Musicatlas
Music
Compositions (selection): 1979 Poemas del otoño for stringquartet, 1980/81 sinfonie Leviathan, 1982 Schattengeburt trio for cl., vl. u. vc., 1985 Lover´s maze three songs for soprano and piano, 1986 Deinen Kopf, Holofernes chamberopera, 1988 Tableaux fugitives after Baudelaire for alto and small orchestra, 1990 Invenzioni capric a nove, 1991 Colle rondini quintet (fl., bcl., git., cb. u. perc.), 1992/93 Caronglo - Zyklus different ensembles, 1993 Jason - Essay for seven players, 1994 Omoitsutsu for cl., vc. u. pf., 1995 chamberopera Schwarz überwölbt Rot / Jason und Medea, 1997/98 rooms/räume for soprano and ensemble, 2000 SPEC für Erhu, Koto und Kammerorchester, 2001 che sta così für Kayagûm, 2002 ricalda, ricresce, rigonfia für Erhu, Violoncello und Kayagûm.
Publication: Streifzüge: comments on contemporary music, PFAU-Verlag Saarbrücken 2000.
Other publishers:
- Bote & Bock / Berlin
- Carus Verlag / Stuttgart
- edition gravis / Bad Schwalbach
- Ebert Verlag / Leipzig
- Florian Noetzel Verlag »ars musica« Wilhelmshaven
- Moeck Verlag / Celle
Life
Volker Blumenthaler, born 1951 in Mannheim/Germany, studies in cello, musical theory and composition in Mannheim and Cologne, among others with Hans Vogt and Jürg Baur, 1979-87 part-time lecture-ship for musical theory at the Academie of Music Rhineland/Cologne, 1989/90 guest lectures at the National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu/Taiwan, from 1992 to now lecturer for composition and musical theory at the Academy of Music Nuremberg-Augsburg, since 1993 regular activities as author of broadcast-features for "Commentaries on New Music" (SWR Stuttgart/Baden-Baden), 1994/95 workshops for analysis and composition at the National Institut of the Arts in Taipei/Taiwan, 1997 guest lecture at the University of Harvard Cambridge/USA (about the chamber opera "Jason and Medea/Black enshrouds Red"), 1994 and 1998 invited to the "International Vacation Course of New Music" in Darmstadt/Germany, scholarships (1982 German Academie Villa Massimo in Rome/Italy, 1987 Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann scholarship of the City of Cologne), prizes (1982 award for young composers of the City of Stuttgart, 1987 prize at the "Concours International de Composition Musical Opera & Ballet" Geneva/Switzerland).