Juan Allende-Blin (born 24 February 1928) is a Chilean composer and academic teacher who lives in Germany.

Career

Born in

Santiago de Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

, Allende-Blin studied first with his uncle, Pedro Humberto Allende, and with , a pupil of

Anton Webern Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945), better known as Anton Webern (), was an Austrian composer and conductor whose music was among the most radical of its milieu in its sheer concision, even aphorism, and stea ...

. He then studied at the University of Santiago, and with

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...

at the

Darmstädter Ferienkurse Darmstädter Ferienkurse ("Darmstadt Summer Course") is a regular summer event of contemporary classical music in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in 1946, under the name "Ferienkurse für Internationale Neue Musik Darmstadt" (Vacation Cou ...

. He was professor of musical analysis at the University of Santiago from 1954 to 1957. In 1957 he moved to Germany and worked from 1962 for the broadcaster

Norddeutscher Rundfunk Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; ''Northern German Broadcasting'') is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, M ...

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

. He has lived as a free-lance composer in

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

, together with the composer and organist

Gerd Zacher Gerd Zacher (6 July 1929 – 9 June 2014) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He specialized in contemporary compositions, many of which feature extended techniques, and are written in graphic or verbal scores. He interpreted th ...

, until Zacher's death. Allende-Blin composed instrumental music, two

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chanson A (, , french: chanson française, link=no, ; ) is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music. The genre had origins in the monophonic s ...

s and music for tape. He reconstructed and orchestrated Debussy's unfinished opera '' La Chute de la Maison Usher''. As a music publicist, he wrote about musicians and exile. His compositions were published by .

Selected works

*''Transformationen'' for brass, percussion, celesta and piano *''Profils'' for clarinet, trumpet, trombone, cello and percussion *''Magnetfelder'' for piano, clarinet, double bass and tape *''Transformations III'' for percussion, 1952 *''Transformations IV'' for Klavier, 1960 *''Echelons'' for organ, 1962–68 *''Silences interrompus'' for clarinet, double bass and piano, 1969/1970 *''Mein blaues Klavier '' for organ, Drehorgel and Maultrommel, 1970 *''Zeitspanne'' for piano, 1971–74 *''Souffle'' for two choirs and projections, 1972 *''Perspectives : pour clarinette en si b'', 1977 *''Des Landes verwiesen / konzertante und szenische Aktionen'', 1978, libretto:

Jean-Pierre Faye Jean-Pierre Faye (born 19 July 1925) is a French philosopher and writer of fiction and prose poetry. Life and career Faye was born in Paris. He was member of the editing committee of the avant-garde literary review ''Tel Quel ''Tel Quel'' (t ...

*''Rapport sonore / Relato sonoro / Klangbericht'', musical radio feature, Karl-Sczuka-Preis 1983 *''Dialogue'' for piano and two Interpreters, 1983 *''Coral de caracola'' for organ, 1985 *''Transformations V'' for organ and chamber ensemble, 1987 *''Tagebuchgesänge'' after

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...

and Lautréamont for two baritones and chamber orchestra, premiere 1987 *''Streichquartett'', 1995 *''Walter Mehring – ein Wintermärchen / Imaginäre Szene für Bariton und Kammerensemble'', 1998 *''Le Voyage'', cantata for baritone and ten instruments, 2001 *''Transformations VII pour 14 instruments'', 2003 *''Gegenträume / contre-rêves'' - ''radiophone Klangcollage'', 2003 *''Wunde am Ende der Zeit'' - ''radiophone Klangcollage'', 2003 *''Wandlungen'' - ''radiophone Klangcollage'', 2005 *''Traumräume'' - ''radiophone Klangcollage'', 2007 *''Cantate à trois'' for soprano, tenor, baritone and 4 ensembles, 2007

Selected discography

*''Die Klaviermusik von Juan Allende-Blin'', Thomas Günther, piano,

Cybele Cybele ( ; Phrygian: ''Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya'' "Kubileya/Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian ''Kuvava''; el, Κυβέλη ''Kybele'', ''Kybebe'', ''Kybelis'') is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forer ...

SACD 160.401 *''Die Orgelmusik von Juan Allende-Blin'',

, organ, Cybele SACD 060.401

Publications

*''Ein Leben aus Erinnerung und Utopie'', Essays, edited by Stefan Fricke and , Pfau, Saarbrücken 2002, * ''Kirchenmusik unter Hitler.'' In

Hanns-Werner Heister Hanns-Werner Heister (born 14 June 1946) is a German musicologist. Life and career Born in Plochingen, (Baden-Württemberg), Heister studied musicology, German literature and linguistics in Tübingen, Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin, received his do ...

, Hans-Günther Klein (Hg.): ''Musik und Musikpolitik im faschistischen Deutschland'', Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1984, .

Awards

* (1983) *

Bundesverdienstkreuz The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

am Bande (5 October 1999)Auskunft der Ordenskanzlei im Bundespräsidialamt *

Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia The Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Verdienstorden des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a civil order of merit, of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia was founded on 11 March 1 ...

(200

*

National Prize for Musical Arts (Chile) The National Prize for Musical Arts ( es, Premio Nacional de Artes Musicales) was created in Chile in 1992 under Law 19169 as one of the replacements of the National Prize of Art. It is granted "to the person who has distinguished himself by his ...

(2018)

References

External links

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Juan Allende Blin - Universidad de Chile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Allende-Blin, Juan Chilean composers Chilean male composers University of Chile faculty Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1928 births Living people Chilean expatriates in Germany