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Beat Furrer Celebrates 65

Dec. 01, 2019

Beat Furrer Celebrates 65

Beat Furrer, winner of the 2018 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, celebrated his 65th birthday on December 6. Born in Schaffhausen in Switzerland but living for some time in Vienna, the composer, conductor, university lecturer and founder of major institutions (the ensemble “Klangforum Wien”, among others) is one of the most prominent and influential figures in today’s musical scene. “With Beat Furrer we enter into a landscape of tones and sounds in which any noise of the commonplace is not heard,” as the poet Uwe Kolbe put it in his citation in honor of Beat Furrer’s music. Devoid of the commonplace, Furrer’s musical landscapes create their own fascinating allure – his works are of existential power. The beginning of 2019, an eventful year in his life, saw the celebrated premiere of his latest opera Violetter Schnee (Violet Snow) at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden, further performances of which are set for January 2020. New and exciting large-scale projects are in the pipeline. Since 1996, Furrer’s works have been published by Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel.

Listen to nero su nero (2018):


(nero su nero/Beat Furrer/Neue Philharmonie Westfalen/Johannes Kalitzke)

To learn more about Beat Furrer, visit baerenreiter.com 

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