Younghi Pagh-Paan

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real name
Hangeul 박영희
Hanja 朴 泳 姫
Revised
Romanization
Bak Yeong-hui
McCune-
Reischauer
Pak Yŏnghŭi

Younghi Pagh-Paan (born November 30, 1945 in Cheongju , South Korea ) is a South Korean composer . She lives in Bremen and Panicale , Italy.

Life

From 1965 to 1972 she studied composition and musicology at Seoul State University . In 1974 she came to Germany and studied composition with Klaus Huber (her partner), analysis with Brian Ferneyhough , music theory with Peter Förtig and piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg until 1979 .

Pagh-Paan got her stage name in the 1970s by adding the addition Paan ( kor. 파안 , Hanja 琶 案 ) to her family name Pagh, which is very common in Korea . Pa ( ) symbolizes the musical and relates to the musical instrument pipa ( 琵琶 ) and an ( ) to the end of the plan, which together reflects the composer. There is also the same Sino-Korean reading paan in the Hanja 破 顔 in 破 顔 大笑 ( 파안대소 ), which means something like " burst into loud laughter".   

In her compositions she tries to combine Korean folklore and avant-garde .

“... without a doubt I am only at the beginning of a development, the banks of which I cannot yet foresee. But I would like to be able to rely on one thing: That I will not write music that removes me from what is still inherent in me as the root of our culture. "

- Younghi Pagh-Paan, 1983

She made international fame for the performance of her orchestral work Sori at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 1980. From 1994 she taught as a professor of composition at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen , where she founded the New Music studio, which she headed until her retirement in 2011. On her retirement, she was awarded the Bremen Medal for Art and Science .

Works (selection)

  • 1978/79 - NUN for voice, percussion and 18 instruments
  • 1980 - Sori for large orchestra
  • 1984 - AA-GA I for violoncello
  • 1987 - NIM for large orchestra
  • 1995/96 - SOWON / Wunsch for soprano and 10 instruments
  • 1996–1998 - NE MA-UM for accordion and rattles
  • 2006 - Mondschatten , chamber music theater
  • 2007 - The universe breathes, it grows and shrinks for orchestras with Korean traditional instruments
  • 2011 - High and deep light , double concerto for violin, viola and orchestra
  • 2015 - prayers for mezzo-soprano and organ
  • 2017 - Horizon on the High Seas for string quartet
  • 2018 - We thirsted for clarinet, alto saxophone and drums
  • 2019 - In the starlight for sextet (flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello)

Awards

student

literature

  • Gisela Gronemeyer: Undo the knot in your own heart. A portrait of the Korean Younghi Pagh-Paan , in: MusikTexte 7, December 1984, 11–15.
  • Jean-Noel von der Weid: The music of the 20th century , Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig 2001, p. 434f. ISBN 345817068-5
  • MusikTexte 119, December 2008, 39–83 (Pagh-Paan thematic focus with contributions by Nicolas Schalz, Jin-Ah Kim, Max Nyffeler, Joachim Heintz, Martin Fahlenbock and catalog raisonné).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Younghi Pagh-Paan, composer der Fremde , taz of January 28, 2011.
  2. Biography on the website of the Goethe Institute
  3. 현대 음악 작곡가 박영희 씨 “한국식 타령, 서양 청중 들 도 공감 하죠” , Nate, July 25, 2011 (Korean).
  4. Younghi Pagh-Paan 1983 in the yearbook Neuland , quoted from: Information on NIM for large orchestra (1986/87)
  5. ^ Biography Younghi Pagh-Paan ( memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on BR-Klassik .
  6. feast for YPP and her students ( Memento of 16 April 2011 at the Internet Archive ). Deutschlandfunk from April 16, 2011.