Hans Zender

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Hans Zender
Born
Johannes Wolfgang Zender

(1936-11-22)22 November 1936
Hesse-Nassau, Germany
Died22 October 2019(2019-10-22) (aged 82)
Meersburg, Baden-Württemberg
, Germany
Education
Occupations
  • Conductor
  • Composer
  • Academic
Organizations
Awards

Johannes Wolfgang Zender (22 November 1936 – 22 October 2019) was a German conductor and composer. He was the chief conductor of several opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music, have been performed at international festivals.

As a conductor, he worked at the

Staatsoper Unter den Linden
.

Career

Born in

Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg from 1956 to 1959.[2][3] He was trained as a concert pianist by Edith Picht-Axenfeld.[1]

From 1959 to 1963 Zender was

Radio Netherlands in Hilversum. From 1999 to 2011, he was the permanent guest conductor and a member of the artistic board of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, now part of the SWR Symphonieorchester.[3]

Zender's opera

Staatsoper Unter den Linden, staged by Peter Mussbach [de] and conducted by Johannes Kalitzke.[7]

From 1988 until 2000, Zender taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. Among his students was Isabel Mundry. Invited by Walter Fink, he was in 2011 the 21st composer featured in the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival.[8] Music in a chamber concert included denn wiederkommen (Hölderlin lesen III) for string quartet and speaking voice (1991) and Mnemosyne (Hölderlin lesen IV) for female voice, string quartet, and tape (2000), performed by Salome Kammer and the Athena Quartet.[9] A symphony concert was given by the SWR Vokalensemble and SWR Symphonieorchester conducted by Emilio Pomàrico [de], including Schubert-Chöre, featuring Zender's adaptations of four Schubert choral works with orchestral rather than the original piano accompaniment, written in the 1980s.[8]

Zender died on 22 October 2019 in Meersburg, Germany.[1][4]

Compositions

Many of Zender's works were published by Breitkopf & Härtel.[10] The published works are held by the German National Library, including:[11]

  • Canto I–VI for various forces
    • I: for choir, flute, piano, strings and percussion (1965)
    • II: for soprano, choir and orchestra on a text by Ezra Pound (1967)
    • III: for soprano, tenor, baritone, ten instruments and live-electronics on texts by Cervantes (1968)
    • IV: for 16 voices and 16 instruments (1969/72)
    • V: for voices with optional percussion (1972/74)
    • VI: for bass-baritone, a capella mixed choir, and optional tape (1988)
  • 3 Rondels nach Mallarmé (3 Rondels after Mallarmé) for alto, flute and viola (1966); words by Stéphane Mallarmé
  • Modelle for variable forces (1971–73)
  • Zeitströme for orchestra (1974)
  • Elemente, tape montage for two loudspeaker groups (1976)
  • Hölderlin lesen I for string quartet with sprechstimme (1979); words by Friedrich Hölderlin
  • Hölderlin lesen II for sprechstimme, viola, and live-electronics (1987); words by Friedrich Hölderlin
  • "denn wiederkommen" (Hölderlin lesen III) for string quartet and sprechstimme (1991)
  • Mnemosyne (Hölderlin lesen IV) for female voice, string quartet, and tape (2000)
  • Fünf Haiku (LO-SHU IV) for flute and strings (1982)
  • Dialog mit Haydn for two pianos and three orchestral groups (1982)
  • Stephen Climax, opera (1979–84, premiered in 1986)
  • Don Quijote de la Mancha, opera (1989–91, premiered in 1993; new version 1994, premiered in 1999)
  • Schuberts "Winterreise" — Eine komponierte Interpretation for tenor and small orchestra (1993)
  • Shir Hashirim—Lied der Lieder (Canto VIII), oratorio for soli, choir, orchestra, and live-electronics (1992/96, complete première in 1998)
  • Schumann-Fantasie for large orchestra (1997)
  • Chief Joseph, on the life of Chief Joseph, musical theatre in three acts (premiered in 2005)

Writings

Awards

Zender's awards include:

Further reading

  • Gruhn, Wilfried. 1994. "Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Wärme? Zu Hans Zenders komponierter Interpretation von Schuberts Winterreise." Musica 48:148–154.
  • ———. 1992. "Hans Zender." In Komponisten der Gegenwart, Loseblattlexikon, edited by Hanns-Werner Heister und Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer, 12. Munich: Text+Kritik. Updated edition July 1997.
  • ———. 1985. "Musik über Musik. Vermittlungsaspekte des Streichquartetts Hölderlin lesen von Hans Zender." Musik und Bildung 17:598–605
  • Hasegawa, Robert. 2011. "Gegenstrebende Harmonik in the Music of Hans Zender". Perspectives of New Music 49, no. 1 (Winter): 207–234.
  • Wacker, Volker. 1998. "Hans Zenders Oper Stephen Climax. Betrachtungen und Aspekte." In Musiktheater im 20. Jahrhundert = Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 10, edited by Constantin Floros, Hans Joachim Marx, and Peter Petersen, 239–258. Laaber: Laaber.

References

  1. ^ a b c Nyffeler, Max (23 October 2019). "Komponist der neuen Musik". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Frankfurt. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Zender, Hans". SWR (in German). 2006. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Hans Zender". Breitkopf & Härtel (in German). Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Zum Tod des Komponisten und SWR Gastdirigenten Hans Zendern". SWR (in German). 23 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  5. ^ "Hans Zender (*1936) / Stephen Climax" (in German). Breitkopf & Härtel. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  6. ^ Herbort, Heinz Josef (4 July 1986). "Musiktheater: "Stephen Climax" von Hans Zender in Frankfurt: Dichter, Huren, Mönche". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  7. ^ Hagedorn, Volker (30 June 2005). "Wir sind doch alle Indianer / Auf dem hohen Ross der Moral – Hans Zenders Oper Chief Joseph an der Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  8. ^ a b Uske, Bernhard (23 October 2019). "Rheingau Musik Festival / Den Hörer nicht unterschätzen, ihm Aufgaben stellen". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Frankfurt. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  9. ^ Hauff, Andreas (7 September 2011). "Ein Rückblick auf das Rheingau-Musikfestival". Neue Musikzeitung (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Works by Hans Zender". Breitkopf & Härtel (in German). Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  11. ^ Publications by Hans Zender German National Library
  12. ^ Frankfurter Musikpreis Frankfurt
  13. ^ Der Komponist Hans Zender erhält den Preis der Europäischen Kirchenmusik 2011 Schwäbisch Gmünd, 20 January 2011

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