Wolfgang Hohensee

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Wolfgang Hohensee (* 3. January 1927 in Berlin , † 25. March 2018 ) was a German composer .

Life

Hohensee studied school music from 1945 to 1949 at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin-Charlottenburg , then composition with Paul Höffer and Konrad Friedrich Noetel . He then began studying musicology in Berlin with Walther Vetter , Ernst Hermann Meyer and Hans-Heinz Dräger and in Heidelberg with Thrasybulos Georgiades . From 1949 to 1951 he attended the master classes for composition by Hanns Eisler and Leo Spies at the German Academy of the Arts (Berlin). After a brief period in radio, Hohensee worked from 1951 to 1957 as a conductor, choir director and music dramaturge at the German National Theater in Weimar, among others . From 1955 he taught at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin , from 1962 as a lecturer for composition, from 1969 as a professor for composition. Hohensee received the GDR Art Prize (1962 and 1970) as well as the FDGB (1970) and the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. He was involved in the GDR composers' association. From 1957 he was a member of its central board and from 1978 to 1982 head of the legal and professional committee of the VKM. Hohensee last lived in Berlin, where he also died. His grave is in the Karlshorster and Neuen Friedrichsfelder Friedhof .

Audio language

Hohensee tried to find a compromise between comprehensibility, relation to the audience and artistry in his compositions. New composition techniques stand alongside the familiar. In his early works in particular, he resorted to tonal ties, but also used dodecaphony and aleatoric . Therefore, his work is characterized by a great variety of styles. As early as the early 1950s, he experimented with twelve-tone technique in his piano sonatina, while a work that was written more than ten years later, such as the concert piece for piano and orchestra, is much more traditional (and in particular entirely tonal). Often a neoclassical tone can also be heard. Hohensee wrote many works, the degree of difficulty of which he took into account the possibilities of non-professional music-making. A special focus of his work was on film music .

Works

Orchestral works

  • Symphony in G (1949)
  • Sinfonietta (1951)
  • Concertante overture for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon with string orchestra and timpani (1961)
  • Tre bozze musicali for variable orchestra (1964)
  • Miniatures for strings (1973?)
  • Piano Concerto in F sharp major (1950)
  • Concert piece for piano and orchestra (1962)
  • Concertante poem for two pianos and orchestra on the 20th anniversary of the SED (1966)
  • Music for piano, percussion and chamber orchestra (1975)
  • Music for around 600 films (including Here I Am Human , Film Symphony, 1969)
  • Drama and radio play music

Stage works

  • The great peasants' war , opera
  • The Drummer , Ballet (1954)
  • After the storm , ballet (1956)
  • King Drosselbart , ballet (1959)
  • Slaves (also Das Fanal ), ballet (1960)

Theater music

Vocal music

  • The Shepherd of the High Fens , cantata for solos, choir and orchestra (1962)
  • Die Stadt , cantata based on Günther Deicke for mixed choir and small orchestra (publ. 1973)
  • Folk song arrangements

Chamber and piano music

  • Ricerca or Anatomy of a Musical Thought by Friedrich Kuhlau for chamber ensemble (1986)
  • Wind quintets (No. 1 in Germany, before 1964; No. 2 1972)
  • String quartet (before 1963)
  • Serenata for piano, oboe, clarinet and bassoon (before 1963)
  • Trio for piano, violoncello and clarinet (before 1964)
  • Sonatina for trumpet and piano (publ. 1975)
  • Piano sonata
  • Sonatina for piano (1949)

literature

  • Karl Laux (Hrsg.): The music life in the German Democratic Republic , Leipzig undated
  • Peter Hollfelder : The piano music. Hamburg 1999.
  • Fred K. Prieberg: Music in the other Germany , Cologne in 1968, among others f S. 247th
  • Frank Schneider , Konrad Niemann et al. (Ed.): Music history of the German Democratic Republic 1945–1976, Verlag Neue Musik Berlin 1979, et al. Pp. 225 f.
  • Michael Dasche: Supplement to LP NOVA 8 85 273 Wolfgang Hohensee: Second wind quintet, miniatures for string orchestra, Ricerca, Tre bozze musicali, piano sonatina
  • Dieter Härtwig : Supplement to LP ETERNA 8 20 668 our new music 22: Wolfgang Hohensee: Concertante Overture, Siegfried Kurz : Sinfonia piccola, Johannes Paul Thilman : Partita piccola, Fred Lohse : Divertimento for string orchestra
  • Hansjürgen Schaefer: Supplement to LP ETERNA 8 20 938 our new music 35: Siegfried Kurz: Concerto for piano and orchestra op.32, Wolfgang Hohensee: concert piece for piano and orchestra

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art prize awarded , In: Neue Zeit , February 18, 1962, p. 2
  2. ^ Art prizes of the GDR , In: Neues Deutschland , October 8, 1970, p. 4
  3. ↑ Art prizes awarded by the FDGB , In: Berliner Zeitung , June 15, 1970, p. 2

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personal data
SURNAME Hohensee, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2018
Place of death Berlin