Wilhelm Killmayer

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Wilhelm Killmayer (born August 21, 1927 in Munich ; † August 20, 2017 in Starnberg ) was a German composer . He composed for piano , chamber music , symphonies , operas , ballet music and vocal music , including more than 200 songs.

Life

Wilhelm Killmayer spent the first years of his life in Dachau- Mitterndorf. After his father's death in 1932, he grew up in Munich. There he began to play the piano and after elementary school (1934–1937) attended the humanistic Maximiliansgymnasium , where he passed his Abitur in 1947. 1945–1951 he studied conducting and composition at Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen's music seminar . In 1951 he became a private student of Carl Orff , who accepted him in 1953/54 in his master class at the Munich Conservatory . At the same time, Killmayer studied musicology with Rudolf von Ficker and Walter Riezler as well as German and Italian at the Ludwig Maximilians University from 1949 to 1952 .

1955–1958 Killmayer was a lecturer in music theory and counterpoint at the Trapp Conservatory , 1961–1964 ballet conductor at the Bavarian State Opera . He then worked as a freelance composer. 1968–1975 he lived in Frankfurt am Main . 1973–1992 he held a professorship for composition at the Munich Conservatory. His students included Max Beckschäfer , Sandeep Bhagwati , Moritz Eggert , Paul Engel , Markus Schmitt , Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau , Alfred Müller-Kranich , Walther Prokop , Rudi Spring and Laurence Traiger . At the invitation of Walter Fink , he was the fourth composer in the annual composer portrait of the Rheingau Music Festival in 1994 . "Killmayer's music has this insistent ambiguity: a misled cheerfulness and astonished seriousness, felt 'new', miles away from the mainstream of modernity or postmodernism or neoconservatism."

Wilhelm Killmayer died in August 2017, one day before his 90th birthday; he lived in Munich and Frasdorf . He spent his last years in Starnberg. On September 28, 2017, he was buried in an urn in Munich-Bogenhausen.

Honors, memberships

Wolfgang Rihm dedicated several of his works to Wilhelm Killmayer.

Selected Works

Stage works

  • La Buffonata ( The Schelmin ; 1959/60). Ballet opera. Libretto : Tankred Dorst
  • La Tragedia di Orfeo (1960/61). Ballet (based on La Fabula di Orpheo [1494] by Angelo Poliziano )
  • Yolimba or The Limits of Magic (1965; revised 1970). Musical farce in one act and four hymns of praise. Libretto: Tankred Dorst and Wilhelm Killmayer

Vocal compositions

  • Sacred hymns and chants (1964) for 6-part mixed choir (SAATTB). Texts: Jean Racine , German by A. Neumann, Clemens Podewils , Rudolf Alexander Schröder and Wilhelm Willige
    1.  The awake bird - 2.  Delighted is - 3.  While sleep - 4.  The purple shine of the morning - 5.  You, the human created - 6.  The whole world
  • Canti amorosi (1953) for mixed choir (SATB) with solos (ST)
    1.  Quant voi la rose espanir . Text (old French): anonymously handed down - 2.  Ohime! Se tanto amate . Text (old Italian): transmitted anonymously - 3.  S'andasse Amor a caccia . Text: Torquato Tasso
  • Romances (1954) for soprano, piano and percussion. Texts: Federico García Lorca , German by Enrique Beck (* February 12, 1904 Cologne, † September 16, 1974 Riehen )
    1.  I never sing the song (“I never sing the song that fell asleep on my lips”). Slowly - 2nd  equestrian song ("Córdoba. Lonely and Far"). Slowly - 3.  My girl went to the sea ("My girl went to the sea, wanted to count waves and pebbles"). Allegretto grazioso - 4th  Ghazel of love at the age of one hundred (“The four galans go up the alley”). Very quick and noisy - 5th  lament ("Neighbors! He was a wonderful rider, now he's a melting snow"). Molto agitato
  • Eight Shakespeare songs (1955) for tenor and ensemble: violin, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, piano and percussion (glockenspiel [or celesta], vibraphone, marimbaphone, temple blocks, triangle, large and small cymbal, tambourine and hanging tambourine, 3 small ones Drums, bass drum). WP 26./27. May 1956 Frankfurt am Main (Days of New Music; Franz Fehringer [tenor]; members of the Hessischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Wilhelm Killmayer)
    1st  serenade ("Listen! Lerch at the gate of heaven sings brightly and Phoebus comes up"; from Cymbeline ) - 2nd  Sturmlied ( "! storming, storming, you winter wind"; from As you like it ) - the third  summer song ( "Where Bien, I suck me in, I bette in Maiglöcklein"; from: the storm ) - 4 .  Come here, death ("Come here, come here, death, and cover your body with cypresses!"; From What you want ). Andante ma non troppo - 5th  love song ("Stay, oh, keep your lips far away, those so sweetly sworn wrong"; from measure for measure ). Agitato - 6th  grocer's song (“     Buy ribbon and lace, string on your hats, my chicken, my little one!”; From The Winter's Tale ). Allegro - 7th  Ariel's song ("Father is yours five fathers deep"; from The Storm ). Dolce - 8th  rain song ("When I was a tiny boy, hopp hot in rain and wind"; from What you want ). Allegretto
  • Le petit Savoyard (1956). French folk songs for soprano and seven instrumentalists. Premiere October 22, 1956 Stuttgart (Liselotte Ebnet [soprano]; Orchester des Süddeutschen Rundfunks, conductor: Leo Mueller)
    Orchestra: Picc.1.0.0.0 - Percussion (1 player): Glockenspiel, vibraphone, claves, 2 temple blocks, maracas, shaker tube, Cymbals, jazz cymbals, tambourine, 2 bongos, 3 small drums, 2 congas, bass drum - celesta / harpsichord - strings: 1.0.0.1.1
    1.  Rondo à la manière d'un Rigaudon ("Je vous chanterai mainte bonne chosette") . Allegro - 2.  Adieux à la Maurienne ("A dioz, a dioz, nobla cita de Sant Jehan de Moriena"). Andantino - 3.  La belle alouette (“La bell'aluieta matin s'é leva”). Allegro - 4th  La Maumariée ("Mariée je le suis mal à ma fantaisie"). Andante moderato - 5.  Ma mère, je suis en age ("Ma mère, je suis en age pour me thunder un mari"). Allegro moderato - 6th  Berceuse de Savoie ("D'eilei Draù, La campana so un de faù"). Lento - 7th  Le petit Ramoneur ("En passant par la Bourgogne je rencontre un petit homme"). Mambo pace
  • Sappho . Five Greek songs. Texts: Sappho
    • Cycle for soprano and instruments (1958)
      Ensemble: flute / piccolo - percussion (3 players): glockenspiel, vibraphone, bass xylophone, 3 hanging cymbals, bongos,       snare drum, bass drum - harp - piano
      1.  ἦλθες, καλ 'ἐπόησας ( Elthes, kal 'epoesas  / Did you come last, how nice ) - 2nd  κάλα ὦ, ὦ χαρίεσσα (O kala o chariessa kora) - 3.  ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν ( asteres men amfi kalan selannan  / star, the lovely the moon stand round ) - 4.  φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος (Fainetai moi kenos) - 5.  οὐδ 'ἴαν δοκίμωμι προσίδοισαν φάος ἀλίω ( Ud' ian dokimomi prosidoisan FAOs alio  / And no one, I think that has seen the light of the sun )
    • Cycle for soprano and small orchestra (1959/60). Premiere February 8, 1961 Stuttgart ( Anja Silja [soprano]; members of the Südfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, conductor: Wilhelm Killmayer)
      Orchestra: piccolo, 3-6 flutes, 4-6 oboes - percussion (5 players): bass xylophone, 4 temple blocks, cymbals , m. Cymbals, 3 hanging cymbals,       tam-tam , tambourine, bongos, snare drum, 3 tom-toms, 2 stirring drums, large drum - timpani - 2-4 harps - piano
      1.  ἦλθες, καλ 'ἐπόησας ( Elthes, kal' epoesas  / Did you finally come, how nice ) - 2nd  ὦ κάλα, ὦ χαρίεσσα (O kala o chariessa kora) - 3.  φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος (Fainetai moi kenos) - 4.  ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν ( asteres men amfi kalan selannan  / star, the lovely the Standing around the moon ) - 5.  ποικιλόθρον 'ἀθανάτ Ἀφρόδιτα ( Poikilothron athanat' Afrodita  / Colored celestial Aphrodite )
  • Drei Gesänge nach Hölderlin (1965) for baritone and piano
    1.  The sun god - 2.  The morning - 3.  The gods
  • Antiphone (1967) for baritone, orchestra and small male choir (ad libitum). Recording 25-27. September 1985 Bayerischer Rundfunk (Roland Herrmann [baritone], male choir and orchestra of Bayerischer Rundfunk, conductor: Wilhelm Killmayer)
    Orchestra: 3 (2nd also Picc./Altfl[G], 3rd alto fl. [G]). 2.3 (3 . also Bklar. [B]). 2 - 2.4.3.1 - percussion (glockenspiel, tamtam, bass drum) - timpani - celesta - piano - strings (12.0.6.4.4)
    1.  Dum medium silentium tenerent omnia (As all things were in the middle of silence) . Text: Meister Eckhart - 2.  Exspectans exspectavi Dominum (I waited for the Lord) . Text: Psalm 40 (39) - 3.  Elevamini portae aeternales (Rise up, you eternal portals) . Text: Psalm 24 (23) - 4.  … immisit in os meum canticum novum carmen Deo nostro (… has put a new song in my mouth to praise our God) . Text: Psalm 40 (39)
  • Lauda (“Amore, Amore che si m'hai ferito”; 1968) for 8-part mixed double choir (SSAATTBB / SSAATTBB) a cappella or with orchestra. Text: Iacopone da Todi . Premiere June 27, 1968 Stuttgart (German Singers' Association Festival; Südfunk-Chor and Südfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, conductor: Hans Zanotelli)
    Orchestra: 3.2.EH.3 (3. also Bklar. [B]). 3 - 3.3.3.0 - drums (Tom toms) - 2 small timpani - strings
  • Preghiere ("Salvum, Salvum me fac Deus ... usque ad animam meam. Infixus sum in limo profundi"; 1969) for baritone and orchestra. Text: from Psalm 69 (68). Premiere May 24, 1971 Berlin (Barry McDaniel [* 1930] [baritone]; Rias-Sinfonie-Orchester, conductor: Wilhelm Killmayer)
    Orchestra: 0. Altfl. [G] .3.3.3 - 3.3.3.0 - 4 stirring drums - 2 Timpani - 2 harps - piano - strings: 8-10 cellos, 6-8 double basses
  • Cantetto (1971/73)
  • Tamquam sponsus (1974) for soprano and instruments. Text: from Psalm 23 (22)
  • French songbook (1979/80) for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble. Premiere May 3, 1980 Schwetzinger Festspiele (June Card [soprano], Philippe Huttenlocher [baritone]; Southwest German Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Paul Angerer )
    Orchestra: 2 (2nd also picc.). 0.0.0 - 0.1.0.0 - percussion (small Box glockenspiel , xylophone, wooden drum, 2 temple blocks, large     folding wood, cymbals, small cymbal, tambourine, snare drum, 2 bongos, 2 tom toms ) - celesta - strings (1.1.1.1.1)
    1.  Au Bois (1556; soprano and baritone: "Au bois, au bois, monsieur / madame, au joli bois m'en vois"). Andante - 2.  Les trois princesses (Champagne, 18th century; soprano: «Derrière chez mon père vole, vole mon cœur»). Dolce - 3rd  Ma Rosalie (Dauphiné, 18th century; baritone: "Ma Rosalie m'est infidèle"). Con passione - 4.  Le petit mari (17th century; soprano: “Mon père m'a donné un mari”) - 5.  La fleur de l'olivier (soprano and baritone: “La fleur de l'olivier que vous avez aimée ”) - 6.  Martin prit sa serpe (18th century; soprano and baritone:“ Martin prit sa serpe, au bois il s'en va ”) - 7.  Berceuse (Languedoc; soprano:“ Néné, petite, Sainte Marguerite ») - 8.  La belle (Normandy, 1785; baritone:“ La bell '! Si nous étions dedans ce haut bois ”) - 9.  La bique (“ Nous avions une bique, âgée de quatorze ans ”). Allegro molto (Vendée, 18th century; soprano and baritone)
  • Sunday Stories (1982/85)
    • Sunday afternoon coffee and excursion (1983)
  • Hölderlin songs based on poems from the late period, for tenor and orchestra
    • 1st cycle (1982-85). World premiere February 3, 1986 Munich ( Peter Schreier [tenor]; Bavarian State Orchestra , conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch )
      Orchestra: 2 (also 2 picc.). 2.2 (2. also Es-Klar./Bassklar[B]). 2 (2 . also Kfg.) - 2nd cornet [B] .0.2.0 - percussion (4-5 players: crotales, glockenspiel, stone chimes, vibraphone, cymbals, triangle, bells, bass drum) - timpani - celesta - harp - strings
      1 .  spring (I) ( "shines the sun, it blossom the fields") - the second  fall (I) ( "the shining of nature is greater astonishment") - 3.  the winter (I) ( "When the Day of the year inclined ”) - 4.  Spring (II) (“ The day awakens and the sky is splendid ”) - 5.  Conviction (“ As the day shines brightly around people ”) - 6.  Higher life (“ Man chooses his life, his decision ”) - 7.  Winter (II) (“ When the foliage is lost on the plain ”) - 8.  Spring (III) (“ Man forgets worries from the spirit ”) - 9.  Summer (I) ("The days go by with gentle breezes rustling" ) - 10.  Autumn (II) (“The legends that are faring from the earth”) - 11.  Winter (III) (“When blue snow beautifies the fields”) - 12.  The churchyard (“You quiet place, the green with young grass ") - 13th  view (" The open day is bright people with pictures ") - 14.  The summer (II) (" The Erndtefeld appears, shimmers on heights ") - 15.  Friendship (" When people know each other from their innermost worth ”) - 16.  Higher humanity (“ People are given inner meaning ”) - 17.  The prospect (“ When life goes into the distance ”) - 18.  Spring ( IV) (“When new enticement sprouts in the fields”)
    • 2nd cycle (1983-87), premier August 14th 1987 Salzburg Festival (Peter Schreier [tenor]; ORF symphony orchestra, conductor: Lothar Zagrosek )
      Orchestra: 2 (also 2 picc., 2nd also alto recorder / soprano recorder) . 2 (2nd also EH.). 2 (2. also Bklar. [B]). 2 (2nd also Kfg.) - 4th Piston [B] .0.2.0 - percussion (small drum, big drum) - timpani - harp - strings
      1.  Spring (V) (“The new day is coming from far away Hill down ”) - 2.  Spring (VI) (“ When spring comes into life from below ”) - 3.  Spring (VII) (“ The sun returns to new joys ”) - 4.  Summer (III) ("In the valley the brook runs, the mountain 'on the higher side") - 5.  The summer (IV) ("When the flowering of spring disappears then") - 6.  The winter (IV) ("The field is bare, at a distant height the blue sky only shines ”) - 7.  Friendship, love (“ Friendship, love, church and holy, crosses, pictures ”) - 8.  At the birth of a child (“ How will heaven's father look with joy the grown-up child ”) - 9.  To my sister (“ I'll stay overnight in the village ”) - 10.  To the death of a child (“ The beauty is peculiar to children ”) - 11.  To rooms (“ From a person say me, if that's good ”) - 12.  The lines of life (“ The lines of life are versc hieden ") - 13. Not every day (" Those who yearn to return do  not call the most beautiful days every day ") - 14.  The pleasant things of this world (" I've enjoyed the pleasant things of this world ") - 15.  In a lovely blue color (" The church tower blooms in a lovely blue with the metal roof ”) - 16.  Man (“ When man lives out of himself and when his rest is revealed ”) - 17.  … like clouds… (“… like clouds around the times ... ") - 18.  Greece (" As people are, life is splendid ")
  • Prospect (“When people are happy, this is from the mind and from the well-being”; 1989) for baritone and nine instruments. Text: Friedrich Hölderlin. Premiere September 8, 1989 Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt Feste; Kurt Widmer [baritone]; Majella Stockhausen [piano], Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, conductor: Gernot Schulz )
    Ensemble: clarinet in Bb, bassoon, horn in F, piano, strings: 1.1 .1.1.1
  • Blasons anatomiques du corps feminin
    • 1. Cycle (19 ??) for soprano, clarinet in A, violin, violoncello and piano
      1.  Tetin refaict, plus blanc qu'un œuf . Text: Clément Marot - 2.  Ongle, qui tranches quand tu veux . Text: Gilles Daurigny († 1553) - 3.  Alayne chaulde . Text: transmitted anonymously - 4.  Genoil sans os . Text: Lancelot Carle - 5.  O doulce Main . Text: Claude Chappuys († 1575) - 6.  O lieu solacieulx . Text: transmitted anonymously
    • 2nd cycle (1991) for soprano and piano
  • Neun Lieder (1993) for medium voice and piano. Texts: Peter Härtling
    1.  knowledge - 2.  pain - 3.  kasper - 4.  The Mörsinger poplar - 5.  To my other voice - 6.  To a pair of pigeons - 7.      Marble verses - 8.  No riddle - 9.  On a self-portrait of Carl Philipp Fohr
  • Huit Poésies de Mallarmé (1993–95) for coloratura soprano and small orchestra. World premiere May 12, 1995 Munich (Bayerischer Rundfunk, Musica viva; Janet Williams [soprano]; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conductor: Olaf Henzold)
    Orchestra: 2 (2nd also picc./ alt./ bass fl.). 1.2 (2nd also bass clear / alto sax.). 1 - 2.1.0.0 - percussion (2 players: crotales, glockenspiel, xylophone, marimbaphone, maracas, bell drum, bongos, snare drum) - harp - piano - e-organ (also harpsichord) - strings
    1.  Éventail (I) (« Avec comme pour langage »). Délicat et léger - 2nd  event (II) (“De frigides roses pour vivre”). Élégant - 3rd  Autre Éventail ("O rêveuse, pour que je plonge"). Délicatement expressif - 4th  round (II) ("Si tu veux nous nous aimerons"). Intimentement, doux - 5.  Toute l'âme résonée . Calme - 6th  Feuillet d'album ("Tout à coup et comme par jeu"). Alerte et léger - 7.  Petit air (“Quelconque une solitude sans le cynge”). Joyeux et passioné - 8th  Soupir ("Mon âme vers ton front ou rêve, ô calme sœur")
  • ... what the heart is hardly aware of ... (1994/95), song cycle for male choir. Texts: Joseph von Eichendorff . 1. Still in the air - 2. In the forest - 3. Solitude in the forest - 4. Farewell - 5. Fresh ride - 6. Lost - 7. The evening - 8. The wandering musician . (Recording: ... what the heart is hardly aware of ... - New music for male voices a cappella; Renner Ensemble Regensburg , conductor Bernd Englbrecht, Ars Produktion, 2003)
  • … Around lark songs wehn… (1995/97), song cycle for male choir. Texts by Joseph von Eichendorff . 1. Homesickness - 2. When the sun shines lovely - 3. When the rooster crows - 4. In a cool ground - 5. Melancholy - 6. The bridegroom - 7. The solicitor - 8. Night song

Orchestral works

  • Concerto (1955) for piano and orchestra in one movement. WP April 21, 1956 Munich (Günter Louegk [piano]; Munich Philharmonic , conductor: Fritz Rieger )
    Orchestra: 0.0.0.0 - 6.4.3.1 - percussion (3 players): claves, 2 temple blocks, large and small cymbals, tam-tam, tambourine , 3 small drums, 3 tom-toms, stirring drum, 3 timbales, large drum - 3 timpani - strings
  • Divertissement (1957) for orchestra. WP (No. 1-3, 5) October 1957 (Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Carl Bamberger ), (No. 4) 1958
    Scoring: 2 picc. 2.2.2 - 2.2.3.1 - percussion (glockenspiel, xylophone, 2 temple blocks, hanging cymbal, pair of cymbals, tambourine, 2 bongos,     snare drum, bass drum) - timpani - harp - celesta - piano - strings
    1.  Danza mauresca. Very tight - 2nd  Berceuse. Dolce - 3rd  Napolitana. Prestissimo - 4th  Tango - 5th  Carillon. Allegro molto
  • Pas de deux classique (1964)
  • Pezzi e Intermezzi (1968/69) for piano, violoncello and orchestra
  • Sinfonia I: Fogli (1968)
  • Sinfonia II: Ricordanze (1968/69)
  • Fin al punto (1970) for string orchestra (8.0.3.3.1). Premiere January 14, 1971 Munich ( Munich Chamber Orchestra , Conductor: Hans Stadlmair )
  • Encore (1970). Quick polka. Premiere (scenic) May 9, 1970 Munich (as Parergon to Yolimba ; Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz ; Choreography: Franz Baur-Pantoulier; Conductor: Wilhelm Killmayer). WP (concert version) October 4, 1980 Stuttgart (Studio Days of Light Music of the SDR; Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: George Alexander Albrecht )
    Scoring: 2.Picc.2.2.2 - 3.3.3.1 - percussion (4 players): Glockenspiel, 4th Temple blocks, wooden drum, small cymbals, snare drum, 2 tom toms, large drum - timpani - piano (solo) - strings
  • Sinfonia III: Menschen-Los (1972/73; revised ending 1988)
  • Paradise (1972-74)
  • Nachtgedanken (1973) for orchestra. Premiere August 7, 1973 Salzburg Festival ( Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , conductor: Leopold Hager [* 1935])
    Scoring: 2 (2nd also picc.). 2 (2nd also EH) .3.2 - 2.1.3.0 - percussion (3 Player): glockenspiel, marimbaphone (amplified), vibraphone (amplified), gong in D - strings
  • The broken Farewell (1977) for trumpet in D and small orchestra
  • Poème symphoniques (1977-80). Cycle. Premiere March 20, 1981 Munich (musica viva; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Hiroshi Wakasugi [1935–2009])
    • Youth (1977). Poème symphonique. WP January 16, 1978 Freiburg im Breisgau ( Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg , conductor: Klauspeter Seibel)
      Scoring: 2.2 Picc.3.3.3 (3rd also Kfg.) - 4.3.3.0 - Percussion (3 players): Crotales, 2 glockenspiels, xylophone , Tubular bells, triangle, small cymbal, snare drum - timpani - harp - strings
    • Buried Signs (1977/78). Essay symphonique. World premiere March 20, 1981 Munich (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Hiroshi Wakasugi)
      Scoring: 4 (also 4 picc., 1st also soprano recorder). 3.3 (B / C / A, 2nd also E-flat clar., 3rd . also Bassklar. [B]). 3 (3rd also Kfg.) - 4.4 (1st also Korn. [B]). 3.1 (also Kbtb.) - percussion (5-6 players): Crotales, bells (h ''), 2 carillons, stone game, xylophone, metal plates (f, g), tubular bells, flexaton, lotus flute, rod, hammer, folding wood, ratchet, whip, sand block, 2 castanets, 2 wood blocks, temple blocks, large wooden slotted drum, maracas, cymbals , Triangle, bells, 2 cymbals, hi-hat, tambourine, snare drum, 2 timbales, 2 congas, 2 stirring drums, bass drum with cymbals - 4 timpani - 2 harps - celesta - strings. - Backstage: 2 trumpets in Bb (from the orchestra) - large folding wood
      1. [no movement name] - 2.  Grave - 3rd [no movement name] - 4.  Lento - 5.  Modo di Allegretto - 6.  Schnell
    • Survive and Hope (1977/78). Poème symphonique. Premiere May 6, 1978 Munich ( Munich Philharmonic , conductor: Lothar Zagrosek )
      Scoring: 4 (3rd and 4th also picc.). 3.3 (3rd also Es-Klar./Bassklar.[B]). 3.Kfg . - 4.3.3 (3rd bass pos.). 1 - Drums (5 players): 2 glockenspiels, xylophone, tubular bells, shell chimes, 2 woodblocks, pair of cymbals, 6 metal rattles, snare drum, bass drum - timpani - strings
    • Outdoors (1980). Poème symphonique. WP March 20, 1981 Munich (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Hiroshi Wakasugi)
      Scoring: 2 (also 2 picc.). 2.2 (2nd also Es-Klar./Bklar.[B]). 2(2. Also Kfg .) - 2 (2nd also low horn Bb) .3.3.0 - percussion (3-4 players): carillon, vibraphone, tubular bells, wooden block, temple blocks, maracas, bell cord, snare drum, bass drum - timpani - harp - piano - Strings
  • Grande Sarabande (1980) for string orchestra (8.0.3.3.1 or 16.0.6.6.4). WP May 2, 1980 Zurich ( Camerata Zurich , conductor: Räto Tschupp)
  • Tremor and Dare (1980). Waltz for orchestra
  • Sostenuto (1984) for violoncello and string orchestra
  • La joie de vivre (1996). Chamber concert for small orchestra with oboe oboe
  • Sonances (1996/97). Poetic excitement for piano and orchestra
  • ... got away ... (2000). Concert waltz for chamber orchestra. Premiere March 31, 2000 Munich ( Prinzregententheater ; members of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conductor: Florian Sonnleitner)
    Scoring: 1 (also picc.) 0.1.1 - 0.1.1.0 - drums (glockenspiel, ratchet, hanging cymbal, snare drum, 2 congas [or similar skin instruments], bass drum) - piano - strings
  • Orchestra melodies (2004). Six clay pieces. Premiere June 26, 2004 Berlin (German Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Kent Nagano )
    Scoring: 3 (3rd also picc. / Soprano recorder). 3 (3rd also EH) .3 (3rd also clear.). 3 ( 3. also Kfg.) - 4.3.3.1 - Drums (3 players): Glockenspiel, xylophone, marimbaphone, tubular bells, angklung, temple blocks, hammer, whip, pair of cymbals, 2 gongs, bell drum, bongos, snare drum, 2 tom-toms, congas, Big drum - timpani - harp - piano - strings
    1.  Intimate and very singing - 2a. Restless - 2b. Blooming - 3rd  Fresh - 4th  Chorale. Hold, calm - 5.  Powerful and moved - 6.  Calm
  • Dithyrambs (2006) for orchestra. World premiere January 12, 2007 Munich ( Herkulessaal , musica viva; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conductor: Christoph Poppen )
    Orchestra: 3 (3rd also picc./soprano recorder ).3.3(3. Also blue). 2.Kfg. - 4.3.3.1 - Percussion (1 player): Temple blocks, cymbals, snare drum, bass drum - timpani - harp - strings
    1.  Prelude. lively, happy - 2. [no sentence name] - 3.  lively

Chamber music

  • Chamber music (1957) for jazz instruments. Premiere November 28, 1958 Munich (musica viva; conductor: Rudolf Albert)
    Instrumentation: clarinet in Bb, alto saxophone in Eb, jazz trumpet in Bb, percussion 1 (2 temple blocks, cow-bell, 2 hanging cymbals, bell drum, 3 small drums , Conga, 3 timbales, 2 tom toms, bass drum with foot machine), drums 2 (jazz drums: claves, jazz cymbals, hi-hat, 2 cymbals [large / small], tam-tam, snare drum, 2 tom toms, stirring drum), drums 3 ( Glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, jazz cymbal, tam-tam, 3 timbales [from percussion 1], timpani), percussion 4 (marimbaphone, large cymbal, 3 bongos, 2 congas, stirring drum, 3 timbales [from percussion 1]), harpsichord (reinforced) , Piano, violin, double bass
    1.  Walk - 2.  Blues - 3.  Invention
  • Guide me, old man, just always into your ornate spring garden! His pile (1974) for chamber ensemble still smells and thaws fresh and spicy . Premiere May 1975 Nuremberg (ars nova ensemble, conductor: Werner Heider ). (The title is a distich from Eduard Mörike : Brockes ; also quoted by Arno Schmidt in his funk essay on Barthold Heinrich Brockes : Nothing is too small for me [1955])
    Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, alto trombone, drums (2 players: glockenspiel Vibraphone, tubular bells, string of bells, triangle, snare drum), piano, violin, viola, cello

Piano pieces and cycles

  • To John Field (1975). Nocturnes for piano
  • Three piano pieces (1984)
  • Douze études transcendentales (1991/92) for piano
  • Piano album with Sphinxes (1999) for piano

Film music

Pupil of Wilhelm Killmayer

literature

  • Siegfried Mauser (Hrsg.): The composer Wilhelm Killmayer. Schott, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-7957-1865-1 .
  • Ulrich Tadday (Ed.): Wilhelm Killmayer. Ed. Text + criticism, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86916-000-9 .
  • Theresa Henkel, Franzpeter Messmer (ed.): Wilhelm Killmayer , Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-96233-012-5 .
  • Michael Krüger (Ed.): Wilhelm Killmayer: The old man with the cello now always only says “hello” instead of “hello”. Collected poems about music and all of life. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3316-1 .

Movie

  • Klaus Voswinckel: The Silence Before the Sound (1998). A film about Wilhelm Killmayer. Production: Klaus Voswinckel on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Killmayer 1927-2017 In: Schott Music . 20th August 2017
  2. ↑ Open, romantic: the composer Wilhelm Killmayer died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 22, 2017, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Schreiber: The great obstinate. The composer Wilhelm Killmayer died the day before his ninetieth birthday. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 22, 2017, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Gerhard R. Koch : lonely and always on the ridge. Romantic in the best sense of the word: the composer Wilhelm Killmayer turns ninety. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 21, 2017, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Killmayer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 2017
Place of death Munich