VOLKER DAVID KIRCHNER - Schott Music

CHRONOLOGY
Born on 25th of June 1942 in Mainz
Begins to study the violin at the age of five; first attempts at
composition at the age of eight
1956–1959 Studies at the Peter-Cornelius-Konservatorium in Mainz with
Günter Kehr (violin) and Günter Raphael (composition)
1959–1963 Studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne
Courses with Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Performs as a clarinettist and pianist in jazz groups
1962–1964 Solo violist of the Rheinisches Kammerorchester Cologne
1964–1967 Member of the Kehr-Trios; tours South America, North Africa
and the Near East
Explores Indian Music
1966–1968 Member of the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
1970 Co-founder of the Ensembles 70 Wiesbaden
up to 1974 Composes incidental music for more than 20 stage plays
1974 Förderpreis (musical award for further studies) of the Land
Rheinland-Pfalz
“Die Trauung”, opera after Gombrowicz
1975/76 String Sextett “Orphischer Gesang”
1977 Kunstpreis of the Land Rheinland-Pfalz
1977–1979 “Die fünf Minuten des Isaak Babel”, “Golgatha”, Piano Trio
1980 “Das kalte Herz” (1st version), 1st symphony “Totentanz”
1981–1985 “Bildnisse I und II” for orchestra; Violin Concerto; “Nachtstück”;
String Quartet; “Mysterion”; “Belshazar”; Songs on
texts by Goethe; Piano Sonata
1986/87 World premiere of “Belshazar” at the Bayerische Staatsoper
Munich; “Orfeo”-Cycle, after poems by Rilke
1988–1990 “Das kalte Herz”, new version, world première in October
1988, Munich Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz; Requiem
“Messa di pace” for soloists, mixed-voice choir and orchestra,
world première in Moscow in June 1990 as a part of the
festival “Music Culture of Today”; “Erinys”, world première
in Wuppertal in April 1990; “Schibboleth”
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