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| Born | November 23, 1936 |
| Nationality | German |
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Roswitha Trexler (born 23 November 1936) is a German operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano who became internationally known especially as an interpreter of the music of Hans Eisler and for her commitment to avantgarde vocal music.
Trexler was born in 1936 in Leipzig as the daughter of the composer, cantor and professor of catholic church music Georg Trexler. She attended the Thomasschule there and made her debut in 1956 at a festival week with medieval church music. From 1957 she appeared at the Bach performances in Leipzig's Thomaskirche under Thomaskantor Kurt Thomas. For several years she belonged to the MDR Rundfunkchor under Herbert Kegel and was active in special ensembles for early music (Capella lipsiensis, Capella fidicina).
Her career as an interpreter of contemporary music began on 22 May 1969 in a Leipziger Rathauskonzerte by Radio DDR 2 with works by Luigi Dallapiccola under the direction of the composer. In the following years she worked with Hans Werner Henze, Luigi Nono, Witold Lutosławski, Milko Kelemen and Frederic Rzewski on concerts and radio recordings. She also worked for the premiere of works by Reiner Bredemeyer, Paul Dessau, Edison Denisov, Paul-Heinz Dittrich, Georg Katzer, Hermann Keller, Luca Lombardi, Robert Moran and Friedrich Schenker. One focus of her work was on Hanns Eisler: within the framework of the record edition of the GDR label Nova she was entrusted with the complete recording of his Lieder mit Klavier and the Kantaten aus dem Exil, and in 1982 she premiered his full-length Hollywooder Liederbuch . As Schönberg interpreter she appeared under Kurt Masur with the Pierrot Lunaire and played with John Tilbury (piano) for the label Eterna the song cycle Das Buch der hängenenden Gärten. A side branch of her repertoire was the chanson/song; she has also reflected theoretically on her Kurt Weill interpretations. [1] Her international career started in 1971 at the festival Steirischer Herbst and led her to focal points of New Music like the Warsaw Autumn, the Buffalo-Festival, the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte Montepulciano, the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris and the Musikbiennale in Zagreb.
Hanns Eisler was an Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" is named after him.
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