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Theo Brandmüller
Theo Brandmüller (* 2 February 1948 in Mainz; † 26 November 2012 in Saarbrücken) was a German composer of contemporary music, organist and university Professor.
Brandmüller studied school and church music as well as composition with Giselher Klebe, Olivier Messiaen and Cristóbal Halffter and instrumental theatre with Mauricio Kagel; he was accepted as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
After working as organist at St. George's in Mainz-Bretzenheim, he received a call to the Hochschule für Musik Saar in 1979. There he first worked as professor for music theory, then for composition, analysis and organ improvisation. Later he was also director of the Institute for Contemporary Music. Since 1982 he has also been titular organist at the Ludwigskirche in Saarbrücken and since 1986 consiliarius of the Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae in Rome.
He achieved his international breakthrough as a composer in 1977 at the World Music Days in Athens with the work Ach, trauriger Mond, a commissioned work for Südwestfunk.
His compositional output, consisting of some 130 works, includes secular music and church music, chamber and vocal music as well as music for stage works and symphonic compositions. An opera commissioned by the Saarland State Theatre remained unfinished. He found inspiration for his compositions in the poetry of Christian Morgenstern and Federico García Lorca, among others, as well as in the fine arts (such as Paul Klee).
In addition to his work as a university lecturer, he was also active as a lecturer in various composition courses: he supervised the youth composition courses of the Jeunesses Musicales and taught at the "Forum junger Komponisten". He was also active internationally as a lecturer in organ composition and improvisation.
In his worldwide organ concerts, Brandmüller preferred contemporary works and improvisations. He worked with internationally renowned conductors such as Marcello Viotti, Max Pommer, Gabriel Chmura, Leif Segerstam, Cristóbal Halffter and Peter Ruzicka.
His students include, among others: Manuel Gera (* 1963), Zeynep Gedizlioğlu (* 1977), Wolfram Graf (* 1965), Han Aseon (* 1963), Christian Klein (* 1967), Stefan Lindemann (* 1969), Karola Obermüller (* 1977), Javier Party (* 1980), Marc Schubring (* 1968), Wang Lin (王琳) (* 1976), Anton Steinecker (* 1971) and the organist Dan Zerfaß (* 1968), Seunglim Kim(* 1971), Seunghyuck Lim(* 1978), Jaekyung Lim(* 1978), Hyeyoon Ahn(* 1980).
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Theo Brandmüller
Theo Brandmüller (* 2 February 1948 in Mainz; † 26 November 2012 in Saarbrücken) was a German composer of contemporary music, organist and university Professor.
Brandmüller studied school and church music as well as composition with Giselher Klebe, Olivier Messiaen and Cristóbal Halffter and instrumental theatre with Mauricio Kagel; he was accepted as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
After working as organist at St. George's in Mainz-Bretzenheim, he received a call to the Hochschule für Musik Saar in 1979. There he first worked as professor for music theory, then for composition, analysis and organ improvisation. Later he was also director of the Institute for Contemporary Music. Since 1982 he has also been titular organist at the Ludwigskirche in Saarbrücken and since 1986 consiliarius of the Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae in Rome.
He achieved his international breakthrough as a composer in 1977 at the World Music Days in Athens with the work Ach, trauriger Mond, a commissioned work for Südwestfunk.
His compositional output, consisting of some 130 works, includes secular music and church music, chamber and vocal music as well as music for stage works and symphonic compositions. An opera commissioned by the Saarland State Theatre remained unfinished. He found inspiration for his compositions in the poetry of Christian Morgenstern and Federico García Lorca, among others, as well as in the fine arts (such as Paul Klee).
In addition to his work as a university lecturer, he was also active as a lecturer in various composition courses: he supervised the youth composition courses of the Jeunesses Musicales and taught at the "Forum junger Komponisten". He was also active internationally as a lecturer in organ composition and improvisation.
In his worldwide organ concerts, Brandmüller preferred contemporary works and improvisations. He worked with internationally renowned conductors such as Marcello Viotti, Max Pommer, Gabriel Chmura, Leif Segerstam, Cristóbal Halffter and Peter Ruzicka.
His students include, among others: Manuel Gera (* 1963), Zeynep Gedizlioğlu (* 1977), Wolfram Graf (* 1965), Han Aseon (* 1963), Christian Klein (* 1967), Stefan Lindemann (* 1969), Karola Obermüller (* 1977), Javier Party (* 1980), Marc Schubring (* 1968), Wang Lin (王琳) (* 1976), Anton Steinecker (* 1971) and the organist Dan Zerfaß (* 1968), Seunglim Kim(* 1971), Seunghyuck Lim(* 1978), Jaekyung Lim(* 1978), Hyeyoon Ahn(* 1980).