Michael Wahlmüller
*5 March 1980
Works by Michael Wahlmüller
Biography
Michael Wahlmüller was born in Linz/Upper Austria in 1980 and lives and works in Vienna and Linz. He studied in his hometown Linz (Anton Bruckner Private University Linz) as well as at the University of Music and Performing Arts and at the University of Vienna. Michael Wahlmüller teaches at the Albertus Magnus Gymnasium of the Association of Religious Schools of Austria (Vienna, 18th district). He is also a board member of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music (ÖGZM). In addition to his pedagogical and organizational duties, Michael Wahlmüller is the founder and director of the Ensemble Lentia Nova and also conducts concerts with various choirs and orchestras from Vienna, Upper Austria and Lower Austria to which he is invited as a guest conductor. Michael Wahlmüller has been awarded national and international prizes for his compositional work.
About the music
My music builds on the essential levels of European music history and tries above all, with extensions of its means, to let new facets, further developments become audible. Tonality and atonality are understood as equal levels. Rhythm and harmony often also have form-giving significance. In the use and synchronization of conventional notation and aleatoric patterns, I see the analogy to the ever tighter networks of our globalized and pluralistic time. In many cases transcendental and philosophical themes are processed in my works.