Konrad Boehmer
Konrad Boehmer (24 May 1941 – 4 October 2014) was a German-Dutch composer, educator, and writer.
Konrad Boehmer
- Born
- 1941 · Berlin.
- Died
- 2014 · Amsterdam.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- composer · translator · musicologist · teacher · musician
- Fields
- performing arts
- Education
- University of Cologne
- Languages
- German
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Konrad Boehmer (24 May 1941 – 4 October 2014) was a German-Dutch composer, educator, and writer.
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Konrad Boehmer (1941–2014) was a composer, musician and musicologist, among other activities, of Dutch nationality. The composer was born in Berlin and died in Amsterdam.
Konrad Boehmer was educated at University of Cologne. The composer worked for Royal Conservatory of The Hague and worked in The Hague and Utrecht. Activity centred on performing arts. Languages used include German.
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Life
Konrad Boehmer studied at University of Cologne. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is performing arts. Places of work recorded in the authority are Utrecht and The Hague. Employment is recorded with Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
Boehmer was born in Berlin. A self-declared member of the Darmstadt School, he studied composition in Cologne with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gottfried Michael Koenig. At the University of Cologne he studied philosophy, sociology, and musicology, earning a PhD in 1966. Then he settled in Amsterdam, working at Utrecht University's Institute for Sonology until 1968. In 1972, he became professor of music history and theory at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
Musical style
Musical style
His compositions characteristically employ serial organization or montage, sometimes with elements of jazz and rock music (as in his opera Doktor Faustus and the electronic Apocalipsis cum figuris). In other works, such as Canciones del camino and Lied uit de vert, Marxist songs serve as basic material. In 2001, the Holland Festival commissioned Boehmer to write a composition for the rock band Sonic Youth, which they performed at both concerts during that festival in the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.
Death
Death
On 10 August 2014, while on holiday in the south of France, he suffered a cerebral infarction. He was taken to Amsterdam, where he died on 4 October 2014.
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Amsterdam.
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Selected compositions
• Variation for chamber orchestra (1959–61) • Position for electronic sounds, vocal sounds, and orchestra (1960–61) • Zeitläufte for eight instruments (1962) • Information (1964–65) • Aspekt electronic music (1964–66) • Canciones del camino for orchestra (1973–74) • Schrei dieser Erde for percussion and tape, (1979) • Doktor Faustus opera (1980–83) • Apocalipsis cum figuris, electronic music (1984) • Woutertje Pieterse for nine vocalists and orchestra (1985–1987) • Il combattimento for violin, cello, and orchestra (1989–90) • Et in Arcadia ego for string quartet (1992) • Kronos protos for 14 instruments (1995) • Nuba for flute, viola and harp (1998) • Orpheus Unplugged (1999–2000) piano and tape • Ouroboros for piano (2002) • Doktor Fausti Höllenfahrt for orchestra (2006)
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- Anon. 2014. "Componist Konrad Boehmer (73) overleden". Elsevier.nl (5 October, accessed 5 October 2014).
- Boehmer, Konrad. 1987. “The Sanctification of Misapprehension into a Doctrine: Darmstadt Epigones and Xenophobes”, English translation by Sonia Prescod Jokel. Key Notes 24:43–47.
- Sabbe, Herman. 2001. "Boehmer, Konrad", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, vol. 2. London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Sanders, Rik. 2001. "Konrad Boehmer: 'Computer kan componist niet vervangen'". Computable (8 June). Accessed 20 December 2009.
- Boehmer, Konrad. 1967. Zur Theorie der offenen Form in der neuen Musik. Darmstadt: Edition Tonos. (Second edition 1988.)
- Boehmer, Konrad. 1970. Zwischen Reihe und Pop: Musik und Klassengesellschaft. J & V Musik. Vienna and Munich: Jugend und Volk.
- Boehmer, Konrad. 2009. Doppelschläge: Texte zur Musik, vol. 1: 1958–1967. Quellentexte zur Musik des 20. /21. Jahrhunderts 12.1, edited by Stefan Fricke and Christian Grün. Saarbrücken: Pfau. .
- Boehmer, Konrad. 2014. Doppelschläge: Texte zur Musik, vol. 2: 1968–1970. Quellentexte zur Musik des 20. /21. Jahrhunderts 12.2, edited by Stefan Fricke and Christian Grün. Saarbrücken: Pfau. .
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