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Peter Michael Hamel (born 15 July 1947 in
Peter Michael Hamel (born 15 July 1947 in Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
) is a German composer. His works have been associated with the minimalist
In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Don ...
style of composition, and in the late 1970s with the New Simplicity New Simplicity (in German, ''Neue Einfachheit'') was a stylistic tendency amongst some of the younger generation of German composers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reacting against not only the European avant garde of the 1950s and 1960s, but al ...
movement.
He is the son of the film director Peter Hamel
Peter Hamel (1911–1979) was a German screenwriter and a director of film and television.Baer p.56 He appeared as himself in the 1948 comedy ''Film Without a Title''. He is the father of the composer Peter Michael Hamel.
Selected filmography
* ...
. Hamel studied musical composition
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, psychology
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and sociology
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in Munich and Berlin with teachers including Günter Bialas
Günter Bialas (19 July 1907 – 8 July 1995) was a German composer.
Life
Bialas was born in Bielschowitz (today Bielszowice, a subdivision of Ruda Śląska) in Prussian Silesia. His father was the business manager of a German theatre, and his ...
and Carl Dahlhaus
Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research focused on 19th- and 20th- ...
. He then continued his education abroad, spending several extensive periods in Asia.
In 1970, he founded "Between", an international group dedicated to improvisational music with whom he made 6 records on the intuition/WERGO
WERGO is a German record label focusing on contemporary classical music. It was founded in 1962 by German art historian and music publisher (1903–1975) and the musicologist Helmut Kirchmeyer. Their first release, filed under "WER 60001", was S ...
label and in 1978 in Munich, he founded the Freies Musikzentrum, an institute for musical education and therapy. In 1978, his book ''Through Music to the Self'' was published in English translation, obtaining wide circulation in Europe and the U.S.
Between 1997 and 2012, he was professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. His orchestral and chamber music is published by Schott, Bärenreiter
Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also ...
and E.R.P./Celestial Harmonies. He composed four operas, many orchestral works (e.g., ''Gestalt''), violin and piano concertos, sacred works for soprano, choirs and orchestra (e.g., ''Missa''); ''Shoah'' (a radio-composition about the Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
), chamber-music compositions (including four string quartets). He is in demand as a performing artist (piano, prepared piano, pipe organ, voice and live-electronics). His First Symphony was premiered by Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache (; 14 August 1996) was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as ...
in 1988; his Second Symphony had its first performance in Munich on April 29, 2008 with the Munich Philharmonic. In 2007 Hamel's ''Of the Sound of Life'' for pianist Roger Woodward
Roger Woodward (born 20 December 1942) is an Australian classical pianist, composer, conductor and teacher.
Life and career Early life
The youngest of four children, Roger Woodward was born in Sydney where he received first piano lessons ...
was published by Celestial Harmonies. In 2009 parts of his music theatre "last minute" on Near Death Experiences
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has been premiered in .
American minimalist composer Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his music became notable for it ...
has said:
Discography
* '' Aura'' (1972) * '' Hamel'' (1972) * '' The Voice of Silence'' (1972) * '' Buddhist Meditation East-West'' (1975) * ''Nada
Nada may refer to:
Culture
* Nāda, a concept in ancient Indian metaphysics
Places
*Nada, Hainan, China
*Nada, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
*Nada, Nepal, village in Achham District, Seti Zone
* Nada, Texas, United S ...
'' (1977)
* ''Colours of Time
''Colours of Time'' is the sixth album of composer Peter Michael Hamel, released in 1980 through Kuckuck Schallplatten.
Track listing
Personnel
*Peter Michael Hamel – electronic organ, synthesizer
*Ulrich Kraus – electric orga ...
'' (1980)
* ''Bardo
In some schools of Buddhism, ''bardo'' ( xct, བར་དོ་ Wylie: ''bar do'') or ''antarābhava'' (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as ''zhōng yǒu'' and in Japanese as ''chū'u'') is an intermediate, transitio ...
'' (1981)
* '' Transition'' (1983)
* ''Organum
''Organum'' () is, in general, a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages. Depending on the mode and form of the chant, a supporting bass line (or '' bourdon'') may be sung on the same ...
'' (1986)
* '' Let It Play: Selected Pieces 1979-1983'' (1987)
* '' Arrow of Time / The Cycle of Time'' (1991)
* ''Violinkonzert Diaphainon Gralbilder'' (1993)
* ''De Visione Dei'' (2001)
* ''Hamel: String Quartet No. 3, String Quartet No. 4, String Trio'' (2007)
See also
*List of ambient music artists
This is a list of ambient music artists. This includes artists who have either been very important to the genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as those who have been on a major label). This list does not include little-known ...
References
* *Footnotes
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamel, Peter Michael German classical composers Musicians from Munich 1947 births Living people 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers German male classical composers 20th-century German composers 21st-century German composers 20th-century German male musicians 21st-century German male musicians