Beat Furrer
*06.12.1954

Future Performances

Time out 1
15.02.2012, Wien (A)
Time out 2
15.02.2012, Wien (A)
Narcissus-Fragment
25.02.2012, Boston (USA)
Nuun
25.02.2012, Boston (USA)
Tiro mis tristes redes
06.03.2012, Münster (D)

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Beat Furrer

The Composer

1954 – Born December 6th in Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Throughout school simultaneous music courses at the Schaffhausen Music School (principal instrument: piano)

1975 – Moves to Vienna. Studies at the Music Academy in composition (Roman Haubenstock-Ramati) and conducting (Otmar Suitner)

1984 – Winner of the composition competition "The Young Generation in Europe," jointly sponsored by the City of Cologne, the Venice Biennale, and the Paris Festival d'Automne

1985 – Co-founder and Artistic Director of the instrumental ensemble Klangforum Wien (originally "Société de l'Art Acoustique"). Performances in Vienna's Secession museum and Concert House, as well as at festivals [...]

About the Music

Beat Furrer was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1954 and moved to Vienna in 1975. To all intents and purposes he is an Austrian composer.

He studied composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and they developed a close friendship based on mutual esteem which lasted until the older composer’s death in 1994. Thanks to Otmar Suitner, who taught him conducting, Furrer has been in a position to perform works by his professor on a regular basis. He is credited, for example, with the world première of the revised version of Haubenstock-Ramati’s opera Amerika in 1992.

In 1985, Furrer founded the new music ensemble Klangforum Wien, which he led a number of years both as artistic [...]

10 of 37 Works

Aer | for piano, clarinet and violoncello 1991
Die Blinden 1989
Chiaroscuro | for orchestra 1986
... cold and calm and moving | for flute, harp, violin, viola and violoncello 1992
Dort ist das Meer – nachts steig' ich hinab | for mixed choir and orchestra 1986
Duo | for 2 violoncellos 1985
Ensemble | for 4 clarinets, 2 pianos, vibraphone and marimbaphon 1983
Epilog | for 3 violoncellos 1988
Face de la chaleur | for flute, clarinet, piano and orchestra splitted in 4 gro [...] 1991
Frau Nachtigall | for violoncello 1982

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