Manfred Schubert (composer)

Manfred Schubert (27 April 1937 – 10 June 2011){{cite web | title=Schubert, Manfred – Musikabteilung | website=Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | url=https://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/die-staatsbibliothek/abteilungen/musik/sammlungen/bestaende/nachlaesse/schubert-manfred/ | language=de | access-date=13 January 2021}} was a German composer, conductor and music critic.

Life

Schubert was born the son of a lawyer in Berlin-Charlottenburg.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Grützner |first=Vera |title=Manfred Schubert |encyclopedia=Komponisten der Gegenwart |language=de |location=Munich |isbn=978-3-86916-164-8 |date=1996}} In his youth, he received violin and piano lessons; he passed his Abitur in Berlin-Köpenick. From 1955 to 1960, he studied music education with Fritz Reuter,Peter Hollfelder: Geschichte der Klaviermusik. F. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1989, {{ISBN|3-7959-0770-5}}, {{p.|310}}. Georg Knepler and Siegfried Bimberg and Slavic studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Von 1960 bis 1963 war er {{Ill|Meisterschüler|de}} for musical composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. From 1962 to 1990, he worked regularly as a music critic for the Berliner Zeitung, after that only sporadically. In 1978, he conducted the Staatskapelle Berlin at a guest concert in Lyon. From 1984 to 1985, he worked as a lecturer in composition and instrumentation at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". Since 1963, he lived in Berlin as a freelance composer.

Schubert died in Berlin at the age of 74. His estate is owned by the Berlin State Library.

Work

= Compositions =

Source:{{cite web | last=Hillenbrand | first=Markus | title=Klassika: Manfred Schubert (1937–2011) | website=Klassika | url=https://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Schubert_Manfred/ | language=de | access-date=13 January 2021}}

== Orchestral works ==

1965: Tanzstudien, for small orchestra (15')
1966: Orchestermusik 66 (Paean) (7')
1966: Suite für Orchester (22')
1970: Divertimento für Orchester (14')
1971: Konzert für Klarinette und Orchester (22')
1972: Hommage à Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, Concertante meditations for harp solo, 13 string instruments, percussion and celesta (20')
1974: Cantilena e Capriccio, per violino ed orchestra (16')
1979–82: I. Sinfonie, for large orchestra (32')
1988: Konzert für zwei Violinen und Orchester (25')
1990: Vogelreden III, Capriccio für 6 Flöten (1 Spieler) und Streichorchester (22')
1998–05: Ein ökumenisches Te Deum, for four solo voices, speaker, eight-part mixed choir, organ and large orchestra (75'){{cite web |last=Smitmans |first=Wolfgang | title=Nachruf Manfred Schubert | website=hastedt Musikedition | url=http://www.hastedt-musikedition.de/pages/nr_ms.html | language=de | access-date=13 January 2021}}

== Chamber music ==

1961: Musik für sieben Instrumente (12')
1963: I. Streichquartett (16')
1966: Sonata per flauto solo (15')
1967: Moments musicaux, for wind quintet (12')
1967: Septett (11')
1967/68: Nachtstück und Passacaglia, for octet (17')
1970: II. Streichquartett (14')
1975: Evocazione, per undici esecutori (10')
1984/85: Vogelreden II, Concertante Duo for Flute and Harp (12')
1987: Elegia con elgeganza, Canto aleatorio V per contrabbasso solo (9')
1987: Ramificazioni, Canto aleatorio VI per arpa sola (9')
2002: Trazóm Suédama, Trio for oboe, violin and violoncello (18')

== Piano pieces ==

1960: Variazioni per pianoforte (11')
1961: I. Klaviersonate (10')
1963: II. Klaviersonate (11')
1967: Serenata semplice (3')
1969: Vier Cembalostücke (7')
1976: Esde Hafis, Canto aleatorio II per pianoforte solo (7')

== Vocal music ==

1964: Acht Lieder, on poems by Bertolt Brecht (9')
1964: Traumwald, Four Lieder on poems by Christian Morgenstern for baritone and String Orchestra (6')
1973: Canzone amorose, Concerto for baritone and large orchestra on poems by Johannes Bobrowski (22')
1986: Nachtgesänge, after Carl Friedrich Zelter together with two intermezzi for medium voice and small orchestra (Goethe) (20')
1992: Miserere, for eight–part mixed choir and organ (8')
1996: Misericordia ejus, antiphon for 2 mixed choirs a cappella (12')
1995–97: Missa viadrina, for eight–part mixed choir a cappella (50')
2006: Zweite Romantik, seven sonnets for medium voice and piano (32')

= Poetry collections =

1997–2009: Blaues Haus auf rotem Grund; Reisegedichte
1998–2006: Muse und Metier; Künstlerprobleme
1993–2009: Wetterleuchten; Gedichte zwischen Hoffnung und Zweifel

Prizes

Composition Prize at the Prague Spring International Music Festival (1966)
{{Ill|Ernst-Zinna-Preis der Stadt Berlin|de}} (1966){{cite web | title=Manfred Schubert | website=hastedt Musikedition | url=http://www.hastedt-musikedition.de/komponist/schubert.html | language=de | access-date=13 January 2021}}
Prize of the {{Ill|Verband der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der DDR|de}} (1966, 1969)
Hanns Eisler Prize of the Rundfunk der DDR (1977)
Recognition by the International Rostrum of Composers of the UNESCO in Paris (1984)