Michael Schneider (composer)

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Michael Schneider (born 6 September 1964) is a Swiss composer and musicologist. He is active as a music and culture journalist as well as manager.

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Life

Schneider was born in Göttingen in 1964 and received piano and harpsichord lessons at an early age. He took his school-leaving examination at the Alte Kantonsschule Aarau  [ de ], where the composer János Tamás also taught. From 1985 to 1993 he studied musicology, modern history and art history at the University of Zurich and from 1990 to 1994 composition with Dimitri Terzakis at the University of the Arts Bern. [1] In 1988/89 he lived in Sydney, where he made contacts with the Australian music scene. [1] As part of the Lucerne Festival Schneider attended master classes with Edison Denisov in 1991 and 1993. [1] In 1993 he was a founding member of the group of composers Groupe Lacroix. [2]

Schneider worked from 1984 to 1993 as music critic for the Aargauer Zeitung and the Badener Tagblatt . From 1993 to 1998 he was project manager at Stapferhaus, managed the PAN Musikverlag in Zurich from 1999 to 2001 and subsequently headed the public relations department of the Museum der Kulturen Basel from 2001 to 2006. From 2000 to 2012 he was also artistic director of the Wettinger Kammerkonzerte in Baden AG. [3]

From 2006 to 2019, Schneider served as managing director of the Swiss Cultural Foundation Künstlerhaus Boswil  [ de ]. [4] In addition, he is active on a voluntary basis in several cultural foundations (e.g. since 1990 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Peter Mieg Foundation).

Work

Orchestral works

Piano pieces

Chamber music

Stage music

Vocal and choral music

Discography

Publications

Further reading

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Biography at the Wayback Machine (archived June 16, 2008). Website of musinfo. Retrieved on 15 June 2020.
  2. ↑ Groupe Lacroix in Music Information Center Austria  [ de ]
  3. ↑ Elisabeth Feller: In 12 Jahren um die musikalische Welt. In Mittelland Zeitung, 7 May 2011.
  4. ↑ The Künstlerhaus team. Website of the Künstlerhaus Boswil. Retrieved on 18 February 2020.
  5. ↑ Ein unstillbares Sehnen. Werner Wehrli. Das dichterische Schaffen on WorldCat
  6. ↑ Anne Frank und wir on WorldCat
  7. ↑ Der Komponist Peter Mieg : Leben, Werk, Rezeption on WorldCat
  8. ↑ Das unbeschreibliche Licht und die winterlichen Schatten. Zum musikalischen Denken von János Tamás on WorldCat
  9. ↑ A walk on the wild side. Jugendszenen der Schweiz von den 30er Jahren bis heute on WorldCat
  10. ↑ Feste im Licht : Religiöse Vielfalt in einer Stadt on WorldCat
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