GERHARD STABLER

 FUR SPATER: JETZT LP

Edition V / Plane

Very rare german avant-garde in the tradition of the composers Helmut Lachenmann, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Dieter Schnebel, Mauricio Kagel and the like released back in 1984 and featuring the piece that won the "Cornelius Cardew Memorial Prize" in 1982.

Some info on the release:  Rare original issue, released in Germany on the great Plane label Edition V series (Cornelius Cardew, Max E.Kellet, Helmut Lachenmann, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Luca Lombardi, Konrad Boehmer, etc.). Features Stabler's "...Furs Vaterland..." that won in 1982 the "Cornelius Cardew Memorial Prize".

Gerhard Stäbler was born in 1949 in Wilhelmsdorf, near Ravensburg in southern Germany. In 1968 he began studies in composition at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in Detmold, continuing at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen, where he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and organ with Gerd Zacher.  The Cornelius Cardew Memorial Prize (1982) was the first in a series of awards, prizes, commissions and scholarships he has received. Since the beginning of his career, Stäbler has been active not only as a composer, but also in politics and organization. The Aktive Musik new music festival was founded by Stäbler, and he was artistic director of the 1995 World Music Days of the ISCM, held in the Ruhr. He has taught workshops and seminars involving young composers and performers all over the world, and has been composer in residence and visiting professor at many institutions in North and South America, in Australia, and Singapur, as well as in the Middle and Far East.  Stäbler’s music often transcends conventional frameworks and audience expectations through the use of gestures or movement, space, lighting, olfactory stimulation, or the active involvement of the audience. He finds it important to simulate the imagination, to sensitize the ears and other senses to unexpected perceptual and thought processes. This is the origin of his interest in the interaction of composition and improvisation, which is rooted in the unique tension between performers during the pre-established yet open musical moment, as seen for instance in his graphic score Hart auf hart (1986). For the same reasons, his music is always characterized by carefully considered development, containing elaborate constructions that don’t impede the immanent musical statement.

Condition: Vinyl lies in excellent condition, looks very clean, but plays with some occasional crackle mostly VG++, while cover lies in very good+ condition with a split on top (see picture).

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