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Christian Wilhelm Berger (born 13 June 1964 in
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) is a
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composer,
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, and a lecturer at the Bucharest Academy.


Education

Berger studied
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at
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Music School in
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from 1970 to 1982. He studied composition at the
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in Bucharest, with Prof. Aurel Stroe and Prof.
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from 1983 to 1987, and received his Ph. D. at
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in
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, with
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in 1994. Berger privately studied the
pipe organ The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboard, keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes are provide ...
with Ilse Maria Reich who was an organ player at a
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in Bucharest, and with Eckart Schlandt, an organ player at the
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in Braşov. Currently, Berger teaches orchestration and musical forms and analysis at the National Music University in Bucharest, and is the chef Department of Composition at the National Music University in Bucharest.


Distinctions

Berger is a recipient of an Honor Diploma in 1989 at the
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International String Quartet Composition Competition, in
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, Germany for his String quartet no. 3, op. 9. In 1994, he took 2nd Prize at the
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International Composition Contest for String Orchestra in
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, Switzerland for "Cogito ergo sum…", and 3rd Prize at the Orgelmusik (organ music) 2000 International Composition Contest for the Organ in 1995 at
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, Germany for ''Evocation'' for organ. Berger was awarded the ''
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'' of the
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in 1995 for ''Inscription in Stone'' for organ.


As an organist

Berger has performed numerous solo recitals in Romania (Bucharest, Braşov,
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,
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, Târgu-Mureş, etc.) and in Germany (
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,
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,
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,
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, etc.) and concerts with orchestras in Romania with the
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra The George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra () is a musical institution located in Bucharest, Romania. Founded on 7 May 1868 under the supervision of Eduard Wachman, the Romanian Philharmonic Society had as purpose the creation of a permanent ...
, the National Broadcast Symphony Orchestra, and Philharmonic Orchestras from Craiova, Ploieşti, Bacău, and Târgu-Mureş.


Compositions

*Symphony no. 1, op. 3, with organ (1987) *Symphony no. 2, op. 11 (1989) *Symphony no. 3, op. 12 (1990) *Symphony no. 4, op. 15 (1993) *String quartet no. 1, op. 2 (1986) *String quartet no. 2, op. 6 (1987) *String quartet no. 3, op. 9 (1988) *''Cogito ergo sum...'' for string orchestra, op. 16 (1994) *Stanzas for organ, op. 1 (1986) *Concert for solo organ, op. 5 (1987; Ed. Muzicala, Bucharest, 1992) *Sonata for organ, op. 10 (1990) *''Invocation'' for organ, op. 13 (1991) *''Inscription in stone'' for organ, op. 14 (1993) *''Evocation'' for organ, op. 17 (1995) *Sonata for three flutes, op. 4 (1987) *Sonata for violin, op. 8, (1988) *Prelude and passacaglia for clarinet and kettledrums (1986)


Works of musicology

*Decaphonic modal model, in ''Muzica'', nr.3, 1991 *Dynamic modal systems (Ph.D.Thesis) *Franz Liszt at Bucharest and Iaşi *The technical and expression characteristics of the modern orchestra instruments, National Music University, Bucharest, 2000 *The Organ, National Music University, Bucharest, 2014


References


External links


Universitatea Nationala de Muzica
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