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Michael Denhoff
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Michael Denhoff (born 25 April 1955 in Ahaus) is a German composer and cellist. Denhoff has lived and worked in Bonn since 1982. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, where his teachers included Günter Bialas and Hans Werner Henze (composition), Siegfried Palm and Erling Blöndal Bengtsson (cello) and the Amadeus Quartet (chamber music). As a composer and chamber musician, he occupied various teaching posts, including a lectureship in composition at the University of Mainz (1984-85) and a guest professorship at the National Conservatory of Hanoi (1997-99). From 1985 to 1992 he also conducted the Akademische Orchester Bonn, which he founded. As a cellist, he formed the Denhoff Piano Trio with his brother Johannes (violin) and the pianist Richard Braun. Since 1992, he has been a member of the Ludwig Quartet of Bonn, and he also works closely with the pianist Birgitta Wollenweber. As a composer, he has won several prizes and distinctions, including the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Prize (1986) and the Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Prize (1989). Denhoff's music shows the influence of poetry and the visual arts. Several of his orchestral and chamber works have been inspired by lyrics and paintings. Thus, there are instrumental works and cycles based on pictures by Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Albrecht Dürer and especially Fransisco Goya (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos, 1982; Desastres de la guerra, 1983; Los disparates, 1988). The literary figures who have m
top songs
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Match, Op. 90
232Etude de couleurs, Op. 115
223pnoxoud for Saxophone Trio (arr. for saxophone quartet)
194Strophen, Op. 107: Strophe 20B, "Choral for Charles Ives"
175... Zeiten ...
76Strophen, Op. 107: Strophe 4C, "Of Bela Bartok and Gyorgy Kurtag"
47(k)ein Choral
4812 Inventions for player piano op. 88 - Invention No. 4
49Klangstück I
410Introvention Mit Bach (...Steve Reich Ist Auch Dabei...) For Two Player Pianos
3albums
New York Counterpoint: Reich / Grieg / Bach, J.S.
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Titty Twister
Bergman: Etwas Rascher / Dunser: 5 Pieces for Saxophone Quartet / Xenakis: Xas / Denhoff: Pnoxoud
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Debut
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Re-Sonanzen
Denhoff: Hebdomadaire Op. 62 (1990) 52 pieces of the year for one pianist - World Premiere Recording (Digitally Remastered)
Traumbuch Eines Gefangenen
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..für: Werke für Campanula (+Harfe)
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New York Counterpoint
Denhoff, M.: Hebdomadaire
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Denhoff: Original Compositions in the Tradition of Nancarrow
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Credo