Lothar Voigtländer (born 3 September 1943) is a German
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and def ...
.
Life
Voigtländer was born in
Leisnig
Leisnig (, ) is a small town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in the free state of Saxony in Germany, 50 kilometers southeast of Leipzig.
History
A settlement in this location was first mentioned in 1046. The town features Mildenstein Castle ...
. He received his formative musical education between 1954 and 1962 as a choirboy and later as choir prefect in the
Dresdner Kreuzchor
The Dresdner Kreuzchor is the boys' choir of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, Germany. It has a seven-century history and a world-wide reputation. Today, the choir has about 150 members between the ages of 9 and 19, from Dresden and the surroundin ...
under Rudolf Mauersberger. From 1961 to 1968 he studied
conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or Choir, choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary d ...
with Rolf Reuter and
music composition
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with
Fritz Geißler at the Leipzig Academy of Music and from 1970 to 1972 as a master student at the
Akademie der Künste der DDR
The Akademie der Künste der DDR was the central art academy of the German Democratic Republic (DDR). It existed under different names from 1950 to 1993. Then it merged with the "Akademie der Künste Berlin (West)" to become the Academy of Arts, ...
with
Günter Kochan
Günter Kochan (2 October 1930 – 22 February 2009) was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as professor for musical com ...
.
Since 1973 Voigtländer has worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. In 1984 he founded together with
Georg Katzer the "Society for
electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music is a Music genre, genre of Western art music in which composers use recording technology and audio signal processing to manipulate the timbres of Acoustics, acoustic sounds in the creation of pieces of music. It originated a ...
". In 1992 he received a guest professorship at the University of Paris, was chairman of the Berlin Composers' Association from 1990 to 1996, member of the Federal Executive Board of the German Composers' Association and vice-chairman of the works committee of the
. Since 2001 Voigtländer has been an honorary professor for composition at the
Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber
The Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber (or Dresden University of Music Carl Maria von Weber; also/formerly known as Dresden Conservatory or Dresden Royal Conservatory) is a university school of music, university of music in Dresden, ...
in Dresden, and since 2006 he has been a member of the GEMA supervisory board.
Voigtländer founded several concert series in Berlin, including the "Long Night of Electronic Sounds". Electroacoustic works led him to the studios
International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music in
Bourges
Bourges ( ; ; ''Borges'' in Berrichon) is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre (Cher), Yèvre. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Cher (department), Cher, and also was the capital city of the former provin ...
, Zurich, , Hilversum, Freiburg (WDR), Budapest and Bratislava. Voigtländer has received international prizes, he was awarded several times at the Festival of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges (Grand Prix 1996).
In 2015, he received the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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on ribbon
Work
Voigtländer's compositions include stage works,
Tanztheater
The German Tanztheater ("dance theatre") grew out of German Expressionist dance in Weimar Germany and 1920s Vienna, and experienced a resurgence in the 1970s.
History
The term first appears around 1927 to identify a particular style of dance ...
, electro-acoustic sound performances, sound sculptures, space-sound installations,
motet
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s and choral songs, solo songs,
chamber music
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s, orchestra and
Organ
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Biology
* Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function
* Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body.
Musical instruments
...
pieces.
(mainly published by
Edition Peters
Edition Peters is a classical music publisher founded in Leipzig, Germany in 1800.
History
The company came into being on 1 December 1800 when the Viennese composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812) and the local organist Ambrosius Kühn ...
, B&H/DVfM)
*''Antike Epigramme'' for mixed choir, text: Catull, Sulpicia, Ausonius, 1975.
*''Drei elektronische Studien'' for voice and tape, text: Erich Arendt, 1975.
*''Orchestermusik I „Memento“, ''Hommage á Schostakowitsch, 1975.
*''Vier Minnelieder des Oswald von Wolkenstein'' for tenor and Orchestra, 1977.
*''Einmal'' Lieder for high voice and piano, texts:
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a g ...
,
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon (; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the Surrealism, surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littératur ...
and Friedemann Berger, 1977.
*''Am Ende des Regenbogens'' (choir cycle) 8 songs for mixed choir a cappella after texts by Berger, Kahlau, Morgenstern, Strittmatter, Rive und Ketschua-Lyrik. 1978, Edition Peters 1983
*''vergesse...durcheinander...o süße'' for vocals, 4 trombones., 4 percussions., text: Marc Braet,
Erich Fried,
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...
, E. E. Cummings, (1983, revised with tape 2005).
*''Maikäfer flieg'', electro-acoustic soundtrack, 1985.
*''Litaneia'', Motet for baritone and 2 mixed choirs, 1985, rev. 1987.
*''Orchestermusik II'', 1988.
*''II. Sinfonie. Harfen-Sinfonie'', 1989.
*''Le temps en cause'', Kammeroratorium, text:
Eugène Guillevic
Eugène Guillevic (Carnac, Morbihan, France, August 5, 1907 Carnac – March 19, 1997 Paris) () was a French poet. Professionally, he went by the single name ''Guillevic''.
Life
He was born in the rocky landscape and marine environment of B ...
, 1990.
*''III. Sinfonie. Orgel- Sinfonie'', 1990.
*''Trällerlieder'', Kinder-Liedsammlung, 1970–1990.
*''Adoratio'', Motet, text: Thomas v. Aquino, 1994.
*''Voici-Feuerklang!'' for soprano, double bass, 2 percussionists, tape, live electronics, pyrotechnics, Rheinsberg, 1995.
*''Guillevic-Recital'', Collage for 3 speakers and tape with painting by Dieter Tucholke, Berlin 1996.
*''Lichtklang Nr.2'', Sound sculpture for the German Reichstag Berlin with the architect Wolfgang Heinrich Fischer, 1999.
*''Missa Electroacoustica'' in 4 parts, electro-acoustic compositions to videos by Veit Lup, steel sculptures by Reinhardt Grimm and choreographies by Iris Sputh, 2002.
*''Visages'', KammerSzenario (chamber opera) in 8 parts (E. Guillevic) for soprano, 3 narrators, 3 dancers, 3 percussionists, piano trio, trombone, clarinet and electronic space-sound compositions, Rheinsberg 2002.
*''glockenfern-glasschärfe-schwarz'', dance performance for 3 Chinese singing bowls and tape, 2005.
*''Orchestermusik III was immer ein wenig zittert, das ist dann in uns'', 2005.
Radio play music
* 1991:
Edgar Hilsenrath
Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi c ...
: ''Das Märchen vom letzten Gedanken'' – Regie:
Peter Groeger (Hörspiel –
SFB/
HR)
Literature
*
Albrecht von Massow, Thomas Grysko, Josephine Prkno (ed.): ''Ein Prisma ostdeutscher Musik: Der Komponist Lothar Voigtländer.'' Böhlau Verlag, Köln/Weimar/Wien 2015.
* Über Voigtländer-Aufführungen des Dresdner Kreuzchores, in
Matthias Herrmann Matthias Herrmann (born 14 October 1955) is a German musicologist and university professor.
Life
Born in Mildenau, Herrmann became a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor conducted by Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger, later Martin Flämig. He then s ...
(ed.): ''Dresdner Kreuzchor und zeitgenössische Chormusik. Ur- und Erstaufführungen zwischen Richter und Kreile''.
''Dresdner Kreuzchor und zeitgenössische Chormusik : Ur- und Erstaufführungen zwischen Richter und Kreile''
on WorldCat Marburg 2017, 96–98, (Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchores, vol. 2)
References
External links
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Website von Lothar Voigtländer
Lothar Voigtländer
im Archiv Zeitgenössischer Komponisten der Saxon State and University Library Dresden
The Saxon State and University Library Dresden (full name in ), abbreviated SLUB Dresden, is located in Dresden, Germany. It is both the regional library () for the Federal Republic of Germany, German State of Saxony as well as the academic libr ...
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20th-century German classical composers
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
category:1943 births
Living people
People from Leisnig