Ulrich Leyendecker

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Ulrich Leyendecker (2007)

Ulrich Leyendecker (born January 29, 1946 in Wuppertal ; † November 29, 2018 in Bonn ) was a German composer .

life and work

After taking composition lessons with Ingo Schmitt from 1962 to 1965, he studied composition with Rudolf Petzold and piano with Günter Ludwig until 1970 at the Cologne University of Music . In 1968 he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , and from 1971 lecturer in theory at the Hamburg University of Music. In 1974 he received the support price of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for music , which was followed by an annual stay at Villa Massimo in 1978/79 . From 1981 he was professor for composition and theory at the Hamburg University of Music . He spent 1984 and 1985 in Paris on a scholarship for the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris . From 1986 he was a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg . In 1987 the city of Wuppertal awarded him the Von-der-Heydt Prize . In 1994 he moved from Hamburg to the professorship for composition at the Mannheim University of Music , from 1997 he was a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Mannheim. In 2001/02 he received another scholarship for the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. From 2005 he worked as a freelance composer.

For the composer, who was born in the first year after the war, like many of his contemporaries, the examination of the music of the Second Viennese School “marked the beginning of the appropriation of musical modernism, which had been ostracized in National Socialist Germany. But his studies at the Vienna School were more relaxed than at Boulez , Nono or Stockhausen . Leyendecker questioned its derivation of the serial process. ”(Lutz Lesle) In particular, the music by Alban Berg , in which Leyendecker saw a“ residual tonality ”, was formative for the composer. At the beginning of his artistic activity, Leyendecker “often went one step back behind the a priori fixed and secured basic form” in the genesis of his musical material. ( Lutz Lesle ) Later, more and more fixed motivic forms became important, which nonetheless an expansive metamorphosis of the musical Material. An important concern of Leyendecker remained to write comprehensible, emotionally comprehensible music without having to curry favor with the audience. From the 2000s onwards, Leyendecker's compositions turned to clear structures and formal concepts. This manifests itself in his orchestral works as well as in chamber music. “Whereas in Leyendecker's early chamber music compositions it was rather microscopic tonal structures from which his sound cosmos could unfold in fascinating architecture, in the bass clarinet quintet there is more of a tendency towards large, sometimes downright drinkable gestures. This, of course, never emerges from a musical end in itself, but always finds its decisive impulse in the compelling wealth of relationships in Leyendecker's world of thought. ”(Timo Jouko Herrmann) In some compositions from Leyendecker's late work, the joyful engagement with the music of other epochs is also noticeable, such as in the Pensées sur un prélude for orchestra, which takes Claude Debussy's piano piece Des pas sur la neige as the compositional starting point, or in the orchestral piece Evocazione , which evokes the commendation scene from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni . In his Mannheim concert for two chamber orchestras, Leyendecker pays tribute to the double orchestra technique of the Mannheim School .

Leyendecker died of heart failure in November 2018 at the age of 72.

Works

Orchestral works

  • Notturno for bass and orchestra (1968/69)
  • Symphony No. 1 (1974)
  • Con espressione (1979)
  • Metamorphosis , four pieces for chamber orchestra (1980)
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra (1980)
  • Impromptu (1981)
  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra (1983)
  • Symphony No. 2 (1985)
  • Symphony No. 3 (1990/91)
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra (1994/95)
  • Symphony No. 4 (1995–1997)
  • Concerto for orchestra (5th symphony) (1999–2000)
  • Pensées sur un Prélude , Debussy variations for orchestra (2001)
  • Leopardi chants for alto, tenor and orchestra (2002)
  • Concert for guitar and orchestra (2004/2005)
  • Evocazione (2006)
  • Mannheim Concerto for two chamber orchestras (2006)
  • Concert for viola and orchestra (2007/2008), world premiere: March 19, 2010, Kaiserslautern

Vocal music

  • Lost in the Night for soprano and chamber orchestra (1981)
  • Canción última for alto and chamber ensemble (1983)
  • Notturno for soprano and four cellos (1987)
  • Hebrew ballads for soprano and chamber ensemble (1993)
  • Serenade for soprano and chamber ensemble (1997)
  • Leopardi chants for soprano and piano (2003)
  • Leopardi chants for bass and piano (2004)

Chamber music

  • Sonata for clarinet and piano (1966)
  • String Trio No. 1 (1966)
  • Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano (1964/67)
  • Maqam , two movements for violin, cello and piano (1967)
  • String Trio No. 2 (1972)
  • The papers of Brother Menardus, a Capuchin , a novel for 9 soloists (1973/77)
  • Yiddish Rumba for Instrumental Ensemble (1977)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1978)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1986/87)
  • Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1988)
  • String Quartet No. 3 - Ricercar on the Art of Fugue (1989)
  • Two objective studies for clarinet and violoncello - also in a version for bass clarinet and viola (1989)
  • Chamber concert for instrumental ensemble (1989)
  • Quintet for bass clarinet and string quartet (2000)
  • Midnight Music for Guitar and Harp (2008)
  • Quintet in C major [Franz Schubert] Arrangement of the string quintet in C major D 956 op. Post. 163 for ensemble
  • Der Doppelganger [Franz Schubert] Arrangement of the song D 957, 13 from the cycle “ Schwanengesang ” for ensemble (without text) (2008)
  • Your picture [Franz Schubert] adaptation of the song D 957, 9 from the cycle “Schwanengesang” for ensemble (without text) (2008)
  • Aprèslude Noir for Ensemble (2015)

Piano music

  • Seven short piano pieces (1965)
  • Piano pieces I-IV (1964–1971)
  • Sonata for two pianos (1985)
  • Ricercar for two pianos - arrangement of the 3rd string quartet (1989)
  • 13 Bagatelles (1989)
  • Piano piece No. V (1990)
  • Impromptu for two pianos (1994)
  • Noblesse oblige , five piano pieces (1996)

Works for solo instrument

  • Solo I for transverse flute (1973)
  • Solo II for treble recorder and tape (1975)
  • Canto per violino solo (1979)
  • Verso Parsifal for guitar solo (1982)
  • Two Etudes for Clarinet Solo (Adaptation of the Two Objective Etudes ) (1989)
  • Etude for viola solo (1989)
  • Two Etudes for Bass Clarinet Solo (Arrangement of the Two Objective Etudes ) (1990)
  • Sonata for violin solo (2012)

Discography

  • Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 3 (Naxos) - Reviews: (1) , (2)
  • Violoncello Concerto, Piano Concerto, String Quartet No. 1, Canto per Violino solo (Wergo)
  • The piano work (Cantate Musicaphon)
  • Hebrew Ballads in Other Worlds - 50 Years of New Music in NRW - Broadcasts (1996)
  • Guitar concert, Evocazione, Symphony No. 4 (Cantate Musicaphon)
  • String Quartets No. 1–3, Bass Clarinet Quintet (Cantate Musicaphon)

Student (selection)

literature

  • Timo Jouko Herrmann: Ulrich Leyendecker's guitar works . In: Guitar current - issue 02/2010, 2010.
  • Timo Jouko Herrmann: Ulrich Leyendecker's string quartets and bass clarinet quintet . Booklet for the CD released by Cantate Musicaphon.
  • Lutz Lesle: Ulrich Leyendecker - biography . In: Composers of the Present (KDG), edition text + kritik by Richard Boorberg Verlag.
  • Hans Vogt : Laudation for Ulrich Leyendecker: On the award of the Eduard von der Heydt Prize of the City of Wuppertal , International Music Publishers Hans Sikorski, Hamburg, 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b tog / dpa: Committed to tradition. In: morgenweb.de. Accessed December 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Composer Ulrich Leyendecker died at the age of 72 - Neue Mannheimer Schule, SWR2. Accessed December 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Leyendecker, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH 29th November 2018
Place of death Bonn