Wolfgang Ludewig

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Wolfgang Ludewig (born December 7, 1926 in Marburg ; † December 21, 2017 in Stuttgart ) was a German composer and radio writer who lived in Stuttgart.

Career

Ludewig studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner in Heidelberg as well as musicology , philosophy and art history at the University of Heidelberg . He received a scholarship from the Darmstadt International Summer Courses , where he attended courses from Ernst Krenek , Edgar Varèse and René Leibowitz .

He also worked early as a music and theater critic. From 1963 to 1967 he headed the press department of the music publisher B. Schott's Sons Mainz. From 1968 to 1992 he worked as an editor for opera and contemporary music at Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart. He is a co-founder of the Society for New Music in Mannheim . From 1994 to 1997 he was President of the Free Academy of the Arts Mannheim .

Ludewig's complete catalog of works includes around 50 works of all genres that have been performed in many European countries as well as in the USA , Israel and Japan .

Part of his collection of works is in the holdings of the German Composers' Archive in Hellerau - European Center for the Arts in Dresden.

Works

  • String Quartet No. 1 (1951) / approx. 17 ′
  • String quartet No. 2 (1955) / approx. 15 ′
  • Im Wachen und im Traum (1962) / approx. 10 ′, sacred singing for soprano and 8 instruments based on a poem by Rabindranath Tagore - 1.1.1. Bass clear. 0. - 0.0.0.0. - Celesta - Str .: VI., Vla .. Vc. (solo or choral)
  • Mosaic (1973/74) - FL / OB / CL / HN / BN
  • Soni (1974) - OB (COR ANG)
  • Invokationen (1974) / approx. 12 ′ - Four pieces for flute and piano
  • The clown. Thoughts of a Seventeen Year Old (1975) / approx. 8 ′ - cycle based on texts by Matthias Ludewig for speaker and flute - (with a percussionist ad lib.)
  • Reflections (1975) - FL / VLC / PF
  • Concertino (1979) FL / BN / HPD
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1980) / approx. 10 ′
  • Movimento variato for flute, viola and guitar (1981) - FL / VLA / GTR
  • Fantasy (1984/85) / approx. 9 ′ for piano
  • Three Meditations and Two Intermezzi (1985) / approx. 15 ′ - for three flutes
  • The time is ripe ... (1986) approx. 1 5 - cycle for vocal quartet (solo or choral), speaker and chamber ensemble - fl. - Clear. - Key (1). - Klav. - Vla. - Vc. Kb.
  • Impromptu (1987), approx. 7 ′ - for two guitars
  • Epigrams. 6 Short Pieces (1987) 4CL
  • Duo (1991) approx. 15 ′ - for clarinet (B-flat) or soprano saxophone and piano
  • Klatropos (1991) / approx. 11 ′ - 7 aphorisms for piano, trumpet and trombone
  • Immagini (1995), approx. 12 ′ - 5 pieces for 1 flutist and 1 percussionist
  • Variations (1999), approx. 11 ′ - for tenor recorder and small percussion
  • Fantastisches Concertino (2000), approx. 12 ′ - for violin solo, percussion (1) and string orchestra
  • Essay for oboe (musette) and strings (undated)
  • Gesang der Nacht - (contr) alto and orchestra (undated)
  • Piano pieces (undated)

Publishers: Edition Gravis, Boosey & Hawkes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary, Stuttgarter Zeitung
personal data
SURNAME Ludewig, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and radio author
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2017
Place of death Stuttgart