Alexander Mullenbach is a Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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 pianist, composer and conductor. Since 2002, he has been director of the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Career

Born in Luxembourg City

Luxembourg (city)

The city of Luxembourg , also known as Luxembourg City , is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg...

 on 23 January 1949, Mullenbach studied piano, chamber music and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris is a college of music and dance founded in 1795, now situated in the avenue Jean Jaurès in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France...

 and at the Salzburg Mozarteum where his teachers included Gerhard Wimberger

Gerhard Wimberger

Gerhard Wimberger is an Austrian composer and conductor.-Career:Wimberger studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg...

 and Cesar Bresgen

Cesar Bresgen

Cesar Bresgen was an Austrian composer.-Biography:He was born in Florence to Maria and August Bresgen, both artists. He spent his childhood in Zell am See, Munich, Prague, and Salzburg....

. From 1970, he taught piano at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg

Conservatoire de Luxembourg

The Conservatoire de Luxembourg is a conservatoire in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The conservatoire was founded in 1906, after a private donation made possible its establishment, which had been mandated under a Grand Ducal decree issued in 1904...

 and, from 1981, composition. Since then, he has also taught at the Mozarteum. Since 1978, he has composed over 60 works, of which six for symphony orchestra. They have been performed at major music festivals in Salzburg

Salzburg

-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

, Echternach

Echternach Music Festival

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, Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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 and Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

. Performers have included Heinrich Schiff

Heinrich Schiff

Heinrich Schiff is an Austrian cellist and conductor. He studied cello with Tobias Kühne and André Navarra and made his solo debut in Vienna and London in 1971...

, Roberto Szidon

Roberto Szidon

Roberto Szidon is a Brazilian classical pianist who has had an international performing and recording career, and has settled in Germany.He gave his first concert at age 9, in his home town of Porto Alegre...

, Irena Grafenauer

Irena Grafenauer

Irena Grafenauer, , is a Slovenian flute player and soloist, a pupil of Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet....

, Elliot Fisk and the ensembles Musica Viva of Dresden and Alter Ego of Rome. Conductors who have directed his symphonic works include Ernest Bour

Ernest Bour

Ernest Bour was a French conductor. Born in Thionville, Moselle, Bour studied at both the University and the Conservatoire of Strasbourg...

, Leopold Hager

Leopold Hager

Leopold Hager is an Austrian conductor , known for his interpretations of works from the First Viennese School ....

, Hans Graf

Hans Graf

Hans Graf is an Austrian conductor.As a child, Graf learned the violin and the piano. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Graz, Austria, and graduated with diplomas in piano and conducting. He also participated in conducting master classes with Franco Ferrara, Sergiu Celibidache and Arvīds Jansons...

 and Udo Zimmermann

Udo Zimmermann

Udo Zimmermann was born in Dresden on October 6, 1943. He is a German composer, music director, and conductor.- Biography :Zimmermann was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1954 to 1962. He then continued his music education at the Dresden Music School. He studied composition with Johannes...

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Memberships and affiliations

• 1997: member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea in Salzburg and of the Grand Ducal Institute
  Grand Ducal Institute
  Grand Ducal Institute is the national academy of Luxembourg, and is based in Luxembourg City in the south of the country.The Institute incorporates six subsections, each dedicated to a separate field of academic research:...
  
   in Luxembourg.
• 1999: officer of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
• 2000: president of the Conseil Supérieur de la Musique in Luxembourg
• 2002: director of the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg.
• 2007: artistic director of the Internationales Festival Echternach, Luxembourg

Compositions

Among his most successful compositions are:

• 1974: Paysage hivernal
• 1976: Symboles
• 1981: Correspondances
• 1982: Rituel
• 1982: Progressions
• 1985: Erste Symphonie
• 1987: Dream Music II
• 1989: White Symphony
• 1991: Under the Rainbow
• 1993: Flugsand für grosses Orchester
• 2003: Die Todesbrücke (opera)

External links

• Ryan Joseph Behan, "The Solo Piano Works of Alexander Müllenbach: an Introduction and Approach to Performance" (2009)