Words to somebody who thinks about becoming a composer
First of all you have to ask yourself the question: Do I really need to compose or is it just something I like to do?
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My women composers lecture at the Wiener Festwochen (June 8th 2024)
[Ich danke Merle Krafeld und Gesine Garz sehr herzlich für das Lektorat des folgenden Textes.] I had my first piano lessons at the age of six. I started with the usual children’s pieces, which were supposed to provide an introduction to the world of piano music. At some point, you...
What art is
What art is by Moritz Eggert · January 20, 2024 Artists, I tell you: Don’t do art because you want a scholarship. Don’t do art to get a good review. Don’t make art because you want to be admired. Don’t hope for the mercy of the institutions, because their mercy...
KAIROSIS
KAIROSIS What is “Kairosis”? Is it a game, a piece of music, a kind of opera, a film score? The answer is: a little bit of everything. Based on an idea developed together with Moritz Schneiderwendt (clarinetist, Ensemble Broken Frames Syndicate), this work has accompanied me for the last three...
Late farewell to Mark Foster
Late farewell to Mark Foster A few weeks ago I learned of the death of the Australian conductor, pianist and composer Mark Foster, a colleague I greatly valued and with whom I had several very nice joint projects, especially at the Lucerne Opera House. Unfortunately, I don’t know...
Dubious composition competitions, episode 263: Amadeus Composition Award Vienna
Dubious composition competitions, episode 263: Amadeus Composition Award Vienna When I wrote my article “The Tuscan Curse” about dubious composition competitions for the NMZ many years ago, I had no idea that the topic would remain relevant for so long. What’s more, it has actually become even more relevant as...
Dealing with Demons
An article about things that many of us deal with as musicians but that are rarely talked about…
The Great Upheaval of Opera
A lecture held at the Bavarian State Opera about the future of opera and why its renewal is essential. And why living composers should get more involved with it.
The Beatles: Get Back
Now the spouses of the band are constantly present at the rehearsals, children are crawling over keyboards and drums, new people keep appearing who are mostly just annoying (at some point even Paul McCartney’s brother, who then also films), and the situation becomes more and more absurd, since the Beatles clearly have too few ideas and they only indulge in silliness.
