Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

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Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (born 22 October 1962) is a German composer, editor and author.

Career

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf was born in

Freiburg where he graduated in 1992. At the same time, he studied musicology, philosophy with Jürgen Habermas and sociology at university. Later he was influenced by Habermas's antagonist Peter Sloterdijk and appropriated the idea of a philosophical explanation of the female orgasm (which lacks biological necessity in terms of procreative function)[1] from an email novel Sloterdijk had published three years earlier.[2]

In 1993 Mahnkopf was awarded a doctorate in philosophy for his dissertation on

Salzburger Festspiele or at the Flanders Festival. Among musicians who regularly perform his works are oboist Peter Veale, Sophie-Mayuko Vetter, Carin Levine, James Avery
and Frank Cox.

In 1995 Mahnkopf was one of the founders of the Gesellschaft für Musik und Ästhetik (society for music and aesthetics) at Freiburg and he is also one of the editors of the society's magazine.[3] Mahnkopf has worked as music theory teacher and as consultant for opera houses and he has published many essays in musicological magazines.

Private life

In 1999, Mahnkopf married professor doctor Francesca Yardenit Albertini (1974–2011), a Jewish philosopher of religion.[citation needed]

Major works

Stage works

  • Angelus novus (1997/2000). Musical theatre after Walter Benjamin, soloists: Soprano, Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, Violoncello, Piano, Percussion (variable), written for the Munich Biennale

Orchestra

  • Prospero’s Epilogue (2004) for piano and orchestra, written for
    Salzburger Festspiele
  • humanized void (2003–2007) for large orchestra, written for Bayerischer Rundfunk

Chamber orchestra

  • Chorismos (1986/1987)
  • Medusa (1990–1992) for oboe/English horn and chamber orchestra
  • Meta Medeian (1994), serenade for strings
  • Kammersymphonie 1,2, & 3 (1993/94, 1997/99 & 2007)

Ensemble works

  • »il faut continuer« Requiem for Samuel Beckett (1990–92) for chamber ensemble
  • Solitude-Sérénade (1997) for piccolo oboe and ensemble
  • Angela Nova (1999/2000) for soprano and ensemble
  • Todesmusik [Music of Death] I & II (2001) for ensemble

Chamber music

  • Krebs-Zyklus [Cancer Cycle] (1985) for violoncello and piano
  • Die Schlangen der Medusa [Medusa's Snakes] (1991) for 4 clarinets
  • Illuminations du brouillard (1992/1993) for oboe and piano, written for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Arts
  • Mon coeur mis à nu (1986/1996/1997) for four voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass), written for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Arts
  • Trio basso for viola, cello and double bass (1995)
  • resquiescant in pace (2000) in memoriam victimarum Christianitatis, for four players (violin, viola, violoncello and percussion), written for ensemble recherche
  • Hommage à Frank Cox (2006) for three players (electric guitar, quarter-tone vibraphone and piano), written for ensemble asamisimasa

Solo works

  • Monade (1985/1986) for oboe
  • memor sum (1989) for viola
  • Stheno und Euryale (1992) for harp or for harp with a second, scordated harp
  • La terreur d’ange nouveau (1997–99) for flute
  • deconstructing accordion (2000/2001) for accordion, written for Südwestrundfunk
  • Beethoven-Kommentar (2004) for piano

With electronic media

  • D.E.A.T.H (2001/2002) for eight-track tape
  • W.A.S.T.E (2001/2002) for oboe and live electronics
  • void – mal d’archive (2002/2003) space and sound composition, for eight-track tape

References

  1. ^ Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Philosophie des Orgasmus. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2019
  2. ^ Peter Sloterdijk, Das Schelling-Projekt. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016
  3. ^ Musik und Ästhetik, publisher: Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart

Primary texts

  • Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen, Veale Peter. The Techniques of Oboe Playing. A Compendium with Additional Remarks on the Oboe D’amore and Cor Anglais. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1994.
  • Since 2002 editor of the book series New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century. Hofheim: Wolke-Verlag in collaboration with the Gesellschaft für Musik und Ästhetik
  • Editor of the study series sinefonia. Wolke-Verlag, Hofheim.
  • Klein, Richard, Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen. Mit den Ohren denken. Suhrkamp 1998.
  • Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen. Kritische Theorie der Musik. Velbrück 2006.
  • Huber, Klaus, Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen. Von Zeit zu Zeit. Wolke-Verlag, Hofheim 2009.
  • Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen. Deutschland oder Jerusalem: das kurze Leben der Francesca Albertini (Springe: Zu Klampen, 2013).

Secondary texts

External links

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