Karl Gottfried Brunotte

Karl Gottfried Brunotte (born 2 June 1958 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German composer and music philosopher.

He studied music sociology, music psychology, ancient languages, aesthetics, piano, organ, harpsichord, violin, viola, recorder, singing, conducting, and musical composition, as well as electronic music, with (amongst others) Heinz Werner Zimmermann, Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, Hans Peter Haller, Gottfried Michael Koenig, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

From 1974–1977 he held the position of Cantor at the Christuskirche in Bad Homburg, where he later was a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst (1982–1985). From 1980 to 1986 he was a guest lecturer with the International Vacation Courses for New Music in Darmstadt.

Since 1993 he has worked at the University of Frankfurt in the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik, as well as at the Fachhochschule Frankfurt für elektronische Musik (Anon. 2007).

He has composed nearly 300 pieces for the most diverse forces.

elect List of Compositions

* "Apokrypta", for organ (1999)
* "Dunkelziffer", for maximum-range voice, percussion, and electronic sounds (1997)
* "Erdenlicht", for flute, bassoon, and piano (with assistant)
* "Hypotosis … selene …", for a clarinetist, a pianist/percussionist, and electronic sounds (1997)
* "In aeternum II", for organ
* "Intemporale", for clarinet, piano, and metronome
* "Lehis Traum"
* "Mater dolorosa", for violin and piano
* "Nachruf für Werner Heissenberg", electronic and concrete music
* "Tangenten", for piano (1975)
* "Ultravox I & III"

References

* [Anon.] . 2007. "Höhepunkt der Orgelmusik". "Taunus Zeitung" (" [http://www.rhein-main.net/sixcms/detail.php/4211116/v2_rmn_news_local_article Frankfurter Neue Presse] ") (21 December).

External links

* Composers own professional XING-profile: http://www.xing.com/profile/KarlGottfried_BrunOtte
* Publisher’s website biography (in German): http://www.lothringer-verlag.de/bunotte.htm
* Composer website (in English): http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco13/brunotte/brunotteframes.html
* Ingvar Loco Nordin, [http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco13/brunotte/nachruf.html review of "Nachruf für Werner Heissenberg" (CD)]