Hans-Jürgen von Bose
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Hans-Jürgen von Bose is a German Composer
.
in Frankfurt
in 1969, where he received instruction in piano
and music theory
. Upon graduating from the conservatory, he studied composition (under Hans Ulrich Engelmann
), piano ( under Klaus Billing), and conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts
. After attending the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1974 and the premiere of his First String Quartet, he was awarded several scholarships, among others from the Mozart Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation. In 1976, Bose dropped out of school in Frankfurt and settled in Munich as a freelance artist. The following works like Morphogenesis (1976), Das Diplom (1976), Die Nacht aus Blei (1981), 63: Dream Palace (1990), among others, he received numerous grants and awards:
He received commissions from renowned orchestras and opera houses including Idyllen (1982/83) for the Berlin Philharmonic.
In the 1980s, Bose became a member of the jury of the "Summer Music Festival Hitzacker
" as well as a lecturer at the "Young Composers' Meeting" in Weikersheim
. After a visiting professorship for composition at the Salzburg Mozarteum he succeeded Wilhelm Killmayer
as professor of composition at the University of Music and Theater in Munich
in 1992 (until 2007).
As a teacher, he has decisively influenced the work of, among others, Moritz Eggert
, Hans Huyssen, Lutz Landwehr of Pragenau, Volker Nickel, Klaus Schedl
, Alexander Strauch, Carl Christian Bettendorf, Mark Moebius, Andreas Daams, Michael Bastian Weiss, and Anno Schreier.
Hans-Jürgen von Bose retired in 2007 and currently lives and works Berlin.
and Detlev Müller-Siemens), with the term Strukturalität, meaning the time and the complex treatment could not cover compositions. Under the slogan "New Subjectivity" which began in the '70s, the consensus against serial constructive thinking was a significant impetus for a new material term derived from an objective understanding of the turning material.
The label "New Simplicity" was misapplied to Bose’s works starting with the String Trio of 1978, though it does point to the presence of an important, though intimate and concealed semantic dimension in his works which can be directly experienced. Beginning in 1989 with the opera 63: Dream Palace, Bose has has enriched the process of temporal layering and serial organization characteristic of his music, in a spirit of reflective postmodernism, by borrowing stylistic elements from the past and present.
He wrote the libretto for 63: Dream Palace) himself after the novella by James Purdy
. It was premiered at the second Munich Biennale
in 1990. The heterogeneity of post-modernism is processed through the different reflected styles. A highlight of this period is the opera Slaughterhouse V (1996), whose libretto is based on the novel Slaughterhouse 5, or the children's crusade, by Kurt Vonnegut
.
The bridge-building between modernism and post-modernism appears as a significant moment of Bose's work.
) make this its influence significantly, as the "personal style" of Bose as a "hopefully soon to be overcome relic of the 19th Century" Similarly, the historical allusion in Slaughterhouse 5 is not collage, but amalgamated and superimposed. The historical boundaries of the material will not be respected and taken into account. Referring to the term Rhizom
, coined by the philosophers Deleuze and Guattari, Bose defines in Slaughterhouse 5 the artistic roots as often ramified and heterogeneously structured.
Significant for Bose's creativity in general, and Slaughterhouse 5 in particular, is the treatment of temporal complexity. The linear understanding of time is replaced by simultaneity, zeitspastischen analogous to the understanding of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Bose also permits the findings from the chaos theory, neurobiology and astrophysics
polymorphic in his understanding of time are introduced, through the music out into the structuring of the libretto were implemented. Sergei Eisenstein established form of the film will be cut here – even composition – used so that different levels of "fast and hard against geschnitten" can be used in compositional layering and continued interweaving. The composer speaks in this context of a "time - Palimpsest".
The opera was created as a work commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera
and opened in 1996 the Munich Opera Festival
(directed by Eike Gramss :de:Eike Gramss).
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...
.
Life
After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch ConservatoryHoch Conservatory
Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium - Musikakademie was founded in Frankfurt am Main on September 22, 1878. Through the generosity of Frankfurter Joseph Hoch, who bequeathed the Conservatory one million German gold marks in his testament, a school for music and the arts was established for all age groups. ...
in Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
in 1969, where he received instruction in piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
and music theory
Music theory
Music theory is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods...
. Upon graduating from the conservatory, he studied composition (under Hans Ulrich Engelmann
Hans Ulrich Engelmann
Hans Ulrich Engelmann was a German composer.-Biography:Engelmann studied composition with Hermann Heiss and Wolfgang Fortner...
), piano ( under Klaus Billing), and conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts
Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts
The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts is a state Hochschule for Music, Theater and Dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its kind in the Federal State of Hesse. It was founded in 1938....
. After attending the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1974 and the premiere of his First String Quartet, he was awarded several scholarships, among others from the Mozart Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation. In 1976, Bose dropped out of school in Frankfurt and settled in Munich as a freelance artist. The following works like Morphogenesis (1976), Das Diplom (1976), Die Nacht aus Blei (1981), 63: Dream Palace (1990), among others, he received numerous grants and awards:
- German Academy Rome Villa MassimoVilla MassimoVilla Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo , is a German art institute in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo....
(1980/1985) - German Critics Prize (1981)
- Schneider-Schott Music Prize, Mainz (1988)
- Ernst von Siemens Music PrizeErnst von Siemens Music PrizeThe international Ernst von Siemens Music Prize is an annual music prize given by the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste on behalf of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung , established in 1972. The foundation was established by Ernst von Siemens...
(1994) - Price of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation for the recognition of Bose's educational merits (1998)
He received commissions from renowned orchestras and opera houses including Idyllen (1982/83) for the Berlin Philharmonic.
In the 1980s, Bose became a member of the jury of the "Summer Music Festival Hitzacker
Hitzacker
Hitzacker is a town in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Elbe, approx. 8 km north of Dannenberg, and 45 km east of Lüneburg. The 2007 population of Hitzacker was 4,982, and its postal code is 29456. The mayor is Karl Guhl...
" as well as a lecturer at the "Young Composers' Meeting" in Weikersheim
Weikersheim
Weikersheim is a town in the Main-Tauber district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 9 km east of Bad Mergentheim, Weikersheim is the location of the famous castle Schloss Weikersheim....
. After a visiting professorship for composition at the Salzburg Mozarteum he succeeded Wilhelm Killmayer
Wilhelm Killmayer
Wilhelm Killmayer is a German composer of classical music and an academic.-Professional career:Wilhelm Killmayer studied conducting and composition from 1945 to 1951 in Munich at Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen’s Musikseminar...
as professor of composition at the University of Music and Theater in Munich
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
The Hochschule für Musik und Theater München is one of the most respected traditional vocational universities in Germany specialising in music and the performing arts. The seat of the Hochschule is the former Führerbau of the NSDAP, located at Arcisstraße 12, on the eastern side of the Königsplatz...
in 1992 (until 2007).
As a teacher, he has decisively influenced the work of, among others, Moritz Eggert
Moritz Eggert
Moritz Eggert is a German composer and pianist.- Life :Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt , at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München...
, Hans Huyssen, Lutz Landwehr of Pragenau, Volker Nickel, Klaus Schedl
Klaus Schedl
Klaus Schedl is a German composer.Klaus Schedl studied from 1991 to 1996 composition with Hans-Jürgen von Bose at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. In 1993 he founded the piano possibile ensemble for contemporary music. From 1998 he taught at the...
, Alexander Strauch, Carl Christian Bettendorf, Mark Moebius, Andreas Daams, Michael Bastian Weiss, and Anno Schreier.
Hans-Jürgen von Bose retired in 2007 and currently lives and works Berlin.
Work
Hans-Jürgen von Bose's music is characterized in the early works by the juxtaposition, and interlocking of structural, and public sound elements. Overcoming the serial composition, and advocating a subjective semantics, since the Darmstadt Summer Courses 1978, as the "New Simplicity" (this was also true for other composers such as Wolfgang RihmWolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm is a German composer.Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival...
and Detlev Müller-Siemens), with the term Strukturalität, meaning the time and the complex treatment could not cover compositions. Under the slogan "New Subjectivity" which began in the '70s, the consensus against serial constructive thinking was a significant impetus for a new material term derived from an objective understanding of the turning material.
The label "New Simplicity" was misapplied to Bose’s works starting with the String Trio of 1978, though it does point to the presence of an important, though intimate and concealed semantic dimension in his works which can be directly experienced. Beginning in 1989 with the opera 63: Dream Palace, Bose has has enriched the process of temporal layering and serial organization characteristic of his music, in a spirit of reflective postmodernism, by borrowing stylistic elements from the past and present.
He wrote the libretto for 63: Dream Palace) himself after the novella by James Purdy
James Purdy
James Otis Purdy was a controversial American novelist, short story-writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages. He has been praised by...
. It was premiered at the second Munich Biennale
Munich Biennale
The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...
in 1990. The heterogeneity of post-modernism is processed through the different reflected styles. A highlight of this period is the opera Slaughterhouse V (1996), whose libretto is based on the novel Slaughterhouse 5, or the children's crusade, by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early...
.
The bridge-building between modernism and post-modernism appears as a significant moment of Bose's work.
Slaughterhouse Five
Bose used here the technique of copying style, in the sense of an expansion of their own musical language, but not in a gesture of artistic task specificity. This shows a reinterpretation of the post-modern discourse. If the general attitude of post-modernism, as the majority understood, the impossibility of new artistic ideas to create, so in a time telling stories, the only option would be to process historical material, and present Slaughterhouse 5 those processed as a new (positive) attitude of artistic.Post-structuralism
The French philosophy and its theory of "Death of the Author" (Roland BarthesRoland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...
) make this its influence significantly, as the "personal style" of Bose as a "hopefully soon to be overcome relic of the 19th Century" Similarly, the historical allusion in Slaughterhouse 5 is not collage, but amalgamated and superimposed. The historical boundaries of the material will not be respected and taken into account. Referring to the term Rhizom
Rhizome (philosophy)
Rhizome is a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia project...
, coined by the philosophers Deleuze and Guattari, Bose defines in Slaughterhouse 5 the artistic roots as often ramified and heterogeneously structured.
Significant for Bose's creativity in general, and Slaughterhouse 5 in particular, is the treatment of temporal complexity. The linear understanding of time is replaced by simultaneity, zeitspastischen analogous to the understanding of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Bose also permits the findings from the chaos theory, neurobiology and astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior...
polymorphic in his understanding of time are introduced, through the music out into the structuring of the libretto were implemented. Sergei Eisenstein established form of the film will be cut here – even composition – used so that different levels of "fast and hard against geschnitten" can be used in compositional layering and continued interweaving. The composer speaks in this context of a "time - Palimpsest".
The opera was created as a work commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera
Bavarian State Opera
The Bavarian State Opera is an opera company based in Munich, Germany.Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra.- History:The opera company which was founded under Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy has been in existence since 1653...
and opened in 1996 the Munich Opera Festival
Munich Opera Festival
The Munich Opera Festival, , is an opera festival located in Munich, Germany and presented annually at the National Theatre by the Bavarian State Opera...
(directed by Eike Gramss :de:Eike Gramss).
Vocal music
- Three Songs for tenor and chamber orchestra (1977)
- Symphonic fragment(Hölderlin) (1979/80)
- Guarda el canto(Miguel Angel Bustos) - Four fragments in three movements for soprano and string quartet. (1981)
- Sapphosongs for mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra. (1983)
- Sonnet XLIIfor baritone and Streichquartett (Shakespeare, 1985)
- Five nursery rhymes - from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" for alto and five instruments. (1985)
- ... Spoken in the wind- Spiritual music for solo soprano, two spokesmen. (1985)
- Omega- Five Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca for mezzo soprano and piano. (1986)
- Todesfuge - Mixed Choir with baritone solo and organ. (1989)
- Love After Love - (D. Walcott) for soprano and orchestra. (1990/91)
- The trip to the mountains - Franz Kafka, for counter-tenor and piano. (2005)
- Kafka cycle for countertenor and cello, Aribert Reimann dedicated to 70.Geburtstag. (2006)
- Lamentoand Dithyrambus (I. Bachmann) for counter tenor, keyboard, piano and tubular bells, Hans-Werner Henze to 80.Geburtstag dedicated. (2006)
- Bernhardcycle- Three songs to poems by Thomas Bernhard, for soprano and piano. (2006)
- Invocation "cycle for countertenor and organ. (2008)
Stage works
- Blood (Ramon del Valle-Inclan) - Opera 1 act (Comp. 1974)
- The Night of lead - kinetic action in six pictures of Hans Henny Jahnn. (Comp. 1981)
- Chimera - music scene by Federico Garcia Lorca. (1986)
- The Sorrows of Young Werther - Lyric scenes in two parts and an interlude. (Comp. 1987/88)
- Werther scenes - Ballet in two parts and an interlude. (Comp. 1988)
- 63: Dream Palace - an opera based on novel by James Purdy. (Comp. 1989)
- MedeaMedeaMedea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of...
fragment - music by Hans Henny JahnnHans Henny JahnnHans Henny Jahnn was a German playwright, novelist, and organ-builder.As a playwright, he wrote: Pastor Ephraim Magnus , which The Cambridge Guide to Theatre describes as a nihilistic, Expressionist play "stuffed with perversities and sado-masochistic motifs"; Coronation of Richard III ;...
. (Comp. 1993) - Slaughterhouse V - opera, libretto by the composer after Kurt Vonnegut. (Comp. 1995)
- K-project 12/14 - musical theater after Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". (2002)
Instrumental music
- Morphogenisis for large orchestra. (1975)
- Travesty in a Sad Landscape - Variations for chamber orchestra. (1978)
- Music for a house full time for large chamber orchestra. (1978)
- Idylls - to 100-year anniversary of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. (1982/83)
- Symbolumfor organ and orchestra. (1985)
- 1 mazefor large orchestra. (1987)
- Concertino per il HWH for chamber orchestra. (1991)
- Maze for Piano II. (1992)
Chamber music
- String Quartet No. 1 (1973)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1976–1977)
- String Trio (1978)
- ... vom Wege abkommen for viola solo (1981–1982)
- Three Epitaphs for brass sextet (1987)
- Music for Cello Solo (2002)
- Music for K for violin, cello and piano (2002)
- String Trio (2006), commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera to 80. Geburtstag by Hans-Werner Henze
Piano music
- 3 small piano pieces. (1982)
- Labyrinth II (1987)
- Origami, 2 episodes for piano, 4-hands. (1991)
Publications
- Search for a new ideal of beauty. In: E. Thomas, holiday courses `78. (= Darmstadt contributions to New Music 17)
- "Mit der Zeit springt gegen die Langeweile. Schlachthaus 5: Ein Plädoyer für die moderne Oper". In "Theater ist ein Traumort": Opern des 20. Jahrhunderts von Janácek bis Widmann, edited by Hanspeter Krellmann and Jürgen Schläder, 350–54. Berlin: Henschel, 2005. ISBN 3894875054.
Further reading
- Hauser, Florian. 2005. " Hans-Jürgen von Bose—Augenblicke, oder, Zeit ist relativ: Einige Gedanken über Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim". In "Theater ist ein Traumort": Opern des 20. Jahrhunderts von Janácek bis Widmann, edited by Hanspeter Krellmann and Jürgen Schläder, 355–58. Berlin: Henschel. ISBN 3894875054.
- Mauser, Siegfried. 2001. "Bose, Hans-Jürgen von". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley SadieStanley SadieStanley Sadie CBE was a leading British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , which was published as the first edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.Sadie was educated at St Paul's School,...
and John TyrrellJohn Tyrrell (professor of music)John Tyrrell was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in 1942. He studied at the universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Brno. In 2000 he was appointed Research Professor at Cardiff University....
. London: Macmillan Publishers. - Mauser, Siegfried. 2002. "Hans-Jürgen von Bose". Komponisten der Gegenwart: Loseblatt-Lexikon—Nachlieferung. XXIV, edited by Hanns-Werner Heister and Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer. Munich: Edition text+kritik. ISBN 3-88377-414-6.
- Reimann, Aribert. 1979. "Junge Avantgarde. Sieben junge Komponisten geben Auskunft uber ihren Standort". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 140, no. 1:5–24.
- Reimann, Aribert. 1988. "Zum Beispiel von Bose". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 149, nos. 7–8:32–39.
- Schibli, Sigfrid. 1988. "'...die sinnliche Qualität von Musik hinüberretten': Der Komponist Hans-Jürgen von Bose und seine neuesten Werke". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 149, nos. 7–8:30–39.
External links
- homepage of the composer
- MIZ-entry
- brief biography (Schott)
- Short Biography (Ricordi)
- brief biography (copy-us) works and how to download
- discussion with Hans-Jürgen von Bose and Siegfried Mauser (among others) in the Bavarian Broadcasting
- "New Subjectivity" in the 70s: from Bose, Trojahn, Rihm
- description of the Kafka Project 12/14