Volker Plangg

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Volker Michael Plangg (born June 27, 1953 in Bludenz ) is an Austrian conductor , composer , arranger and author.

Life

Volker Plangg attended elementary school and grammar school in Bludenz. In 1972 he began his music studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum in the subjects of piano, conducting and composition. In 1979 he finished his studies at the Musikhochschule Freiburg .

From 1980 until today Plangg has worked at numerous theaters and with various orchestras as a guest conductor and in leading artistic positions (e.g. Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern , Nationaltheater Mannheim , Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck , Staatstheater Kassel , Metropoltheater Berlin , Deutsches Theater Munich ). 1987–1989 Plangg was visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1990 he worked on Broadway in New York , in the same year he was the premiere conductor and musical director of the Webber production Das Phantom der Oper in Hamburg .

From 1992 to 1996 Plangg was a permanent guest conductor at the Theater des Westens in Berlin. From 1995 to 2003 he held the position of chief conductor of the Dresden State Operetta. In this capacity he brought u. a. the musicals Aspects of Love ( Andrew Lloyd Webber ) and Victor / Victoria ( Henry Mancini ) are premiered in German. He performed his own work Rasputin in a revised version in 2000 at the Dresden State Operetta. At the same time, Plangg u. a. at the Volkstheater Rostock , at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and at the Volksoper Vienna .

In 1990 he wrote the opera musical Strannik - the Rasputin story - for Jeunesse musicales Deutschland, together with the lyricist and director Hartmut H. Forche . In 2001 the ballet Snow White, the Mirror and the Prince was commissioned by the Thuringian State Theater in Eisenach. His Colored Circles for accordion and brass quintet was created in 2009 for the Austrian Sonus Brass Ensemble . The cycle The Devious Dogs of Time was created in 2011 for the opera singer Roman Trekel . Plangg wrote the orchestral work Hymne in 2013 on behalf of the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. The musical opera Katharina Kepler was created in 2019 together with the lyricist Hartmut H. Forche on behalf of the Pforzheim City Theater. His compositional work is characterized by the inclusion of jazz and rock elements as well as non-European style influences and is equally dedicated to orchestral and chamber music, vocal works and works for the stage.

Plangg lives in Dresden and Berlin and works as a freelance conductor a. a. at WDR Cologne, at the Halle Opera House (premiere of the musical Edgar Allan Poe by Eric Woolfson ) and at the Rostock Volkstheater.

In 2016 his novel Der Klangwandler was published .

Stage works

  • Trio - chamber opera in five scenes (Text: Reinhard Stenzel , 1981)
  • Klimka, the master thief - opera for children (premiered in Lüneburg 1981)
  • The Dancing Shoes - Opera for Children (WP Lüneburg 1982)
  • The Tatutinger opera for children (Text: Peter Nüesch , WP Kaiserslautern 1986)
  • Who's Afraid in the Zirbelnuss Circus - Opera for Children (WP Augsburg 1988)
  • Rasputin - Opera musical (Text: Hartmut H. Forche , WP Weikersheim 1990, new version WP Dresden 2000)
  • Snow White, the Mirror and the Prince - Ballet (WP Eisenach 2001, Dresden 2002, Cottbus 2003)
  • Pharao - MusicalOper (Text: Ralf Nürnberger , 2002/03)
  • Casino Pique Dame - literary musical based on Alexander Pushkin (CD production Bremen 2008)
  • The devious dogs of time - six scenic chants (text: Frank Alva Buecheler ) and two instrumental interludes for soprano, baritone, clarinet, violoncello, bass drum and piano (2011, premiered Berlin 2012)
  • Katharina Kepler - MusicalOper (Text: Hartmut H. Forche, 2019). A work commissioned by the Stadttheater Pforzheim

Orchestral works

  • Young novice in the Zen monastery for deep voice and orchestra (1979)
  • Concertino for piano, timpani and string orchestra (premiered in Freiburg im Breisgau 1979)
  • Ashanti for string orchestra (1981)
  • Dialogue with Lorca for orchestra (WP Kaiserslautern 1985)
  • The sound of the flute that blows the screen apart for soprano, tenor and orchestra (UA Mannheim 1997)
  • Short Stories for 5 brass instruments and orchestra (WP Bregenz 2000)
  • Snow White, the Mirror and the Prince - concert version for narrator and orchestra (WP Jena 2007)
  • Hymn for choir and orchestra (WP Baden-Baden 2013)
  • Three kinds of silence - 3 pieces for orchestra (2013)
  • Mountain Tales for symphonic wind orchestra (2015)
  • Serenade for string orchestra (1969/2017)
  • Elegia for solo violin and small orchestra (2018)
  • Scarlatti contro la paura - Two suites for string orchestra based on harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (2020) - Part I: Lettere a Scarlatti - Part II: Risposte da Scarlatti

Chamber music

  • Young novice in the Zen monastery - version for deep voice and chamber ensemble (WP Freiburg 1979)
  • In flagranti for trombone and string sextet (1981/2015 - WP Bregenz 2018)
  • Four Proverbs for tenor and string quartet (WP Dornbirn 1981)
  • ... work in silence ... for flute, clarinet, horn and piano (UA Bludenz 1988)
  • Colored Circles for 5 brass instruments and accordion (WP Bludenz October 2009)
  • Mantra IV for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello, piano and drums (2018)

Vocal music

  • Change, duration and forgetting for high lyrical soprano and a cappella choir (premiere Stuttgart 1981) (ORF production 1982)
  • The widow in the evening rain after words by Li Qingzhao (ORF production 1982)
  • Four songs in a row for tenor and piano (1982) (ORF production 1986)
  • Madrigals for six-part a cappella choir (WP Vienna 1984)
  • Four songs to Dominik for high voice and piano (1985)
  • Six distinctive songs for high voice, piano, harp, celesta and vibraphone , (UA Kaiserslautern 1986) (ORF production 1986)
  • Nur kiam ... for solo soprano , five vocal groups, keyboard and two percussionists (1992)
  • The Lament and the Need of the Ephemeral Man (Old Testament, Psalms 38,3-39,13) for soprano solo and mixed choir a cappella (2012)
  • Das Schattengemenge - 5 chants based on poems by Du Fu (712-770) and Li Bai (701-762) in the translation by Hildburg Heider for bass-baritone, mixed choir, 2 pianos, 2 harps, celesta, keyboard / organ, percussion, timpani and string orchestra (2016/17)

Piano music

  • Pianisms I (1980) (ORF production 1985)
  • Six miniatures (1981) (ORF production 1985)
  • Pianisms II (1984) (ORF production 1985)
  • Pause sign for piano (WP Berlin 1989)
  • Three silent duets for celesta or piano (1984)
  • Life courses for piano (2016)

Literary works

Awards

  • 1991: " Golden Record " for the CD "Phantom of the Opera - Highlights of the Hamburg Performance"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the book Der Klangwandler ( Memento from October 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Plangg, Volker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plangg, Volker Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor, composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bludenz