Also if any music on your way, ideologies and utopias transported in the environment you created , situate contemporary composers of the classical music scene of her artistic work in General, beyond such assignments.
Only a few put themselves aware of political issues, for example, the 1956 born Babette Koblenz, 1995, as commissioned by the Hamburg Institute for social research, in their composition, The children of Bila Tserkva , the murder of 90 children in the Ukraine by the Wehrmacht edited. For the 1968-born Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth’s I can’t make the reality better than you. I want to be conscious of the thinking people, independent thinkers, as listeners […]. I don’t want to get wegjodeln.“ Often in collaboration with the writer Elfriede Jelinek their provocative socio-critical works for music theatre.
Neuwirth is considered to be one of the most creative composers of contemporary music.
In the framework of the DDF-project ‘What are we waiting for?’ the archive ‘ women in music in the Following four dedicated composers of the 20th century. A century before, the persecuted, directly or indirectly, in the sense of ‘music and resistance’ with their works against the political systems returned, you ausgrenzten, as the Jews or the mentally destroyed. In-depth information in the personal Essays in which to live and work in the archive-the context has to be redrawn.
In November 1914, three months after the start of the First world war, born in Hamburg composer Felicitas Kukuck were war and persecution from the beginning to the end of certain experiences. The Plight of the civilian population, destruction, separation and loss she experienced as a small child, through the mirror of the adults. The field post letters of a fallen uncle on the paternal side are in your estate, carefully preserved and commented on by their mother, Eva Kestner. This had also lost a brother at the age of 19 in the war. In the life and work of the national socialists as the ‘quarter-Jew’ classified Felicitas Kukuck the childhood impressions and war have experience in a strictly pacifistic attitude down. At the age of over 70 years, she joined the peace movement and began in 1995 with their cantata And there was Hiroshima, which premiered in the framework of the world peace week in the ruins of the St. Nikolai Church in Hamburg, a clear sign against the war. Even in their songs for mixed choir … and not a soldier anymore. Ten songs against the war (1996), in the settings of poems by Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan, and Selma meerbaum-Eisinger, or in the songs of peace, justice, the environment for four-part mixed choir (1996/97) made the music in the service of their political stance. This happened not only through the selection of texts, but also by applying what you Paul Hindemith had learned.
They developed and implemented exactly what makes for Hanns-Werner Heister, a piece of music
The 1924 in Breslau, born Leni Alexander, daughter of businessman Max Alexander and the Opera singer Ilse Marie, geb. Pollak, had to flee in 1939, with her Jewish family to Chile, where she continued her in Hamburg started music studies continued, and then as a respected composer and composition teacher in Santiago lived. In 1973, she remained due to the Chilean military coup in Europe, where they lived since the mid-1950s, more frequently, and in 1969, a Guggenheim fellowship in Paris had received. As politically Left, she couldn’t tolerate the oppressive military regime for more than a decade out of your (second) home sales, as well as their three children. On the anniversary of the coup on 11. In September 1974, it began with the orchestral composition Ils se sont perdus dans l’espace étoilé (UA 1976 ) in Chilean prison murdered singer and songwriter Victor Jara, in the last poem, the composition is based, a monument. With Chacabuco, the story of a Ghost town, denounced the involvement of the Europeans due to their economic interests with the Chilean Regime. With radio plays that originated in the 1980s on behalf of the WDR, kept them awake the memory of the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship, and drew attention to the fact that the perpetrators were to be found in Chile still.
Leni Alexander’s compositions are attributable to any style of composition clearly. Rigid systems and tonality contradicted her biography and belief, he says Hans W. Koch, and returns, for example, the freer way of writing and the use of aleatoric structures, which allows the active participation of the performers, to the political beliefs of the composer.
In 1953, in Buenos Aires-born Silvia Alvarez de la Fuente could already during her studies in Buenos Aires of his own works performed. In 1977, she received twice the prestigious composition prize Floro and was a member of the Argentine society of composers, before she left in 1984 to it by military coups and dictatorships twisted the home country, with a scholarship to study in Germany at the Stuttgart College of music to continue. From 1986 to 1988, she joined the International working group on women and music e. V. A long-term cooperation was not possible, however, because of the growing health and financial Worries as well as the political Situation in Argentina could be in exile, always harder to bear. Her more introverted nature, she developed neither in their Actions, nor in their compositions militant resistance. Your personal retreat and the self-chosen death in 2004, however, are not less the expression of a political position. This corresponds to the strict reduction of compositional means, in Alvarez de la Fuente’s late works, with which you are working chamber music fine created, often by Dietburg Spohr and the vocal ensemble belcanto were listed.
In 1962, in Lviv (Urkaine) in a Polish-Ukrainian family of musicians-born singer and composer Jacek Markiewicz died with only 43 years with cancer and, after time-life between many cultures and two countries – Ukraine and Poland – commuting was. She studied in Warsaw and Gdansk (Poland), but also in Lviv, and has several times changed its name to, among other things, because of her Ukrainian birth name Biłogubka was written in Poland is often wrong. What other experiences you made during your crossing the line, whether they are excluded rather or by different cultures in their creative work and enriched felt inspired, has yet to be explored.
As a trained mezzo-soprano enthusiasts Weronika Markiewicz your audience with the presentation of Opera arias and multilingual folk song edits. Since early Childhood, she wrote and composed their own lyrics. It was, however, also of English poems to inspire, or on the basis of, for example, your Musicals for children English texts, the you set to music with Jazz elements. She has worked on Polish or French folk songs, Russian fairy tales and Jewish and Hebrew songs they performed in their vocal concerts and as an encore. According to the statement of her mother, the musicologist Zofia Leżańska, she confronted late with their Jewish origins.
That your estate is located in Germany, in Frankfurt archive wife and music, goes back to an Initiative of Zofia Leżańskas and allows us to discover the work of this fascinating composer.
Date: 02. August 2021