Urs Peter Schneider
Kompositionen 1960–2012
(2014)
item number CR370
Triple CD Edition
released October 10, 2014
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Creations from the work of Urs Peter Schneider, covering virtually all genres of music up to opera and operetta, can be listened to on almost 20 sound storage media; suspicious of authoritarian casts he mainly composes chamber music and pieces that fathom out the limits between language and music. Most of those productions do not content themselves with being a collection of various compositions; they are programmes that are composed right through, in which single pieces depend on each other and make up
a whole cluster of meaning, comparable with the structures that are effective in single pieces of work. On the occasion of his 75th birthday he presents a triple CD which drives forward, or even carries to extremes, this method, conceptualizing a kind of triptych; casts, years of origin, approaches in regards to composition and many other characte- ristics are referred to each other in a meaningful way, even literary influences have their significance, up to actual language compositions. The first CD combines language with four different kinds of electronics, the third offers four realizations of pure language, all coming from his own kitchen; in the background of the second CD, tracks 2 and 5, language generates musical results directly through codification. Throughout the works of Urs Peter Schneider the listeners are given the opportunity to discover their own approach through his music; it is non-dramatic, non-hysteric, not dependent on cheap seduction and is full of enigmaticness. The 8 plus 6 plus 8 titles of the compositions may act as initial ignition for activities of the public; further suggestions are given in this booklet, which are also available without any obligations. In form of the triple CD each single work owes its appearance to always new approaches, and oddities with regards to content and structure are worth listening to with curiosity; humour, the true spirituality, will also play a big part as something essential that runs through the existence of the composer.
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Effloreszenz
Ernsteres
Senfkorn
Noch
Vier Eigenheiten
Tageswiegen
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Familie
Kreuze
Muspili
Achtzehn Stationen
Androgyn
Mit Hintergründigkeit
Einige Rezepte
Notentext
Kerker
Aesen
Ewiger Schnee
Ich
Findlinge
Nachvollzug
Abdichtung
Bio
Born in 1939 in Bern, composer and improviser, interpreter and pedagogue, lately also language performer. Since 1955 more than 150 compositions with more than 2000 performances, very often in niche scenes. After his A-levels studies with Walter Lang
and Prof. Bruno Seidlhofer in piano, Sandor Veress and Prof. Karlheinz Stockhausen in composition, seven years in Bern, Cologne and Vienna. 1968 founding of the «Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern» for American and Swiss New Music, mainly conceptual, in over 800 performances and premieres. Since 1973 improvising, in international contexts, often as soloist. 1966 soloist award of the Swiss association of musicians, 1970 «Avopreis des Holländischen Rundfunks», 1983 «Grosser Musikpreis des Kantons Bern», together with Erika Radermacher, his first wife, 1987 first price «Musik im Grenzbereichen» des Migros Genossenschaftsbundes, together with Philippe Micol, 2006 «Kulturpreis der Stadt Biel», 2009 composition award of the Swiss association of musicians, and many more. Living
in Biel since 1966, teacher at the Bern Conservatorium, professor at the Hochschule für Musik until 2002, theoretical and practical courses. Far more than 50 multi-media projects with the «Ensemble fächerübergreifend». Since 1988 many performances together with his second wife, the performer and interior designer Marion Leyh, such as «Wüsten», «Von John Cage ausgehend», «Clavierübung», «Zweieiige Zwillinge», «Ein Fünfakter» and others. Almost ten-year break in composition during the nineties, researching, thinking, performing, writing of many «Studien», which were completely performed with Norbert Klassen over four days. 1988 the book «Komponieren 1955–1988» at Zytglogge publishing house, 2008 the book «Das Umbiel» at Die Brotsuppe publishing house, 2013 completion of the elaborate research «Konzeptuelle Musik, Eine kommentierte Anthologie». For a long time planning of «Schriften für als mit zur Musik» in five volumes. Since 2008 publi- cation of his complete works at www.aart-verlag.ch and at www.musicedition.ch. Since then busy with new, encompassing and universal composition strategies.