Mauricio Rosenmann Taub

Mauricio Rosenmann Taub (29 June 1932 – 8 March 2021) was a Chilean composer, writer and poet.

Background

A native of Santiago, he studied piano and composition initially in Santiago, then in Stuttgart and Freiburg with a Scholarship of the DAAD. In Paris he studied at the Conservatoire National with Olivier Messiaen and graduated with distinction (''premier prix''). During this time Rosenmann worked at the French Broadcast at the "Groupe des Recherches Musicales", studied organ with Édouard Souberbielle and musicology. With André Martinet he studied linguistics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He returned to Germany, attended the Darmstadt New Music Summer School and joined in Freiburg the class of Wolfgang Fortner. He graduated with a composing degree ("Reifeprüng in Komposition und Musiktheorie") and became a lecturer at the Freiburger Musikhochschule. He was a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen 1974 until 1999.

Rosenmann Taub died in Essen on 8 March 2021, at the age of 88.

Work

In 1960 some poems by Rosenmann were translated into German and published in Freiburg. In 1969 in both Freiburg and Santiago the book ''Los Paraguas Del No'' was presented (review in ''La Prensa'', 1971). Since then, twelve volumes, all conceived as cycles of poems, mainly in Spanish, and several essays have been published as well as compositions for the piano, chamber music and music for the stage, including three operas. Rosenmann's music has been performed by renowned interpreters in various European countries and in Chile. "The work of Mauricio Rosenmann Taub seems like a labyrinth of various arts in which isolated threads of Ariadna always interweaves back to the crossroads of the past-" (Stefan Fricke in the encyclopedia ''Komponisten der Gegenwart – KDG'', "Contemporary Composers", article ''Rosenmann'', 1997).

In his later poems Rosenmann intended to establish a bond between the musical interval and the likeness within words and their components. Raúl Zurita, National Prize for Literatur: «Mauricio Rosenmann Taub takes us back to this indiscernible age in which gesture, graphic symbols and sound do not form separate compartments. His poems create an awareness before reading them, a feeling as if it were a recollection of future language.» Eugen Gomringer declares: «Sharpening the senses of looking and hearing, we perceive something coming from far away and pointing into future.», and about the book ''Disparación'': "There is nothing more beautiful (and important) in our literature than this book."[http://www.pfau-verlag.de/shop_detail/27376.html]
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Musical works

*''Fasolauta'' for flute, piano, synthesizer and tape (1973–76)
*''Vis-à-Vis'' for two pianos and one pianist (1977)
*''Maquinación'' for solo pinball machine and chamber ensemble, role-music (1979–80). ISBN M-50085-008-3
*''Frankenstein-OperAzione'' for solo software, actor, singer, speaking choir, instrumentalists, workstation and tape (1992)
*''Ground'' for piano and basso profondo (1996), ISBN M-50085-007-6
*''Scenata'' (scenic sonatas) – four scenic sonatas for actor, female singer and chamber ensemble (1994–97), ISBN M-50085-010-6
*''Solomisazione – Opera Per Una Persona Sola'' (opera for one single person) (1997–2002), ISBN M-50085-034-2
*''Fa-Solstice'' for two flutes, piano, female singer/speaker and tape (2006), dedicated to Renate Greiss-Armi

*''Madam Czerny'' for solo piano, Étude Nº 1 (2007)
* ''Modulation'', pour piano et celesta, Étude Nº 2 (2012)
*''Wig-Lid'' (lullaby) by Dora Taub for mezzo-soprano, cor anglais, horn, viola, harp and piano, lullaby, dedicated to Eva Rosenmann Taub, instrumentation: M. Rosenmann (1974)
* ''Pour les vingt doigts'' for piano and celesta, two-handed (2012–2018)

Lyric works

*''Los Paraguas Del No'', Freiburg. i. Br./Santiago de Chile 1969 and Saarbrücken 1995, Auszu
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*''El Europicho'', 1973–83 (from ''Sinfonía Para Nombres Solos'' (Sinfonia for Lonely Names)), Essen 1983/Essen 1996,
*''Temprana Aparición'' (from ''Sinfonía Para Nombres Solos''), Folkwang-Texte, Essen 1992,
*''Chile o el p/Fisco Sauer'' (from ''Sinfonía Para Nombres Solos''), art folder with 44 sheets, 1972-83/1995,
*''Formicación'', Saarbrücken 1996,
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*''Alteration'' : Albumblätter. Saarbrücken 1997,
*''Breviario'', Saarbrücken 2001,
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*''Der Ort der Begegnung /El Lugar Del Encuentro'' (The Place of Encounter)- ''Ein Bericht über Texte von Eugen Gomringer und Charles Baudelaire sowie über eigene Arbeiten – Versuch einer Interpretation'', Saarbrücken 2005,
*''Disparación, Silabario Disparatado'', Saarbrücken 2007, ; Santiago de Chile 2012,
*''Invitación al Garabato – Dios es Un Número Entre Diez y Dos'', Santiago 2009,
''Solo por ser usted''
Santiago 2010
*''Modulación'', RiL editores, Santiago 2012, /Pfau-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2012,
*''Preparaíso'', Pfau-Verlag Saarbrücken / RiL editores, Santiago, 2014, â€
video of the presentation of the book with Raul Zurita

''Cuando me desperté comprendí que estaba dormido''
Colección Escritores chilenos y latinoamericanos, 2015,


2019/2020

Musicology/Literature

*''Lieder Ohne Ton'' (Songs without tone) – annotations to Federico Mompou, "Canción"; Ralf R. Ollertz, "Toy Tô"; Carlos Saura, "Cría Cuervos"; Frédéric Chopin, "Préludes", Saarbrücken 1995,
*''Die Entstellung als Analyse- und Kompositionsverfahren'' (The Deformation as an Analytic and Compositional Method), offprint of the periodical ''Musiktheorie'', 14. Jahrg., Heft 4, 1999
*''Ton- und Fingersatz im ''Finale'' der h-Moll-Sonate op. 58 von Chopin und in ''Ondine'' von Ravel''. ''Musiktheorie'', 19. Jahrg., Heft 2, 2004
*''Irrealer Klang – irrealer Satz. Einige Bemerkungen über den Anfang von ''Tristan'' und über zwei ''Préludes'' von Chopin''. ''Musiktheorie'', 19. Jahrg., Heft 2, 2004

External links

WebsiteMauricio Rosenmann Taub at the Stadtbibliothek Essen
*http://letras.mysite.com/archivomauriciorosenmann.htm
* ttp://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-132344.html Los paraguas del no (1969) in the ''Memoria Chilena''

Literature

*Fricke, Stefan: ''Mauricio Rosenmann'', in: ''Komponisten der Gegenwart'', KDG, ed. Hanns-Werner Heister, Munich: Edition Text u. Kritik, 1992 ff.
*Fricke, Stefan.: ''Zu den Sehtextbüchern von Mauricio Rosenmann'', in: «Positionen 42», Beiträge zur Neuen Musik, Februar 200


* Raúl Zurita about ''Modulación'' of Mauricio Rosenmann Taub at Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago (8. 01. 2013) with the writers Felipe Cussen, Alfonso Mallo and the author

*Felipe Cussen: ''Entrevista a Mauricio Rosenmann Taub: De todos los modos posibles'

*Paul Guillén: ''Entrevista a Mauricio Rosenmann Taub'', Lima, 200

* César Díaz-Muñoz Cormatches: ''Paraguas para lágrimas'', en ''La Prensa'' (Santiago, 12 de octubre de 1971)

References

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1932 births
2021 deaths
21st-century Chilean poets
21st-century Chilean male writers
Chilean male poets
Chilean composers
Chilean male composers
Chilean Jews
University of Paris alumni
Writers from Santiago
Musicians from Santiago
20th-century Chilean poets
20th-century Chilean male writers