Jan Müller-Wieland
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Jan Müller-Wieland is a German
composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas.
, composition with Friedhelm Döhl
, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze
in Cologne and Rome, and Oliver Knussen
in the Tanglewood Music Center
.
Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo
in 1992/93. He was awarded the Paul Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Composers' Prize
in 2002. Since 2003 he is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg.
Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
since 2007.
Müller-Wieland is a member of the festival A*Devantgarde.
He is married to the Austrian author Birgit Müller-Wieland.
's Posse (farce
) Der Kammersänger, was premiered at the Munich Biennale
in 1992. The libretto
of his opera Das Märchen der 672. Nacht (The Fairy tale of the 672nd Night) was written by his wife Birgit Müller-Wieland after a novella
by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
; the opera was first performed in 2000 at the Wiener Kammeroper
conducted by Alexander Drcar. In 2008 his opera Aventure Faust, related to Goethe's Faust, was premiered in the Reaktorhalle in Munich München, combined with György Ligeti
's "Nouvelles Aventures" for three singers and seven instrumentalist.
Se solen sjunker on a Swedish song which Schubert also used was premiered on 29 June 2008 as part of the Piano Festival Ruhr at the Zeche Nordstern in Gelsenkirchen
, performed by Siegfried Mauser
(piano), Gottfried Schneider (violin) and Sebastian Hess (violoncello). His composition for chamber ensemble Traumbilder was commissioned by RUHR2010, the project of the European Culture Capital, and first performed on 19 May 2010 in the Reinoldikirche
Dortmund.
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas.
Professional career
Jan Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule LübeckMusikhochschule Lübeck
The Lübeck Academy of Music in Lübeck, Germany, is the only higher level music school in the northernmost state of Schleswig-Holstein. The school is located in the World Heritage city of Lübeck, a historic hanseatic city. The school was founded in 1973 but its tradition goes back to 1911. The...
, composition with Friedhelm Döhl
Friedhelm Döhl
Friedhelm Döhl is a German composer and professor of music.Döhl studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner and piano with Carl Seemann at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, and also musicology, German philology, art history, and philosophy concurrently at the Universities of Freiburg and Göttingen...
, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...
in Cologne and Rome, and Oliver Knussen
Oliver Knussen
Oliver Knussen CBE is a British composer and conductor.-Biography:Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra. Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert, between 1963 and 1969 and also received...
in the Tanglewood Music Center
Tanglewood Music Center
The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops designed to provide an intense training and networking experience...
.
Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo
Villa Massimo
Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo , is a German art institute in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo....
in 1992/93. He was awarded the Paul Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival is a classical music festival held every year in summer time all over the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany....
in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Composers' Prize
Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
The 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...
in 2002. Since 2003 he is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg.
Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
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...
since 2007.
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 Frank WedekindFrank Wedekind
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright...
's Posse (farce
Farce
In theatre, a farce is a comedy which aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases,...
) Der Kammersänger, was premiered at the 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 1992. The libretto
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
of his opera Das Märchen der 672. Nacht (The Fairy tale of the 672nd Night) was written by his wife Birgit Müller-Wieland after a novella
Novella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal ; , was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.-Early life:...
; the opera was first performed in 2000 at the Wiener Kammeroper
Wiener Kammeroper
Wiener Kammeroper is an opera theatre and opera company founded by conductor Hans Gabor. As early as 1948 he initiated the "Vienna Opera Studio" - a company without a theatre of its own...
conducted by Alexander Drcar. In 2008 his opera Aventure Faust, related to Goethe's Faust, was premiered in the Reaktorhalle in Munich München, combined with György Ligeti
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
's "Nouvelles Aventures" for three singers and seven instrumentalist.
Chamber music premieres
His third piano trioPiano trio
A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music...
Se solen sjunker on a Swedish song which Schubert also used was premiered on 29 June 2008 as part of the Piano Festival Ruhr at the Zeche Nordstern in Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c. 267,000....
, performed by Siegfried Mauser
Siegfried Mauser
Siegfried Mauser is a German pianist.Mauser was born in Munich. He studied piano with Rosl Schmid and Alfons Kontarsky, musicology, philosophy, art history in Munich and Salzburg....
(piano), Gottfried Schneider (violin) and Sebastian Hess (violoncello). His composition for chamber ensemble Traumbilder was commissioned by RUHR2010, the project of the European Culture Capital, and first performed on 19 May 2010 in the Reinoldikirche
Reinoldikirche
The Protestant St. Reinoldi-church is, according to its foundation date, the oldest extant church in Dortmund, Germany; it is dedicated to Saint Reinoldus, the patron of the city. The church was built as a palatinate church in the Ottonian era. The present building is a late Romanesque church with ...
Dortmund.
Stage works
| Premiere | Title | Description | Libretto and source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Apr 1992, 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... |
Das Gastspiel | Chamber opera in one act, 55' | the composer, after the farce Der Kammersänger (1899) by Frank Wedekind Frank Wedekind Benjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright... |
| 12 Sep 1992, Opera stabile, Hamburgische Staatsoper | Kain | Chamber opera in four scenes, 60' | after the Old Testament Old Testament The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism... |
| 27 Feb 1999, Staatstheater Darmstadt | Die Versicherung | Dream in two parts | the composer, after an earlier drama by Peter Weiss Peter Weiss Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.... |
| 20 Dec 1996, Darmstadt | Die Nachtigall und die Rose | Chamber opera in one act, 75' | Hannelore Neves, after Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s... |
| 25 Apr 1998, 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... |
Opera, 90' | the composer, after the drama by Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads... |
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| 29 Jan 2000, Wiener Kammeroper Wiener Kammeroper Wiener Kammeroper is an opera theatre and opera company founded by conductor Hans Gabor. As early as 1948 he initiated the "Vienna Opera Studio" - a company without a theatre of its own... |
Das Märchen der 672. Nacht | Opera in six pictures, 75' | Birgit Müller-Wieland, after a novella Novella A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000... by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Hugo von Hofmannsthal Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal ; , was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.-Early life:... |
| 06 Oct 2001, Theater Görlitz | Nathans Tod | Opera in two acts | after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature... and the play by George Tabori George Tabori George Tabori was a Hungarian writer and theater director.-Life and career:Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul managed to escape the Nazis. His son Peter Tabori and again his son... |
| 15 Nov 2003, Bühnen der Stadt Köln Cologne Opera The Cologne Opera refers both to the main opera house in Cologne, Germany and to its resident opera company.-History of the company:... |
Die chinesische Wäscherei | Kurzoper, 7' | Elke Heidenreich Elke Heidenreich Elke Heidenreich is a German author, TV presenter and journalist.- Life :Heidenreich studied German studies in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin. Heidenreich works as German author and wrote several books... |
| 30 Sep 2005, Theater Bonn Theater Bonn Theater Bonn is a theatrical organization that produces operas, musicals, ballets, plays, and concerts in Bonn, Germany. The organization operates several performance venues throughout the city.-External links:*... |
Die Irre oder Nächtlicher Fischfang | Musiktheater in one act | Micaela von Marcard |
| 07 Apr 2006, Oper Köln | Der Held der westlichen Welt | Komische Oper, in 3 acts, 105' | the composer, after the German translation by Annemarie and Heinrich Böll Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.- Biography :... of The Playboy of the Western World The Playboy of the Western World The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on January 26, 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in County Mayo during the early 1900s... by John Millington Synge John Millington Synge Edmund John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre... |
| 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 Heine Heine is a German family name. The name comes from "Heinrich" or the Hebrew "Chayyim" . When mentioned without a first name it usually refers ti the poet Heinrich Heine... |
| 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 2009, Neuköllner Oper, Berlin | Der Freischuss | Chamber opera in 3 acts, 60' | after the opera Der Freischütz Der Freischütz Der Freischütz is an opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind. It premiered on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin... by Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.... |
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 trioPiano trioA piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music...
- Se solen sjunker (2008) for piano trioPiano trioA piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music...
External links
- Jan Müller-Wieland website
- Jan Müller-Wieland SikorskiHans SikorskiInternationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski is an international sheet music publishing company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.The music publishing firm of Hans Sikorski was founded in 1935 and now comprises more than 30 publishers in several European countries and in the USA...
- Jan Müller-Wieland Work List Schirmer
- Jan Müller-Wieland, Hochschule für Musik und Theater MünchenHochschule für Musik und Theater MünchenThe 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...
- Jan Müller-Wieland A*Devantgarde
- Recent and future performances of Müller-Wieland's operas from OperabaseOperabaseOperabase is an on-line database of opera performances, opera houses and companies, performers themselves as well as their agents. Operabase, found at operabase.com, is owned and operated by Operabase Ltd, a company located in Luton, England. The site started in 1996 as the hobby of Mike Gibb,...
- Jan Müller-Wieland im Gespräch Neue Musikzeitung 2008
- Komponisten / CDs / Jan Müller-Wieland Deutscher Musikrat