Jan Müller-Wieland
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Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 March 1966 in Hamburg) is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas.
Career
Müller-Wieland studied at the
Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1992/93.[1] He was awarded the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Composers' Prize in 2002.[2] From 2003 he has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg.[3]
Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the
Müller-Wieland is a member of the festival A*Devantgarde.
He is married to the Austrian author Birgit Müller-Wieland .
Opera
As of 2011, Müller-Wieland composed 14 operas. His first opera Das Gastspiel, subtitled "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists", a chamber opera after
Chamber music premieres
His third
Selected works
Stage works
Premiere | Title | Description | Libretto and source |
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29 Apr 1992, Munich Biennale | Das Gastspiel | Chamber opera in one act, 55' | the composer, after the farce Der Kammersänger (1899) by Frank Wedekind |
12 Sep 1992, Opera stabile, Hamburgische Staatsoper
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Kain | Chamber opera in four scenes, 60' | after the Old Testament |
27 Feb 1999, Staatstheater Darmstadt | Die Versicherung | Dream in two parts | the composer, after an earlier drama by Peter Weiss |
20 Dec 1996, Darmstadt | Die Nachtigall und die Rose | Chamber opera in one act, 75' | Hannelore Neves, after Oscar Wilde |
25 Apr 1998, Munich Biennale | Komödie ohne Titel | Opera, 90' | the composer, after the drama Comedia sin título by Federico García Lorca
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29 Jan 2000, Wiener Kammeroper | Das Märchen der 672. Nacht | Opera in six pictures, 75' | Birgit Müller-Wieland, after a novella by Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
6 Oct 2001, Theater Görlitz | Nathans Tod | Opera in two acts | after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and the play by George Tabori |
15 Nov 2003, Bühnen der Stadt Köln | Die chinesische Wäscherei | Kurzoper, 7' | Elke Heidenreich |
30 Sep 2005, Theater Bonn | Die Irre oder Nächtlicher Fischfang | Musiktheater in one act | Micaela von Marcard |
7 Apr 2006, Oper Köln
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Der Held der westlichen Welt | Komische Oper, in 3 acts, 105' | the composer, after the German translation by Annemarie and Heinrich Böll of The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge |
21 Nov 2008, Reaktorhalle, München | Aventure Faust | Three dream sequences, 40' | Birgit Müller-Wieland, loosely after Faust by Goethe and Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen by Heine
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27 Aug 2009, Neuköllner Oper, Berlin | Fanny und Schraube | Chamber opera in 3 acts, 60' | Kai Ivo Baulitz |
28 Jul 2010, Sing- und Musikschule, Regensburg | Der kleine Ring | Musikalisches Märchen for children and adults, in 2 acts | Birgit Müller-Wieland |
20 Jan 2011, Neuköllner Oper, Berlin | Der Freischuss | Chamber opera in 3 acts, 60' | after the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber |
Orchestra
- Poem des Morgens (1991) for large orchestra
- Ballad of Ariel (2002) for violin and large orchestra
Chamber music
- Ecstatic and Instinctive (1989) for two pianos and two percussionists
- Schlaflied (2004) for piano trio
- Se solen sjunker (2008) for piano trio
Instrumental music
- Himmelfahrt for viola solo (2003)
References
- ^ "Villa Massimo | Stipendien". www.villamassimo.de.
- ^ "Komponistenpreisträger". www.evs-musikstiftung.ch. Archived from the original on 2020-09-29. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
- ^ List of members of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg.
- ^ Das Gastspiel (1992) Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists Archived 8 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Munich Biennale
- ^ Birgit Müller-Wieland Archived 22 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Haymon Verlag
- ^ Lehrjahre Alexander Drcar (in German)
- neue musikzeitung5 November 2008 (in German)
- ^ Jan Müller-Wieland: Premiere of “Se solen sjunker” in Gelsenkirchen Sikorski 2008
- ^ Ein Projekt der Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt Ruhr2010 / Babel sanktreinoldi.de 2010 (in German)
- Work list(pdf) from the Sikorski pages for Müller-Wieland. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
External links
- Jan Müller-Wieland website
- Jan Müller-Wieland Sikorski
- Jan Müller-Wieland, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München(in German)
- Literature by and about Jan Müller-Wieland in the German National Library catalogue