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Carlos Veerhoff

April 12, 2024

Carlos Enrique Veerhoff (3 June 1926 in Buenos Aires – 18 February 2011 in Murnau) was an Argentine-born German composer of classical music.

Life and work edit

Carlos Enrique Veerhoff was born with his twin brother, Wolfgang Otto, as premature infants. Their father could only find a hospital with an incubator two days later, so that the birth date in the birth certificate is 5 June 1926, not the correct date of 3 June.

His father, Heinrich Veerhoff, was German and the head of an own company in Buenos Aires. His mother, Karla, was a violinist and the daughter of conductor Karl Panzner and singer Ida Panzner.

The Veerhoff family moved back to Germany in 1930 due to a job change by the father.

In 1933, the family moved on to South Africa. The countryside and the way of living in Africa had a great impact on the young Carlos Veerhoff, and these impressions found their way into several compositions of his later years. Another experience in South Africa was important for him as well: In 1935, the first South African airline was founded, and the young Carlos got the opportunity to take part at a pleasure flight.

Afterwards, he developed an enormous interest in flight engineering, which was only replaced later by music. But Carlos Veerhoff kept his love of natural science his whole life.

After the return of the Veerhoff family to Germany in 1935, Carlos started to attend orchestral and chamber music concerts. Also, the music played at home - his father was a good pianist and his mother a professional violinist - contributed to his future interest in classical music. This development culminated in Carlos deciding at the age of 15 to become a composer. At that time, he took his first lesson in composition theory, and in 1942 he became a student at the Musisches Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main.

After a six-day stint as a soldier in World War II in which he was injured, Carlos Veerhoff continued his composition studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Hermann Grabner and later privately with Kurt Thomas and got piano lessons from Walter Gieseking. During an internment in Düsseldorf in 1946, he studied with Walter Braunfels (composition) and Günter Wand (conducting) at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.

In 1947, Carlos Veerhoff moved to Argentina and taught music theory at the university of San Miguel de Tucumán at the Departemento Musical, which was newly founded by Ernst von Dohnányi. He also took conducting lessons from Hermann Scherchen in Buenos Aires during this period.

In 1950, Ferenc Fricsay was looking for a composition by an Argentine composer for an upcoming concert in Buenos Aires. From a selection of compositions, he chose the "Musica concertante for chamber orchestra" by Carlos Veerhoff and later conducted the world premiere. Fricsay offered him a position as an assistant to him, so Carlos Veerhoff followed Fricsay to Berlin. But from his point of view, the atmosphere in Germany was anti-artistic, and he returned to Argentina just a year later.

In the following decades, Carlos Veerhoff created dozens of compositions, nearly all of which were performed. In many cases, renowned and acclaimed musicians performed the world premieres of his works: Hans Rosbaud ("Mirages"), Ruggiero Ricci (Violin concerto No. 1), Bruno Maderna ("Cantos"), Stanislaw Skrowaczewski ("Gesänge auf dem Wege"), Ladislav Kupkovic ("Gesänge aus Samsara" and Symphony No. 4), Homero Francesch (Piano concerto No. 1), Gerhard Oppitz (Piano concerto No. 2), Thomas Zehetmair (Violin concerto No. 2) or Peter Sadlo (Percussion concerto No. 2).

Despite his success and the performances of his music, Carlos Veerhoff remained a musical outsider:

Carlos Veerhoff remained a composer in the German musical life who did not follow actual composition fashions. He called himself "clique-free" and paid this freedom with the fact that he was never offered a professorship and could not find a renowned publishing house for his compositions. Among the circle of influential German composers and critics he was never accepted as a real avant-gardist, because his advancement of the dodecaphony was unorthodox and beside all contemporary aspects always kept references to tradition.[1]

Due to his exclusion from the close music establishment in Germany, Carlos Veerhoff often went back to Argentina. Only from 1970 on did he permanently stay in Germany to his death. From 1988, he lived in Murnau, Bavaria, near Munich. His collection of papers is archived at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Compositions edit

Orchestral works edit

  • op. 9: Symphony No. 1 "Sinfonica Panta Rhei" (1953/54, WP 14 September 1961)
  • op. 15: Symphony No. 2 (1958, WP 1958)
  • op. 22: Symphony No. 3 "Spirales" (1968, revised version 1971, WP 1968)
  • op. 32: Symphony No. 4 (1972/73, WP 1979)
  • op. 43: Symphony No. 5 for strings (1975)
  • op. 70: Symphony No. 6 "Desiderata" for narrator, 3 soloists, choir and orchestra (1985/96, WP: 30. April 1997, Leipzig)
  • op. 0: Musica concertante, for chamber orchestra (1950, WP 1950)
  • op. 3: Sinfonische Inventionen, for orchestra (1951, WP 1952)
  • op. 5: Movimiento Sinfonico, for orchestra (1952, WP 1955)
  • op. 16: Mirages, for orchestra (1961, WP 1962)
  • op. 18: Prolog, for orchestra (1956, WP 1966)
  • op. 20: Gesänge auf dem Wege, for baritone and orchestra (1966, WP 1967)
  • op. 21: Akróasis, for orchestra (1966, WP 1966)
  • op. 26: Textur, for string orchestra (1970, WP 1971)
  • op. 29: Sinotrauc, for orchestra (1972, WP 1972)
  • op. 30: Torso, for orchestra (1972, WP 1972)
  • op. 39: Dorefami, for orchestra (1974, WP 1981)
  • op. 45: Concertino da camera (1978, WP 1979)
  • op. 59: 5 Bagatellen for wind orchestra (1974)

Concertos edit

  • op. 40: 1. Violin concerto (1976, WP 1977)
  • op. 44: 1. Piano concerto (1978/79, WP 1979)
  • op. 46: 1. Percussion concerto (1982, WP 1984)
  • op. 55: Concerto for 2 violins and orchestra (1983, WP 1984)
  • op. 63: Concerto for cello, double bass and orchestra (1990, WP 1990)
  • op. 66: 2. Piano concerto (1989, WP 1990)
  • op. 67: 2. Percussion concerto (1994, WP 1994)
  • op. 69: 2. Violin concerto (1992, WP 1993)
  • op. 72: 3. Piano concerto (2005, WP: 6. February 2009, Munich, Musica Viva)

Chamber music edit

  • op. 1: 1. String quartet (1949, WP 1951)
  • op. 7: Mosaicos, for piano (1952, WP 1954)
  • op. 10: Sonant for violin solo (1956, Neufassung 1974, WP 1974)
  • op. 11: Kaleidoskop, for piano (1953)
  • op. 14: 1. Wind quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn (1961, WP 1961)
  • op. 25: Dialogues 1, for saxophone and piano (1966, WP 1966)
  • op. 27: 2. Wind quintet (1972, WP 1973)
  • op. 33: 2. String quartet (1972, WP 1974)
  • op. 37: 1. Brass quintet for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba (1975, WP 1975)
  • op. 41: Nonett (1976, WP 1977)
  • op. 47: Sonata for violin and piano (1982, WP 1983)
  • op. 48: Divertimento per tre, for violin, double bass and clarinet (1979, WP 1980)
  • op. 49: Sonant Nr.2 for cello and double bass (1982, WP 1982)
  • op. 50: Moments Musicaux, for saxophone, accordion and percussion (1982, WP 1982)
  • op. 52: 2. Brass quintet (1982, WP 1983)
  • op. 53: Piano sonata (1985, WP 1988)
  • op. 56: 1. String trio (1983, WP 1987)
  • op. 58: 7 mal 1, for percussion solo (1987, WP 1987)
  • op. 60: Ballade for accordion (1986, WP 1986)
  • op. 61: Corimba for percussion (unfinished)
  • op. 61: Dialogues 2, for viola and percussion (1986, WP 1987)
  • op. 62: 2. String trio (1991, WP 1991)
  • op. 64: Sobre la plata, for vibraphone, glockenspiel and crotales (unfinished)
  • op. 65: Aphorismen for viola solo (1990, WP 1992)
  • op. 68: Trio for horn, violin and piano (1992, WP 1992)
  • op. 71: Sonata for viola and piano (1999, WP 2000)

Vocal music edit

  • o. op.: Songs for high voice (1952, WP 1952)
  • op. 2: Altdeutsche Lieder, for soprano and piano (1951, WP 1951)
  • op. 4: Lieder vom Meer, for baritone and piano (1951, WP 1951)
  • op. 6: Heitere Lieder, for baritone and piano (1951, WP 1952)
  • op. 19: Cantos for high voice and 7 instruments on poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1965, WP 21. August 1966, Darmstadt)
  • op. 24: Ut omnes unum sint, for bass and 4 winds (1975, WP 1989)
  • op. 38: Ringelnatz-Duette, for soprano, alto and piano (1975, WP 1975)
  • op. 51: Pater Noster, for chorus and orchestra (1985, WP 1988)
  • op. 54: Alpha-Zeta Burleske for A-cappella-chorus (1986, WP 2002)
  • op. 57: Allegretto Cabaretto, for voice, piano and percussion

Stage music edit

  • Pavane royal, ballet (1949/50)
  • Targusis (Carlos H. Veerhoff), opera, op. 13 (1955–1958), withdrawn
  • El porquerizo del rey (Hans Christian Andersen), ballet, op. 12 (1958–1962; WP 1963 Buenos Aires)
  • Tanz des Lebens/Der letzte Gast (Fred Schneckenberger), puppet-opera, op. 17 (1962/63; WP 1963 Zürich)
  • Die Goldene Maske (Carlos H Veerhoff), opera, op. 23 (1967/68)
  • Es gibt noch Zebrastreifen (Edith Sartorius), miniature-opera, op. 28 (1971; WP 1973 Ulm)
  • Die Manipulatoren (Carlos H Veerhoff), miniature-opera, op. 31 (1971), unfinished
  • Dualis, ballet, op. 42 (1975/76; WP 1976 München)
  • Der Grüne (Carlos H. Veerhoff), miniature-opera, op. 34 (1982), unfinished
  • Der Schützling (Ephraim Kishon/Carlos H. Veerhoff), opera, op. 56 (1990)
  • Mana (Carlos H. Veerhoff), opera, op.73 (2007)
  • Gesänge aus Samsâra or Gesänge aus Sangsâra for soprano, tape, voices and orchestra, radio play, op.36 (1976, WP 6. November 1978, Stuttgart)

Notes edit

  1. ^ Messmer, Franzpeter (2006): Musikalischer Weltbürger - Der Lebensweg Carlos Heinrich Veerhoffs. In: Komponisten in Bayern. Band 47: Carlos H. Veerhoff. Tutzing: Hans Schneider; S.28

Further reading edit

  • Franzpeter Messmer/Thomas Schipperges/Verena Weidner/Günther Weiß: Carlos H. Veerhoff. (= Komponisten in Bayern Bd. 47, hg. Alexander L. Suder), Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2006, ISBN 3-7952-1201-4
  • Thomas Schipperges: Veerhoff, Carlos H. In Komponisten der Gegenwart, edited by Hanns-Werner Heister and Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer, 10. Nachlieferung, text+kritik, Munich 1996
  • Thomas Schipperges: Veerhoff, Carlos H. In Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart(MGG). 2ne edition, vol. 16: Strat – Vil, Personenteil. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel und Stuttgart 2006, Sp. 1377–1379, ISBN 3-476-41031-5
  • Wilfried Wolfgang Bruchhaeuser (ed.): Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponisten-Verband. Verlag Deutscher Komponisten-Verband, Berlin 1985, p. 752

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Carlos Enrique Veerhoff 3 June 1926 in Buenos Aires 18 February 2011 in Murnau was an Argentine born German composer of classical music Contents 1 Life and work 2 Compositions 2 1 Orchestral works 2 2 Concertos 2 3 Chamber music 2 4 Vocal music 2 5 Stage music 3 Notes 4 Further readingLife and work editCarlos Enrique Veerhoff was born with his twin brother Wolfgang Otto as premature infants Their father could only find a hospital with an incubator two days later so that the birth date in the birth certificate is 5 June 1926 not the correct date of 3 June His father Heinrich Veerhoff was German and the head of an own company in Buenos Aires His mother Karla was a violinist and the daughter of conductor Karl Panzner and singer Ida Panzner The Veerhoff family moved back to Germany in 1930 due to a job change by the father In 1933 the family moved on to South Africa The countryside and the way of living in Africa had a great impact on the young Carlos Veerhoff and these impressions found their way into several compositions of his later years Another experience in South Africa was important for him as well In 1935 the first South African airline was founded and the young Carlos got the opportunity to take part at a pleasure flight Afterwards he developed an enormous interest in flight engineering which was only replaced later by music But Carlos Veerhoff kept his love of natural science his whole life After the return of the Veerhoff family to Germany in 1935 Carlos started to attend orchestral and chamber music concerts Also the music played at home his father was a good pianist and his mother a professional violinist contributed to his future interest in classical music This development culminated in Carlos deciding at the age of 15 to become a composer At that time he took his first lesson in composition theory and in 1942 he became a student at the Musisches Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main After a six day stint as a soldier in World War II in which he was injured Carlos Veerhoff continued his composition studies at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin with Hermann Grabner and later privately with Kurt Thomas and got piano lessons from Walter Gieseking During an internment in Dusseldorf in 1946 he studied with Walter Braunfels composition and Gunter Wand conducting at the Hochschule fur Musik und Tanz Koln In 1947 Carlos Veerhoff moved to Argentina and taught music theory at the university of San Miguel de Tucuman at the Departemento Musical which was newly founded by Ernst von Dohnanyi He also took conducting lessons from Hermann Scherchen in Buenos Aires during this period In 1950 Ferenc Fricsay was looking for a composition by an Argentine composer for an upcoming concert in Buenos Aires From a selection of compositions he chose the Musica concertante for chamber orchestra by Carlos Veerhoff and later conducted the world premiere Fricsay offered him a position as an assistant to him so Carlos Veerhoff followed Fricsay to Berlin But from his point of view the atmosphere in Germany was anti artistic and he returned to Argentina just a year later In the following decades Carlos Veerhoff created dozens of compositions nearly all of which were performed In many cases renowned and acclaimed musicians performed the world premieres of his works Hans Rosbaud Mirages Ruggiero Ricci Violin concerto No 1 Bruno Maderna Cantos Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Gesange auf dem Wege Ladislav Kupkovic Gesange aus Samsara and Symphony No 4 Homero Francesch Piano concerto No 1 Gerhard Oppitz Piano concerto No 2 Thomas Zehetmair Violin concerto No 2 or Peter Sadlo Percussion concerto No 2 Despite his success and the performances of his music Carlos Veerhoff remained a musical outsider Carlos Veerhoff remained a composer in the German musical life who did not follow actual composition fashions He called himself clique free and paid this freedom with the fact that he was never offered a professorship and could not find a renowned publishing house for his compositions Among the circle of influential German composers and critics he was never accepted as a real avant gardist because his advancement of the dodecaphony was unorthodox and beside all contemporary aspects always kept references to tradition 1 Due to his exclusion from the close music establishment in Germany Carlos Veerhoff often went back to Argentina Only from 1970 on did he permanently stay in Germany to his death From 1988 he lived in Murnau Bavaria near Munich His collection of papers is archived at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Compositions editOrchestral works edit op 9 Symphony No 1 Sinfonica Panta Rhei 1953 54 WP 14 September 1961 op 15 Symphony No 2 1958 WP 1958 op 22 Symphony No 3 Spirales 1968 revised version 1971 WP 1968 op 32 Symphony No 4 1972 73 WP 1979 op 43 Symphony No 5 for strings 1975 op 70 Symphony No 6 Desiderata for narrator 3 soloists choir and orchestra 1985 96 WP 30 April 1997 Leipzig op 0 Musica concertante for chamber orchestra 1950 WP 1950 op 3 Sinfonische Inventionen for orchestra 1951 WP 1952 op 5 Movimiento Sinfonico for orchestra 1952 WP 1955 op 16 Mirages for orchestra 1961 WP 1962 op 18 Prolog for orchestra 1956 WP 1966 op 20 Gesange auf dem Wege for baritone and orchestra 1966 WP 1967 op 21 Akroasis for orchestra 1966 WP 1966 op 26 Textur for string orchestra 1970 WP 1971 op 29 Sinotrauc for orchestra 1972 WP 1972 op 30 Torso for orchestra 1972 WP 1972 op 39 Dorefami for orchestra 1974 WP 1981 op 45 Concertino da camera 1978 WP 1979 op 59 5 Bagatellen for wind orchestra 1974 Concertos edit op 40 1 Violin concerto 1976 WP 1977 op 44 1 Piano concerto 1978 79 WP 1979 op 46 1 Percussion concerto 1982 WP 1984 op 55 Concerto for 2 violins and orchestra 1983 WP 1984 op 63 Concerto for cello double bass and orchestra 1990 WP 1990 op 66 2 Piano concerto 1989 WP 1990 op 67 2 Percussion concerto 1994 WP 1994 op 69 2 Violin concerto 1992 WP 1993 op 72 3 Piano concerto 2005 WP 6 February 2009 Munich Musica Viva Chamber music edit op 1 1 String quartet 1949 WP 1951 op 7 Mosaicos for piano 1952 WP 1954 op 10 Sonant for violin solo 1956 Neufassung 1974 WP 1974 op 11 Kaleidoskop for piano 1953 op 14 1 Wind quintet for flute oboe clarinet bassoon and horn 1961 WP 1961 op 25 Dialogues 1 for saxophone and piano 1966 WP 1966 op 27 2 Wind quintet 1972 WP 1973 op 33 2 String quartet 1972 WP 1974 op 37 1 Brass quintet for 2 trumpets horn trombone and tuba 1975 WP 1975 op 41 Nonett 1976 WP 1977 op 47 Sonata for violin and piano 1982 WP 1983 op 48 Divertimento per tre for violin double bass and clarinet 1979 WP 1980 op 49 Sonant Nr 2 for cello and double bass 1982 WP 1982 op 50 Moments Musicaux for saxophone accordion and percussion 1982 WP 1982 op 52 2 Brass quintet 1982 WP 1983 op 53 Piano sonata 1985 WP 1988 op 56 1 String trio 1983 WP 1987 op 58 7 mal 1 for percussion solo 1987 WP 1987 op 60 Ballade for accordion 1986 WP 1986 op 61 Corimba for percussion unfinished op 61 Dialogues 2 for viola and percussion 1986 WP 1987 op 62 2 String trio 1991 WP 1991 op 64 Sobre la plata for vibraphone glockenspiel and crotales unfinished op 65 Aphorismen for viola solo 1990 WP 1992 op 68 Trio for horn violin and piano 1992 WP 1992 op 71 Sonata for viola and piano 1999 WP 2000 Vocal music edit o op Songs for high voice 1952 WP 1952 op 2 Altdeutsche Lieder for soprano and piano 1951 WP 1951 op 4 Lieder vom Meer for baritone and piano 1951 WP 1951 op 6 Heitere Lieder for baritone and piano 1951 WP 1952 op 19 Cantos for high voice and 7 instruments on poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1965 WP 21 August 1966 Darmstadt op 24 Ut omnes unum sint for bass and 4 winds 1975 WP 1989 op 38 Ringelnatz Duette for soprano alto and piano 1975 WP 1975 op 51 Pater Noster for chorus and orchestra 1985 WP 1988 op 54 Alpha Zeta Burleske for A cappella chorus 1986 WP 2002 op 57 Allegretto Cabaretto for voice piano and percussionStage music edit Pavane royal ballet 1949 50 Targusis Carlos H Veerhoff opera op 13 1955 1958 withdrawn El porquerizo del rey Hans Christian Andersen ballet op 12 1958 1962 WP 1963 Buenos Aires Tanz des Lebens Der letzte Gast Fred Schneckenberger puppet opera op 17 1962 63 WP 1963 Zurich Die Goldene Maske Carlos H Veerhoff opera op 23 1967 68 Es gibt noch Zebrastreifen Edith Sartorius miniature opera op 28 1971 WP 1973 Ulm Die Manipulatoren Carlos H Veerhoff miniature opera op 31 1971 unfinished Dualis ballet op 42 1975 76 WP 1976 Munchen Der Grune Carlos H Veerhoff miniature opera op 34 1982 unfinished Der Schutzling Ephraim Kishon Carlos H Veerhoff opera op 56 1990 Mana Carlos H Veerhoff opera op 73 2007 Gesange aus Samsara or Gesange aus Sangsara for soprano tape voices and orchestra radio play op 36 1976 WP 6 November 1978 Stuttgart Notes edit Messmer Franzpeter 2006 Musikalischer Weltburger Der Lebensweg Carlos Heinrich Veerhoffs In Komponisten in Bayern Band 47 Carlos H Veerhoff Tutzing Hans Schneider S 28Further reading editFranzpeter Messmer Thomas Schipperges Verena Weidner Gunther Weiss Carlos H Veerhoff Komponisten in Bayern Bd 47 hg Alexander L Suder Verlag Hans Schneider Tutzing 2006 ISBN 3 7952 1201 4 Thomas Schipperges Veerhoff Carlos H In Komponisten der Gegenwart edited by Hanns Werner Heister and Walter Wolfgang Sparrer 10 Nachlieferung text kritik Munich 1996 Thomas Schipperges Veerhoff Carlos H In Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart MGG 2ne edition vol 16 Strat Vil Personenteil Barenreiter Verlag Kassel und Stuttgart 2006 Sp 1377 1379 ISBN 3 476 41031 5 Wilfried Wolfgang Bruchhaeuser ed Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponisten Verband Verlag Deutscher Komponisten Verband Berlin 1985 p 752 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Carlos Veerhoff amp oldid 1216994125, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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