
Volker David Kirchner
About Volker David Kirchner
Volker David Kirchner, born in Mainz on 25 June 1942, comes from a family with a long musical tradition. He studied at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory of Mainz from 1956-1959 with Günter Kehr (violin) and Günter Raphael (composition) and at the Cologne Musikhochschule from 1959-1963 where he also attended master classes of Bernd Alois Zimmermann. He was solo violist of the Cologne Rheinisches Kammerorchester (1962-1964), and after further studies with Tibor Varga in Detmold, he was taken on as violist in the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. As violist of the Kehr Trio, he toured South America, North Africa and the Near East, studying thoroughly non-European music.In parallel to his work as orchestra musician, he founded the Ensemble 70 in Wiesbaden in 1970 and worked as composer of incidental music at the Wiesbaden Hessisches Staatstheater from 1972-1974. Since 1988 Volker David Kirchner has worked as freelance composer; his work covers all genres, including numerous works for the music theatre and in particular chamber music and orchestral works. His opera Gilgamesh, commissioned by the Niedersächsische Staatsoper of Hanover on the occasion of the EXPO 2000, was premiered in May 2000, his latest opera Ahasver, commissioned by the Bielefeld Theatre, was firstly given in Bielefeld in May 2001.
Volker David Kirchner has been awarded numerous prizes and honours, including the Award of the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate for Young Composers, for his first opera Die Trauung (1974), the Arts Award of the Rhineland-Palatinate (1977), the Gutenberg Medal of the City of Mainz (1992), the Music Award of the Rheingau Music Festival (first prize, 1994) and, in 1995, the Composition Award of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the Kreissparkasse of Hanover. In 1992 he became a member of the advisory board of the Villa Musica Foundation in Mainz.
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Composer: Volker David KirchnerEdition: Score and partsSeries: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: flute, horn, viola, cello and pianoProduct number: ED 9511As low as€18.99Incl. Tax -
für großes OrchesterComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: large orchestra
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für Sopran, Mezzosopran, Alt, großes Orchester und TonbandComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, large orchestra and tapeLanguage: Ancient Greek, German
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Composer: Volker David KirchnerEdition: Score and partsSeries: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: string quartetProduct number: ED 9373As low as€23.99Incl. Tax -
mit obligater KlarinetteComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Score and partsInstrumentation: String quartet with obligatory Clarinet (b)Product number: ED 9374€36.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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oder Die Besichtigung eines ZeitaltersComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialLanguage: German
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Drei MeditationenComposer: Volker David KirchnerSeries: Cello Library
Edition Schott
Instrumentation: celloProduct number: CB 170As low as€14.99Incl. Tax -
für Sopran, Bass, Sprecher, zwei gemischte Chöre und großes OrchesterComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: soprano, bass, speaker, 2 mixed choirs and large orchestraLanguage: Latin
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MusikdramaComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialLanguage: German
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für OrchesterComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: orchestra
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Composer: Volker David KirchnerInterpreter: Bodo HersenOrchestra/ensemble: Blaeser Ensemble Mainz | Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden | Kreisler TrioConductor: Siegfried Koehler | Klaus Rainer SchoellMedia Type: CDProduct number: WER 61032€18.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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für OrchesterComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: orchestra
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Composer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Full and study scoreSeries: Music Of Our Time
Bildnisse II
Instrumentation: orchestraProduct number: ED 7251€36.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping -
Hommage à W. A. MozartComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: E-score PDFEdition: Full and study scoreSeries: Music Of Our Time
Bildnisse III
Instrumentation: small orchestraProduct number: ED 8181 Q38359€15.99Incl. Tax -
Hommage à W. A. MozartComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: small orchestra
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Composer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Study scoreSeries: Music Of Our Time
Choralvariationen
Instrumentation: 15 Solo stringsProduct number: ED 7880€22.00Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping -
für 15 SolostreicherComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: 15 solostrings
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Three PiecesAs low as€15.99Incl. Tax
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Composer: Volker David KirchnerEdition: Piano reduction with solo partSeries: Konzert
Instrumentation: oboe and orchestraProduct number: ED 8944As low as€16.99Incl. Tax -
Ein deutsches MärchenComposer: Volker David KirchnerMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialLanguage: German