Wolfgang Florey

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Wolfgang Florey (born 1945 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian composer .

Life

Wolfgang Florey studied cello at the Salzburg Mozarteum , the Vienna Music Academy and the Hamburg Music Academy . In 1961 he initiated a series of church music concerts in Salzburg, which he directed until 1965. The focus of the series was the examination of the work of Johann Sebastian Bach and works of contemporary music .

With the composers Jens-Peter Ostendorf and Thomas Jahn and others, Florey founded the group Hinz & Kunst in 1968 , which dealt with forms of free improvisation. In addition, Hinz & Kunst dealt with collective composition. The aim was to try out new forms of conveying music as an instrumental ensemble and to abolish the division of labor between composer and performer. The ensemble has performed at numerous festivals. Hinz & Kunst received an award at the German Record Prize in 1976 and the prize of the jury of the International Composers' Seminar in Boswil (Switzerland) in 1979. Hans Werner Henze composed several works for the ensemble and regularly invited them to Montepulciano, Tuscany, to build up his musical festival series Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte .

In 1972 Florey was elected Secretary of the Culture Project Area in the Association of German Student Unions. After completing his studies, he received a teaching position at the Hamburg University of Music for the subjects of cello, methodology and didactics of instrumental lessons. From 1980 Florey worked for the Wiener Theater Gruppe 80 . In 1983 he became musical director of the newly founded ensemble of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, to which he remained connected until 1991.

In total, he wrote around 80 stage music for the German-speaking stages and music for more than 40 radio play productions. In addition, a number of songs, chamber music, orchestral works and works for music theater were created.

Awards

  • 1976: German Record Award of the German Phono Academy: Award for Hinz & Kunst as "Artist of the Year"
  • 1977: Boswil International Composers Seminar: Jury Prize

Discography and publications

Radio plays

  • Thea Dorn: Marleni . Director: Jörg Jannings. Lido 2002 - Eichborn's audio book publisher
  • Georg Büchner: Danton's death . Director: Norbert Schäffer. price records 2003
  • Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: The free spirit . Director: Jörg Jannings. Audio Verlag GmbH 2000
  • A. Vigoleis Thelen: The island of the second face . Director: Norbert Schäffer. Ullstein Heine List GmbH 2003
  • Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Milarepa . Audio Verlag GmbH 2004, ISBN 3-89813-562-4
  • Merlin Holland: Oskar Wilde in cross-examination . Director: Norbert Schäffer. NDR / SWR / 2004 Random House Audio ISBN 3-89830-930-4
  • Marlene Dietrich: Night Thoughts . Director: Jörg Jannings. NDR / Rondom House Audio 2006 GEMA / BIEM 978-3-86604-506-4

Chamber music

  • Sonata for Unaccompanied Violoncello (1997), Susan Salm, Violoncello. to: Mutations and other Fairytales Société nouvelle d'enregistrement - SNE - 637 Canada

Orchestral works

  • At the edge of the world based on a poem by Jeremy Adler for mezzo-soprano, boys' voices and large symphonic wind orchestra. Ute Döring, mezzo-soprano; Orchesterverein Hilgen 1912 eV Conductor: Reinmar Neuner, concert recording from December 8th, 2002 from Altenberg Cathedral, CD self-published by the Orchesterverein Hilgen

bibliography

  • Angela or practicing music at school in: Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich and Luca Lombardi (ed.): Music in transition - from bourgeois to socialist music culture. Damnitz Verlag GmbH Munich 1977
  • What and for whom are they composing? . New music at the Ruhrfestspiele, a conversation with Wolfgang Florey (1984) in: Hans Brender: The human wants to fly. Objections to politics and culture of the Federal Republic . Pahl-Rugenstein
  • Friedrich Danielis: Ophthalmoscope view by Wolfgang Florey. An artist's book - pictures after notes. Vienna / Venice 2008
  • Wolfgang Florey: Music as the language of the soul , in: Voices for Hans Werner Henze - The 22 songs from Voices . Edited by Peter Petersen, Hanns-Werner Heister and Hartmut Lück. 1996, Schott Musik International, Mainz. ISBN 3-7957-0328-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Werner Henze: Reiselieder with Bohemian fifths: Autobiographische Mitteilungen 1926-1995 . Fischer-Verlag, 2016.
  2. ↑ Biography on the composer's homepage , accessed on May 9, 2017
  3. ↑ Austrian Music Lexicon online , accessed on May 9, 2017
  4. ^ Entry about Wolfgang Florey in the music austria database , accessed on May 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Florey, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg