 private lessons in counterpoint with Hermann Haller . He then began his actual music studies at the Zurich Conservatory .

In the summer of 1956 he attended the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music with Theodor W. Adorno and Ernst Krenek . In the autumn of the same year he traveled to Naples and took six months of composition lessons from Hans Werner Henze .

Between 1958 and 1962 he took conducting lessons in his hometown. He studied musicology and philosophy at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1964 with a dissertation on the piano songs by Anton Webern . In 1961 his first work was premiered by the Camerata Zurich under the direction of Räto Tschupp : 4 songs on Chinese texts for soprano and chamber orchestra. 1967/1968 he stayed in Berlin as a guest of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). From the mid-1950s he stayed regularly in Italy (especially on Capri ) and in the Engadin .

From the 1960s, Ringger wrote reviews of concerts, records and CDs as well as portraits of Swiss and foreign composers for newspapers such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Tages-Anzeiger and the Weltwoche .

From 1974 he wrote more than a hundred compositions for piano, voice, chamber music, orchestra, but also three ballets, The Narcissus (1980), Ikarus (1991) and Ippòlito (1995). His works have been performed all over the world, including a. in London, Manchester, New York, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Berlin or Tokyo.

Rolf Urs Ringger died on June 26, 2019 at the age of 84 and was buried on July 4 in the Sihlfeld cemetery.

Works (selection)

Compositions

piano

Between 1967 and 2011 around 30 works for solo piano were created, published on

  • Rolf Urs Ringger: Works for piano (21 piano pieces from 1975 to 2005). Soloist: Maurizio Baglini, Tudor (2008) Tudor 7153, 7 619911 071530

as well as on

  • Rolf Urs Ringger: Touch and enjoy (22 piano pieces from 1967 to 2009). Soloist: Amri Antón Alhambra, Música Española (2010) ME 3167, 7 640129 560707

Instrumental music

  • Long, Long Ago for flute solo (1976)
  • Messages for flute solo (1996)
  • Ondines - flottant sur les vagues du Bonheur for harp (1998)
  • Flûtades - Flute games for flute solo (1999)
  • Aislamiento for viola sola (2002)

Song cycle

  • Five Morgenstern songs for soprano and piano (1954), published on MGB CD 6265

String quartet

  • Feuillages (1995), published on Musikszene Schweiz MGM CD 6181, Carmina Quartet

orchestra

  • ... vagheggi il mar e l'arenoso lido ... (1978), published on koch schwann CD 311 167 H1, Slovenian Philharmonic Ljubljana, conductor: Joel Mathias Jenny
  • Adagio sospeso (1983) for string orchestra, UA Zurich Chamber Orchestra , conductor: Edmond de Stoutz
  • Gioa (1984), published on Tudor 7036, English Chamber Orchestra , conductor: Joel Mathias Jenny
  • Memories of Tomorrow (1986) and Memories II (1987), chamber cantata for soprano, flute, harp, violin, viola and violoncello, published on Grammont CTS-P 29-2
  • Reverberation for orchestra (1986), published on Grammont CTS-P 29-2, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich , conductor: Hiroshi Wakasugi
  • A Moment of Sunrise for mixed choir, solo piano and orchestra (1991), published on Tudor 7036, English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Joel Mathias Jenny
  • Addio! for strings and tubular bells (1992), published on Tudor 7036, English Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Joel Mathias Jenny
  • Cuando el fuego se está apagando ... (1993), published on Tudor 7036, English Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Joel Mathias Jenny
  • Aria amorosa for soprano and orchestra (1997), published on Musikszene Schweiz MGB CD 6181, Elisabeth Meyer-Topsoe (soprano), Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Okko Kamu
  • The Golden Heat of Midday for orchestra (1999), published on Musikszene Schweiz MGB CD 6181, Musikkollegium Winterthur , conductor: Heinrich Schiff
  • Love Is in the Air for viola sola and chamber orchestra (2007), published on Gallo CD-1319, 7 619918 131923

Ballets

Books

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reported deaths in June 2019. In: City of Zurich, accessed on July 6, 2019 (archive version).
personal data
SURNAME Ringger, Rolf Urs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ringger, Rolf Richard Albert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2019