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8 Pieces On Paul Klee
''8 Pieces on Paul Klee'' is the debut album of the Ensemble Sortisatio. It was recorded in February and March 2002 in Leipzig, Germany and in August 2002 in Lucerne, Switzerland. It was released in 2003 by Creative Works Records. Background All compositions on the CD ''8 Pieces on Paul Klee'', with the exception of Christian Henking's ''Sillis'', were commissioned by the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.Stephen W. Ellis: Booklet-Text, CD ''8 Pieces on Paul Klee'', 2003, CW 1035 The Groupe Lacroix were the composers and consists of well-known Swiss and Austrian composers of the contemporary music scene. Its members attended master classes with the renowned Russian composer Edison Denisov as part of the Lucerne Festival. The group was born at the ''Centre musical de la Fondation Hindemith Chalet de Lacroix'', the last residence of Paul Hindemith in Blonay. In addition to the chairman of the Swiss section of the International Society for Contemporary Music, Jean-Luc Darbellay, the intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensemble Sortisatio
Ensemble Sortisatio is a quartet (viola, oboe/cor anglais, bassoon and guitar) founded by violist Matthias Sannemüller in 1992 in Leipzig, Germany. Its members are mostly soloists at the MDR Symphony Orchestra. They have specialized in contemporary classical music. Formation The Ensemble Sortisatio was founded in 1992 by Matthias Sannemüller in the city of Leipzig. Sannemüller was a pupil from Dietmar Hallmann and member of the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler. The name comes from the Sortisatio concept and refers to the casual combination of the instruments in the ensemble. The idea came from the composer Reiner Bredemeyer. Members of the quartet are Walter Klingner (oboe and cor anglais), Axel Andrae (bassoon), Matthias Sannemüller (viola) and Thomas Blumenthal (guitar). They are mostly soloists at the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig. Sortisatio is today one of the most unusual ensembles in Germany. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Der Bildenden Künste
The Museum der bildenden Künste (German: "Museum of Fine Arts") is a museum in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It covers artworks from the Late Middle Ages to Modernity. History Museum Foundation and First Museum The museum dates back to the founding of the "Leipzig Art Association" by Leipzig art collectors and promoters in 1837, and had set itself the goal of creating an art museum. On 10 December 1848, the association was able to open the "Städtische Museum" in the first public school on the Moritzbastei. There were issued approximately hundred gathered and donated works of (at that time) contemporary art. Through major donations including Maximilian Speck von Sternburg, Alfred Thieme and Adolf Heinrich Schletter the collection grew with time. In 1853, businessman and art collector Adolf Fer donated his collection under the condition that the city build a municipal museum within five years. Shortly before the deadline expired the museum was inaugurated on 18 December 1858. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Landbote
''Der Landbote'', commonly shortened to ''Landbote'', is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published in Winterthur, Switzerland. History and profile ''Der Landbote'' was founded in 1836 in Winterthur as a liberal weekly paper of the so-called ''Landschaft'', i.e. the region of the canton of Zürich excluding the city of Zürich. From 1857, it was distributed as a ''daily paper of the young liberal direction''; editors were among others Johannes Scherr and Jakob Dubs. In 1861 acquired Salomon Bleuler the book printing and the newspaper publishing, and under his editorial (1860 to 1886) the newspaper became the leading organ of the Democratic movement of national importance and the organ of the Democratic Party (DP) of the canton of Zürich. Important editors were from 1866 to 1870 Friedrich Albert Lange, and beginning in 1877, Gottlieb Ziegler. After the death of Bleuler in 1886, the company was in the possession of the family Ziegler – Ziegler brothers as a collective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Wolfensberger
Rita Wolfensberger (28 May 1928 – 22 February 2020 Bernhard BilleterIn the ''Schweizer Musikzeitung.'' 25 March 2020. ) was a Swiss pianist, music educator and music critic. Life Born in Schaffhausen, Wolfensberger studied piano with Elsa Burkhard at the Zurich University of the Arts. Afterwards, she completed the Diplôme de Virtuosité at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and attended master classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. In addition, she studied piano with Guido Agosti and Anna Hirzel-Langenhan as well as harpsichord with Barbara Vignanelli at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. As a soloist Wolfensberger performed in Switzerland as well as in Italy and France. She played in the "Trio Motawo", Duo Wolfensberger (with her sister) and Trio Klemm. Wolfensberger was a reviewer at the ', the ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'' and the ''Landbote''. She worked in the Swiss Music Pedagogic Association (SMPV). From 1962 she was a member of the boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Klingner
Walter Klingner (born 1961) is a German oboist and cor anglais player. Life Born in Gotha, Klingner studied oboe with Axel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. He now works there as a lecturer. Since 1986, he is Solo Englisch hornist at the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also a guest performer at the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Bachorchester Stuttgart, the Berliner Philharmonie and the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. Numerous compositions have been premiered by him, among others by Gerd Domhardt. He recorded compositions by Felix Draeseke, Carlo Yvon and Elliott Carter with Frank Peter. Klingner is a member of the Kammersymphonie Leipzig Retrieved 29 October 2020. and of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berner Zeitung
''Berner Zeitung'' (literally: "Journal of Bern"), also branded as ''BZ'', is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published by Tamedia in Bern. History and profile ''Berner Zeitung'' was first issued on 3 January 1979. Four different papers led to the creation of the also called ''BZ'': The ''Intelligenzblatt'' (1834), which was renamed ''Berner Tagblatt'' in 1888; The ''Emmenthaler Nachrichten'' (1883), the weekly newspaper of Emmenthal (1844) and the ''Neue Berner Zeitung'' (1919). When the ''Emmenthaler Blatt'' and the ''Neue Berner Zeitung'' were merged in 1973, ''Berner Zeitung'' was created. This paper merged with the daily news (former ''Emmenthaler Nachrichten'') in 1977 creating the ''Berner Nachrichten'', which was first released on 3 January 1979. The first editor-in-chief was Peter Schindler who was in charge between 1979 and 1982. His successors were Urs P. Gasche (1982-1985), Ronald Roggen (1985-1986), Beat Hurni (1987-1996) and Andreas Z'Graggen (1996-2005). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Klee
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander and Aleksandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa and Sander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line. The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' or ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concertzender
The Dutch public broadcasting system ( nl, Nederlands publieke omroepbestel) is a group of organizations that are responsible for public service television and radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. It is composed of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) foundation, which acts as its governing body, and a number of public broadcasters. The Dutch ''Media Act 2008'' regulates how air time is divided and puts the administration of the public broadcasting system in the hands of the NPO Board of Directors. In addition to the national broadcasters, there are also regional and local broadcasters in the Netherlands. Unlike most other countries' public broadcasting organizations – which are either national corporations (such as the BBC and France Télévisions / Radio France), federations of regional public-law bodies (for example, ARD, SRG SSR) or governmental and member-based institutions with their own channels and facilities (such as PBS) – those in the Netherlands are member-based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelus Novus
''Angelus Novus'' (New Angel) is a 1920 monoprint by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, using the oil transfer method he invented. It is now in the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. History The artist's friend Walter Benjamin, a noted German critic and philosopher, purchased the print in 1921. In September 1940 Benjamin committed suicide during an attempt to flee the Nazi regime. After World War II, Benjamin's friend Gershom Scholem, a distinguished scholar of Jewish mysticism, inherited the drawing. According to Scholem, Benjamin felt a mystical identification with the ''Angelus Novus'' and incorporated it in his theory of the “angel of history,” a melancholy view of historical process as an unceasing cycle of despair. In the ninth thesis of his 1940 essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History”, Benjamin describes ''Angelus Novus'' as an image of the angel of history: A Klee painting named ''Angelus Novus'' shows an angel looking as though he is about to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hat Kopf, Hand, Fuss Und Herz
''Has Head, Hand, Feet and Heart'' is a watercolor by Paul Klee painted in 1930. It is held at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in Düsseldorf, which acquired this painting in 1960 with the collection of the Pittsburgh entrepreneur G. David Thompson.Donat de Chapeaurouge: ''Paul Klee und der christliche Himmel'', Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, p. 10 ff. History The origin of the title of the picture is unclear. On one hand, the Bauhaus Dessau organised a "bart-herzen-nase-fest" (beard heart-nose festival) in 1928, at which Klee's student Herbert Bayer was also present. On the other hand, Klee chose the title ''Nase, Mund, Brüste; Büste, Lippen, Brüste'' (nose, mouth, breasts; bust, lips, breasts) for another work as early as 1927. Klee's friend Hans Arp also created a painting called ''Kopf, Augen, Nase, Schnurrbart'' (Head, eyes, nose, moustache). Description A small red heart is centrally located in a broad pale red cross that extends almost across the entir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyeler Foundation
The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler with its museum in Riehen, near Basel (Switzerland), owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler, which features modern and traditional art. The Beyeler Foundation museum includes a space for special exhibitions staged to complement the permanent collection. In 2006, approximately 340,000 persons visited the museum. The number of visitors in 2016 was 332,000. The Beyeler Foundation is the most visited museum of art in all of Switzerland. The museum is properly funded, and it receives annual grants from the cantons of Basel City and Basel County and the commune of Riehen. Major partners of the Foundation are Bayer AG, Novartis and Swiss bank UBS. History Art dealers Ernst Beyeler (16 July 1921 – 25 February 2010) and Hilda Kunz (1922 - 18 July 2008), known as Hildy, created the Beyeler Foundation in 1982 and commissioned Renzo Piano to design a museum to house their private collection. The collection was first pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
