René Clemencic

René Clemencic (27 February 1928 – 8 March 2022) was an Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player.[1][2]

Biography

Born in Vienna, Austria, Clemencic was educated at the Vienna University and studied further in France, Netherlands and West Germany. He was director of the Capella Musica Antiqua and of the Drama Musicum in Vienna.

In 1958 he founded Musica Antiqua (known after 1959 as Ensemble Musica Antiqua) to perform early music on period instruments. Later, in 1968, he founded the Clemencic Consort.[3]

Clemencic died on 8 March 2022, at the age of 94.[4]

Compositions
  • Meraviglia 1969[5]
  • Molière Film music for the film by Ariane Mnouchkine (1978)
  • Missa Mundi mass in Latin, for five voices and orchestra (1981)
  • Unus Mundus (1986)
  • Drachenkampf ballet (1987)
  • Kabbala Oratorio in Hebrew (1992)
  • Der Berg chamber opera (1993)
  • Apokalypsis Oratorio on the Greek text of the Revelation of John (1996)
  • Stabat Mater - (2001)
  • Monduntergang - Operelle for sirene Operntheater (2007)
  • Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke - chamber opera for sirene Operntheater (2009)
  • Harun und Dschafar - chamber opera for sirene Operntheater (2011)
  • Gilgamesch - Oratorio in German for sirene Operntheater (2015)

Selected recordings

References
  1. International who's who in classical music Europa Publications Limited - 2007
  2. Conductors on record John L. Holmes - 1982 "Clemencic, Rene (b. 1928).
  3. J. M. Thomson (2001). "Clemencic, René". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  4. "Komponist Rene Clemencic ist tot" (in German). ORF. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  5. John Mansfield Thomson Recorder profiles 1972 p77 "Rene Clemencic also specialises in contemporary music and at Warsaw in 1969 performed his own work Meraviglia ('Wonder'). ... 'In my own compositions I want to rediscover music as something actual, something born at this moment,"


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