Aribert Reimann

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Biography

Awards

• 1962 Berliner Kunstpreis für Musik (Junge Generation) - Berlin Art Prize for Music (Young Generation)
• 1963 Rompreis mit Villa Massimo-Stipendium - Rome
  Rome
  
  Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
   Prize, with Villa Massimo
  Villa Massimo
  
  The Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo is a Germany art institute in Rome established 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo.The fellowship at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo represents one of the most important awards offered to German artists for study abroad....
   scholarship
• 1965 Robert-Schumann-Preis der Stadt Düsseldorf - Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  
  Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
   Prize of Düsseldorf
  Düsseldorf
  
  D?sseldorf is the capital city of the Germany state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an economic centre of Germany. The city is situated on the River Rhine and has a high population density - the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area has over 10 million inhabitants alone....
   City
• 1966 Förderungspreis der Stadt Stuttgart - Progress Prize of Stuttgart
  Stuttgart
  
  Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
   City
• 1985 Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz - The Great Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1985 Braunschweiger Ludwig-Spohr-Preis - The Braunschweig Ludwig Spohr Preis
• 1986 Prix de composition musicale de la Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco - Prize for musical composition, from the Prince Pierre of Monaco
  Monaco
  
  Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe . The territory lies on the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea....
   Foundation
• 1987 Bach-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg - Bach Prize of Hamburg
  Hamburg
  
  Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
  
• 1991 Frankfurter Musikpreis - Frankfurt
  Frankfurt
  
  is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
   Music Prize
• 1993 zum Officier de „L’Ordre du Mérite Culturel“ de la Principauté de Monaco - Officer, of the Order of Cultural Merit, of the Pricipality of Monaco
• 1995 Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Great Cross of Merit, with the Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1999 Ernennung zum Commandeur de „L’Ordre du Mérite Culturel“ de la Principauté de Monaco - Commander, of the Order of Cultural Merit, of the Pricipality of Monaco
• 1999 Verleihung der Goldenen Nadel der Dramatiker Union - Award of the Golden Needle of the Dramatic Union
• 2002 Preis der Kulturstiftung Dortmund - Cultural Foundation of Dortmund
  Dortmund
  
  Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the States of Germany of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the largest city in the region, 7th-largest in Germany, and 34th-largest in the European Union....
   Prize
• 2002 Kunstpreis Berlin - Berlin Art Prize
• 2006 Arnold-Schönberg-Preis - Arnold Schönberg Prize

Works

Stage Works

• Ein Traumspiel (A Dream Game, after August Strindberg) (1965)
• Melusine (after Yvan Goll
  Yvan Goll
  
  Yvan Goll, born Isaac Lange , was a French-German poet who was perfectly bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both to German expressionism and to French surrealism....
  ) (1971)
• Lear
  Lear (opera)
  
  Lear is an opera in two acts with music by the German composer Aribert Reimann, and a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, based on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear....
   (after William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  
  William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
  ) (1978)
• Die Gespenstersonate (The Ghost Sonata, after August Strindberg) (1984)
• Troades (after Euripides
  Euripides
  
  Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
  ) (1986)
• Das Schloss (The Castle, after Franz Kafka
  Franz Kafka
  
  Franz Kafka was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German language-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Austria-Hungary, presently the Czech Republic....
  ) (1992)
• Bernarda Albas Haus (Bernarda Alba's House, after Federico García Lorca
  Federico García Lorca
  
  Federico Garc?a Lorca was a Spain poet, dramatist and theatre director. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was abducted and murdered by persons likely affiliated with the Nationalist cause at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War....
  )

Orchestral Works

• Variations for Orchestra
• Nahe Ferne (Near Distance)
• Cantus für Klarinette und Orchester (Cantus for Clarinet and Orchestra)
• Sieben Fragmente für Orchester in memoriam Robert Schumann (Seven Fragments for Orchestra, in memoriam Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  
  Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
  ) (1988)

Vocal music

• Zyklus nach Gedichten von Paul Celan für Bariton und Klavier (Cycle
  Song cycle
  
  A song cycle is a group of Art song designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet....
   based on the poetry
  Poetry
  
  Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
   of Paul Celan
  Paul Celan
  
  Paul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of the romanian jew Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era....
   for baritone
  Baritone
  
  Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
   and piano
  Piano
  
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  ) (1956)
• Eingedunkelt für Alt-Solo (Eingedunkelt for Alto Solo) (1992)
• Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Paul Celan für Countertenor und Klavier (Five Songs based on the poetry of Paul Celan for countertenor
  Countertenor
  
  A countertenor is a male voice type whose vocal range is equivalent to that of a contralto, mezzo-soprano or a soprano, usually through use of falsetto, or more rarely the normal or modal voice....
   and piano) (2001)
• Entsorgt für Bariton-Solo (Disposed for baritone solo)

Sources

External links

• has FLAC files made from a high-quality LP transcription available for free download.
• has FLAC files made from high-quality LP transcriptions of out-of-print vocal and orchestral works available for free download.