Tilo Medek

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Tilo Medek (born January 22, 1940 in Jena ; † February 3, 2006 in Duderstadt ), also Müller-Medek , was a German composer and music publisher who was also active in musicology.

Life

Tilo Medek was the son of the chamber musician and composer Willy Müller-Medek (1897–1965) and his wife Rosa, b. Rifle (1902–1976).

Around 1950 his musical training began at the Jena Music School in the subjects violin, piano, improvisation and other theoretical subjects. In 1957, his participation in the 12th International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, West Germany (courses with Alexander Jemnitz, Luigi Nono , Hermann Scherchen and Karlheinz Stockhausen ) was formative for him . From 1959 to 1962 he was a piano student of Kurt Johnen (1884-1965) in Quedlinburg am Harz.

In 1959 he graduated from high school and was refused a practical year in production; in late autumn 1959 matriculation at the Humboldt University in Berlin for musicology with Walther Vetter, Ernst Hermann Meyer and Georg Knepler . He attended further lectures in psychology with Kurt Gottschaldt , in art history with Karl-Heinz Clasen, in theology the philosophy cycle with Lieselotte Richter and in horticultural architecture with Willy Kurth.

At the same time he studied composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (1903–1969) at the German University of Music in East Berlin.

When the scholarship was withdrawn after the construction of the wall while studying, Medek worked as a freelance répétiteur at the Ensemble of Berlin Workers' Youth and as a composer of radio plays and stage music from 1962.

In 1964 he wrote his diploma thesis in musicology: The settings of Goethe's Prometheus poem . He was then a master student of Rudolf Wagner-Régenys at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin (GDR) until 1967.

From then on, Tilo Medek received various international awards in composition competitions and in comparisons between radio and television companies:

International composition competition of the Gaudeamus Foundation, Netherlands 1967 (for the fugue of death ), State University of New York 1968 (for The Decree on Peace ), GDR opera competition 1969 (for the short opera entry ), Friedrich Kuhlau competition of the city of Uelzen 1970 (for Cool, not lukewarm , No. 2 from the readings on two pianos ), 22nd Tribune Internationale des Composites of UNESCO Paris 1975 (for the children's fair ), Prix Folklorique de Radio Bratislava 1975 (for The Heavy Dream ), Prix ​​Danube in Bratislava 1977 for KRO-Netherlands-recording of the children's fair , Ernst-Reuter-Preis 1982 (together with Dorothea Medek for her feature West-Eastern change, issued at the time of arrival ).

In 1968 the first artistic handicap occurred in connection with the " Prague Spring ", triggered by the compositions The Decree on Peace (Lenin) and the "Battaglia alla turca", No. 1 from the readings on two pianos .

1961–1968 he had his first marriage with Inge Brüll (daughter: Saskia, born 1966). From 1970 he had annual summer work stays in Bindow am Ziestsee near Königs Wusterhausen . Tilo Medek was married to the theater scholar and author Dorothea Medek (children: Mirjam, born 1971, Clara and Immanuel, born 1983).

In connection with Biermann's expulsion on July 15, 1977, he was “released from the citizenship of the German Democratic Republic” and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany.

From 1977 to 1980 he lived in Adscheid near Hennef an der Sieg, 1980 to 1985 in Unkel am Rhein and since 1985 opposite on the Rheinhöhe (above Oberwinter) near Remagen.

The music publisher Edition Tilo Medek has existed since 1982 (with printing and processing since 1999).

Tilo Medek was a founding member of the Free Academy of the Arts Mannheim. In February 1992 he was honorary composer of the 8th Festival International des Chœurs d'Enfants in Nantes (France). In the summer of 1994 he spent an honorary stay at the German Academy in Rome ( Villa Massimo ). In 1999 he became a corresponding member of the Collegium opaeum Jenense at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . In recent years he has confirmed his musicological skills again and has given lectures. Medek had had private composition students since 1967.

Tilo Medek's grave in the north cemetery in Jena

Since September 2002 he has been pursuing the development of a composition course at the State Music High School of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Montabaur. Since 1962 he has been working as a freelancer without interruption.

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His work includes numerous chamber music and piano compositions, among others. a. well-known settings of Brechtian poetry, which have been interpreted by well-known Diseusen such as Sonja Kehler , as well as a large number of choral and orchestral works. Especially for the choral work The Death Fugue based on Paul Celan's poem Death Fugue , he received recognition from the West early on. In addition, three full-length stage works are by Medek, the last being the opera Katharina Blum (1991) based on Heinrich Böll . Two other Singspiele, composed during the GDR era, were broadcast both on the radio and on television. Medeks created well over 20 radio plays, all of which were created for GDR radio productions . His concert for marimbaphone and orchestra was the first of its kind in the GDR; it was recorded on radio in the GDR with the soloist Wolfgang Preissler and the radio symphony orchestra. There were also 14 solo concerts , 3 symphonies: Die Eisenblätter , Die Rheinische , Die Sorbische and an extensive organ work. In addition, Medek also created some works for plucked orchestra and wind orchestra . One of the most frequently performed works is Die Drunkene Sonne for speaker and orchestra - a melodrama for children with the text by Sarah Kirsch .

Sound carrier

  • The drunken sun. A melodrama for children for speaker and orchestra.
  • Nova 8 85 019, 1971 (A-side)
  • LP: Deutsche Grammophon DG-Junior 2546054, 1981
  • MC: Deutsche Grammophon DG-Junior, 3346054, 1981
  • CD: 26.-27. June 1996 Schwerte SonArte, P 1997 2987610002, 1997
  • CD: Music for Children (3 CD Set) Deutsche Grammophon, 459 606, 1998
  • CD: El sol borracho , AgrupArte (Spain) ISBN 84-95423-04-9 (with illustrated booklet) 2000
  • CD: Music in Germany 1950–2000 (Box 3: Applied Music, Disk 9) Deutscher Musikrat RCA RedSeal, 74321 73527 2 2001
  • Tilo Medek: Organ Works . ( Wandlungs-Passacaglia (2001), BACH, Four Tones for Organ (1973), Buried Peasant Flute (1969), Quatember Feasts for Organ (1989), Broken Wings (1975), Reverse Passacaglia (1979)). Cybele Records, SACD 060.801 (2008)
  • Triops message - Tilo Medek's guitar work. (A-side: Rosenlied - Pergola - Rautenkranz (1967/69), album sheet with marginal notes (1967/68), Venetian Naxos (1981); B-side: Erdrauch (1979), Triops - Message (1985)). Ricophon LP 01030 ETM
  • Tilo Medek: Cello Concerto . ( Cello Concerto No. 1 (1978/82), A stele for Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1976), Schattenspiele (1973). Classic production osnabrück, cpo 777 520-2, 2010
  • Children's fair (In memory of the children murdered in the Third Reich) (1974) for children's choir
  • TV version: May 4, 1979, Dutch TV, II. Program, KRO Hilversum)
  • LP: Children's fair and Struwwelpeter - Mannheim Children's Choir, Edition Tilo Medek, 01012 1986
  • CD: Music in Germany 1950-2000 (Box 16: Music for Choirs, Disk 1) Deutscher Musikrat, RCA RedSeal, 74321 73660 2 1998
  • Such a troubled Peter (1975). Musical picture sheet for soprano solo, children's choir and solo voices, flute, bassoon, marimba and other percussion instruments , text: Hansgeorg Stengel
  • CD: Landesmusikakademie NRW, audite! Nova, LC 18939 2010

Film music

Radio play music

literature

  • Fred K. Prieberg: Music in a different Germany. Cologne 1968, under Müller-Medek, pp. 312-313, 315, 322.
  • Konrad Böhmer: Between series and pop. Vienna 1970.
  • Composers' workshop in: workbooks of the Academy of Arts of the GDR. Vol. 13 Berlin 1973.
  • A. Olivier: Music is intercourse without intimacy - an interview. In: Status, Independent Journal for Doctors , 1978, Issue 6, p. 96.
  • Hartmut Lück: A march that should worry the masses. In: NMZ, 1978, No. 3, p. 7.
  • Wolfgang Schreiber: Why not compare it with Schumann? Portrait of the composer Tilo Medek. In: Music and Medicine, 1978, No. 11, pp. 56–69.
  • Wolfgang Horn: Against the music of isolation. In: Düsseldorfer Hefte, 1979, Issue 14. S. 11 ff.
  • Wolfgang Horn: One who moved out to live from composing. In: Tilo Medek Documentation. City library, Düsseldorf.
  • Hartmut Lück: Music about music or how to inherit tradition without composing traditionally. In: Tilo Medek Documentation. City Library Düsseldorf.
  • H. Herbort: Does an artist have to feel safe? - A conversation with Tilo Medek and a premiere report about the violin concerto. In: Die Zeit , August 12, 1980, p. 51.
  • Oskar Gottlieb Blarr: Do you know Medek? About the organ fold of a diverse composer. In: Ars Organi , Volume 29, Issue 1, March
  • H. Herbort: German Christmas carols by Tilo Medek. In: Die Zeit , December 23, 1983
  • Tilo Medek - A composer portrait. Fahmüller, Bonn 1984.
  • Ernst Klaus Schneider: Original and adaptation - Tilo Medek's “Battaglia alla turca”. In: Kursmodelle Musik, secondary level II. Verlag Moritz Diesterweg.
  • H. Daschner: Tilo Medek "The drunk sun". In: Musicology. University of Freiburg, 1985.
  • Gunter Duvenbeck: Rejection of “belief in progress” in music - comments on a discussion with the composer Tilo Medek. In: Gunter Duvenbeck (Ed.): Bonner Musikkalender, 15/1987, Bonn.
  • Gunter Duvenbeck: "I always feel on the move" - ​​A conversation with Tilo Medek. In: Generalanzeiger Köln / Bonn, 18./19. July 1987.
  • Carl Friedrich Schröer: The new Gretchen is not easy to care for - the composer Tilo Medek and his opera "Katharina Blum". In: Rheinischer Merkur / Christ and World , September 18, 1987.
  • Michaele Kinzelmann: “The Drunk Sun” by Tilo Medek. Scientific term paper at the Freiburg University of Education, February 1988
  • Gerd Brill in conversation with Tilo Medek: The Triops message prevails… . In: musiblatt , 3/88, (and discussion of roots and triops message for guitar.)
  • Hans Gerd Brill: Tilo Medek's guitar work. In: Zupfmusik magazine , 1/89.
  • Irmgard Jüsten: A composer between East and West - On the work of Tilo Medek before and after his expatriation from the former GDR. University of Münster, Department of Music Education.
  • Sabine Rabe: Study of the word-tone relationship of Brecht's love songs in the setting for voice and guitar by Paul Dessau and Tilo Medek. Theoretical thesis for the diploma, Hochschule "Hanns Eisler", Berlin 1994.
  • Daniel Höhr: Refusal through exit - Tilo Medek's composition "King John or the exit". Seminar paper, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, English seminar.
  • Hildegard Ginzler: The composer Tilo Medek.
  • Brigitte Köchlin: Alla Turca - arrangements of Mozart's KV 331, 3rd movement from the perspective of different functional assignments . Study seminar for the teaching profession (second state examination) for the upper secondary level - Neuss.
  • Katharina Kunze: Study of Tilo Medek's cantatas. Johann Gutenberg University Mainz, Musicological Institute, 1999.
  • Christof Götz: Norm or norm violation - on socialist realism in the music of the GDR - presented using selected examples from the musical life of the city of Jena, in the world premieres of his municipal orchestra in 1969–1998. Franz Liszt University of Applied Sciences, Weimar.
  • Florian Scharmer: The wind quintet with Tilo Medek. Diploma thesis to obtain the academic degree "Magister artium". Innsbruck Music Education Institute of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, October 1999.
  • Maike Neubert: Compositions for children using the example of musical stories. Master's thesis at the Philosophical Faculty for History and Art Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
  • Alexander von Nell: Mourning Compositions & Requien in the GDR. Master's thesis in musicology at the Humboldt University Berlin, June 24, 2004, pp. 56–61. ( Death fugue )
  • Peter Gnoss: An unadjusted composer, in memory of the composer Tilo Medek. In: fermate , Volume 25, Issue 2, 2006.
  • Memorial booklet for Tilo Medek. With contributions and a. by Andreas Eckardt, Alfons Kontarsky, Andreas Dorschel, Peter Gülke , Hartmut Lück, Volker Tarnow, Achim Hofer , Hans Pölkow. ETM 215.
  • Ute Jung-Kaiser : We are digging a grave in the air. In: Polyesthetics in the 21st Century. Peter Lang, International Science Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2007, pp. 165–169. (Tilo Medek's Death Fugue (1966))
  • Oliver Alt: Tilo Medek's songs with guitar accompaniment. In: Guitar current , 29th year, Gak No. 101-II / 08, Gak No. 102- III / 08III, Gak No. 103- IV / 08, 30th year, Gak No. 105-II / 09
  • Roland Hafen: Wassermusik - two contemporary composers. In: musik impulse journal , 21/08, Helbling Verlag, Esslingen / Innsbruck 2008. (Symphony No. 2, Rheinische)
  • Ulrike Liedtke: about the "little infiltration" of East German composers in the time of the GDR, music in silent resistance. In: Musikforum , 4/2009; Editorial.
  • Hans Pölkow : Music from the power of condensed language. On the death of the composer Tilo Medek. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 9, 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Medek, Tilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2006
Place of death Duderstadt