Sebastian Claren

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Sebastian Claren (born May 21, 1965 in Mannheim ) is a German composer and musicologist .

Life

Claren received composition lessons from Helmuth Weinland from 1981 to 1984. From 1984 to 1989 he studied musicology, philosophy and art history in Heidelberg and Berlin. He wrote his master's thesis on the Missa Prolationum by Johannes Ockeghem (1989) and his doctoral thesis on the complete works of Morton Feldman (1990-1995). From 1994 to 2001 he studied composition with Walter Zimmermann in Berlin and Mathias Spahlinger in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Toter Schwan (1981) after Charles Bukowski for female voice and 6 percussionists
  • I (1982) for 2 flutes and 2 clarinets
  • String Quartet (1982-83)
  • Violin Concerto (1983–84) for solo violin, 2 clarinets and 10 tutti violins
  • Symphony (1984) for orchestra
  • Symphony II (1984–85) for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 violins and 2 cellos
  • Symphony III (1985) for solo violin, 10 tutti violins, solo cello and 10 tutticelli
  • Blunt or the Guest (1988) Opera after Karl Philipp Moritz for 6 voices and 8 instruments
  • An der Donau (1989) opera based on Herbert Achternbusch for 6 voices, 2 speaking voices, male choir, 2 clarinets, 2 trombones, solo violin, 10 tutti violins, solo cello and 10 tutticelli
  • Pindar's Eighth Pythian Ode (1989) transcribed by Friedrich Hölderlin for female voice and string quartet
  • Pindar's Third Pythische Ode (1991) transcribed by Friedrich Hölderlin for voice
  • Thoughts and Images (1993) for string quartet
  • Sex (1995–96) for piano
  • Hass (1996) for violin and piano
  • In der Hölle (1996–97 / 2000) for 11 instruments
  • Alkan (1997) for piano
  • Hear Your Brother Hear (1998) for violoncello
  • Baby (1998) for accordion
  • False start (detail) (1999) for 6 instruments
  • In Nomine (2000) for 8 instruments
  • After Blinky Palermo (2001–02) for solo violoncello and orchestra
  • Angelus Silesius (2002–03) for soprano, bass clarinet, percussion and violoncello
  • Potemkin 1: Baby Baby (2003) for accordion and string trio
  • Charms: Dub (1999–2000 / 2004) for orchestra
  • Untrue (2008) for 18 instruments
  • MBRMMPP (2010) for 7 instruments
  • Licht a cappella (2011) for 17 strings

Publications

  • 'Neither. Between Life and Death 'Article in: Program Book Prometheus 3/4, Nuremberg 1994, pp. 119–123
  • 'Disintegration and Remembrance, Morton Feldman's 2nd String Quartet' Article in: program booklet Musikbiennale, Berlin 1998, o. P.
  • 'Music on the way to art form, Morton Feldman's music in the mid-eighties', article in: From Kranichstein to the present, 50 years of Darmstadt summer courses, Stuttgart 1996, pp. 495–499
  • Neither. Die Musik Morton Feldman's book publication, Hofheim 2000
  • 'Morton Feldman' lexicon article in: Contemporary composers, 19th NL, Munich 2000
  • 'Morton Feldman' lexicon article in: MGG, Kassel 2000
  • What to remember. Morton Feldman's conception of the instrumental picture ', article in: Program book Pictures - Ban and Desire in Art and Music, Musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst 2000, pp. 123–141
  • 'Musical figure theory. Salvatore Sciarrino as an analyst and composer 'Article in: Musik & Ästhetik 22, April 2002, pp. 106–111
  • Stefan Fricke: 'Organized Confusion, The Composer Sebastian Claren' Interview in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, November / December 2003
  • 'Discontinuity and Continuity in Fehlstart (Detail) (1999)' Essay in: Musical Morphology, Hofheim 2004, pp. 52–67
  • 'Construction and Conceptuality' Essay in: Kunstmusik 2, Spring 2004, pp. 5–28; English translation under the title: 'Construction and Conceptuality', in: The Foundations of Contemporary Composing, Hofheim 2004, pp. 49-66
  • 'Progress, Advancement, Avantgarde' Statement in: Musik & Ästhetik 33 / January 2005, p. 69f
  • 'Does the new music need the chamber music hall? New rooms for contemporary music - five questions to ten composers' Statement in: Bauwelt 8/18. February 2005, p. 21
  • 'Beauty - luck (had)' Statement in: Positions 64 / August 2005, p. 32f
  • 'In Search of the Second Modernism' Statement in: Program book Salzburg Festival 2005: Salzburg Passagen, The Second Modernism, Salzburg 2005, p. 29f
  • 'In Nomine / Grauzone / Trester' installation by Sebastian Claren, Manuel Franke and Leni Hoffmann Documentation in: Villa Massimo 2005, Rome 2007, o. P.
  • 'Plan and Deviation: After Blinky Palermo' Essay in: Facets of the Second Modernity, Hofheim 2008
  • 'Lectures on own music. Ostrava New Music Days 2007 'Lectures in: Ostrava Days 2007 Report, Ostrava 2009, pp. 60–79
  • 'Simple Exposure as the Only Attainable Truth. The Role of the Soprano Voice in Morton Feldman's Opera Neither 'Essay in: Monitoring Scenography 2: Space and Truth / Raum und Truth, Zurich 2009, pp. 70–81

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://sebastianclaren.wordpress.com/sebastian-claren/
  2. ↑ http://sebastianclaren.wordpress.com/sebastian-claren/
  3. ↑ http://sebastianclaren.wordpress.com/works-2/
  4. ↑ http://sebastianclaren.wordpress.com/texts/
personal data
SURNAME Claren, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim