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 Wolfgang von Schweinitz und Friederike Mayröcker ( Germany )  Wolfgang von Schweinitz Wolfgang von Schweinitz was born 1953 in Hamburg. After some early compositional attempts since 1960 he studied from 1968 to 1976 with Ester Ballou in Washington, later with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and György Ligeti in Hamburg. He also worked at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in California with John Chowning. There he composed the Mozart-Variations for orchestra, which made him internationally known. After travelling through Mexico he lived in Munich, later in Berlin, before he decided to move to the countryside of Northern Germany, where he spent twelve years in quiet seclusion. In 1993 he went back to Berlin, from 1994 to 1996 he worked as a guest professor for composition at the music academy “Franz Liszt” in Weimar. He got a scholarship for the Villa Massimo in Rome (1978/79) and was invited to lecture at the International Summer Courses in Darmstadt (1980). Since 1997 he is developing new microtonal ensemble playing techniques allowing an extended just or natural intonation. Friederike Mayröcker was born in 1924 in Vienna. After completing elementary school, she initially attended a mercantile economics school and subsequently received her Matura (qualification for university studies). She studied English philology and worked as an English teacher from 1946 until 1969 in Vienna, where she lives and works as a free-lance writer today. Her first literary works emerged in 1939. After her first publication of poetry in the Vienna Avant-garde magazine Plan, her first book appeared in 1956. She has written poetry, prose, narratives, and radio plays, as well as children’s books and stage pieces since then. Friederike Mayröcker was friends with the Vienna Poet Ernst Jandl. [back] |
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