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Compositions (selection):
- 1983 - Desastres de la Guerra - Orchesterbilder nach Goya op. 36 (UA Lüdenscheid 1983)
- 1984 - Omaggio für Violine, Oboe und gr. Orchester op. 40 (UA Remscheid 1985)
- 1984-86 - Atemwende - Klavierzyklus nach Paul Celan op. 49, 1 - 7 (UA div. Orte 1985-87) CD Inakustik
- 1987 - Traumbuch eines Gefangenen - oratorische Szenen für Sprecher, Bariton, Chor und großes Orchester op. 51 (UA Bonn 1988) CD Wergo
- 1989 - Nachtbild (Mahler-Momente) für Kammerensemble op. 57 (UA Hamburg 1989) CD Koch
- 1990 - Hebdomadaire - 52 Stücke vom Jahr für einen Pianisten op. 62 (UA Bonn 1990) CD col legno
- 1990-92 - Der Pelikan - Kammeroper nach Strindberg op. 64 (UA Münster1992)
- 1992 - Two once so one für Streichquartett, Viola und Violoncello op. 66 (UA Bonn 1992)
- 1994 - Innenräume ... Erinnernd für großes Orchester op. 71 (UA Bonn1994)
- 1995/96 - Mallarmé-Zyklus - 12 Quartette für 12 Musiker op. 75 (UA Hamburg 1997) CD Cybele
- 1998 - Hauptweg und Nebenwege - Aufzeichnungen op. 83 für Streichquartett und Klavier (UA Bonn 2000) CD col legno
- 2000-03 -Inventionen op. 88 für Player-Piano(s) (UA Köln 2000)
- 2002 - In unum Deum für Soli, Chor, Orgel und kl. Orchester op. 93 (UA Berlin 2003) CD Cybele
Schriften:
- Thomas Schäfer: Michael Denhoffs "Nachtbild": Nähe als Hindernis; in: Modellfall Mahler - kompositorische Rezeption in zeitgenössischer Musik. Wilhelm Fink Verlag München 1999, S. 369-377
- MGG - Neuauflage - Personenteil, Bärenreiter-Verlag
Publisher:
- Edition Gravis - Bad Schwalbach
- Breitkopf & Härtel - Wiesbaden
- Edition Moeck - Celle
Life
Michael Denhoff was born in 1955 in Ahaus, Westphalia. He studied cello with Siegfried Palm and Erling Blöndal-Bengtsson, composition with Jürg Baur and Hans Werner Henze, and chamber-music (as a member of the Denhoff Piano-Trio) with the Amadeus Quartet.
From 1976 to 1980 he was awarded a stipend from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Denhoff taught theory of music at the University of Mainz from 1984-85. He lives at present as freelance composer and cellist in Bonn, where he conducted the Akademischen Orchester from 1985-92 and has been a member of the Ludwig Quartet since 1992. In 1996 began a close co-operation as cello-piano duo with the pianist Birgitta Wollenweber.
Further to this he is often called to give courses in chamber-music and composition, as, for example, from 1997-99 as visiting professor at the National Music Academy of Hanoi (Vietnam).
For his compositional œuvre he has been the recipient of many prizes (amongst others: 1st prize at the Hitzacker and Bergisch-Gladbach composition competitions, prizes from the cities of Stuttgart and Dortmund and the regions North Rhein Westphalia and Lower Saxony, the Bernd-Alois Zimmermann-Prize and most recently the Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize). A Villa Massimo stipend made possible a study-residence (1986-87) in Rome, in 1996 he was awarded a further stipend ("Villa La Collina") in Cadenabbia.
A considerable number of CD’s document his extensive output.
In 2000 Michael Denhoff organised "Jahr100KlavierStücke", a series of 50 workshop-concerts designed by him together with the pianist Susanne Kessel, given in Bonn and dedicated to a chronological review of the piano music of the 20th century.