Name ten Hamburg composers
mainThe city of Hamburg is so excited by the tercentenary of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that it is building a museum courtyard for all the composers that ever lived within its hospitable society.
1 Johannes Brahms has a museum all to himself.
2 CPE Bach we’ve mentioned.
So who else?
3 Telemann
4 Hasse
5 Mahler (1891-97)
er…. and ….?
6 Ligeti lived there in the 1990s. So did
7 Alfred Schnittke.
That leaves….
Keep thinking.
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All right, one more:
8 Detlev Glanert, composer of ultraviolent operas, was born in Hamburg, September 1960 (h/t: Karen Kamensek).
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Here goes:
9 Sofia Gubaidulina (still living there)
10 Felix Mendelssohn,
11 Fanny Mendelssohn, both born there
12 Paul Dessau
13 Bertold Goldschmidt
Yep, I think we made ten,
Mendelssohn
Reinhard Keiser( 1674-1739 )
Paul Dessau ( 1894-1979 )
Klemperer? 🙂
Not to forget 18C Joachim Alzheimer, the author of 92 concerti grossi which fell into profound oblivion.
Is that a joke? I am unable to trace him on the web and sample searched important library catalog too.
That’s what profound oblivion means. The poor man!
Wow! Google was really fast out of the gate with that one!
Handel wrote there briefly alongside Keiser.
Johann Mattheson as well.
Lennon and McCartney.
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I’ve had pieces of mine performed, stayed in some nice hotels and had numerous hamburgers in Hamburg. Does that count? 😉
It seems it should.
Let’s not forget that John F. Kennedy’s historic visit to Berlin in the sixties (‘I am a Berliner’) was supposed to be combined with a comparable visit to Hamburg, but which was cancelled after staff decided to prevent JFK uttering something similar in the other city, with rather akward consequences.
I have That Happy Feeling it’s Bert Kaempfert
Johann Mattheson 1681-1764
Suggestion for a similar game: conductors born in 1927. Great musical vintage!
Conductors born in 1927:
Herbert Blomstedt, Colin Davis, Gary Bertini, Mstislav Rostropovich
Kurt Masur.
And what about both Schützpupils Matthias Weckmann and Christoph Bernhard, the Sweelinckpupils Heinrich Scheidemann, Jacob Praetorius (II) and other Hamburgian masters, the Dutch-born organvirtuoso (and inspiring model for the young J.S.Bach as well as friend and collegue of Dieterich Buxtehude) Johann Adam Reincken et cetera cetera.
Gosh, what a music-historical richness!
And at present, there lives a very interesting (German) composer in Hamburg, who has developed an unique vision for contemporary music in the 21st century: Wolfgang Andreas Schultz, pupil of the late Ligeti and curently teaching at the Hochschule. In Germany, where contemporary music is still laboring under the moralistic obligation of postwar modernism (‘a modernist German is a good German’), Schultz came-up with a very different vision, fed by depth psychology and an evolutionary theory of consciousness, and inspired by both Western and Eastern traditional music plus the 20C avantgardes.
http://www.wolfgangandreasschultz.de
There seems to be something musically healthy in the air at Germany’s north-west coast.
Is that Peterstrasse? Lovely corner of the city.
Sofia Gubaidulina has lived there since 1992.
Manfred Stahnke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Stahnke
http://www.manfred-stahnke.de/stahnke-english.html