Moritz Eggert was born 1965 in Heidelberg. Today, the centre of his life is Munich. As a composer he is comfortably shifting between many musical genres, sometimes provocative and challenging, sometimes overwhelming and inspiring. Melody and emotionality interest him equally as experimental or performative soundscapes, for him there is no qualitative difference between these two worlds. His works have often gathered media attention with works like Die Tiefe des Raumes or his opera Freax based on the infamous and long banned film by Tod Browning. For Eggert contemporary music should not be neither aimed at an insider or expert audience nor cater to the lowest common denominator. The way in between is part of his personal theory of “atopical” (or “placeless”) music. A large part of his body of work is for musical theatre, he wrote 19 operas until now. He is also interested in chamber music – sometimes performative and experimental like his piano cycle Hämmerklavier or intimate and intense like his song cycle Neue Dichter Lieben, but also has written extensively for orchestras and large ensembles. Currently he works on new operas for Bonn and Vienna, several instrumental concertos with orchestra and the theatrical opening performance for the Beethovenfest Bonn 2022, together with Axel Brüggemann. Eggert appears onstage regularly as a pianist, singer, conductor and performer, playing not only contemporary but also classical repertoire. While still a student, he founded the aDevantgarde Festival together with Sandeep Bhagwati, which still takes place regularly. For the neue musikzeitung he runs the “Bad Blog of Musick”, which is the most read contemporary music blog in Germany. He is also present in media, for example as a fast-talking opera guide in “Oper für Ungeduldige” (Opera for the Impatient, ZDF) or in documentaries like “Epochen der Musikgeschichte” (Epochs of Music History, BBC /ARTE). He teaches composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and has been president of the Deutscher Komponist:innenverband since 2020.
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Moritz Eggert
Moritz Eggert
Moritz Eggert
Marcus Antonius Wesselmann