Moritz Eggert
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Moritz Eggert is a German
composer
and pianist
.
in Frankfurt
(with Wolfgang Wagenhaeuser and Claus Kühnl), at the Musikhochschule
Frankfurt (with Leonard Hokanson
) and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
(with Wilhelm Killmayer). Later he continued his piano studies with Raymund Havenith and Dieter Lallinger, and his composition studies with Hans-Jürgen von Bose
in Munich. In 1992 he spent a year in London
as a post-graduate composition student with Robert Saxton
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
.
Moritz Eggert has covered all genres in his work – his oeuvre includes 7 operas as well as ballets and works for dance
and music theatre, often with unusual performance elements. 1997 German TV produced a feature-length film portrait about his music.
As a pianist he regularly collaborates with many artists, as soloist with orchestra, as chamber music partner in various formations and as a Lied
accompanist. In 1996 he presented the complete works for piano solo by Hans Werner Henze
for the first time in one concert, in 1989 he was a prizewinner at the International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Contemporary Music.
As a composer Moritz Eggert has been awarded with prizes like the composition prize of the Salzburger Osterfestspiele, the Schneider/Schott, the "Ad Referendum"-prize in Montréal
, the Siemens Förderpreis for young composers, and the Zemlinsky Prize. 2003 he became a member of the “Bayerische Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste”.
In 1991 he founded - together with Sandeep Bhagwati
- the A*Devantgarde festival for new music, which will take place for the 9th time in June 2007.
His concert-length cycle for piano solo, "Haemmerklavier", is among his best known works and has been performed around the world.
Moritz Eggert has written 7 operas and several more works for music and dance theatre. His last opera, “The Snail”, was performed in Mannheim
(directed and written by Hans Neuenfels
).
His large “soccer oratorio” for the Ruhrtriennale
2005 and the Soccer World Championship
in Germany 2006 experienced widespread media coverage in German as well as foreign media.
Moritz Eggert created the opening ceremony for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
(together with director Christian Stueckl and stage designer Marlene Pohley) and is currently working on a new opera for the Beethovenfest and the Bonn
opera house
(“Freax”, together with librettist Hannah Duebgen, premiere September 2007, director: Christoph Schlingensief
). A collage of all 22 Mozart operas (“Orale Pole Mazy Brats”) for 4 singers, speaker and orchestra for the opening concert of the Salzburger Festspiele 2006 has recently been broadcast live on TV in all of Europe
. There are currently 6 new productions of Eggert’s operas in several different cities in Germany and Switzerland
in the season of 2006/2007.
graphic novel stories by Dave Sim
.
He is an avid board game player, and regular contributor to The Dice Tower
podcast, a podcast about all aspects of boardgaming, and also the podcast "Point 2 Point,"
a gaming podcast that focuses exclusively on wargames http://point2pointsource.com/xoops/modules/news/.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
composer
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...
and pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
.
Life
Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Dr. Hoch's KonservatoriumHoch 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...
(with Wolfgang Wagenhaeuser and Claus Kühnl), at the Musikhochschule
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....
Frankfurt (with Leonard Hokanson
Leonard Hokanson
Leonard Hokanson was an American pianist who achieved prominence in Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. Born in Vinalhaven, Maine, he attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and Bennington College in Vermont, where he received a master of arts degree with a major in music...
) and 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...
(with Wilhelm Killmayer). Later he continued his piano studies with Raymund Havenith and Dieter Lallinger, and his composition studies with Hans-Jürgen von Bose
Hans-Jürgen von Bose
Hans-Jürgen von Bose is a German Composer.-Life:After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory...
in Munich. In 1992 he spent a year in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
as a post-graduate composition student with Robert Saxton
Robert Saxton
-Biography:After early advice and encouragement from Benjamin Britten, Robert Saxton took private composition lessons with Elisabeth Lutyens. He went on to study with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, with Robert Sherlaw Johnson as a post-graduate at Oxford University, and later with Berio....
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England. Students can pursue courses in Music, Opera, Drama and Technical Theatre Arts.-History:...
.
Moritz Eggert has covered all genres in his work – his oeuvre includes 7 operas as well as ballets and works for dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
and music theatre, often with unusual performance elements. 1997 German TV produced a feature-length film portrait about his music.
As a pianist he regularly collaborates with many artists, as soloist with orchestra, as chamber music partner in various formations and as a Lied
Lied
is a German word literally meaning "song", usually used to describe romantic songs setting German poems of reasonably high literary aspirations, especially during the nineteenth century, beginning with Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, and Franz Schubert and culminating with Hugo Wolf...
accompanist. In 1996 he presented the complete works for piano solo by 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"...
for the first time in one concert, in 1989 he was a prizewinner at the International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Contemporary Music.
As a composer Moritz Eggert has been awarded with prizes like the composition prize of the Salzburger Osterfestspiele, the Schneider/Schott, the "Ad Referendum"-prize in Montréal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, the Siemens Förderpreis for young composers, and the Zemlinsky Prize. 2003 he became a member of the “Bayerische Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste”.
In 1991 he founded - together with Sandeep Bhagwati
Sandeep Bhagwati
Sandeep Bhagwati is an Indian composer of western classical music and an academic teacher.Sandeep Bhagwati was born in Bombay, now Mumbai, as the son of a German mother and an Indian father. He has lived in Germany since age five...
- the A*Devantgarde festival for new music, which will take place for the 9th time in June 2007.
His concert-length cycle for piano solo, "Haemmerklavier", is among his best known works and has been performed around the world.
Moritz Eggert has written 7 operas and several more works for music and dance theatre. His last opera, “The Snail”, was performed in Mannheim
Mannheim
Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart....
(directed and written by Hans Neuenfels
Hans Neuenfels
Hans Neuenfels is a German writer, poet, film producer, librettist, theatre director and opera director.- Biography :...
).
His large “soccer oratorio” for the Ruhrtriennale
Ruhrtriennale
The Ruhrtriennale is an annual music and arts festival in the northwestern area of Germany which runs between mid-August and mid-October. It was founded in 2002 by the government of North Rhine-Westphalia with Gerard Mortier, the impresario and former artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, as...
2005 and the Soccer World Championship
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
in Germany 2006 experienced widespread media coverage in German as well as foreign media.
Moritz Eggert created the opening ceremony for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six...
(together with director Christian Stueckl and stage designer Marlene Pohley) and is currently working on a new opera for the Beethovenfest and the Bonn
Bonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
opera house
Opera house
An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building...
(“Freax”, together with librettist Hannah Duebgen, premiere September 2007, director: Christoph Schlingensief
Christoph Schlingensief
Christoph Maria Schlingensief was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies...
). A collage of all 22 Mozart operas (“Orale Pole Mazy Brats”) for 4 singers, speaker and orchestra for the opening concert of the Salzburger Festspiele 2006 has recently been broadcast live on TV in all of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. There are currently 6 new productions of Eggert’s operas in several different cities in Germany and Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
in the season of 2006/2007.
Cultural Interests
Mr. Eggert enjoys reading the long running and highly acclaimed Cerebus the AardvarkCerebus the Aardvark
Cerebus the Aardvark, or simply Cerebus , is an independent comic book, written and illustrated by Canadian artist Dave Sim, with backgrounds by fellow Canadian Gerhard. Cerebus ran for 300 issues from December 1977 to 2004, and was over 6000 pages long, the longest-running original...
graphic novel stories by Dave Sim
Dave Sim
David Victor Sim is an award-winning Canadian comic book writer and artist.A pioneer of self-published comics and creators' rights, Sim is best known as the creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, a comic book published from 1977 to 2004, which chronicles its main character in a 6,000-page self-contained...
.
He is an avid board game player, and regular contributor to The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
Tom Vasel is a well known podcaster and reviewer of board games. Vasel co-hosts a long-running and popular gaming podcast titled The Dice Tower, and has posted over 1200 reviews on the internet database BoardGameGeek....
podcast, a podcast about all aspects of boardgaming, and also the podcast "Point 2 Point,"
a gaming podcast that focuses exclusively on wargames http://point2pointsource.com/xoops/modules/news/.
Opera and music theatre
- Das Mahl des Herrn Orlong (Oper für Schauspieler, 1988)
- Paul und Virginie (Puppenoper, 1990)
- Wir sind daheim (Kammeroper, 1991, 1998)
- Lunu (Abstrakte Oper 1992)
- Helle Nächte (Große Oper, 1997)
- Der Andere (Kurzoper, 2000)
- Dr. Popels fiese Falle (Children's Opera, 2002)
- The last days of the V.I.R.U.S. (Opera, 2003)
- Die Schnecke (Opera, 2004)
Dance theatre and ballet
- Avec ma main brulée (Performance, 1997)
- Flüchtige Begegnungen (Dance Theatre, 1997)
- Gegenwart, ich brauche Gegenwart (Dance Theatre, 1997)
- Ein Besuch im Bergwerk (Dance Theatre, 1999)
- The Trap (Bühnenmusik, 1999)
- Millennium Shuffle (Dance Theatre, 1999)
- Im Sandkasten (Dance Theatre, 2000)
- Auf der Suche nach dem KlaNNg (Hörspiel, 2001)
Chamber music
- Kleine Fluchten (1. String Quartet, 1993)
- Hämmerklavier (for Piano solo, 1994)
- Außer Atem (für 4 Blockflöten und einen Spieler, 1995)
- Bad Attitude (for Cello and Piano, 1995)
- Et in Arcadia Ego (2. String Quartet, 1997)
- Tableau (Bewegung für einen Klarinettisten und Pianisten, 1997)
- Melodie 1.0 (für Violine, Cello und Schreibmaschine, 1998)
- Nemesis (for Drumset solo, 1998)
- Croatoan II (für Streichquartett und Schlagzeug, 1999)
- Fast Forward (for Cello and Piano, 1999)
- Continuum (for Cello and Piano, 2000)
- Vermillion Sands (für Gitarre, 2000)
- Narziss (für Sopranblockflöte und Schlagzeug, 2001)
- La Risposta (für Cello and Keyboard, 2002)
- pong (for Septet, 2002)
- Riff (für zwei E-Gitarren mit Effektgeräten, 2002)
- Symphonie 2.0 (für 4 Kazoos mit beliebigen Instrumenten, 2002)
- Ostinato (für Orgel solo, 2003)
- Processional: Fanfaren/Signale (for Trumpet solo, 2003)
Orchestral work
- Die 12 Schläge der Sonnenuhr (für Kammerorchester, 1986)
- Vexations (für Kammerorchester, 1993)
- Adagio (für 32 Streicher, 1996)
- Symphonie 1.0 (für 12 Schreibmaschinen, 1997)
- Number Nine I-III (for Orchestra, 1998)
- Goldberg spielt (for Keyboard and Ensemble, 2000)
- Internet-Symphonie (for Orchestra, 2000)
Vocal music
- Hibernalische Gesänge (for Vocal Quartet, 1997)
- Büchner-Porträt (für Bariton und Klavier, 1997)
- Krausseriana (für Bariton und Klavier, 1999)
- Neue Dichter Lieben (Liederzyklus, 2000)
- ausklang (für Bariton und Klavier, 2001)
- Die Kriegsirre (für Mezzosopran und Klavier, 2001)
- wide unclasp (Liederzyklus für Frauenstimme und Jazz-Ensemble, 2002)
- Paradies Berlin (Liederzyklus, 2002–03)
- Ein Dichter stirbt (für Tenorbariton und Klavier, 2004)