Daniel Hensel
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Daniel Hensel is a German composer
and musicologist.
at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium. From 1999 he studied composition with Heinz Winbeck
in Würzburg, from 2003 with Manfred Trojahn
in Düsseldorf. He graduated there with distinction in 2004. In 2004 he did post graduated studies with Michael Obst
at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar. From 2005 until 2008 he studied composition in Heinz Winbeck's masterclass. In 2009 Hensel began to study musicology with Peter Ackermann, the dissertation on music of Gerhard Schedl
. Hensel passed the doctorate with "magna cum laude" on 13 July 2011.
Hensel's music was played by artists such as Carin Levine and Markus Bellheim, the Ensemble Modern
, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart and conductors such as Manfred Honeck
.
In 2007 his piece "Refexions for orchestra" was the official German musical-contribution of the handover of the EU-council presidency from Germany to Portugal. The piece was played by the young sound forum of central Europe and was conducted by Sebastian Weigle. In 2008 Manfred Honeck
conducted Hensels "Chant of consecrated life" op. 18 as an "ouverture" to the 2. Symphony of Gustav Mahler
. In the program of the concert, the Austrian musicologist Dr. Christian Heindl said:
"[...]It might not be mistaken, to see Hensel, who is a regular member of the German and the Austrian composers association as well, in a thread of a tradition leading from Schubert via Mahler to Hensel´s teacher Schedl in presence.[...]“
In 2009 Hensel´s arrangements of the 45th Symphony by Joseph Haydn
and the 8th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
were played by the Young Euro Classic-China-Festivalorchestra and conducted by Muhai Tang
in various Chinese cities like Shangai and Tianjin
. His string sixtet "Klaerchen´s Song" op.20 had it´s W.P. by the Ensemble Modern
under Jonathan Stockhammer and was played again by the Austrian ensemble lux in the Arnold Schönberg Center
Vienna in December 2010.
With this piece began the cooperation with the Austrian music-publishing company Musikverlag Doblinger. The musicologist Hensel started the cooperation with the publishing-company ibidem-Verlag in 2011:
In April 2011 Hensel published a book concerning music and life of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
which was very friendly criticized by Thomas Daniel Schlee
and Zsolt Gárdonyi
. In September 2011 he published a book concerning the music of Gerhard Schedl
.
Hensel is a member of the German composers association, the Austrian composers association, the Austrian society of contemporary music and the GEMA
.
Europe, the blue star.
2222\433\Timp\Hrp\ Strings 10\8\6\4\2
Junges Klangforum Mitte Europa, Sebastian Weigle
Op.17 Concerto for piano and orchestra 2222\2\2\2\1\Timp\2Perc.\Hf\Cel\ Strings 10\8\6\4\2 WP.:06.10.08 08:00 p.m., Hochschule fuer Musik Wuerzburg
Op.18 "Chant of consecrated life", for big orchestra, on behalf of the state opera Stuttgart, dedicated to Prof. Heinz Winbeck, WP.: 12.07.08, Stuttgart,
Liederhalle, state orchestra of Stuttgart, Manfred Honeck
, Conductor
Op.19 "The Young Maidservant" after poems by Georg Trakl, for Flute, Clarinet and Stringquartet WP.:02.07.10 Francfort and 02.09.10 Darmstadt, Germany, by ensemble Darmstadt, Marko Zdralek
Op.20 Stringsextet "Klärchen´s Song", dedicated to Mr. Dr. Dieter Rexroth, W.P. 11.07.09, Alte Brüderkirche Kassel, by Ensemble Modern and Jonathan Stockhammer
available at Musikverlag Doblinger, Vienna
Op.21 "Echoes and chants from the interior", dedicated to Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne
Op.22 „Fleur du mal“, a dramatic aria for Tenor and big orchestra, dedicated to maestro Manfred Honeck
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and musicologist.
Life and work
Hensel began his studies of composition in 1995 as a student of the Austrian composer Gerhard SchedlGerhard Schedl
Gerhard Schedl was an Austrian composer.-Professional career:Gerhard Schedl was born in Vienna and began composing during his childhood. In 1976 he began his professional studies with Erich Urbanner at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He graduated with distinction in 1980. He...
at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium. From 1999 he studied composition with Heinz Winbeck
Heinz Winbeck
Heinz Winbeck is a German composer and an academic teacher. He is known for five large scale symphonies.-Professional career:...
in Würzburg, from 2003 with Manfred Trojahn
Manfred Trojahn
-Professional career:Manfred Trojahn was born in Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of the city of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with...
in Düsseldorf. He graduated there with distinction in 2004. In 2004 he did post graduated studies with Michael Obst
Michael Obst (composer)
Michael Obst is a German composer and pianist.-Life:At first Obst studied music education from 1973 to 1978 in Mainz, and from 1977 to 1982 studied piano with Alfons Kontarsky and Aloys Kontarsky at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, where he sat his piano examination in 1982...
at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar. From 2005 until 2008 he studied composition in Heinz Winbeck's masterclass. In 2009 Hensel began to study musicology with Peter Ackermann, the dissertation on music of Gerhard Schedl
Gerhard Schedl
Gerhard Schedl was an Austrian composer.-Professional career:Gerhard Schedl was born in Vienna and began composing during his childhood. In 1976 he began his professional studies with Erich Urbanner at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He graduated with distinction in 1980. He...
. Hensel passed the doctorate with "magna cum laude" on 13 July 2011.
Hensel's music was played by artists such as Carin Levine and Markus Bellheim, the Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Modern is a chamber ensemble dedicated to the music of modern composers. Formed in 1980, the group is based in Frankfurt, Germany and made up variously of about twenty members from numerous countries....
, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart and conductors such as Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck is an Austrian conductor, the son of Otto and Frieda Honeck, from a family of nine children. One of his brothers is the Vienna Philharmonic leader Rainer Honeck....
.
In 2007 his piece "Refexions for orchestra" was the official German musical-contribution of the handover of the EU-council presidency from Germany to Portugal. The piece was played by the young sound forum of central Europe and was conducted by Sebastian Weigle. In 2008 Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck is an Austrian conductor, the son of Otto and Frieda Honeck, from a family of nine children. One of his brothers is the Vienna Philharmonic leader Rainer Honeck....
conducted Hensels "Chant of consecrated life" op. 18 as an "ouverture" to the 2. Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
. In the program of the concert, the Austrian musicologist Dr. Christian Heindl said:
"[...]It might not be mistaken, to see Hensel, who is a regular member of the German and the Austrian composers association as well, in a thread of a tradition leading from Schubert via Mahler to Hensel´s teacher Schedl in presence.[...]“
In 2009 Hensel´s arrangements of the 45th Symphony by Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
and the 8th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
were played by the Young Euro Classic-China-Festivalorchestra and conducted by Muhai Tang
Muhai Tang
Muhai Tang is a Chinese conductor. He is the youngest son of celebrated Chinese film director Tang Xiaodan and brother of painter and poet Tang Muli....
in various Chinese cities like Shangai and Tianjin
Tianjin
' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...
. His string sixtet "Klaerchen´s Song" op.20 had it´s W.P. by the Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Modern is a chamber ensemble dedicated to the music of modern composers. Formed in 1980, the group is based in Frankfurt, Germany and made up variously of about twenty members from numerous countries....
under Jonathan Stockhammer and was played again by the Austrian ensemble lux in the Arnold Schönberg Center
Arnold Schönberg Center
The Arnold Schönberg Center, established in 1998 in Vienna, is a unique repository of Arnold Schönberg's archival legacy and a cultural center that is open to the public.-Activities:...
Vienna in December 2010.
With this piece began the cooperation with the Austrian music-publishing company Musikverlag Doblinger. The musicologist Hensel started the cooperation with the publishing-company ibidem-Verlag in 2011:
In April 2011 Hensel published a book concerning music and life of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer...
which was very friendly criticized by Thomas Daniel Schlee
Thomas Daniel Schlee
Thomas Daniel Schlee is an Austrian composer, arts administrator, and organist.-Life and work:Thomas Daniel Schlee was born in Vienna and studied at the Vienna Musikhochschule with Michael Radulescu and Erich Romanovsky. He then earned a PhD in musicology and art history at Vienna University...
and Zsolt Gárdonyi
Zsolt Gárdonyi
Zsolt Gárdonyi is a German-Hungarian composer, organist and music theorist. He is the son of Zoltán Gárdonyi.-Professional career:...
. In September 2011 he published a book concerning the music of Gerhard Schedl
Gerhard Schedl
Gerhard Schedl was an Austrian composer.-Professional career:Gerhard Schedl was born in Vienna and began composing during his childhood. In 1976 he began his professional studies with Erich Urbanner at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He graduated with distinction in 1980. He...
.
Hensel is a member of the German composers association, the Austrian composers association, the Austrian society of contemporary music and the GEMA
GEMA
GEMA may be:* Georgia Emergency Management Agency* * gema, a General Purpose Macro Processor* Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte, or GEMA, a performance rights organisation in Germany...
.
Works
Op.16 Reflexions for orchestra composed for the Festival:Europe, the blue star.
2222\433\Timp\Hrp\ Strings 10\8\6\4\2
Junges Klangforum Mitte Europa, Sebastian Weigle
Op.17 Concerto for piano and orchestra 2222\2\2\2\1\Timp\2Perc.\Hf\Cel\ Strings 10\8\6\4\2 WP.:06.10.08 08:00 p.m., Hochschule fuer Musik Wuerzburg
Op.18 "Chant of consecrated life", for big orchestra, on behalf of the state opera Stuttgart, dedicated to Prof. Heinz Winbeck, WP.: 12.07.08, Stuttgart,
Liederhalle, state orchestra of Stuttgart, Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck is an Austrian conductor, the son of Otto and Frieda Honeck, from a family of nine children. One of his brothers is the Vienna Philharmonic leader Rainer Honeck....
, Conductor
Op.19 "The Young Maidservant" after poems by Georg Trakl, for Flute, Clarinet and Stringquartet WP.:02.07.10 Francfort and 02.09.10 Darmstadt, Germany, by ensemble Darmstadt, Marko Zdralek
Op.20 Stringsextet "Klärchen´s Song", dedicated to Mr. Dr. Dieter Rexroth, W.P. 11.07.09, Alte Brüderkirche Kassel, by Ensemble Modern and Jonathan Stockhammer
available at Musikverlag Doblinger, Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Op.21 "Echoes and chants from the interior", dedicated to Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne
Op.22 „Fleur du mal“, a dramatic aria for Tenor and big orchestra, dedicated to maestro Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck is an Austrian conductor, the son of Otto and Frieda Honeck, from a family of nine children. One of his brothers is the Vienna Philharmonic leader Rainer Honeck....
Publications
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Epigone oder Originalgenie, verquere Erscheinung oder großer Komponist?, Stuttgart: ibidem 2011, ISBN 978-3-8382-0178-8
- Von der Einheit in der Vielfalt oder der Lust am Subjektiven: Die Musik Gerhard Schedls, dargestellt an seiner Instrumentalmusik, Stuttgart: ibidem 2011, ISBN 978-3-8382-0278-5
External links
- Daniel Hensel website
- Hensel Musikverlag Doblinger
- Daniel Hensel young sound forum of central europe
- Hensel, Daniel German composers association
- Daniel Hensel music information center austria
- Daniel Hensel Klassika
- Hensel, Daniel / Wilhelm Friedemann Bach / Epigone oder Originalgenie, verquere Erscheinung oder großer Komponist? ibidem publishing company
- Hensel, Daniel / Die Musik Gerhard Schedls, von der Einheit in der Vielfalt und der Lust am Subjektiven. musicology online by School of Music, Indiana UniversityIndiana UniversityIndiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...