DIETER SCHNEBEL SCHUBERT LP HESPOS-LACHENMANN-XENAKIS

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DIETER SCHNEBEL

 SCHUBERT PHANTASIE FUR ORCHESTER / DIAPASON / IN MOTU PROPRIO LP

Wergo

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Rare avant-garde album from experimental music composer Dieter Schnebel on the Wergo label.

Some info on the release: Rare release on the german Wergo label (that released also records by Michael Obst, Jean-Claude Risset, Herbert Eimert, Josef-Anton Riedl, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Luc Ferrari, Folke Rabe, Dieter Schnebel, Oskar Sala, Giacinto Scelsi and others). Compositions from the period 1976-1978 by Dieter Schnebel, showing here the avant-garde aspect of his work. Several well known performers to note between which Ensemble Musica Negativa, Ernest Bour and others.

Schnebel has become one of the many important postmodern composers through a unique craft, challenging our definitions of music, its limits, and even its unusual sound capabilities from humans themselves. But before developing into a professional expresser of music as an art form, Schnebel underwent vigorous studies in various fields.

He began with a general private music study with Wilhelm Sibler from 1942 until 1945, when he started piano lessons with another Wilhelm Resch, and lasted with him until 1949 at the age of 19. He continued then with music history through 1952, under Eric Doflein. Simultaneously he began composition (in 1950) under several musicians, including Ernst Krenek, Theodor W. Adorno, and Pierre Boulez. This led to his attendance at the University of Tübingen, where he studied musicology under Walter Gerstenberg, as well as theology and philosophy, while picking up further piano study as well. In 1955 however, the degree he left with was in fact theology, but with a dissertation about Arnold Schoenberg. Soon after, Camilla Riegger became his wife (in 1956), which led to a son and daughter. He became a minister, and taught theology and religion until 1963, when he added philosophy and psychology to his teaching practices. Then in Berlin, starting in 1970, he became a professor of experimental music and music research, with subsequent visits to the U.S. for other opportunities. Since 1976 he’s been teaching composition on and off in Berlin.

And although the majority of his works are considered material aimed toward the “vocal experiment” and 12-tone side of music, his pieces do have a wide range of styles, even with such a small size of composed repertoire. For instance, he put forth many arrangements of Bach, Beethoven, Webern and Wagner; sometimes using their traditional concepts to the idea of untraditional techniques and ways of listening to them.

Theories self-created and inherited were/are often practiced at performances. He believed that you could increase a student’s vocal range through the use of specific psychological methods, or physical placement. For example, placing singers far apart in a triangular shape causes a musically spatial feeling, and therefore sounds much different from the density when singers are close together. Other times he may just take a traditional piece and turn it into an improvised 13-voice canon. Pieces using such theories can be found in his most famous works’ set; the “Fur Stimmen (...missa est)” choral pieces, like “:! (madrasha 2)” and “AMN”. The first, an unpronounceable title, means “a non-verbal outburst or exclamation”, and used to explore the options in human phonetic sounds, such as vocal and musical versions in lips, tongue, glottus, nasal and other pressures through pitches. The second (unvocalized Hebrew) emphasizes the idea of musical space, with several large gaps in the piece, as well as bizarre vocal experiments. Schnebel belongs to the great avant-garde/experimental composers "wave" that appeared in Europe in the 60's/70's/80's with main representators composers like Hans Werner Henze, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm and Salvatore Sciarrino, Heinz Holliger, Brian Ferneyhough, and György Ligeti and Bruno Maderna, Henri Pousseur or more widely Bernd Alois Zimmermann, John Cage, Bruno Maderna, Jani Christou, Iannis Xenakis and of course Pendercki.

Condition: Vinyl lies in mint condition, looks crystal clear - unplayed, while cover lies in excellent condition with minimal storage wear at the bottom & corners.

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