Dieter Lehnhoff

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Dieter Lehnhoff

Dieter Lehnhoff (born May 27, 1955) is a composer, conductor, and musicologist.

in Guatemala City

Guatemala City

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to German

Germany

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settlers, 1955, Dieter Lehnhoff has been a pupil of Klaus Ager

Klaus Ager

Klaus Ager is an Austrian composer and conductor.Ager studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 1975 to 1986 he directed the ?sterreichische Ensemble f?r Neue Musik ....
, Gerhard Wimberger, Josef Maria Horváth

Josef Maria Horváth

Josef Maria Horv?th is a Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor....
, and Dr. Friedrich C. Heller in Salzburg

Salzburg

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. His musique concréte work Requiem

Requiem

The Requiem or Requiem Mass , also known formally in Latin as the Missa pro defunctis or Missa defunctorum , is a liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, Anglo-Catholic Anglicans, and certain Lutheran Church Churches in the United States....
was premiered in 1975 at the Austria

Austria

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n Broadcasting (ORF). He earned his master's (M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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) and doctoral (Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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) degrees with distinction at the Benjamin T.

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Dieter Lehnhoff (born May 27, 1955) is a composer, conductor, and musicologist.

Life

Born in Guatemala City

Guatemala City

Guatemala City is the Capital and largest city of the nation of Guatemala. It is also the capital city of the local Guatemala and the largest city in Central America....
to German

Germany

Klaus Ager

Josef Maria Horváth

Josef Maria Horv?th is a Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor....
, and Dr. Friedrich C. Heller in Salzburg

Salzburg

is the List of cities and towns in Austria#List of cities and towns by population size in Austria and the capital city of the states of Austria of Salzburg ....
. His musique concréte work Requiem

Requiem

Austria

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

Ph.D.

The Catholic University of America

The Catholic University of America , located in Northeast Washington, D.C., is the national university of the Roman Catholic Church and the only higher education institution founded by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops....
in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, where he was a graduate student of Conrad Bernier

Conrad Bernier

Conrad Bernier was a French-Canadian organist, composer, and teacher....
and Helmut Braunlich

Helmut Braunlich

Helmut Braunlich is a German people-United States violinist, composer, and musicologist....
(composition), Donald Thulean (conducting), Cyrilla Barr, Ruth Steiner, and Robert M. Stevenson (musicology).

Recent works

His original compositions have been performed in Europe and the Americas. His Misa de San Isidro (2001) for a cappella chorus was premiered in Tenerife, the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands are a Spain archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union....
, Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, in 2002, and has been performed by different professional choirs at festivals in Medellín

Medellín

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, Tokyo

Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
, and New York City

New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. His Piano Concerto No. 1 (2005), dedicated to the Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....
pianist and teacher, Alexandr Sklioutovski, was premiered in June, 2006 at the National Theatre in Guatemala City

Guatemala City

Guatemala City is the Capital and largest city of the nation of Guatemala. It is also the capital city of the local Guatemala and the largest city in Central America....
by José Pablo Quesada as soloist and the Millennium Orchestra, the composer conducting. In 2007, it was performed to critical acclaim and great enthusiasm at the National Theatre in San José, Costa Rica, again with pianist Quesada and the composer conducting the National University Symphony Orchestra. Quesada also performed it at the 15th Latin American Music Festival in Caracas, Venezuela in May, 2008, with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
. Lehnhoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 (2007) was very successfully premiered in August, 2008 in Guatemala City by concert pianist Sergio Sandí, with the combined Millennium Orchestra and Bachensemble Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
, the composer conducting. The concertos are written in a personal, highly original post-modern style in which contemporary art-music idioms and techniques, but also blues

Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
, tango

Tango music

Tango is a style of music that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta t?pica, which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons....
, and jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
influences can be traced. His aphoristical twelve-tone Hai-kai for piano have attracted the attention of scholars such as the distinguished musicologist Dr. Tamara Sklioutovskaia, and have been performed by international pianists. His piano and chamber music has been performed at numerous festivals in Europe

Europe

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, North- and South America

South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
. His dyptich Escenas primigenias was published on CD and served as a model for cinematic development. His stage work in progress Satuyé, on an own multilingual libretto, is about the Afro-Caribbean Garinagu (or Garifuna

Garifuna

The Garinagu are an ethnic group of mixed ancestry who live primarily in Central America. They live along the Caribbean Coast in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras including the mainland, and on the island of Roat?n....
) people and their arrival at Central America

Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
n shores.

Revival of historical music

His research of the Music of Guatemala

Music of Guatemala

Guatemala's national instrument is the marimba, an idiophone from the family of the xylophones, which is played all over the country, even in the remotest corners....
has revealed a previously unknown musical wealth, including the Maya, Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
, baroque

Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
, classical

Classical music

Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western art history Religious music and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times....
, romantic

Romance (music)

The term romance has a centuries-long history. Applied to narrative ballads in Spain, it came to be used by the 18th century for simple lyrical pieces not only for voice, but also for instruments alone....
, 20th century, and current trends. From the early 1980s on, Dieter Lehnhoff had become interested in searching for music composed in Central America

Central America

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
during the Spanish rule (1524-1821). His research initiatives brought to light a number of compositions by Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
masters Hernando Franco

Hernando Franco

Hernando Franco was a Spain composer of the Renaissance music, who was mainly active in Guatemala and Mexico....
, Pedro Bermúdez

Pedro Bermúdez

Pedro Berm?dez was a Spain composer and Kapellmeister, who has been recognised as one of the most outstanding polyphonists in the New World, and who was active in Granada, Antequera, Cusco, Santiago de Guatemala , and Puebla....
, and Gaspar Fernández, as well as Guatemalan baroque

Baroque

Manuel José de Quirós

Manuel Jos? de Quir?s was an 18th century Guatemalan composer....
, Rafael Antonio Castellanos

Rafael Antonio Castellanos

Rafael Antonio Castellanos was a Guatemalan classical composer. His style is that of the late Spanish baroque, pre-classical, and classical periods, with frequent reference to Guatemalan folk music idioms....
, Pedro Antonio Rojas, and José Eulalio Samayoa. A first anthology was published in Antigua Guatemala

Antigua Guatemala

La Antigua Guatemala is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala famous for its well-preserved Spain Mud?jar-influenced Baroque architecture as well as a number of spectacular ruins of colonial churches....
in 1984. The music was revived in a number of concerts conducted by Lehnhoff, thus surprising the musical world with a new repertoire of high quality. The first series of digital recordings (1992-99), which spanned from the late Maya times to the end of the 20th century, was released as part of the monumental Historia General de Guatemala, an encyclopedic publication in six volumes written by over 150 specialists in every historical area. The series of seven CDs included premiere recordings of music from every historical period. The revival of the historic Music of Guatemala

Music of Guatemala

Guatemala's national instrument is the marimba, an idiophone from the family of the xylophones, which is played all over the country, even in the remotest corners....
through Lehnhoff's concerts, writings, and recordings had a significant effect on the strengthening of the cultural identity of Guatemalans in times of civil confrontation and turmoil. The dissemination of his musical and historical findings at more than 40 international festivals, concerts, congresses, and meetings also helped to restore the cultural image and prestige of the country.

As a conductor, he has founded and directed various instrumental groups, orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
s, and choral groups. He has been invited to perform as a conductor, composer, lecturer, or leader of his Millennium Ensemble at over forty international festivals and concerts in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
, Austria

Austria

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, Chile

Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
, El Salvador

El Salvador

El Salvador is the smallest country in the Americas and Central America by size, and the most densely populated nation in Central America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras....
, Germany

Germany

Guatemala

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
, Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
, Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....
, Spain

Spain

United States

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, and Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
. He has produced a series of compact discs with premiere recordings of works by Guatemalan composers of all times.

Academic programmes

In the academic field he also pioneered by establishing and directing several institutions and programmes devoted to the strengthening of musical culture in Guatemala. Thus, he proposed and carried out the design and establishment of the Music Department at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, which offered, for the first time in the country, a Bachelors degree and a teaching license in Music. He also established the Institute of Musicology

Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture....
at the Universidad Rafael Landívar , which is under his direction, and which is primarily devoted to musicological research. He has taught numerous courses in musicology

Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture....
, music theory, applied music, and composition. He has also been an invited professor at the doctoral programme of the National University of Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
. For his extensive writings he was made a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy, being also invited to join the Academies of History of Argentina

Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
, Guatemala

Guatemala

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
, Spain

Spain

Uruguay

Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
, and Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
.

He is founder and president of the Guatemalan Music Council, affiliated to the International Music Council

International Music Council

The International Music Council was created in 1949 as UNESCO's advisory body on matters of music. It is based at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France, where it functions as an independent international non-governmental organization....
of Unesco

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
.

Selected compositions

Orchestral: Kammersinfonie (1975, rev. 1989); Symphony No. 2 (1990); Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 (Dieter Lehnhoff) (2005); Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 (2007).

Stage: Streichquartett, music theatre (1974); Milarepa Superstar, musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece ? humor, pathos, love, anger ? as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole....
(1977, score lost); Satuyé, opera

Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
(2007).

Vocal-choral: Cinco canciones criollas (1976); Cantos latinos de natividad (1988); Misa de San Isidro (2001); Chaaj: el juego de pelota Maya (2003).

Piano: Album para la juventud (1988); Hai-kai (2001).

Electro-acoustic: Requiem (1975); Memorias de un día remoto (1999), Rituales nocturnos (1999).

Books

Creación musical en Guatemala. Guatemala City: Editorial Galería Guatemalea, 2005.

Huellas de la guerra en el arte musical Guatemala City: International Red Cross Committee, 1999.

Música y músicos de Guatemala. Guatemala City: Universidad Rafael Landívar, Cultura de Guatemala, 1995.

Rafael Antonio Castellanos: vida y obra de un músico guatemalteco. Guatemala City: Universidad Rafael Landívar, Instituto de Musicología, 1994.

Espada y pentagrama: la música polifónica en la Guatemala del siglo XVI. Guatemala City: Universidad Rafael Landívar, 1984.