Wilhelm Killmayer
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
- 1954 Prize of the Fromm Music Foundation, Chicago (for the Missa brevis )
- 1957 Music Prize from the City of Munich
- 1958 scholarship from Villa Massimo , Rome
- 1965 Prix Italia (for Une leçon de français )
- 1965/66 scholarship from Villa Massimo, Rome
- 1970 scholarship from the Cité des Arts, Paris
- 1974 Rostrum of Composers, Paris (for Sinfonia 1 )
- 1972 Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- 1980 Full member of the Academy of Arts (Berlin)
- 1982 Ludwig Spohr Prize from the city of Braunschweig
- 1983 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1990 Hindemith Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
- 1993 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1994 Upper Bavarian Culture Prize
- 2003 Music Prize from the City of Munich
- 2010 Music Prize from the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation
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
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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 )
- Cycle for soprano and instruments (1958)
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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)
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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)
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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 ")
- 1st cycle (1982-85). World premiere February 3, 1986 Munich ( Peter Schreier [tenor]; Bavarian State Orchestra , conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch )
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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
- 1. Cycle (19 ??) for soprano, clarinet in A, violin, violoncello and piano
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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
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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 )
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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)
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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
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Poème symphoniques (1977-80). Cycle. Premiere March 20, 1981 Munich (musica viva; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Hiroshi Wakasugi [1935–2009])
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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
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Youth (1977). Poème symphonique. WP January 16, 1978 Freiburg im Breisgau ( Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg , conductor: Klauspeter Seibel)
- 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
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... 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
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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
- 1960: Gino
Pupil of Wilhelm Killmayer
- Walther Prokop (* 1946)
- Paul Engel (* 1949)
- Max Beckschäfer (* 1952)
- Kay Westermann (* 1958)
- Sebastian Gottschick (* 1959)
- Fredrik Schwenk (* 1960)
- Rudi Spring (* 1962)
- Ali N. Askin (* 1962)
- Sandeep Bhagwati (* 1963)
- Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (* 1963)
- Axel Singer (* 1963)
- Moritz Eggert (* 1965)
- Markus Schmitt (* 1965)
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
- Short biography, chronology, photo gallery, current performances, news about the composer, discography, audio samples and list of works ( Schott Music )
- Works by and about Wilhelm Killmayer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Killmayer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wilhelm Killmayer in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Literature on Wilhelm Killmayer in the bibliography of music literature
- Christoph Schlüren in conversation with Wilhelm Killmayer (1997)
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Killmayer 1927-2017 In: Schott Music . 20th August 2017
- ↑ Open, romantic: the composer Wilhelm Killmayer died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 22, 2017, p. 9.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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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 |