Boris Blacher

Boris Blacher

Boris Blacher (OldStyleDate|19 January|1903|6 January - 30 January 1975) was a German composer.

Life

Blacher was born when his parents were living within a Russian-speaking commmunity in the Manchurian town of Niuzhuang (hence the use of the Julian calendar on his birth record). He spent his first years in China and in the Asian parts of Russia, and in 1919, he eventually came to live in Harbin. In 1922, after finishing school, he went to Berlin where he began to study architecture and mathematics. Two years later, he turned to music and studied composition with Friedrich Ernst Koch.

His career was interrupted by National Socialism. He was accused of writing degenerate music and lost his teaching post at the Dresden Conservatory.

His career was resumed after 1945, and he later became director of the Music Academy of Berlin, and is today regarded as one of the most influential music figures of his time. His students include Aribert Reimann, Isang Yun, Maki Ishii, Fritz Geißler, Giselher Klebe, Heimo Erbse, Klaus Huber, Francis Burt and Gottfried von Einem.

Boris Blacher was married to the pianist Gerty Blacher-Hertzog. Their daughter is the German actress Tatjana Blacher.

Works

Works include:
* Concertante Music for Orchestra (1937)
* Symphony (1938)
* String Quartet No. 2 (1940)
* Orchestral Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1947)
* Violin Concerto (1948)
* "Hamlet" (1949) - Ballet in a Prologue and three scenes after Shakespeare by Tatjana Gsovsky
* Preußisches Märchen (1949/52) - Ballet-opera in five scenes
* Lysistrata (1950) - Ballet in three scenes after Aristophanes
* Piano Concerto No. 2 (in variable metres) (1952)
* Viola Concerto, Op. 48 (1954)
* "Der Mohr von Venedig" (1955) - Ballet in a Prologue, 8 scenes and an Epilogue after Shakespeare by Erika Hanka
* "Tristan" (1965) - Ballet in seven scenes by Tatjana Gsovsky
* "Anacaona" (1969) - Six Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson about the Indian Queen Anacaona
* Poem for large orchestra (1974) - dedicated to Tatjana Gsovsky

ee also

*Degenerate music

External links

* [http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=2809 Boris Blacher] page on Boosey & Hawkes website
* [http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Oct03/Blacher.htm Boris Blacher] A Centenary Sketch by Dr David C F Wright


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