Composer
Biography:
ERNST HELMUTH FLAMMER was born in Heilbronn in 1949, where he spent his childhood until 1961. From 1961 he attended the Birklehof boarding school in Hinterzarten (Black Forest), from which he graduated in 1969 with the Abitur. After studying mathematics and physics in the years 1969-1972, he first turned to musicology with minors in art history and philosophy, followed shortly afterwards by studying music.
From 1973-1979 he studied counterpoint and music theory with Peter Förtig and from 1972-1980 musicology with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht in Freiburg, where he wrote a dissertation on the subject of 'Politically engaged music as a compositional problem, illustrated using the example of Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze'. graduated. From 1976 he also studied composition with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough, and in the meantime also with Paul-Heinz Dittrich. Since 1977 he has published in several specialist journals on new music and aesthetic issues.
From 1980 to 1981 he taught music theory, counterpoint and musical theory and analysis of forms at the State University of Music in Trossingen, and from 1982 to 1985 he taught at the University of Freiburg. Flammer has been a freelancer since 1980, and since 1985 he has taught extensively as a guest lecturer at the University of Newcastle, in Dresden, Gera, Odessa, Paris, St. Petersburg, at the Mozarteum Salzburg and regularly at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. There are also regular guest lectures and radio broadcasts. From 1985 to 1987 he had a consulting contract with the city of Mönchengladbach as artistic director of the festival ›Ensemblia‹ there.
From 1985 to 1990 he was in charge of the ›ensemble recherche freiburg‹, which he helped to set up and which is primarily dedicated to the interpretation of new music. In 1993 he founded the International Piano Forum ›...antasten...‹ in Heilbronn, a unique festival for contemporary piano music that took place every two years until 2003. Ernst Helmuth Flammer has received numerous prizes and awards from Baden-Baden, Dresden, Freiburg, Hanover, Paris, Parma, Rome and Stuttgart. He received numerous commissions for compositions at home and abroad. His works have been premiered at numerous festivals and produced by all domestic and many foreign broadcasters.
In 1994, in addition to other existing CD documents, a portrait CD was released by WERGO, in 2005 the first recording of the extensive organ cycle superverso with Christoph Maria Moosmann was released on the ORGANUM CLASSICS label: since 2001, in addition to other related activities, especially in Latin America, he has been the conductor of Janus ensembles in Karlsruhe. Since 2003, Ernst Helmuth Flammer has been a teacher of composition and musicology at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden.
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