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In Memoriam: Dieter Schnebel (1930-2018)

May. 22, 2018

In Memoriam: Dieter Schnebel (1930-2018)

There must be no victors, not even in the arts… This was the credo Dieter Schnebel shared with artists like John Cage and remained faithful to his whole life. The arts and the world, music and everyday life – these things formed a continuum of experience for Schnebel, born in Lahr in Baden, who was at once composer, church minister, musicologist and teacher. With compositions like Ki-No, visible music and anschläge – ausschläge he created a new, open concept of work which left boundaries in space and time behind and saw the composer as creative trigger, not as completer of the work. As Schnebel understood the performance situation as a truly democratic event, he brought street noise into the concert hall. Even in key works like the vocal work Ekstasis or the opera Majakowskis Tod – Totentanz he consequently denied aesthetic dogmatism any influence. Dieter Schnebel died in Berlin on 22 May 2018 at the age of 88.  For a detailed remembrance of this great composer's life and work, please click here.

Please enjoy a varied array of Schnebel's compositions:


(Diapason, 1976-77/Dieter Schnebel/Sinfonieorchester des Südwest Rundfunks/Ernest Bour, conductor)


(In Motu Proprio, 1975/Dieter Schnebel/Ensemble Musica Negativa/Rainer Riehn, conductor)


(Sinfonie-Stücke für großes orchester, 1984-85/Dieter Schnebel/Radio Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin/
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor)




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