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Otfried Büsing (* November 29, 1955 in Delmenhorst) is a German composer and professor of music theory.

Büsing made the first attempts at composition in primary school age, based on improvisations on the piano. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Hanover University of Music and achieved conclusions in the subjects of church music (A), school music, music theory and composition (master class Alfred Koerppen). Afterwards, in the 1980s, he performed teaching at the Hannover University of Music (organ improvisation) and the Detmold University of Music (lecturer for music theory). In 1991 he took over a professorship for music theory at the Freiburg University of Music, where he has lived and worked since then. He is married to the cantor and concert organizer Jakoba Marten-Büsing and has two children.

Büsing, whose compositional handwriting by the terms he had shaped himself selective row technology , of the Material counterpoints as well as the Spectral synthesis It is to be characterized, composes works for almost all genres. His works range from experimental piano music ( Orion for MIDI piano- 2010) to organ and chamber music as well as song cycles to orchestral music ( Affair 1998) and the Chamber Opera Picnic in the field (1997) to Fernando Arrabal. Takes a central position in his oeuvre And I tell a compromising-modern addition to the seven-sided fragment of the Bach Markus Passion BWV 247 according to texts by Walter Jens (new transmission of the Gospel of Mark)).

Büsing’s works find a wide response at home and abroad. Special cooperation with the State Opera Unter den Linden (Berlin), the Magdeburg Theater, the Malmö Opera Och Musikateater (Musiktheater Malmö), the Baden Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Dresden Symphonics, the Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg, the Nuremberg Philharmonic, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the ensemble Aventure, Ensemble Surplus and the Offenburger Ensemble.

Productions and recordings of many compositions are available from all major German-language television and broadcasters as well as cooperation with Ukrainian television and radio.

All works are relocated to the German Edition Gravis.

  • 1981: Lower Saxony junior ceremony for composition
  • 1985–87: Scholarship of the Mozart Foundation Frankfurt
  • 1988/89: Study stay in the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
  • 2000: Composition price church music Baden-Württemberg

Bühnenwerk [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Orchesterwerke [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • Affair (1998). For large orchestras
  • Concert for organ and orchestra (2001)
  • Picnic in the field (1997/2007). Suite from the opera of the same name

Chorwerke [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • The Canticle of Creatures. Der Sonnengesang des Franz von Assisi (1987). For mixed choir and 6 instruments
  • Psalms of Qumran (1997). For mixed choir and percussion
  • The light of the angels (2002). Oratorial Christmas scenes for vocal soloists, speakers, mixed choir, children’s choir, chamber orchestra and large organ
  • Adona (2008). Cantata according to Words by Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber and the Holy Scripture. For solos, mixed choir, children’s choir, large organ and orchestra (premiere at the German Evangelical Church Day 2009 in the Bremen Cathedral)

Vocal music [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • And I tell (1993). Supplement to the Bach fragment of the Markus Passion BWV 247 according to Walter Jens (re-transmission of the Mark’s Gospel). For 4 voweloli and 6 instruments
  • Dearest friend (1998). 5 chants of letter texts by W. A. ​​Mozart. For soprano and piano
  • Looks! He comes on the clouds! (1997). According to texts by the apocalypse of John (transfer: Walter Jens). For coloratura soprano, 3 trumpets, drums and organ
  • The Table and the Chair (2005). Three nonsense songs for medium voice and wings with side instruments
  • Songs from an island (2006). According to Ingeborg Bachmann. For bass baritone and piano
  • Calypso (2009). For 3 tenors, 3 baritone and bass

Chamber music [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • Break (1995). For piano and chamber ensemble
  • Sounds and strikes (1996). For woodwind quartet and piano
  • Virtual images (1998). For clarinet, bass clarinet and piano
  • Saitenmusik (2003). For violin and piano
  • Enthousiasis (2004). For string quartet
  • Flair (2006). For four flutes
  • Concerting scene (2006/7). For violin and cymbal (hammer wing)
  • Sea sounds (2009). For Gambenconsort

Piano music [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • 32 Variations on a topic of Beethoven (1986)
  • Strepitolino f (1999). For 1 wing to four hands with ancillary instruments
  • Sonata 1 (2000)
  • in die to raise/going up the distance (2008)
  • Orion (2010). For midi piano

Organ music [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • Horizon/horizon (1994)
  • Change (1998)
  • Jakob’s dream (2008)
  • The glass sea (2008). For large organ and organ positive

Solo works for other instruments [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • music for a very old saxophone (2001)
  • Astron (2004). For clarinet and piano resonances
  • Fertil preludes (2005). For guitar
  • kingfisher (2014). Gap flute

Edit [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • Voice in the dark . After piano songs by Hellmut Coerper. For soprano and orchestra
  • March in B major For orchestra. After march On. 99 For Sergei Prokofjew’s wind orchestra
  • Fantasia and Fuga d-Moll for organ. After Violinsonate g-moll By Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Rudolf Lück (2008): “Otfried Büsing”. In: Music in history and present . 2nd, revised edition. Edited by Ludwig Finscher. Supplement band. Kassel: Bärenreiter
  • Hartmut Möller: “Otfried Büsing”. In: Composer of the present . Edited by Hanns-Werner Heister. Munich: Ed. Text + criticism