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Wildberger Jacques

(03. 01. 1922 - 23. 08. 2006)

Wildberger Jacques
Wildberger Jacques
(BS)

 

Genre: Classical Music
Professional activity: Composers
Biography
* 03. 01. 1922, † 23. 08. 2006.

Jacques Wildberger was born in Basel. He was educated at Basel Conservatory and later studied composition under Wladimir Vogel. Between 1959 and 1966 he lectured in composition, analysis and instrumentation at the Baden School of Music in Karlsruhe. In 1967 he spent a term in Berlin as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholar, and up until the autumn of 1987 he taught composition, harmony, analysis and instrumentation at Basel Academy of Music. He lives in Riehen, near Basel. In 1960 he won the Basel Lions Club Prize, in 1965 the German Broadcasting Industry's Stereo Prize, in 1981 the Swiss Musicians Association Composition Prize, and in 1987 the Arts Prize of Riehen District Council.

Work list

Quattro pezzi (1951)

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 10' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
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Quartetto (1952)

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, violin and violoncello

Duration: 12' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
Tel. +49 (0)89 2728990
Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
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Trio (1952)

Instrumentation: for oboe, clarinet and bassoon

Duration: 16' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
Tel. +49 (0)89 2728990
Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
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Tre mutazioni (1953)

Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra (2(pic).1.ca.2(cbl).1/0.2.2.0/timp.3perc/pf.hp/hpd/str)

Duration: 14' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
Tel. +49 (0)89 2728990
Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
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Vom Kommen und Gehen des Menschen (1954)
Cantata based on native texts

Instrumentation: for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra (3(pic).2.ca.0.bcl.2/0.0.3.3/timp.perc/hp.pf/xyl.glock/db)

Duration: 23' 00"
Manuscript
Concentrum (1956)

Instrumentation: for harpsichord

Duration: 4' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
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Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
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Divertimento (1956)

Instrumentation: for piano and orchestra (1.1.1.1/2mellophones.tpt/timp.perc/org/str)

Duration: 5' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
Tel. +49 (0)89 2728990
Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
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"Ihr meint, das Leben sei kurz...". Cantata on Short Japanese Poems (1957)
Cantata based on japanese short poems.

Instrumentation: for choir, choir soli numbers, and instrumental ensemble (fl.cl.bcl/pf/perc/2vn.va.db)

Texts: Japanisch

Highly dependent on good diction and close conformity to the character of the text. An amateur choir with trained voices can overcome the difficulties contained within.

Duration: 25' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
Tel. +49 (0)89 2728990
Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
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Intensio-Centrum-Remissio (1958)

Instrumentation: for orchestra (1.pic.1.ca.2.bcl.1/2.1.1.1/pf.hp/str)

Duration: 12' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
Tel. +49 (0)89 2728990
Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
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Zeitebenen (1958)

Instrumentation: for eight players

Duration: 22' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
Tel. +49 (0)89 2728990
Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
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Music for violoncello and piano (1959)

Duration: 12' 00"
Ahn & Simrock
Damenstiftstr. 7
D-80331 München
Music for 22 solo strings (1960)

Duration: 12' 00"
Ahn & Simrock
Damenstiftstr. 7
D-80331 München
Rondeau (1962)

Instrumentation: for oboe solo

Duration: 8' 00"
edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
Tel. +49 (0)89 2728990
Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
office@hwmedia.de
www.editionmodern.de/
Epitaphe pour Evariste Galois (1962)
Scripted performance

Instrumentation: for narrator, soprano, baritone, speaking choir, electronic tape and orchestra (3.3.3.3./4.3.3.1/6perc/pf.hp/cel/str)

Texts: Jacques Wildberger

Text: Jacques Wildberger.

edition modern München
Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
Elisabethstr. 38
D-80796 München
Tel. +49 (0)89 2728990
Fax +49 (0)89 27289920
office@hwmedia.de
www.editionmodern.de/
Oboenkonzert (1963)

Instrumentation: for solo oboe, string orchestra, harpsichord, celesta, harp and percussion

Duration: 14' 00"
Ahn & Simrock
Damenstiftstr. 7
D-80331 München
Mouvements pour grand orchestre (1964)

Instrumentation: (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/4perc/str)

Duration: 11' 00"
Ahn & Simrock
Damenstiftstr. 7
D-80331 München
In my End is my Beginning (1964)
Cantata

Instrumentation: for soprano, tenor and chamber orchestra (1.1.1.1/1.1.0.0/3perc/pf.hp/cel.hpd/0.4.3.2)

Texts: T.S. Eliot

Text: T.S. Eliot.

Duration: 14' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Fünf Stücke für Orgel (1966)

Duration: 15' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Rencontres (1967)

Instrumentation: between flute/piccolo and Eb clarinet/bass clarinet/basset horn

A virtuosic piece using a total of six possible duet combinations, amongst which are five soloistic transitions.

Duration: 10' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Quartett (1967)

Instrumentation: for flute, oboe, harp and piano

Duration: 13' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
La Notte (1967)
Tryptic

Instrumentation: for electronic tape, mezzo-soprano and five instruments

Texts: Michelangelo Buonarrotti, Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Text: Michelangelo, Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

Duration: 10' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Contratempi (1970)

Instrumentation: for a solo flutist and four orchestral groups (0.0.0.cbcl.0.cbn/2.2.4.0/4perc/hp/cel.gtr.man/3.4.3.4)

Duration: 18' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Study for violoncello (1971)

Duration: 6' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Double Refrain (1972)

Instrumentation: for flute, English horn, guitar (also bass flute and oboe with contact-microphones) and electronic tape

After a short instrumental trio comes a two-channel electronic tape containing recorded text dealing with the relationship of the individual to the state. Based on this text the music gradually deteriorates leaving only white noise.

Duration: 12' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Retrospective I & II (1972)

Instrumentation: for flute solo

A timbral study with a fast middle section. Suitable as an encore piece.

Duration: 7' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
"... die Stimme, die alte schwächer werdende Stimme..." (1973-1974)
Triptychon

Instrumentation: for solo soprano, solo violoncello, orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.4.0/4perc/cel/hp/str;tp)

Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin, Bibel / Liturgie, Paul Celan, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Samuel Beckett.

Text: Hölderlin, Bible, Celan, Camus, Heidegger, Beckett.

Duration: 25' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Diario per Clarinetto (1971-1975)

Mulitphonics are given with precise fingerings.

Duration: 11' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Prismes (1975)

Instrumentation: for alto saxophone

Demanding in all respects but with virtuosic effect.

Duration: 10' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Schattenwerk (1976)

Instrumentation: for organ

Duration: 10' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
"Tod und Verklärung" (1977)

Instrumentation: for baritone and chamber orchestra (0.0.1.1/0.1.1.0/3perc/cel/5.4.3.3.1)

Texts: Johannes von Tepl, Novalis, Heinrich Heine

Text: Johannes von Tepl, Novalis, Heinrich Heine and others.

Duration: 19' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
"An die Hoffnung" (1979)

Instrumentation: for soprano, orator and orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/perc(3)/hp.cel/str)

Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin, Erich Fried, Volkslied, Jurek Becker

The soprano sings quotes from the 'Städtel-Lied' and text from Hölderlin and E. Fried. The orator recites chronicles of the holocaust in Nazi Germany and from J. Becker.All parts are demanding.

Duration: 18' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Konzertante Szenen (1981)

Instrumentation: for saxophone and orchestra (38pic.afl).3(ca).3(bcl).3(cbn)/4.4.4.0/4perc/hp/cel/str)

Duration: 18' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Canto per orchestra (1982)

Instrumentation: (2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/2.2.1.0/perc/str)

From amidst noise there gradually emerges the distinct 'singing' of the instruments, with the dramatic entrance of angst in the climax (heartbeat). Right up to the end the 'singing' remains in abeyance of danger.

Duration: 10' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Stralauer Allee 1
D-10245 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (030) 520071321
info@ricordi.de
www.ricordi.de
Portrait (1983)

Instrumentation: for alto saxophone

Demanding in all respects.

Duration: 8' 00"
Universal Edition
Karlsplatz 6
A-1010 Wien
Oesterreich
Tel. +43 1 337 23 0
Fax +43 1 337 23 400
office@universaledition.com
www.universaledition.com/
Kanons und Interludien (1984)

Instrumentation: for four clarinets

Duration: 11' 30"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Stralauer Allee 1
D-10245 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (030) 520071321
info@ricordi.de
www.ricordi.de
Communio zu "Missa in festo Pentecostes" (1985)

Instrumentation: for Soprano, bass clarinet, viola and organ

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie

Part of a joint composition: Proprium part of the Whitsunday mass by H. Holliger, H.U. Lehmann, J. Haselbach, P. Wettstein, G. Bennett and J. Wildberger.

Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript
80 Jahre Paul Sacher (1985)

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/perc/6.6.4.4.2)

Duration: 1' 20"
Manuscript
Diaphanie (Fantasia super "Veni creator spiritus" et Canones diversi super "Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist") (1986)

Instrumentation: for viola solo

Partly extreme procreation of sounds (behind the bridge, scordatura of the fourth string at the end). Double flageolets and a mixture of firmly fingered tones with flageolets. There is a traditional beauty in the intonation, the play is expressive.

Duration: 9' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
"Los pajarillos no cantan" (The Birds Sing No Longer) (1987)

Instrumentation: for guitar solo

This piece is a reaction to the Chilean military putsch by Pinochet. The singing (partly quotes from songs of Chilean singers) is gradually stifled and trampled on by the sound of soldiers’ boots.
Glissando with glass baton and drumming of fingers on soundboard required.


Duration: 10' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
"Du holde Kunst" (1987-1988)
Profane representation

Instrumentation: for orator, soprano and orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/3perc/hp.pf/acn/cel.gtr/va(solo).12.10.5.6.4)

Texts: Peter Weiss, Günter Eich, Walter Benjamin, Stéphane Mallarmé

Text: Peter Weiss, Günter Eich, Walter Benjamin, Stéphane Mallarmé.

Duration: 20' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
... und füllet die Erde und machet sie euch untertan... (1988-1989)
Biblical history

Instrumentation: for orchestra (3(pic,afl,bfl).2.ca.3(bcl,cbcl).2.cbn/4.3.3.1/6perc/hp.pf/cel/12.10.8.8.6)

Duration: 17' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Notturno (1990)

Instrumentation: for viola piano

Muted and alienated playing: flageolets from the viola and piano. Interference arises from clashing flageolets.

Duration: 12' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Concerto per orchestra (1991-1992)
Spatial dialogues

Instrumentation: (4.4.4.4/7.6.4.btba/5perc/hp/cel/16.14.12.10.7)

Duration: 16' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
"tantôt libre, tantôt recherchée" (1992-1993)

Instrumentation: for violoncello solo

Tapping on the belly and fret-board, unusual bow strokes, interference between natural flageolets, ‘unisono’ on various strings.

Duration: 7' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Elegy (1994-1995)

Instrumentation: for soprano and chamber ensemble (clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, percussion and string quintet)

Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin

Lyrical soprano h-a“. Toneless play by the woodwind. Unusual bowstrokes and high natural flageolets in the deep strings.

Duration: 8' 00"
Hug & Co. Musikverlage
Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich
Kammerkonzert (1995-1996)
Reconnaissances in the sixteenth-tone area

Instrumentation: for string instruments and synthesizer (harpsichord, concert piano with three pedals, pianoforte, each set a sixteenth-tone apart, synthesizer Yamaha SY 99 programmed to sixteenth-tone, two violoncelli and two double-bass)

Duration: 20' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Stralauer Allee 1
D-10245 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (030) 520071321
info@ricordi.de
www.ricordi.de
Commiato (1997)
Music

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Apart from the traditional playing methods, this piece also uses widely known unconventional methods.

Duration: 16' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Stralauer Allee 1
D-10245 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (030) 520071321
info@ricordi.de
www.ricordi.de
Fantasia sul Re (1998)

Instrumentation: for contrabass flute

Duration: 5' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Stralauer Allee 1
D-10245 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (030) 520071321
info@ricordi.de
www.ricordi.de
Tempus cadendi tempus sperandi (1999)

Instrumentation: for mixed choir, percussion and keyboard

Texts: Paul Celan, Erich Fried, Friedrich Hölderlin

Text: Paul Celan, Erich Fried, Friedrich Hölderlin.

Duration: 17' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Stralauer Allee 1
D-10245 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (030) 520071321
info@ricordi.de
www.ricordi.de
Discography
Eduard Brunner (Grammont Porträt Nr. MGB CTS-M 108, 2007)
Interpreters:
Brunner, Eduard
Works:
Suter, Robert: Sonatine pour clarinette et piano (1957)
Moeschinger, Albert: Sonate pour clarinette et piano, op. 87 (1959)
Kelterborn, Rudolf: Vier Stücke (1969)
Wildberger, Jacques: Diario per Clarinetto (1971-1975)
Lehmann, Hans Ulrich: Duplum II (1999)
With more works of: Heinrich Sutermeister, Conrad Beck
Info: www.fonoteca.ch
Bibliography
Kunkel, Michael: Zum Tod von Jacques Wildberger, in: Dissonanz 96 (2006) [Internet]
Kunkel, Michael: Der Komponist Jacques Wildberger – Eine Porträtskizze. Aussagen und Dokumente zum 80. Geburtstag, in: Dissonanz 73 (2002) [Internet]
Brotbeck, Roman: Luftschlösser mit Falltüren. Neue Werke von Wyttenbach, Wildberger und Sonderegger, in: Dissonanz. Die neue schweizerische Musikzeitung, Nr. 4 (Mai 1985) 4 (1985) [Internet]


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