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Darmstädter Ferienkurse

January 01, 1970

Darmstädter Ferienkurse ("Darmstadt Summer Course")[a] is a regular summer event of contemporary classical music in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in 1946, under the name "Ferienkurse für Internationale Neue Musik Darmstadt" (Vacation Courses of International New Music in Darmstadt),[1] as a gathering with lectures and concerts over several summer weeks. Composers, performers, theorists and philosophers of contemporary music met first annually until 1970, and then biennially. The event was organised by the Kranichsteiner Musikinstitut, which was renamed Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD). It is regarded as a leading international forum of contemporary and experimental music with a focus on composition.[2][3] The festival awards the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis [de] for performers and young composers.

Darmstädter Ferienkurse
Course with Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1957
GenreContemporary classical music in courses and concerts
Frequency
  • annually 1946 to 1970
  • bi-annually from 1972
Location(s)Darmstadt, many locations
Inaugurated1946; 78 years ago (1946)
FounderWolfgang Steinecke
Participants
  • Composers
  • Performers
  • Music theorists
  • Philosophers
Patron(s)City of Darmstadt, Staatstheater, broadcasters
Websitewww.internationales-musikinstitut.de/ferienkurse

History edit

Overview edit

 
Wolfgang Steinecke in 1957

The Ferienkurse were initiated in 1946 by Wolfgang Steinecke, then responsible for culture in the municipal government of Darmstadt.[4] He directed them until his death in 1961, succeeded by Ernst Thomas [ru] (1962–81), Friedrich Ferdinand Hommel (1981–94), Solf Schaefer (1995–2009), and Thomas Schäfer, who has been artistic director and president of the IMD from 2009.[4]

The courses were first held annually, lasting for about twelve days. From 1970, they have been held biennially for two to three weeks.[4] The first venue was Jagdschloss Kranichstein, a rural hunting lodge in Darmstadt. Beginning in 1949, public buildings in Darmstadt have been used not only for some concerts as in the beginning, but also for courses.[5]

Background edit

The Ferienkurse were founded to reconnect Germany to the international scene in classical music, as modernist forms of classical music (such as expressionist music, the Second Viennese School and serialism) had been systematically suppressed by the Nazis from 1933 as "degenerate music".[1][6] During that time, representatives of the modernist movement had been expelled, silenced, or murdered.[7]

Beginning edit

The first event in 1946 offered courses in conducting by Carl Mathieu Lange, musical composition by Wolfgang Fortner, piano by Georg Kuhlmann, voice by Elisabeth Delseit, violin by Günter Kehr, opera direction by Bruno Hey and Walter Jockisch, and music criticism by Fred Hamel.[5]

A first series were courses, lectures and concerts from 25 August to 21 September. They were followed by public concerts and lectures, titled "Internationale zeitgenössische Musiktage" (International contemporary music days) from 22 to 29 September, held in collaboration with the city of Darmstadt, its Landestheater, and the broadcasters Süddeutscher Rundfunk and Radio Frankfurt.[5] Events included an exhibition of the Neue Darmstädter Sezession, "Zeitgenössische deutsche Kunst", and also Carl Orff's opera Die Kluge, and the award ceremony of the Georg Büchner Prize to Fritz Usinger. Concerts presented several world premieres, such as Erich Sehlbach [de]'s string sextet, Fortner's für Klavier, Günter Raphael's sonata for solo flute, a trio for flute, viola and cello by Günter Bialas (1923), Henze's Kranichsteiner Kammerkonzert for flute, piano and strings, and Hölderlin-Lieder by Hermann Reutter. Willy Burkhard's Symphonie in einem Satz (1944) and Hindemith's String Quartet No. 6 (1943) received their first performance in Germany.[5]: 5–8 

During the first years of the event, a focus was on German premieres of works, sometimes decades after their composition, by composers such as Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók.[1][5] Schoenberg's Piano Concerto was played in 1948,[5]: 15  and his String Quartet No. 4 in 1949.[5]: 21  That year, a symphony concert was dedicated exclusively to Schoenberg's works, including the German premiere of his Violin Concerto, honouring his 75th birthday.[5]: 22  The 70th birthday of Webern was honoured with a concert of his chamber music in 1953.[5]: 47 

It was the first forum of contemporary music in Germany after World War II, including music theory and philosophy.[6] Lectures were held by instructors such as Theodor W. Adorno, René Leibowitz, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, and later Carl Dahlhaus and Rudolf Stephan, offering critical reflection of advanced composition. Composers such as Edgard Varèse, Olivier Messiaen,[b] Ernst Krenek, Earle Brown[9][10] and John Cage visited, presenting their work and aesthetic in composition classes, and contributing to worldwide recognition of the institution.[6][11]

Darmstadt School edit

Main article: Darmstadt School
 
Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1957

Composers such as, initially, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, and later Luciano Berio, Aldo Clementi, Franco Donatoni, Niccolò Castiglioni, Franco Evangelisti, Karel Goeyvaerts, Mauricio Kagel, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Giacomo Manzoni, Henri Pousseur, Helmut Lachenmann, and Brian Ferneyhough presented their radical approach and theories. They are sometimes referred to as the "Darmstädter Schule" (Darmstadt School).[6]

Notable performers instructed in new playing techniques, and works by young composers (Nachwuchskomponisten) were offered in so-called Atelierkonzerte (atelier concerts).

Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt edit

For the organisation of the event, the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt was founded in 1948.[12] It also keeps an archive of past events and compositions.[12] It holds around 20,000 photographs, 10,000 letters, sound files and other documents, available online since 2016.[7] The event is sponsored by several organisations, especially public broadcasters.[5]

Music prize edit

A prize, the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis [de] was installed in 1952, first for performers, then also for composers.[3]

Recipients include performers (with their instrument listed) and composers:[13]

Criticism edit

During the late 1950s and early 1960s the courses were charged with a perceived lack of interest on the part of some of its zealot followers in any music not matching the uncompromisingly modern views of Pierre Boulez – the "party subservience" of the "clique orthodoxy" of a "sect", in the words of Kurt Honolka, written in 1962 in an effort to "make the public believe that the most advanced music of the day was no more than a fancy cooked up by a bunch of aberrant conspirators conniving at war against music proper."[14]: 43  This led to the use of the phrase "Darmstadt School" (coined originally in 1957 by Luigi Nono[15]: 43  to describe the serial music being written at that time by himself and composers such as Boulez, Maderna, Stockhausen, Berio, and Pousseur) as a pejorative term, implying a "mathematical", rule-based music.

Recordings edit

The courses presented in 70 years around 5,000 world premieres.[7] The record label col legno has published recordings, often documenting world premieres and first performances in Germany.

Notes edit

  1. ^ literally: Darmstadt Vacation Courses
  2. ^ However, although Messiaen paid "a brief visit" to the courses in 1949, "he neither taught students nor lectured" there.[8]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Applegate, Celia; Potter, Pamela (2002). Music and German National Identity. University of Chicago Press. pp. 209–210. ISBN 978-0-22-602131-7.
  2. ^ "Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2020 / Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik". Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum (in German). 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b Krebber, Jürgen. "Kranichsteiner Musikpreis". darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de (in German). Darmstadt. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Krebber, Jürgen. "Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik". darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de (in German). Darmstadt. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Ferienkurse für internationale neue Musik, 25.8.-29.9. 1946" (PDF). Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (in German). pp. 1, 27, 33. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d Eckle, Barbara (12 August 2016). "70 Jahre Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Stockhausen, Nono und die anderen". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  7. ^ a b c Hagedorn, Volker (13 August 2016). "Darmstädter Ferienkurse: Im Fruchtland". Die Zeit (in German). from the original on Feb 4, 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  8. ^ Iddon 2013, p. 31.
  9. ^ Anon. 2006.
  10. ^ Beal 2007.
  11. ^ Iddon 2013, p. 196.
  12. ^ a b "Our Story". Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  13. ^ "Kranichsteiner Musikpreis Chronologie" (PDF). Darmstadt: Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  14. ^ Boehmer, Konrad (1987). The Sanctification of Misapprehension into a Doctrine: Darmstadt Epigones and Xenophobes. Translated by Prescod Jokel, Sonia.
  15. ^ Nono, Luigi (1975). Stenzl, J. (ed.). Texte, Studien zu seiner Musik (in German). Zürich and Freiburg im Breisgau: Atlantis.

Sources edit

  • Anon. 2006. "Earle Brown: A Sketch", liner notes to Earle Brown: Selected Works 1952–1965, New World Records
  • Beal, Amy C. (June–August 2007). "An Interview with Earle Brown" (PDF). Contemporary Music Review. 26 (3–4): 341–356. doi:10.1080/07494460701414223. Includes a photo of Brown and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt.
  • Iddon, Martin (2013). New Music at Darmstadt: Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez. Music since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03329-0.

Further reading edit

  • IMD (ed.): Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik (Mainz: Schott Music, 1958ff.), ISSN 0418-3878.
  • Rudolf Stephan (ed.): Von Kranichstein zur Gegenwart 1946–1996. 50 Jahre Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Stuttgart: DACO-Verlag, 1996), ISBN 978-3-87135-028-3.
  • Gianmario Borio, Hermann Danuser (eds.): Im Zenit der Moderne, 4 vols. (Freiburg: Rombach, 1997), ISBN 978-3-7930-9138-7.
  • MusikKonzepte Sonderband Darmstadt-Dokumente I (Munich: edition text und kritik, 1999), ISBN 978-3-88377-487-9.

External links edit

 
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  • Karlheinz Essl: Darmstadt in den 90er Jahren? (in German) in MusikTexte No. 35 (1990)

January 01, 1970
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Darmstadter Ferienkurse Darmstadt Summer Course a is a regular summer event of contemporary classical music in Darmstadt Hesse Germany It was founded in 1946 under the name Ferienkurse fur Internationale Neue Musik Darmstadt Vacation Courses of International New Music in Darmstadt 1 as a gathering with lectures and concerts over several summer weeks Composers performers theorists and philosophers of contemporary music met first annually until 1970 and then biennially The event was organised by the Kranichsteiner Musikinstitut which was renamed Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt IMD It is regarded as a leading international forum of contemporary and experimental music with a focus on composition 2 3 The festival awards the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis de for performers and young composers Darmstadter FerienkurseCourse with Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1957GenreContemporary classical music in courses and concertsFrequencyannually 1946 to 1970 bi annually from 1972Location s Darmstadt many locationsInaugurated1946 78 years ago 1946 FounderWolfgang SteineckeParticipantsComposers Performers Music theorists PhilosophersPatron s City of Darmstadt Staatstheater broadcastersWebsitewww wbr internationales musikinstitut wbr de wbr ferienkurse Contents 1 History 1 1 Overview 1 2 Background 1 3 Beginning 1 4 Darmstadt School 1 5 Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt 1 6 Music prize 1 7 Criticism 1 8 Recordings 2 Notes 3 References 3 1 Sources 4 Further reading 5 External linksHistory editOverview edit nbsp Wolfgang Steinecke in 1957 The Ferienkurse were initiated in 1946 by Wolfgang Steinecke then responsible for culture in the municipal government of Darmstadt 4 He directed them until his death in 1961 succeeded by Ernst Thomas ru 1962 81 Friedrich Ferdinand Hommel 1981 94 Solf Schaefer 1995 2009 and Thomas Schafer who has been artistic director and president of the IMD from 2009 4 The courses were first held annually lasting for about twelve days From 1970 they have been held biennially for two to three weeks 4 The first venue was Jagdschloss Kranichstein a rural hunting lodge in Darmstadt Beginning in 1949 public buildings in Darmstadt have been used not only for some concerts as in the beginning but also for courses 5 Background edit The Ferienkurse were founded to reconnect Germany to the international scene in classical music as modernist forms of classical music such as expressionist music the Second Viennese School and serialism had been systematically suppressed by the Nazis from 1933 as degenerate music 1 6 During that time representatives of the modernist movement had been expelled silenced or murdered 7 Beginning edit The first event in 1946 offered courses in conducting by Carl Mathieu Lange musical composition by Wolfgang Fortner piano by Georg Kuhlmann voice by Elisabeth Delseit violin by Gunter Kehr opera direction by Bruno Hey and Walter Jockisch and music criticism by Fred Hamel 5 A first series were courses lectures and concerts from 25 August to 21 September They were followed by public concerts and lectures titled Internationale zeitgenossische Musiktage International contemporary music days from 22 to 29 September held in collaboration with the city of Darmstadt its Landestheater and the broadcasters Suddeutscher Rundfunk and Radio Frankfurt 5 Events included an exhibition of the Neue Darmstadter Sezession Zeitgenossische deutsche Kunst and also Carl Orff s opera Die Kluge and the award ceremony of the Georg Buchner Prize to Fritz Usinger Concerts presented several world premieres such as Erich Sehlbach de s string sextet Fortner s fur Klavier Gunter Raphael s sonata for solo flute a trio for flute viola and cello by Gunter Bialas 1923 Henze s Kranichsteiner Kammerkonzert for flute piano and strings and Holderlin Lieder by Hermann Reutter Willy Burkhard s Symphonie in einem Satz 1944 and Hindemith s String Quartet No 6 1943 received their first performance in Germany 5 5 8 During the first years of the event a focus was on German premieres of works sometimes decades after their composition by composers such as Arnold Schonberg Anton Webern Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok 1 5 Schoenberg s Piano Concerto was played in 1948 5 15 and his String Quartet No 4 in 1949 5 21 That year a symphony concert was dedicated exclusively to Schoenberg s works including the German premiere of his Violin Concerto honouring his 75th birthday 5 22 The 70th birthday of Webern was honoured with a concert of his chamber music in 1953 5 47 It was the first forum of contemporary music in Germany after World War II including music theory and philosophy 6 Lectures were held by instructors such as Theodor W Adorno Rene Leibowitz Heinz Klaus Metzger and later Carl Dahlhaus and Rudolf Stephan offering critical reflection of advanced composition Composers such as Edgard Varese Olivier Messiaen b Ernst Krenek Earle Brown 9 10 and John Cage visited presenting their work and aesthetic in composition classes and contributing to worldwide recognition of the institution 6 11 Darmstadt School edit Main article Darmstadt School nbsp Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1957 Composers such as initially Karlheinz Stockhausen Pierre Boulez Luigi Nono Bruno Maderna and later Luciano Berio Aldo Clementi Franco Donatoni Niccolo Castiglioni Franco Evangelisti Karel Goeyvaerts Mauricio Kagel Gottfried Michael Koenig Giacomo Manzoni Henri Pousseur Helmut Lachenmann and Brian Ferneyhough presented their radical approach and theories They are sometimes referred to as the Darmstadter Schule Darmstadt School 6 Notable performers instructed in new playing techniques and works by young composers Nachwuchskomponisten were offered in so called Atelierkonzerte atelier concerts Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt edit For the organisation of the event the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt was founded in 1948 12 It also keeps an archive of past events and compositions 12 It holds around 20 000 photographs 10 000 letters sound files and other documents available online since 2016 7 The event is sponsored by several organisations especially public broadcasters 5 Music prize edit A prize the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis de was installed in 1952 first for performers then also for composers 3 Recipients include performers with their instrument listed and composers 13 1952 Karlheinz Zoller flute 1955 Marion Zarzeczna piano 1957 Jerome Lowenthal piano 1958 Otto Zykan piano Gabor Gabos piano Wolfgang Gayler piano 1959 Erika Haase piano 1960 Bruno Canino piano 1972 Gillian Bibby Suzanne Stephens clarinet 1974 Detlev Muller Siemens Moya Henderson Wolfgang Meyer clarinet 1976 Ulrich Stranz 1978 Wolfgang Rihm 1980 Clarence Barlow 1982 James Dillon Steven Schick percussion Michael Bach cello Robert H P Platz 1984 Bernardo Kuczer 1986 Richard Barrett Kaija Saariaho Bunita Marcus Steffen Schleiermacher piano 1990 Luca Francesconi Roger Redgate Rodney Sharman Joel Francois Durand 1992 James Clarke Chaya Czernowin 1996 Mark Andre Gerald Eckert Isabel Mundry 2000 Jennifer Walshe 2002 Nam Kuk Kim Martin Schuttler de Seth Wrightington 2004 Hans Thomalla 2006 Tatjana Kozlova 2008 Simon Steen Andersen 2010 Stefan Prins 2014 Ashley Fure Criticism edit During the late 1950s and early 1960s the courses were charged with a perceived lack of interest on the part of some of its zealot followers in any music not matching the uncompromisingly modern views of Pierre Boulez the party subservience of the clique orthodoxy of a sect in the words of Kurt Honolka written in 1962 in an effort to make the public believe that the most advanced music of the day was no more than a fancy cooked up by a bunch of aberrant conspirators conniving at war against music proper 14 43 This led to the use of the phrase Darmstadt School coined originally in 1957 by Luigi Nono 15 43 to describe the serial music being written at that time by himself and composers such as Boulez Maderna Stockhausen Berio and Pousseur as a pejorative term implying a mathematical rule based music Recordings edit The courses presented in 70 years around 5 000 world premieres 7 The record label col legno has published recordings often documenting world premieres and first performances in Germany Notes edit literally Darmstadt Vacation Courses However although Messiaen paid a brief visit to the courses in 1949 he neither taught students nor lectured there 8 References edit a b c Applegate Celia Potter Pamela 2002 Music and German National Identity University of Chicago Press pp 209 210 ISBN 978 0 22 602131 7 Darmstadter Ferienkurse 2020 Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum in German 2020 Retrieved 12 March 2020 a b Krebber Jurgen Kranichsteiner Musikpreis darmstadt stadtlexikon de in German Darmstadt Retrieved 12 March 2020 a b c Krebber Jurgen Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik darmstadt stadtlexikon de in German Darmstadt Retrieved 12 March 2020 a b c d e f g h i j Ferienkurse fur internationale neue Musik 25 8 29 9 1946 PDF Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt in German pp 1 27 33 Retrieved 6 February 2020 a b c d Eckle Barbara 12 August 2016 70 Jahre Darmstadter Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik Stockhausen Nono und die anderen Der Tagesspiegel in German Retrieved 12 March 2020 a b c Hagedorn Volker 13 August 2016 Darmstadter Ferienkurse Im Fruchtland Die Zeit in German Archived from the original on Feb 4 2024 Retrieved 12 March 2020 Iddon 2013 p 31 Anon 2006 Beal 2007 Iddon 2013 p 196 a b Our Story Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt Retrieved 12 March 2020 Kranichsteiner Musikpreis Chronologie PDF Darmstadt Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt Retrieved 13 March 2020 Boehmer Konrad 1987 The Sanctification of Misapprehension into a Doctrine Darmstadt Epigones and Xenophobes Translated by Prescod Jokel Sonia Nono Luigi 1975 Stenzl J ed Texte Studien zu seiner Musik in German Zurich and Freiburg im Breisgau Atlantis Sources edit Anon 2006 Earle Brown A Sketch liner notes to Earle Brown Selected Works 1952 1965 New World Records Beal Amy C June August 2007 An Interview with Earle Brown PDF Contemporary Music Review 26 3 4 341 356 doi 10 1080 07494460701414223 Includes a photo of Brown and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt Iddon Martin 2013 New Music at Darmstadt Nono Stockhausen Cage and Boulez Music since 1900 Cambridge Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 1 107 03329 0 Further reading editIMD ed Darmstadter Beitrage zur Neuen Musik Mainz Schott Music 1958ff ISSN 0418 3878 Rudolf Stephan ed Von Kranichstein zur Gegenwart 1946 1996 50 Jahre Darmstadter Ferienkurse Stuttgart DACO Verlag 1996 ISBN 978 3 87135 028 3 Gianmario Borio Hermann Danuser eds Im Zenit der Moderne 4 vols Freiburg Rombach 1997 ISBN 978 3 7930 9138 7 MusikKonzepte Sonderband Darmstadt Dokumente I Munich edition text und kritik 1999 ISBN 978 3 88377 487 9 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Darmstadter Ferienkurse Official website Karlheinz Essl 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