Music of Swiss-German composer Will Eisenmann this weekend. Sieben Bilder von Vincent van Gogh opus 22, performed by the Radio Beromünster Orchestra led by Jean-Marie Auberson – it was recorded by Radio Zurich on October 28, 1962.
Will Eisenmann was born in Stuttgart. His studies in art history and philosophy were followed from 1926 until 1929 by music studies at the Württemberg Conservatory in Stuttgart. He then worked as an unpaid assistant at the Württemberg State Theatre, as assistant director at the Wiesbaden State Opera, and from 1930 until 1931 as dramatic producer and director at the theatre in Cologne. From 1932 until 1933 he continued his musical studies under Paul Dukas at the ‘Ecole Normale de Musique’ and with Charles Koechlin in Paris. In 1935 he settled in Switzerland, founding opera studios in Zurich and Lucerne and contributing to music periodicals at home and abroad. Apart from composing, Eisenmann gave private lessons in Schwarzenberg (Lucerne), where he lived.
“I maintain a colourful polyphonic / polytonal notation which detracts from classification in the usual sense. I belong neither to a particular school, nor follow any of the current tendencies in music. I reject the intellectual materialistic musical concept, that music is based entirely on mathematical and analytical measures of value.”
Jean-Marie Auberson began his career as a conductor in 1951, as second conductor at the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, where he remained until 1956. He then became conductor at Radio Beromünster (now Radio SRF 1 until 1962, and at the symphony orchestra of Saint-Gallen from 1962 to 1968.[1] From 1968 to 1973, he was conductor for French repertoire and ballet at the Hamburg State Opera, and from 1972 to 1975 conductor of the Basel radio symphony orchestra.[1] He also conducted many productions at the Grand Théâtre de Genève from 1966 onward.[1] He conducted the premieres of a number of contemporary works, many broadcast by Radio Lausanne,[1] and recorded with the Vienna State Opera chorus and orchestra and the Geneva Baroque Orchestra, among others.
Enjoy.
