
Aribert Reimann
À propos de Aribert Reimann
Aribert Reimann’s music assimilates an essential artistic constellation in the first modern period, namely the issue of the character of a work and the autonomy of art in view of an externally and internally disjointed society. Art can no longer be of comfort … (Wolfgang Rathert)
Aribert Reimann was born on 4 March 1936 in Berlin. He grew up in a musical family; his father was an organist and director of the Berlin State and Cathedral Choir, his mother was a renowned oratorio singer and singing teacher. Reimann composed his first lieder with piano at the age of ten. After having passed his Abitur [higher education entrance examination] in 1955, he worked as repetiteur in the Studio of the State Opera House in Berlin and simultaneously studied composition with Boris Blacher and Ernst Pepping and piano with Otto Rausch at the Academy of Music in Berlin. He gave his first concerts as pianist and lied accompanist in 1957. A year later, he attended the University of Vienna to study musicology. His ballet Stoffreste based on a libretto by Günter Grass received its premiere at the Städtische Bühnen in Essen in 1959. Music theatre and lieder provided the nucleus for Reimann’s further artistic development. As early as 1971, the composer was awarded the German Critics’ Prize for his complete oeuvre up to that date. From 1974 to 1983, he was professor at the Hamburg Musikhochschule with the specialist area contemporary lied and from 1983 in the same function at the Berlin University of the Arts. Aribert Reimann lives and works in Berlin.
The affinity for the human voice provides a strong impulse for Aribert Reimann’s compositional activity. Alongside lied settings of texts by authors such as Paul Celan, James Joyce, Joseph von Eichendorff and Louïze Labé, the composer has also produced numerous chamber music works, solo concertos and orchestral works such as Miniatures for string quartet (2004/05), the two Piano Concertos (1961 und 1972), Seven Fragments for Orchestra (in memoriam Robert Schumann, 1988) and the orchestral work Zeit-Inseln (2004).
Reimann’s operatic output began in 1965 with the first performance of Ein Traumspiel based on a text by August Strindberg in Kiel. This was followed by Melusine, based on the play by Yvan Goll, premiered at the Schwetzingen Festival in 1971. With his opera Lear (1978, Bayerische Staatsoper), Aribert Reimann was able to win over not only specialists and critics but also a wider public for his characteristic personal style: the work has been performed internationally in more than thirty productions. With its basis on the play by William Shakespeare, the composer created music with an almost physical directness which is at all times aware of its existence on the borderline to being struck dumb. In 1984, Die Gespenstersonate, also on a text by August Strindberg, was premiered in Berlin and, in 1986, Troades based on the play by Euripides in the version by Franz Werfel. Reimann undertook a further ambitious literary project from 1990 to1992 with his opera Das Schloß based on the novel by Franz Kafka (first performance 1992): the nightmarish and labyrinthine atmosphere of the text is reflected in a chamber musical and fragile texture of the music. The premiere of Bernarda Alba’s House, based on the text by Federico García Lorca, took place at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in 2000. Considered as one of the leading German-speaking opera composers, Aribert Reimann has received a commission from the Vienna State Opera to compose an opera on Medea based on the play of the same name by Franz Grillparzer which has been awarded "World Première of the Year" by German magazine "Opernwelt". His latest music theatre work, L'Invisible, is based on three dramas by Maurice Maeterlink and was premiered in autmn 2017 at Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Aribert Reimann has received numerous honours and awards, including the Grand Cross for Distinguished Service of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985, the 'Prix de composition musicale de la Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco' in 1986, the Bach Prize of the Free Hanseatic city of Hamburg in 1987, the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin in 1988, in 1991 the Frankfurt Music Prize, the Grand Cross with Star for Distinguished Service of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1995, the Goldene Nadel from the Dramatiker Union in 2002, the Berlin Art Prize for Music and the medal of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg in 2002, the Arnold Schönberg Prize in 2006 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2011. In 2018, he was awarded the German theatre award DER FAUST for lifetime achievement. In 1999, Reimann was appointed as Commandeur de 'L'Ordre du Mérite Culturel de la Principauté de Monaco’. He is also a member of the Order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts and honorary member of the German Music Council.
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Chronologie
World premiere of the opera "Ein Traumspiel" at the Bühnen der Landeshauptstadt Kiel
World premiere of the opera "Melusine" at the Schwetzingen Festival
Critics Award for Music (1970) for his Oeuvre and particularly for the Music of the ballet "Die Vogelscheuchen"
Received the Grand Cross for Distinguished Service of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ludwig Spohr Prize of Braunschweig
Music Composition Award of the Prince Pierre Foundation of Monaco
Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
Produits
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Acht Lieder und ein Fragment von Felix Mendelssohn BartholdyCompositeur: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Aribert ReimannEdition: Partition et partiesSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: soprano et quatuor à cordesNuméro du produit: ED 8762Prix à partir de46,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de46,99 €TTCEn stock -
Trio pour soprano, clarinette en la et pianoCompositeur: Aribert ReimannEdition: Partition d'exécutionSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: soprano, clarinette en la et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 20412Prix à partir de29,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de29,99 €TTCEn stock -
für Klavier und OrchesterCompositeur: Aribert ReimannMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: piano et orchestre
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für Klavier und 19 SpielerCompositeur: Aribert ReimannMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: piano et 19 musicien
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nach Gedichten von Gabriela MistralPrix à partir de6,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de6,99 €TTCEn stock
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Compositeur: Aribert ReimannMedia Type: PartitionInstrumentation: baryton et pianoLangue: AnglaisNuméro du produit: AVV 1317,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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von Johannes Brahms auf Texte aus William Shakespeares HamletCompositeur: Johannes Brahms | Aribert ReimannEdition: Partition et partiesSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: voix et quatuor à cordesNuméro du produit: ED 8836Prix à partir de19,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de19,99 €TTCEn stock -
for string quartetCompositeur: Aribert ReimannEdition: Partition et partiesSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: quatuor à cordesNuméro du produit: ED 22986Prix à partir de30,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de30,99 €TTCEn stock -
Compositeur: Aribert ReimannMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeSéries: Music Of Our Time
Neun Stücke
Instrumentation: orchestreNuméro du produit: ED 844454,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
zum Gedenken an Robert SchumannCompositeur: Aribert ReimannEdition: Partition et partiesSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: quatuor à cordesNuméro du produit: ED 9977Prix à partir de15,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de15,99 €TTCEn stock -
Text von Eduard MörikeCompositeur: Aribert ReimannEdition: Edition séparéeSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: ténor et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 20993Prix à partir de14,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de14,99 €TTCEn stock -
for violoncello and pianoCompositeur: Aribert ReimannSéries: Cello Library
Edition Schott
Instrumentation: violoncelle et pianoNuméro du produit: CB 285Prix à partir de8,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de8,99 €TTCEn stock -
Texte von Friedrich Hölderlin und Friedrich von SchillerCompositeur: Aribert ReimannSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: soprano et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 9971Prix à partir de18,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de18,99 €TTCEn stock -
A Guide to the Stage WorksCompositeur: Aribert ReimannMedia Type: Matériel publicitaireLangue: Allemand, AnglaisNuméro du produit: KAT 310-990,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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Liste des œuvres publiées. État actuel mars 2006Compositeur: Aribert ReimannMedia Type: Matériel publicitaireLangue: Allemand, AnglaisNuméro du produit: KAT 65-990,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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Leben und WerkCompositeur: Aribert ReimannAuteur: Wolfgang BurdeMedia Type: LivreLangue: AllemandNuméro du produit: ED 854448,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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pour clarinette de basset en LaCompositeur: Aribert ReimannSéries: Clarinet Library
Edition Schott
Instrumentation: basseettclarinette en laNuméro du produit: KLB 68Prix à partir de4,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de4,99 €TTCEn stock -
Drei KlavierstückeCompositeur: Aribert ReimannMedia Type: PartitionInstrumentation: pianoNuméro du produit: ED 828920,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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Chorzyklus nach Gedichten von Hans ArpCompositeur: Aribert ReimannEdition: Partition de choeurSérie: Schott Chamber Choir
Instrumentation: choeur mixte (SATB) a cappellaNuméro du produit: SKR 20010Prix à partir de6,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de6,99 €TTCEn stock -
Oper in drei AktenCompositeur: Aribert ReimannMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionLangue: Allemand