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Peter Michael Hamel (born 15 July 1947 in
Peter Michael Hamel (born 15 July 1947 in Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
) is a German composer. His works have been associated with the minimalist
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style of composition, and in the late 1970s with the New Simplicity New Simplicity (in German, ''Neue Einfachheit'') was a stylistic tendency amongst some of the younger generation of German composers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reacting against not only the European avant garde of the 1950s and 1960s, but al ...
movement.
He is the son of the film director Peter Hamel
Peter Hamel (1911–1979) was a German screenwriter and a film director, director of film and television.Baer p.56 He appeared as himself in the 1948 comedy ''Film Without a Title''. He is the father of the composer Peter Michael Hamel.
Selected ...
. Hamel studied musical composition
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, psychology
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and sociology
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in Munich and Berlin with teachers including Günter Bialas
Günter Bialas (19 July 1907 – 8 July 1995) was a German composer.
Life
Bialas was born in Bielschowitz (today Bielszowice, a subdivision of Ruda Śląska) in Prussian Silesia. His father was the business manager of a German theatre, and his ...
and Carl Dahlhaus
Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. #Selected bibliography, A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research foc ...
. He then continued his education abroad, spending several extensive periods in Asia.
In 1970, he founded "Between", an international group dedicated to improvisational music with whom he made 6 records on the intuition/ WERGO label and in 1978 in Munich, he founded the Freies Musikzentrum, an institute for musical education and therapy. In 1978, his book ''Through Music to the Self'' was published in English translation, obtaining wide circulation in Europe and the U.S.
Between 1997 and 2012, he was professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. His orchestral and chamber music is published by Schott, Bärenreiter
Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it ...
and E.R.P./Celestial Harmonies. He composed four operas, many orchestral works (e.g., ''Gestalt''), violin and piano concertos, sacred works for soprano, choirs and orchestra (e.g., ''Missa''); ''Shoah'' (a radio-composition about the Holocaust
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), chamber-music compositions (including four string quartets). He is in demand as a performing artist (piano, prepared piano, pipe organ, voice and live-electronics). His First Symphony was premiered by Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache (; ; 13 August 1996) was a Romanian people, Romanian Conducting, conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over fi ...
in 1988; his Second Symphony had its first performance in Munich on April 29, 2008 with the Munich Philharmonic. In 2007 Hamel's ''Of the Sound of Life'' for pianist Roger Woodward
Roger Robert Woodward (born 20 December 1942) is an Australian classical pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and human rights activist. He is widely regarded as a leading advocate of contemporary music.
Early life
Roger Woodward was born ...
was published by Celestial Harmonies. In 2009 parts of his music theatre "last minute" on Near Death Experiences
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has been premiered in musica viva
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History
Music Viva was founded in Sydney in 1945 by Romanian-born Vienna-educated violinist Richard Goldner, who had fled Naz ...
.
American minimalist composer Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist music, minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notab ...
has said:
Discography
* ''Aura
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* Aura (paranormal), a purported field of luminous multi-colored radiation around a person or object
* Aura (symptom), a symptom experienced before a migraine or seizure
* Halo (religious iconography), glory, or aure ...
'' (1972)
* '' Hamel'' (1972)
* '' The Voice of Silence'' (1972)
* '' Buddhist Meditation East-West'' (1975)
* ''Nada
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* Nāda, a concept in ancient Indian metaphysics
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*Nada, Hainan, China
*Nada, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
*Nada, Nepal, village in Achham District, Seti Zone
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'' (1977)
* '' Colours of Time'' (1980)
* ''Bardo
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'' (1981)
* '' Transition'' (1983)
* ''Organum
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'' (1986)
* '' Let It Play: Selected Pieces 1979-1983'' (1987)
* '' Arrow of Time / The Cycle of Time'' (1991)
* ''Violinkonzert Diaphainon Gralbilder'' (1993)
* ''De Visione Dei'' (2001)
* ''Hamel: String Quartet No. 3, String Quartet No. 4, String Trio'' (2007)
See also
*List of ambient music artists
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References
* *Footnotes
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamel, Peter Michael Composers from Munich 1947 births Living people 20th-century German classical composers 21st-century German classical composers German male classical composers 20th-century German male musicians 21st-century German male musicians