Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 March 1966 in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

) 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

Musikhochschule Lübeck A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...

, composition with

Friedhelm Döhl Friedhelm Döhl (7 July 1936 – 25 September 2018)Abschied von Friedhelm Döhl

, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with

Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large List of compositions by Hans Werner Henze, oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Igor Stravinsky, Stravinsky, Mu ...

in Cologne and Rome, and

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in the

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. Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the

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in 1992/93. He was awarded the Hindemith Prize of the

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in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2002. From 2003 he has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg.List of members
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Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the

Hochschule für Musik und Theater München The University of Music and Theatre Munich (), also known as the Munich Conservatory, is a performing arts music school, conservatory in Munich, Germany. The main building it currently occupies is the former ''Führerbau'' of the NSDAP, locate ...

since 2007. Müller-Wieland is a member of the festival A*Devantgarde. He is married to the Austrian author .

Opera

As of 2011, Müller-Wieland had composed 14 operas. His first opera ''Das Gastspiel'', subtitled "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists", a chamber opera after

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's Posse (

farce Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical comedy, physical humor; the use of delibe ...

) '' Der Kammersänger'', was premiered at the

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in 1992. The

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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

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, libretto, librettist, Poetry, poet, Playwdramatist, narrator, and essayist. Early life Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, th ...

; the opera was first performed in 2000 at the Wiener Kammeroper conducted by Alexander Drcar. In 2008 his opera ''Aventure Faust'', related to

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's ''

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'', was premiered in the Reaktorhalle in Munich, combined with

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's "Nouvelles Aventures" for three singers and seven instrumentalists.

Chamber music premieres

Müller-Wieland's third

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''Se solen sjunker'' is on a Swedish song which Schubert also used. It was premiered on 29 June 2008 as part of the Piano Festival Ruhr at the Zeche Nordstern in

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, and was performed by

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(piano), Gottfried Schneider (violin) and Sebastian Hess (violoncello). His composition for chamber ensemble ''Traumbilder'' was commissioned by RUHR.2010, the project of the European Culture Capital, and first performed on 19 May 2010 in the Reinoldikirche Dortmund.Ein Projekt der Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt Ruhr2010 / Babel
sanktreinoldi.de 2010

Selected works

Stage works

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

*''Se solen sjunker'' (2008) for

Instrumental music

*''Himmelfahrt'' for viola solo (2003)

References

Work list(pdf)
from th

Retrieved 2 April 2011.

External links

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