Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (born 1963) is a German composer of classical music. He was born in

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and studied composition with

Wilhelm Killmayer Wilhelm Killmayer (21 August 1927 – 20 August 2017) was a German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1973 to 1992. He composed symphonies and son ...

at the

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, continued in a masterclass with

Hans-Jürgen von Bose Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 24 December 1953 in Munich) is a German composer. Life After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory. Upon graduatin ...

from 1992 to 1994. He has been teaching music pedagogy at the

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Selected works

* ''Der Jäger von Fall'',

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

after a

libretto A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...

by Wilhelm Killmayer (1991) Orchestra * ''Times Square Music'' for large orchestra Orchester (1990) * ''Running Riot'' for brass band and orchestra (1993) * ''...mild und leise...'',

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's death for large orchestra (2010) Chamber music * ''Klavierquintett für Paul Celan'',

piano quintet In classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments, most commonly a string quartet (i.e., two violins, viola, and cello). The term also refers to the group of musicians that plays a pian ...

(1990) * ''Berührungen'' for piano 4 hands and conga (1999) * ''The Day After Rendevouz'' for violin, tuba and tape (1992) * ''Silence invades the breathing wood'' for soprano, violin, viola, cello and small percussion (2011) * ''Takte und Gewichte'',

string quartet The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists ...

(2001) * ''In der Schwebe'' for cello and piano (2009) * ''Yolimba läßt grüßen'',

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on a theme by Wilhelm Killmayer for violin and piano (2010) * ''Duo concertant'' for two pianos (1997) Vocal * ''Zwei Lieder für Bariton und Klavier'', songs for

baritone A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the r ...

and piano on poems by

Otto Julius Bierbaum Otto Julius Bierbaum (28 June 1865 – 1 February 1910) was a German writer. Bierbaum was born in Grünberg, Silesia. After studying in Leipzig, he became a journalist and editor for the journals ''Die freie Bühne'', ''Pan'' and '' Die Insel'' ...

(1979): op.1/1 (Freundliche Vision), op.1/2 (

Traum durch die Dämmerung "" ("Dream in the Twilight", literally "Dream through the twilight"), is both a German poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum and a (art song) by Richard Strauss, his Op. 29/1. The opening line is "" ("Broad meadows in grey dusk"). It is the first of th ...

) * ''Missa in excelsis'',

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for women choir (2002) * ''tierisch gebildet'',

cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of ...

for speaker, choir and instruments after poems by

Christian Morgenstern Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (6 May 1871 – 31 March 1914) was a German author and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin ...

(2004) * ''Zwei Lieder für tiefe Stimme'' (two songs for a low voice) on Italian texts by Aldo Palazzeschi (2008): 1) Il Passo delle Nazarene 2) Il segno

External links

Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau
Bayerisches Musiker Lexikon Online of the

Munich University The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

* * Alexander Strauch
Was ist Solidarität - Für Lutz Landwehr v. Pragenau
''Neue Musikzeitung'', 14 October 2012 {{DEFAULTSORT:Landwehr von Pragenau, Lutz German composers 1963 births Living people