Hans-Jürgen von Bose

Hans-Jürgen von Bose

Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 24 December 1953 in Munich) is a German composer.

Life

After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory. Upon graduating from the conservatory, he studied composition (under Hans Ulrich Engelmann), piano ( under Klaus Billing), and conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. After attending the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1974 and the premiere of his First String Quartet, he was awarded several scholarships, among others from the Mozart Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation. In 1976, Bose dropped out of school in Frankfurt and settled in Munich as a freelance artist. The following works like Morphogenesis (1976), Das Diplom (1976), Die Nacht aus Blei (1981), 63: Dream Palace (1990), among others, he received numerous grants and awards:

He received commissions from renowned orchestras and opera houses including Idyllen (1982/83) for the Berlin Philharmonic. In the 1980s, Bose became a member of the jury of the "Summer Music Festival Hitzacker" as well as a lecturer at the "Young Composers' Meeting" in Weikersheim. After a visiting professorship for composition at the Salzburg Mozarteum he succeeded Wilhelm Killmayer as professor of composition at the University of Music and Theater in Munich in 1992 (until 2007). Now he is teaching again at University of Music and Theater in Munich since 2012.

As a teacher, he has decisively influenced the work of, among others, Moritz Eggert, Hans Huyssen, Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau, Volker Nickel, Klaus Schedl, Alexander Strauch, Carl Christian Bettendorf, Mark Moebius, Andreas Daams, Michael Bastian Weiss, Anno Schreier and Jeon Minje.

Hans-Jürgen von Bose moved in 2011 from Berlin to Zorneding near Munich.

Work

Hans-Jürgen von Bose's early works are characterized by the juxtaposition and interlocking of structural and public sound elements. Overcoming the serial composition, and advocating a subjective semantics since the Darmstadt Summer Courses 1978, as the "New Simplicity" (this was also true for other composers such as Wolfgang Rihm and Detlev Müller-Siemens), with the term Strukturalität, meaning the time and the complex treatment could not cover compositions. Under the slogan "New Subjectivity" which began in the 1970s, the consensus against serial constructive thinking was a significant impetus for a new material term derived from an objective understanding of the turning material.

The label "New Simplicity" was misapplied to Bose’s works starting with the String Trio of 1978, though it does point to the presence of an important, though intimate and concealed semantic dimension in his works which can be directly experienced. Beginning in 1989 with the opera 63: Dream Palace, Bose has enriched the process of temporal layering and serial organization characteristic of his music, in a spirit of reflective postmodernism, by borrowing stylistic elements from the past and present.[1]

He wrote the libretto for 63: Dream Palace himself after the novella by James Purdy. It was premiered at the second Munich Biennale in 1990. The heterogeneity of post-modernism is processed through the different reflected styles. A highlight of this period is the opera Slaughterhouse V (1996), whose libretto is based on the novel Slaughterhouse 5, or the children's crusade, by Kurt Vonnegut.

Bridge-building between modernism and post-modernism appears as a significant aspect of Bose's work.

Slaughterhouse Five

Post-structuralism

The French philosophy and its theory of "Death of the Author" (Roland Barthes) make this its influence significantly, as the "personal style" of Bose as a "hopefully soon to be overcome relic of the 19th Century".[2]

Significant for Bose's creativity in general, and Slaughterhouse 5 in particular, is the treatment of temporal complexity. The linear understanding of time is replaced by simultaneity, zeitspastischen analogous to the understanding of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Bose also permits the findings from the chaos theory, neurobiology and astrophysics polymorphic in his understanding of time are introduced, through the music out into the structuring of the libretto were implemented. Sergei Eisenstein established form of the film will be cut here – even composition – used so that different levels of "fast and hard against geschnitten"[3] can be used in compositional layering and continued interweaving. The composer speaks in this context of a "time-palimpsest".[3]

The opera was created as a work commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera and opened in 1996 the Munich Opera Festival (directed by Eike Gramss de:Eike Gramss).

Compositions

Vocal music

Stage works

Instrumental music

Chamber music

Piano music

Publications

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Mauser 2001.
  2. ↑ Bose 2005, 353–54.
  3. 1 2 Bose 2005, 353.

Further reading

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