Wilhelm Dieter Siebert

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Wilhelm Dieter Siebert (born October 22, 1931 in Berlin ; † April 19, 2011 there ) was a German composer . In 1965, together with colleagues Gerald Humel , Karl Heinz Wahren , Roland Pfrengle and Jolyon Brettingham-Smith, he founded the group Neue Musik Berlin, which has been successful for decades . The opera Untergang der Titanic, premiered in 1979 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, is one of the most famous works .

Career

Siebert lived in Berlin and Greece. He studied clarinet, composition, instrumentation and conducting at the conservatory and the music academy in Berlin. In the late 1950s he played jazz . He took twelve-tone music courses with Josef Rufer , then composition with Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg im Breisgau . He experimented with jazz and electronics.

  • Scholarships: Darmstadt 1967, Cité des Arts - Paris 1972, P. S. I. in New York 1978.
  • Prizes: Art Prize of the Academy of the Arts 1974, Prize of the International Carl Maria von Weber Competition Dresden 1990, Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon 2001.

Works (selection)

Siebert's works include operas, musicals, ballets, chamber music, songs, orchestral pieces and experimental musical theater pieces with performances in Germany, the Netherlands, England, Italy, Greece, France, the USA, Japan and Korea. Severt's best-known work, the opera "Untergang der Titanic" (Direction: Winfried Bauernfeind ) premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1979 , remained on the program for 7 years. Further productions in Los Angeles , Rennes , Freiburg, Cottbus , Plauen , Halle and Greifswald . The signature melody of 100 or 1000 masterpieces is known to a wide audience .

Stage works (excerpt)

  • " Frankenstein , the new employee", multi-media opera for singers, actors, chamber orchestras & rock bands, projections, films etc. Lyrics: Yaak Karsunke. World premiere at Akademie der Künste Berlin 1974
  • "Des Kohlha's last night", scenic madrigal, multimedia theater. Text: Yaak Karsunke. World premiere at the Berliner Festwochen 1978
  • "Downfall of the Titanic", grand opera with salon orchestra. Libretto by Hartmann Schmige and Christian Rateuke, world premiere on September 6, 1979 in Berlin.
  • "Love, Death and Tango", chamber opera based on Walter Serner's "Die Tigerin". Libretto: Michael Fröhling. World premiere at the Staatstheater Kassel 1986. Prize of the International Carl Maria von Weber Competition for Chamber Opera, Dresden 1990
  • " Schlemihl ", magical operetta based on motifs from German Romanticism. Libretto: Hartmann Schmige and Christian Rateuke. First performance in Berlin 1987
  • "The Pilot from Hiroshima ". Missa Apocalypsis for tenor, violoncello and tapes, scenic. World premiere in Berlin 1991
  • "Meister Kater", grotesque opera, world premiere in Frankfurt / Oder 1994
  • "The Bankers Opera", a three-penny revue. Directed by Volker Kühn , world premiere in Düsseldorf 1998,
  • "The Mask of the Red Death", ballet based on Edgar Allan Poe with a large orchestra and tape. Libretto: Hans Nicklisch. World premiere Rostock 2005
  • "Faustina", Singspiel for tenor, a singing actress, a small choir and chamber orchestra, dedicated to CFDS. World premiere in 2007 Podewil -Berlin

Chamber music and orchestral works (excerpt)

  • Concerto for oboe (and chamber orchestra)
  • Violin & Piano 1948 OAK MUSIKVERLAG 2015 ISMN M-700235-68-0
  • "Concertino in Jazz", for clarinet, tenor saxophone, big band and sinphonic orchestra, 1959
  • "Flute by Flute". Composition for flute and tape, 1965,
  • Variations of an elegy, for clarinet, harp, violin and violoncello, 1966
  • Potsdam Sonata, on themes by Frederick II for three clarinets and string orchestra, 1966
  • "Pennergesang" for baritone, guitar and small orchestra after Günter Bruno Fuchs , 1968
  • " Paganini Variations" for flute, string trio, piano and tape, 1968
  • "James Bond Oratory", acoustic-optical meditation on lust and the glory of killing. For singers, drummers, tapes, projections and films. Image design: Peter Sorge , 1969
  • "Der Untergang der Titanic " for violin and percussion, one-man orchestra, 1971
  • "Manipul", drama for two percussionists and manipulating tape, staged, 1972
  • "The last days of the art violinist Berenice von L." for violin, ensemble and tapes, 1973
  • "The Downfall of the Titanic" for brass quintet, 1973
  • "Antiphon", lamentation on the history of a Berlin church, for ensemble and tapes, 1975
  • "Der Trunk des Poseidon", scenic allegory for tenor and baroque orchestra, 1977
  • "Großstadt", composition for an environment by HJDiehl for soprano, saxophone, violoncello and percussion. Text: Yaak Karsunke, 1978
  • "Berliner Hinterhofmusik", 1978 EICHEN MUSIKVERLAG 2014 ISMN M-700235-44-4
  • "Hollywood music" for wind trio, 1978
  • "The last Paso Doble in the Alhambra-Bar on Kurfürstendamm before it was finally bombed in 1944" for chamber orchestra, 1981
  • "Missa funerale for Al Capone" for violoncello and double bass, 1982
  • "Someday" for choir and solo violoncello, based on texts by Pablo Neruda, 1983
  • "32 meters under the opera" Psychodrama for violoncello and double bass, staged, 1984
  • "I Virtuosi del Diavolo" double concerto for flute, violin and orchestra, 1984
  • "12 easy pieces for the heavy hand", piano solo, 1984 EICHEN MUSIKVERLAG 2015 ISMN M-700235-43-7
  • "Lead Dust Cantata" - Cantata barocca e moderna - for the occasion. For solos, choir and orchestra, scenic, 1985
  • " Sapphos Traum" for soprano and chamber orchestra based on texts by Sappho, 1990 EICHEN MUSIKVERLAG 2014 ISMN M-700235-99-4
  • "The day of the cicadas" for string quartet, 1991 EICHEN MUSIKVERLAG 2015 ISMN M-700235-54-3
  • "Rondeau de Blech", for 11 brass players. Commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 1992 EICHEN MUSIKVERLAG 2015 ISMN M-700235-51-2
  • "Over the Alps!" Octet, 1992 OAK MUSIKVERLAG 2015 ISMN M-700235-48-2
  • "Est modus in rebus ..." for soprano and room orchestra, 1993
  • "Schatten" for flute, violoncello and tape, 1993
  • "Perpetuum mortale" for flute, violoncello and percussion, 1994
  • "The Death of Orpheus " for soprano, flute, violoncello and tape, 1996
  • "An die Kunst" for trombone, harp and orchestral groups, 1997
  • "Il Basso die Napoli" for double bass and plucked orchestra, 1999
  • "The Lost Century - Swan song." Meditation with fragments for flute, violoncello and percussion; Dedicated to Matthias Koeppel , 2000
  • "The dead Fidel" for viola and string orchestra, 2000 OAK MUSIKVERLAG 2015 ISMN M-700235-45-1
  • "Dialectical Requiem ", for choir and small orchestra, 2002
  • "Choral for the End of the Wars for violin and orchestra, 2004
  • "Lamento" for baritone, viola and organ, 2004
  • "Existential figures", epigrams on sculptures by Georg Kolbe "for flute, oboe, violin, violoncello with harp, 2004
  • "Greek Ballad" for bass clarinet, violin, violoncello and percussion, 2006
  • "Rose and Nightingale", based on a fairy tale by Oscar Wilde for flute, violoncello and piano / harp, 2009/2010 EICHEN MUSIKVERLAG 2015 ISMN M-700235-98-7

Film and television music

Other

  • Our Ludwig, for choir, piano and speaker (1970)
  • Opus 50, three pieces for piano (1972)
  • the tape (1974)
  • Electronic night music in the Grunewald hunting lodge , with Karl Heinz Wahren, Gerald Humel, Roland Pfrengle and Jolyon Brettingham-Smith
  • Our beautiful America, with Yaak Karsunke (1979)
  • "Everything goes better with music" (1933–1983). (With Karl-Heinz Wahren).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Tagesspiegel from May 8, 2011 , accessed on October 20, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Siebert, Wilhelm Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siebert, Willy; Siebert, Wilhelm D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2011
Place of death Berlin , Germany