Jan Müller-Wieland

Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 March 1966 in Hamburg) is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas.

Career

Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne and Rome, and Oliver Knussen in the Tanglewood Music Center.

Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1992/93. He was awarded the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2002. From 2003 he has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg.

Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München since 2007.

Müller-Wieland is a member of the festival A*Devantgarde.

He is married to the Austrian author .

Opera As of 2011, Müller-Wieland had composed 14 operas. His first opera Das Gastspiel, subtitled "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists", a chamber opera after Frank Wedekind's Posse (farce) Der Kammersänger, was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992. The libretto of his opera Das Märchen der 672. Nacht (The Fairy tale of the 672nd Night) was written by his wife Birgit Müller-Wieland after a novella by Hugo von Hofmannsthal; the opera was first performed in 2000 at the Wiener Kammeroper conducted by Alexander Drcar. In 2008 his opera Aventure Faust, related to Goethe's Faust, was premiered in the Reaktorhalle in Munich, combined with György Ligeti's "Nouvelles Aventures" for three singers and seven instrumentalists.

Chamber music premieres Müller-Wieland's third piano trio Se solen sjunker is on a Swedish song which Schubert also used. It was premiered on 29 June 2008 as part of the Piano Festival Ruhr at the Zeche Nordstern in Gelsenkirchen, and was performed by Siegfried Mauser (piano), Gottfried Schneider (violin) and Sebastian Hess (violoncello). His composition for chamber ensemble Traumbilder was commissioned by RUHR.2010, the project of the European Culture Capital, and first performed on 19 May 2010 in the Reinoldikirche Dortmund.

Selected works

Stage works Premiere TitleDescriptionLibretto and source 29 Apr 1992, Munich Biennale Das Gastspiel Chamber opera in one act, 55' the composer, after the farce Der Kammersänger (1899) by Frank Wedekind 12 Sep 1992, Opera stabile, Hamburgische StaatsoperKain Chamber opera in four scenes, 60' after the Old Testament 27 Feb 1999, Staatstheater Darmstadt Die Versicherung Dream in two parts the composer, after an earlier drama by Peter Weiss 20 Dec 1996, Darmstadt Die Nachtigall und die Rose Chamber opera in one act, 75' Hannelore Neves, after Oscar Wilde 25 Apr 1998, Munich Biennale Opera, 90' the composer, after the drama by Federico García Lorca 29 Jan 2000, Wiener Kammeroper Das Märchen der 672. Nacht Opera in six pictures, 75' Birgit Müller-Wieland, after a novella by Hugo von Hofmannsthal 6 Oct 2001, Theater Görlitz Nathans Tod Opera in two acts after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and the play by George Tabori 15 Nov 2003, Bühnen der Stadt Köln Die chinesische Wäscherei Kurzoper, 7' Elke Heidenreich 30 Sep 2005, Theater Bonn Die Irre oder Nächtlicher Fischfang Musiktheater in one act Micaela von Marcard 7 Apr 2006, Oper Köln Der Held der westlichen Welt Komische Oper, in 3 acts, 105' the composer, after the German translation by Annemarie and Heinrich Böll of The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge 21 Nov 2008, Reaktorhalle, MünchenAventure Faust Three dream sequences, 40' Birgit Müller-Wieland, loosely after Faust by Goethe and Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen by Heine 27 Aug 2009, Neuköllner Oper, BerlinFanny und Schraube Chamber opera in 3 acts, 60' Kai Ivo Baulitz 28 Jul 2010, Sing- und Musikschule, Regensburg Der kleine Ring Musikalisches Märchen for children and adults, in 2 acts Birgit Müller-Wieland 20 Jan 2011, Neuköllner Oper, Berlin Der Freischuss Chamber opera in 3 acts, 60' after the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber

Orchestra Poem des Morgens (1991) for large orchestra Ballad of Ariel (2002) for violin and large orchestra

Chamber music Ecstatic and Instinctive (1989) for two pianos and two percussionists Schlaflied (2004) for piano trio Se solen sjunker (2008) for piano trio

Instrumental music Himmelfahrt for viola solo (2003)