Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel (17 February/29 February 1896 – 19 June 1984) was a

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and

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descent.

Life

Born in

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, Vogel first studied composition in Moscow with

Alexander Scriabin Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (; russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин ; – ) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed ...

, then between 1918 and 1924 with

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and

Ferruccio Busoni Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...

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, where he subsequently taught (1929–33) at the

Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory The Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory (german: Klindworth-Scharwenka-Konservatorium) was a music institute in Berlin, established in 1893, which for decades (until 1960) was one of the most internationally renowned schools of music. It was formed f ...

. He was close to the expressionist circle around

Herwarth Walden Herwarth Walden (actual name Georg Lewin; 16 September 1879, in Berlin – 31 October 1941, in Saratov, Russia) was a German expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines. He is broadly acknowledged as one of the most important discove ...

and was active (together with

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Philipp Jarnach Philipp Jarnach (26 July 1892 17 December 1982 in Börnsen) was a German composer of modern music ("Neue Musik"), pianist, teacher, and conductor. Jarnach was born in Noisy-le-Sec, France, the son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother. Besi ...

Stefan Wolpe Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz mo ...

, and

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fru ...

) in the music section of the November Group of

Max Butting Max Butting (6 October 1888 in Berlin, German Empire – 13 July 1976 in Berlin, East Germany) was a German composer. Life Max Butting was the son of an ironmonger and of a piano teacher. He received his first musical instruction from his m ...

and

Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1 November 1901 – 15 August 1988) was a German composer, musicologist, and historian and critic of music. Life Stuckenschmidt was born in Strasbourg. At as early an age as 19, he was the Berlin-based music criti ...

. In 1933, branded a "

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" by the Nazi regime, he left Germany and went to

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, and

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. He first turned to

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with his Violin Concerto in 1937. From 1939 he lived in Switzerland, at first in

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and from 1964 in Zürich. Until he became a Swiss citizen in 1954, he was not allowed to work in Switzerland, and relied on the support of wealthy patrons and his wife, the writer

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. During this time, he taught composition privately, was active in the ISCM, participated in

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’s ‘Sessions d’études musicales et dramatiques’ in Strasbourg, and organized the International Twelve-Tone Music pre-conference in Osilina in 1949. His students include

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, Robert Suter,

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and

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. He died in Zurich.

Compositions (selective list)

Vogel composed a

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, pieces for orchestra, string orchestra, wind ensemble, a concerto for violin and another for cello, works for choir, soloists and orchestra—the most important of which, called "drama-oratorios", are based on a synthesis of speech and song—and chamber-music works. * ''Drei Sprechlieder nach August Stramm'' for baritone and piano (1922) * ''Sinfonischer Vorgang'' for large orchestra (1922–23) * ''Wagadus Untergang durch die Eitelkeit'', drama-oratorio (1930) * ''Sinfonia fugata'' for large orchestra (1930–1932) * ''Vier Etüden'' for large orchestra (1930–1932) * ''Variétude'' for piano (1931) * ''Rallye'' for orchestra (1932) * Violin Concerto (1937) * ''Thyl Claes'', Parts I and II, drama-oratorio (1941–42 and 1943–45) * ''In memoriam'', Two Sonnets by Roger Vuataz for contralto, viola, harp and timpani, VWV 42 (1947) * ''Jona ging doch nach Ninive'', drama-oratorio (1957–58) * ''Meditazione sulla maschera di Modigliani'', drama-oratorio (1960) * ''An die akademische Jugend'' (

Notker Balbulus Notker the Stammerer ( – 6 April 912), Notker Balbulus, or simply Notker, was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall active as a poet, scholar and (probably) composer. Described as "a significant figure in the Western Church", Notker m ...

) for mixed choir a cappella (1962) * ''Worte'' (Hans Arp) for 2 speaking voices and strings (1962) * ''Flucht'', drama-oratorio (1963–64) * ''Mondträume'' (Hans Arp), permutations and paraphrases after verses from ''Mondsand'' by Hans Arp for speaking choir a cappella (1965) * ''Hörformen I'' for orchestra (1967) * ''Hörformen II'' for orchestra (1967–69) * ''Gli spaziali'' drama-oratorio (1970–71) * ''Abschied'' for string orchestra (1973) * ''Vier Versionen einer Zwölftonfolge'' for piano (1973) * ''Meloformen'' for string orchestra (1974) * ''Hommage nach einer 6-Tonfolge von Hermann Jöhr'' for strings in variable scoring (1975) * Composition for chamber orchestra (1976) * ''In Signum IM'' for large orchestra (1976) * ''Verstrebungen'' for chamber orchestra (1977) * ''Kleine Hörformen'' for viola and piano, VWV 51 (1979) * ''Reigen'' for chamber orchestra (1981) * ''Humoreske, Paraphrasen über 2 Themen von Gottschalk and Tschaikowsky'' for large orchestra (1981) * Trio for three clarinets (1982) * ''Klangexpressionen'' (Bulgakov), string quartet (1983) * ''Colori e movimenti'' for orchestra (1983)

References

External links

* Sound recordings of works of the composer from the archives of

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