Max E. Keller

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Max E. Keller | (b. 19 March 1947, Aarau). Swiss composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano, and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a pianist. Mr. Keller studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber, Thomas Kessler, Helmut Lachenmann, and Hans Ulrich Lehmann, as well as German, history and musicology, on a scholarship from the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung. Among his honours are the Kunstpreis from the Carl Heinrich Ernst-Kunststiftung in Winterthur (1997), the Berlin-Stipendium (1999) and a prize from the canton of Aargau (2001). He was also the representative of Switzerland at the Berlin Biennale in 1985. As a pianist, he played free jazz and improvised music from 1966–73, featuring the piano with electric instruments, and has again worked as an improviser since 1985, with Trio Ampio and other ensembles. He is also active in other positions. He has served as a music programmer at the Theater am Gleis in Winterthur since 1985 and served as president of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Neue Musik from 2007–10. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

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Blow, Strike & Touch

Accent - Figure - Layer

Kammermusik

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Mondlandschaft

Max E. Keller

Vier Politische Kompositionen Für Tonband

Marcela Pavia - Max E. Keller

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Sicher Sein... / Erst Wollt Ihr Den Petersbrunnhof, Dann Hellbrunn, Und Schliesslich Gar Schloss Mirabell / Unter Dem Pflasterstein (Noch Immer) Liegt Der Strand

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Sozialistische Musiker Initiative

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Keller: Kammermusik - World Premier Recordings (Digitally Remastered)

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Querschnitt 2001-2007

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Mondlandschaft, Dialogfelder, Progressionen, agieren und reagieren, Deformationen, 2. Streichquartett

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