Wilfried Krüger (musician)

Wilfried Kruger

Wilfried Krüger (born December 20, 1947 in Diedrichshagen near Greifswald ) is a German horn player and initiator of music and art projects, especially in the field of new music.

Life

After studying horn with Erich Penzel and Fritz Huth at the music academies in Cologne and Würzburg , Wilfried Krüger became a member of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker , and later principal horn of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra . He worked as a lecturer at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg .

In 1981/82 he was a founding member of the Pegnitzschäfer-Klangkonzepte , since 1986 he has been responsible for their artistic direction, conception and organization. Since 2001 he and his ensemble have been organizing a series of concerts for new music in the New Museum in Nuremberg . At the same time he is active in the group of authors' music (horn, double bass, piano, electronics, dance) and in the TonVision association (literature, music, visual arts, theater). Krüger lives in Nuremberg.

Professional activities

Wilfried Krüger had engagements with the symphony orchestras in Siegen, Recklinghausen and Düsseldorf and had been principal horn with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra since 1974 . In 1979 he founded the Horn Quartet of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Nuremberg Trio with Sophie Hagemann and Ernst Gröschel. He made over 100 recordings for the Bavarian Radio with chamber music and solo concerts, including the serenade for tenor, horn and orchestra by Benjamin Britten , "Des canyons aux étoiles" for piano, horn and orchestra by Olivier Messiaen and the concerto in E flat major for Horn and orchestra by Franz Anton Rösler , known as Rosetti. He also played the world premieres of numerous works composed for him, including a. by Dieter Schnebel , Werner Heider and Gerhard Stäbler .

In 1982 he gave concerts a. a. at the concert series "Musica Antiqua" in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in historically informed performance practice on natural horn , together with Ernst Gröschel, fortepiano . He was also a horn lecturer at the Music Academy for 20 years at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg and was curator of the chamber ensemble work "Codex" in 2001, for soprano and ensemble by Christoph Staude (music), in 2006 at the oratorio "Kohlenmonoxyd" by Karola Obermüller (music) and Gabriele Strassmann (text) and in 2011 for “demnach”, a developed quartet for horn solo and action group with skateboarders , concrete mixers and vacuum cleaners by Gerhard Stäbler (music) and Frank Schablewski (text). In 2008 he was a co-founder of the group "Autormusik" in the "Realtime Hall" in Munich.

Honors

• 2009: Friedrich Baur Prize (laudation: Hans Rudolf Zeller )
• 2017: Concerto bavarese: On the 70th birthday of the horn player Wilfried Krüger ( Bayern 2 ; December 20, 2017)
• 2018: Prize of the City of Nuremberg (for his 35 years of artistic work as horn player and artistic director of the Nuremberg Ensemble Pegnitzschäfer - Klangkonzepte )

World premieres (New Music)

• Holmer Becker : Largo for horn; Impromptu for horn and harp (1988 for horn and organ); Du hochgebauten Stadt (2012) for woodwind quintet, timpani and piano (text: Michael Herrschel); Ciacona (2012) for horn and organ
• Helmut Bieler : Moving Surfaces (2002) for horn and organ (2012 for horn and ensemble); Hannas Dank and Ruths Klage (2010) for soprano, alto, horn, trombone, piano and organ (text: Michael Herrschel / Heide I. Bieler)
• Volker Blumenthaler : Poem or September 11, 1973 (1988) for soprano and horn (Text: Pablo Neruda )
• Volker Blumenthaler: Tyrian purple (2018) for horn and violoncello
• Hwei-Lee Blumenthaler-Chang : Waves of the Yangtze (2016) for countertenor, horn, violoncello and percussion (Text: Yang Shen )
• Nikolaus Brass : Solo (2014) for horn
• Dieter Buwen : Kanne Blumma (2014) for soprano and ensemble (Text: Gerhard Falkner )
• Dieter Buwen: From the Dreams Left Behind (2014)
• Dieter Buwen: The Last Trombone (2016) for horn and organ
• Dieter Buwen: Am Brunnen vor dem Turme (2019) for brass quintet
• Mercè Capdevila : Fons de mar (2003) for horn, organ and tape
• Martin Daske and Farah Syed: Tome 26 (1990) for horn
• Violeta Dinescu : Distorting Mirror III (1998) for recorder and horn
• Christian Martin Gabriel : Verheißung der Blocken (2012) for woodwind quintet, timpani and piano (text: Michael Herrschel)
• Christian Gabriel : Hitler has to go ; Georg Elser Jazz Oratorio (July 19, 2015); based on an idea concept by Wilfried Krüger
• Wolfram Graf : Konsonant (2001) for horn; Weite (2002) for horn and organ
• Julian Habryka : Hasava (2010) for soprano, alto, horn, trombone, piano and organ
• Heinrich Hartl : Meditation 89 (op.43; 1989) for horn and organ
• Klaus Hashagen : Till'frieds Funny Hornstreich (1990) for horn; Legende (1994) for horn and piano; Six Corniatures (1997) for horn and ensemble
• Werner Heider : Verheißung (1988) for horn; Hymnus (2007) for horn (2012 for horn and ensemble)
• Werner Heider: Krügers Horn-Blues (2018) for horn solo. St. Egidienkirche Nuremberg
• Bernhard Matthias Hoffmann : Héd (2010) for soprano, alto, horn, trombone, piano and organ
• Dorothea Hofmann : Maria von Magdala (2010), Biblical scenes for soprano, alto, horn, trombone, piano and organ
• Dorothea Hofmann: Elias for horn and organ (2014)
• Waldram Hollfelder : Fantasie VI (2002) for horn
• Eva-Maria Houben : sarah (2010) for two voices, horn, trombone, piano and organ; from the flying leaves of a traveling horn player (2013) for horn; der wandler (2013) for horn
• Eva-Maria Houben: the converter (2014), horn solo
• Eva-Maria Houben: Gesang 1 for horn in F and organ from: Gesänge des Tages und der Nacht (2016)
• Eva-Maria Houben: echo fantasy I, II (2018) for horn a. organ
• Hans Kraus-Hübner : Paraphrase on the Mastersingers of Nuremberg for 3 brass instruments (2015)
• Hans Kraus-Hübner: Divergenza (2016) for horn, organ and electronics; Meander for horn and electronics (1st version 2015, 2nd version 2016)
• Hans Kraus Hübner: Riss 1 + 2 + 3 (2017) for horn and live electronics (on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Pegnitzschäfer sound concepts: laudation Renate Schmidt , Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth a. D.)
• Hans Kraus-Hübner: Random Answers (2018) for horn and electronics. St. Egidienkirche Nuremberg
• Hans Kraus-Hübner: Il ricordo diCaccini (2019) for brass quintet
• Hans Kraus-Hübner: Duale Cantilenen (2019) for clarinet a. horn
• Wilfried Jentzsch : Paysages Cor (1989) for horn and tape
• Dagfin Koch : Time Quarry (2014), chamber ensemble
• Péter Köszeghy : Souls (Magic) (2016) for horn, violin and cello
• Wilfried Krüger: Caprices No. 1 (2015) for horn, piano, double bass a. computer
• Horst Lohse : Die Sirenen noch im Ohr (2004) for horn; Sabelita scenes 2/4/9/17 (2011/12) for voice (s) and ensemble (texts: Michael Herrschel); Spirits of the Dead (1984/2013) for medium voice and horn (Texts: Edgar Allan Poe )
• Gottfried Müller : Fantasy on " Oh God, from heaven see it " for horn and string quartet
• Karsten Neumann and Wilfried Krüger: abbau west (2002) for Horn
• Karola Obermüller : For Wilfried (2008) for horn
• Vivienne Olive : Scarista Bull (1990/91) for horn
• Kurt Dietmar Richter : Elegia (1987) for horn (to pictures by Gerhard Altenbourg ; from Marienbader Elegies )
• Jorge Rotter : Music for Brass (2000)
• Rainer Rubbert : Relations (1986) for horn and percussion; Extraits (2008) for horn
• Grazia Salvatori : Allegretto (2002) for horn and harpsichord; Tu scendi dalle stelle (2003) for horn and organ
• Franz Schillinger : Insisting Voices (2003) for horn
• Roland Schmidt: Profound Longing (2000) for horn
• Roland Schmidt : The juggler for 3 brass instruments (2000)
• Dieter Schnebel : Rufe (2006) for horn and violoncello
• Johannes S. Sistermanns, Hans Kraus-Hübner, Uwe Ebert & Wilfried Krüger: The Room of Unexpected Sounds II (2019) for Exiter, basalt-lava-stone, voice, electronics and horn
• Gerhard Stäbler : accordingly (2010). Unfolded quartet for horn solo and action groups with skateboards , concrete mixers and vacuum cleaners (ad libitum)
• Gerhard Stäbler: Scheibenformen (2014), horn solo
• Walter Steffens : Die Neuen Wilden: Neger Banana Erdbeere (1990) for horn and percussion (based on a picture by Dieter Truttenbach)
• Uwe Strübing : But the desert will bloom like the lilies… (2000) for horn and organ; On the bank. Summer evening (2001), synaesthesia for horn and harp; Dem Unendlichen (2003) for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, horn, violin and organ (Text: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock )
• Witold Szalonek : Medusa's Dream of Pegasus (1997) for flute and horn
• Lorenz Trottmann : The orphans. Seven Moments of a Fair (2012) for woodwind quintet and piano (text: Michael Herrschel)
• Dieter Trüstedt and Wilfried Krüger: Schattenvogel (2008) for horn and computer chin
• Dieter Trüstedt / Wilfried Krüger: Hesiod (2020) for Pure Data and Horn
• Knut Vaage : Someone , Sinfonietten (2014)
• Hans Rudolf Zeller : Blablamata (1963), speaking piece (arranged for 5 speakers by Wilfried Krüger)
• Hans Rudolf Zeller / Wilfried Krüger: Blablamata (1963/2018) for speaker ensemble
• Hans Rudolf Zeller: Luftzüge (2014), horn solo

Author ensemble

• Wilfried Krüger, Elmar Guantes, Hans Wolf, Dieter Trüstedt: Material Zones (2014)
• Wilfried Krüger, Elmar Guantes, Hans Wolf, Dieter Trüstedt: Traces of Polymetrics (2014)
• Dieter Trüstedt, Wilfried Krüger, Hans Wolf: horn, piano, fractal and two stones (2013)
• Dieter Trüstedt, Wilfried Krüger: Falschfarben (2014)
• Dieter Trüstedt, Wilfried Krüger: Leonhard Euler claps his hands (2015) for Horn and Pure Data
• Dieter Trüstedt, Elmar Guantes, Hans Wolf, Wilfrid Krüger and others 9th acoustic intervention (2019) for ensemble
• Wilfried Krüger, Dieter Trüstedt, Elmar Guantes a. Hans Wolf: Pictures from the sound workshop (2015)
• Wilfried Krüger, Dieter Trüstedt a. Karsten Neumann: Voyage du café (version 2016) for horn, electronics a. Performer
• Wilfried Krüger, Elmar Guantes, Dieter Trüstedt: Sound of Noise (2016)
• Wilfried Krüger, Dieter Trüstedt, Volker Blumenthaler: barrel organ (2019)
• Hans Wolf, Elmar Guantes, Wilfried Krüger, Dieter Trüstedt: Significance (2020) for piano, double bass, horn and pure data

literature

• Axel Schniederjürgen (Red.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook 2006. Soloists, conductors, composers, university lecturers. 5th edition 2006. KG Saur Munich 2006. Page 257. ISBN 978-3-59824-212-0 .

Web links

• Pegnitzschäfer sound concepts