Wolfgang von Schweinitz

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After some early compositional attempts since 1960, Wolfgang von Schweinitz studied in 1968-76 with Esther Ballou at the American University in Washington, D.C., with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and György Ligeti at the music academy in Hamburg, and with John Chowning at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in California. There he composed the orchestral Mozart-Variations, which made his name in Germany in 1977. Returning from traveling Mexico and Guatemala, he first lived in Munich (1977-78), and then on scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1978-79). In 1980 he was invited to lecture at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. Having stayed for two years in Berlin, he moved out to the countryside of northern Germany in 1981, where he spent twelve years in quiet seclusion. In 1993 he returned to Berlin. From 1994 to 1996 he worked as a guest professor for composition at the music academy in Weimar. Then he lived in Berlin again, and since September 2007 he is based in southern California, in the western tip of the Mojave Desert, 30 miles north of California Institute of the Arts, where he was invited to assume the succession of James Tenney (Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition). During 1977-96 he composed chamber music for strings and winds as well as a piano trio (Franz & Morton), a number of songs (Die Brücke, Papiersterne, O-Ton „Automne“ – Linguistikherbst), a

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Klang auf Schön Berg La Monte Young (Radio Edit)

Schweinitz: Plainsound Glissando Modulation

Plainsound Glissando Modulation

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Klang

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Helmholtz-Funk

Plainsound Counterpoint / Mirror

Plainsound Counterpoint

Dallapiccola, Hartmann & Schweinitz: Lieder

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nocturnes & lullabies

Messe

Plainsound Counterpoint / Mirrors

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Messe für Soli, Chor und Orchester, op.21

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