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Nikolaus Brass
12+ albums
contemporary classicalgermancomposerClassicalJuma
about
Nikolaus Brass, born in Lindau in 1949, initially studied medicine and took private composition lessons with Peter Kiesewetter at the Munich Academy of Music. He concluded his medical studies at the Free University of Berlin. He studied composition with Frank Michael Beyer and later privately with Helmut Lachenmann. Between 1978 and 1986 he regularly attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses, where he also met with Morton Feldman. After being invited to the Gaudeamus Muziekweek in the Netherlands, he began publishing his compositions in 1981. Since then he has had numerous premieres at the most important New Music festivals, such as the Donaueschingen Festival, musica viva Munich, Ultraschall Berlin, ECLAT Stuttgart, Klangspuren Schwaz or Witten Days for New Chamber Music. Alongside orchestral works such as Der Garten for four male voices and orchestra (premiered in 2012 by Peter Eötvös at musica viva), vocal music such as fallacies of hope – deutsches requiem, with text projections from the novel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands by Peter Weiss, for 32 voices (premiered in 2014 by the SWR Vokalensemble, conducted by Florian Helgath, at the ECLAT Festival) and chamber music are the main emphases of his work. In recent times, Brass has turned more towards staged projects (the chamber music theatre work Sommertag, based on the drama of the same name of Jon Fosse, was premiered in 2014 at the Munich Biennale). In addition, he has also authored radio programmes and journal articles. Nik
top songs
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In der Farbe von Erde: Beginning - Live
252In der Farbe von Erde: I. I - Live
223Spur: I. Fließend, schwebend
204VOID
195Salut
186String Quartet No. 4: I. Katalog der Erinnerung
177String Quartet No. 4: II. Symbolum crucis
168Zeit Im Grund
159String Quartet No. 4: IV. Dialoghi d'amore
1510String Quartet No. 4: III. Quod est
15albums
Brass: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Musica viva, Vol. 45 (Live)
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Nikolaus Brass: In der Farbe von Erde - Der goldene Steig - Der Garten
Nikolaus Brass: Works for Clarinets & Strings
Nikolaus Brass: Works for Piano Solo
Brass: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 - Piano Trio / A Due / Void
Brass: String Quartet No. 4
Brass: songlines
Brass: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 2 and 3 / Music for String Quartet
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Brass: String Trios
Nikolaus Brass: String Quartets Vol. 1
Nikolaus Brass: Choral & Orchestral Works, Vol. 2