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Jüri Reinvere (born December 2, 1971, in
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) is an
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n composer, poet and essayist who has been living in
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since 2005. Jüri Reinvere's polystylistic art does not follow any dogmas of material nor technique. It is often devoted to existential themes of history, nature, politics and the poetics of human perception. His poetry and music theatre works are based on precise psychological observation and are often accompanied by subtle theological allusions. His essays in
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and in
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take part in debates on current cultural and political affairs and have been awarded with prizes for journalism in Estonia. His music has received international attention through conductors such as
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,
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, Franz Welser-Möst, Pablo Heras-Casado, Juraj Valcuha or Pietari Inkinen and through orchestras such as the
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, the Cleveland Orchestra, the
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and the
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.


Life

Jüri Reinvere grew up in
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during the Soviet occupation. He attended the Tallinn Music High School from 1979 to 1990. His first composition teacher was Lepo Sumera. The pianistic training he received in Tallinn took him as far as the concert exam, which enabled him to subsequently work as a pianist and organist. Life in Soviet Estonia at this time was characterized by strong pressure towards Russification. Reinvere’s open interest in Russian culture, however, familiar to him from an early age, remained unaffected. From 1990 to 1992 Reinvere studied composition at the Fryderyk-Chopin-Music-Academy in
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. From 1992 to 2005 he lived in
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. From 1994 onwards, he studied composition with Veli-Matti Puumala and Tapio Nevanlinna at the
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in
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, earning a master's degree in 2004. In addition, he worked as an organist and as a radio essayist for Finnish and Estonian radio stations, wrote occasional scripts for documentary films and was also employed as a TV producer. In 1993 he met the Estonian-Swedish pianist and writer
Käbi Laretei Käbi Alma Laretei (14 July 1922 – 31 October 2014) was an Estonian-Swedish concert pianist. Her father Heinrich Laretei was a diplomat in the service of the Republic of Estonia as ambassador to Sweden; when the Soviet Union occupied Eston ...
, who Reinvere himself calls his most important mentor. For a decade and a half, he remained in close contact with her and her former husband, the Swedish film and theatre director
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. Bergman introduced Reinvere to the tradition of Ibsen’s and Strindberg’s Northern-European drama and to the psychological characterization of dramatic figures. Reinvere’s first prose works were soon followed by poetry written in English. This paved the way for writing his own libretti for his
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s Puhdistus (Purge) in Finnish and "Peer Gynt" and "Minona" in German. In 2000 he won the
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, the composition award of the
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’s International Music Council; the same body honored him again in 2006. From 2000 to 2001 he held a fellowship at the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 2005 Reinvere moved to
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,
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, and since 2017 he has been living in
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. Reinvere is a Finnish citizen.


Works

Reinvere’s aesthetics have two aspects: on the one hand, decided modernism with all its attendant harshness of sound, and a steadfastly courageous romanticism on the other. Thus, his music takes on many different sound guises. His large-scale works, especially the operas, take a middle path between the two aspects. They adhere to a psychological understanding of drama, but expand the means of expression beyond the tradition familiar today. Reinvere often combines advanced methods of sound production with classical narrative structures. The stringent development of the work’s form goes hand-in-hand with a thematic opening toward other art forms, questions of theology, politics, general history and everyday life. The main focus, however, remains on the immediate, sensual presence of art.


Orchestral works

Reinvere's orchestral works use the orchestra as an integral sound body in the sense of the symphonic tradition and develop further the techniques of wordless narration. A major role plays operating with tension gradients in harmony, no longer anchored in functionality. The poetic titles open up spaces for association, rather than providing a program. They sometimes make references to specific people ( Maria Anna Mozart, in "Maria Anna, Awake, in the Next Room“), to landscapes ("The Inner Sea") or to astronomic phenomena such as the
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("On the Dying of the Stars"). In Estonia, the works such as "Before Leviathan Awakes" or "On the Ship of Fools" sparked political discussions after their premieres.


Stage works: operas and ballets

Reinvere first worked in Germany in 2000 and 2001, mainly in cooperation with the choreographer Michaela Fünfhausen. The
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s "Dialog I", "Luft-Wasser-Erde-Feuer-Luft" and his radio opera "The Opposite Shore" merge structural thinking as it was taught at the Sibelius Academy with influences of sound art, some of them employing electronically processed sounds of nature. Ten years after the ballets, Reinvere independently reworked the bestseller novel " Puhdistus" by Sofi Oksanen into an opera with his own libretto: this is Reinvere’s first dramatic work as a poet and also a political work, and its importance was registered internationally. The world premiere took place in 2012 at the
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in Helsinki.
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was subsequently commissioned by the Norwegian National Opera in
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and its artistic director Per Boye Hansen. Tracing Henrik Ibsen’s drama, which became a national symbol of
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due to
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's music, Reinvere questions the importance of national symbols today. At the same time, he sets the story within the horizon of a theology of grace following
Søren Kierkegaard Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( , ; ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danes, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical tex ...
. The world premiere took place on November 29, 2014. The opera was met with large media response, partly because of its connotation of the
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committed by
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, partly because of its dealing with topics such as
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and the lassitude of Western culture. Reinvere received the Estonian State Award for “Peer Gynt” in 2015. Reinvere wrote his third opera "Minona" for the
Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...
year 2020. It tells the story of Minona von Stackelberg (1813-1897), who was officially the daughter of Josephine von Stackelberg (née Josephine Brunsvik), and her second husband Christoph von Stackelberg. However, in Beethoven research it is considered very likely that Ludwig van Beethoven could be Minona's biological father. Minona von Stackelberg grew up in Reinvere's hometown of
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(then Reval). Reinvere himself undertook his own research for the libretto in the Archives of the Baltic Knights in Tartu, where part of the Stackelberg family estate is kept. The premiere took place at the Theater Regensburg.


Works based on Reinvere’s own poetry

Since the creation of t.i.m.e for solo flute and narrators (2005), Reinvere’s non-theatrical works have often also been settings of his own poetry, mostly written originally in English. His writing most often takes the form of free verse, but also features complex meters and rhyme forms. His language employs symbols with several layers of meaning and allusions to literary history, especially in a series of poems based on English Romantic authors. Thus, "
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, the Daffodils" (for orchestra and narrator) makes reference to
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, "The Empire of May" (for chamber ensemble and voice) to
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and "The Arrival at the Ligurian Sea" (for solo flute and chamber ensemble) to
Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame durin ...
. His 2009 Requiem (for chamber choir, solo flute and narrator) deals with death and dying in today’s world. Although Reinvere does not use religious terms and forms, his Requiem remains open to an interpretation of death as found in Christian faith. The cycle "Four Quartets" combines his own poems with string quartets and follows
T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biography''. New York: Oxford University ...
’s work of the same title. Like Eliot, Reinvere sets out to turn concrete life places into symbols of human existence. In the pre-recorded tape for the first of the "Four Quartets", Reinvere uses original sound documents from the maternity ward’s delivery room at the Central Hospital in Tallinn. In addition to the cycle for soprano and orchestra "Songs in the Fading Light", Reinvere's vocal music also include the cycle "Pale Carnival“ for soprano and piano, to his own German and English texts, written for the Kissinger Liederwerkstatt 2018, and also two songs for bass and piano to own poems, which are inspired by the prints of the Estonian symbolist Eduard Wiiralt. These were composed for the
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Salzburg in 2023.


Choral works

Reinvere's most important choral work to date, apart from the early work "Frost at Midnight”, is the 45-minutes long oratorio "The Expulsion of
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“, based on his own text. It was written for the RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin and tells the biblical story of the expulsion of the maid Hagar and her son Ishmael by his father Abraham and thus the separation of Judaism and Islam. The premiere took place in March 2022 in Berlin with the RIAS Chamber Choir and the Ensemble Resonance under the direction of Justin Doyle.


Further works

In Reinvere’s other works, one often finds genre borders crossed and various techniques combined, for example the incorporation of documentary material into aesthetically through-composed music by means of
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. Thus, his "Livonian Lament" (2003) uses sound recordings from the Livonian Coast, commemorating the slow death of the
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, long marginalized. Harmonically, his early "Double Quartet with Solo Piano" of 1994 still offers clear references. Later works maintain such tonal conceptions, but they are less obvious. Often, Reinvere does entirely without the links of tonality, relying on instrumental and vocal sounds and the sound of narration, closer to noise than to precisely defined pitch. Clearly arranged textures are used according to a classical understanding of
polyphony Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice ( monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chord ...
. Time, shaped dramaturgically, enables the listener to develop listening expectations while simultaneously confronting him with the unforeseen. Since 2016, Reinvere has been writing more instrumental works in classical settings. These include his Piano Quartet, his Sonata for Cello and Piano (premiered in 2019 by David Geringas and Ian Fountain), a cycle of nocturnes (for organ, piano and viola solo), a Saxophone Quartet, a Clarinet Quintet and a chamber miniature with the instrumentation of Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet titled "Fleeting, Forever". His Quartet for Violin, Clarinet, Cello and Piano had its premiere at the International Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival in September 2022. Although Reinvere himself states that Beethoven's music has always been him less important than e.g. the music of
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, his biographical preoccupation with Beethoven inspired him to write two further works: "The Crown of Gneixendorf" (for solo shawn, premiered at the Ultrasound Festival in Berlin by Katharina Bäuml in 2017) and the concert "Inter lacrimas et luctum“ for Cello and Ensemble (premiered by Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Ensemble Modern in 2019). All the works related to Beethoven centre around the idea of the failure of an idealistic life plan and of the vulnerability in contrast to the heroic image of Beethoven.


Essays

Reinvere’s
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s deal with the verbal and non-verbal transmission of thoughts and feelings, as well as the manipulation or even destruction of cultural memory. These topics mainly reflect his own biography and the life of Reinvere’s Estonian forebears, but he also discusses the general condition of Europe and the USA. Drawing upon his experiences in Finnish parish life and his life in cities such as
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,
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,
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,
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and
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, Reinvere also investigates phenomena such as consolation, grace or beauty – which people experience without being able to produce or fabricate them. The proximity of squalor and sublimity, similar to the themes of
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writings, appears in Reinvere’s essays and in his poetry. Since November 2013, Reinvere has occasionally contributed opinion pieces on current events to the daily German newspaper
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The (; ''FAZ''; "Frankfurt General Newspaper") is a German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt and is considered a newspaper of record for Germany. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' ( ...
. There, he questioned in principle whether Western strategies were likely to improve the situation of sexual minorities in Russia. In another article, Reinvere described the fears of Russian intervention in the Baltic States after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 as based on the yet-unresolved experiences of 1939/40 and the period after 1990. Lately, his articles for the FAZ have been about strategies of the Soviet and post-Soviet factionalism in the interplay between inner political conflicts and Western attention. Since 2016 he has also commented cultural-analytical and political issues for the national leading daily paper “
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” as well as for the Estonian weekly paper “ Sirp”. For his annotations in the latter, he received the annual Enn Soosaar Award, now known as the Ethical Essayists Award, in Tallinn in 2017. Postimees selected Reinvere as Opinion Leader of the Year 2022 and awarded him the Jaan Tõnisson Prize in 2023.


Musical works (selection)

* Puhdistus (Purge), opera based on the novel of the same title by Sofi Oksanen * Peer Gynt, opera based on
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by
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(2014) * Minona, opera based on the libretto of the composer (2020) * The Opposite Shore (Radio-Opera, 2003) * Luft-Wasser-Erde-Feuer-Luft (for the Michaela Fünfhausen's Ballet “The Feathered Serpent”, 2003) * Written in the Sand (for symphony orchestra, 2001) *
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, the Daffodils (for symphony orchestra and spoken word from the tape, 2012) * Through A Lens Darkly (for large orchestra, 2018) * And tired of happiness, they started to dance (for large orchestra, 2018) * Before Leviathan Awakes (for large orchestra, 2019) * Maria Anna, Awake, in the Next Room (Notturno for orchestra, 2021) * On the Dying of Stars (for large orchestra, 2021) * Bosom of Immense Light (for large orchestra, 2022) * On the Ship of Fools (for large orchestra, 2023) * Requiem (for solo flute and four male voices, with video, 2009) * The Expulsion of Ishmael (for mixed choir and strings, 2020) * Lieder bei schwindendem Licht. Five poems for soprano and orchestra (2016) * Double Concerto for two flutes, string orchestra and drums (2016) * Inter Lacrimas et Luctum. Concerto for cello and ensemble (2019) * Four Quartets I-III (for string quartet and narrator from tape, 2012-2016) * Frost at Midnight (for bass flute and chorus, 2008) * The Empire of May (for chamber ensemble, 2010) * Northwest Bow (for chamber ensemble, 1998) * Livonian Lament (tape, 2003) * t.i.m.e. (for solo flute and electronics, with video, 2005) * Causerie des confiseurs. Miniatures for eight pianos and sixteen hands (2016) * Sonata for cello and piano (2019)


Awards (selected)

*International Rostrum of Composers 2000 *UNESCO Music Council 2006 *Prizes of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2012, 2018, 2020 *Estonian State Prize 2015 *Enn Soosaar Prize for Ethical Essays 2017 *Musician of the Year in Estonia 2022 *Order of the White Star (Republic of Estonia) 2022 *Jaan Tõnisson Prize as the Opinion Leader 2022


Discography

* 2009 a second...a century * 2010 Requiem (CD+DVD)


References


External links


Official Website

Publisher site about Jüri Reinvere

Full list of works
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