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South Korean composer (born 1937)
Junsang Bahk
(
Korean
:
박준상
; born 2 June 1937) is a celebrated Korean
composer
, also active in
Austria
.
Biography
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Bahk studied composition at the Graduate School,
Seoul National University
, where he received a Master of Music Degree in 1965.
An Austrian government stipend enabled him to study composition from 1967 to 1973 at the Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, with
Hanns Jelinek
and
Alfred Uhl
,
twelve-tone technique
with Jelinek and
Erich Urbanner
, electronic music and modern music with
Friedrich Cerha
. He graduated with Distinction in 1973. In 1968 and 1970 he took part in the
Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik
in
Darmstadt
, in
Karlheinz Stockhausen
's composition studios, and later in
Gyorgy Ligeti
's composition seminar. Subsequently, he studied musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna, where he received a Ph.D. in 1991 with a dissertation titled "Die Auswirkungen der Volksliedforschung auf das kompositorische Schaffen von Bela Bartok".
In 1969 in Seoul, together with
Isang Yun
,
Nam June Paik
, and
Sukhi Kang
, he helped organize the "Biennale for Contemporary Music", where new Western music was performed for the first time in Korea (Stockhausen,
Pierre Boulez
,
Herbert Eimert
,
John Cage
,
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
, etc.).
His compositions have won many important prizes, including the Korean National Prize for Composition (1980), First Prize of the Korean Information Ministry (1964), and the Kompositionspreis des Grazer Musikprotokolls (1973 and 1975).
Bibliography
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- Dibelius, Ulrich (ed.). 1998. "Junsang Bahk". In
Moderne Musik nach 1945. Mit 75 Abbildungen und 87 Notenbeispielen
. Munich, Zurich: Piper, 1998.
ISBN
3-492-04037-3
- Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Musik begrundet von Friedrich Blume
, vol. 5. Kassel, London, New York: Baerenreiter.
Works (selective list)
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- Symphony No. 1 for grand orchestra (1965)
- Mark
for piano (1971)
- Seak I
for chamber ensemble (1971)
- Echo
for wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn)
- Invokation
for dancing soprano, bass clarinet, and percussion (1977)
- Chunhyang Chon
(The Tale of the Maiden Chunhyang), opera, to a libretto by the composer (1985)
- Sublim
for orchestra (1987)
- String Quartet No. 1 (2000)
- Coreana
, Symphony for string orchestra (2003)
- Trans-Danza
(
Utdari Pungmul
) for violin and piano (2005)
- Mozartiana
for violin and piano (2006)
- Dokdo Symphony
for orchestra (2009)
- Pastoral Concerto
for flute and orchestra (2017)
- Mantra
, Concerto for piano and orchestra (2018)
- Children's World
for chamber orchestra (2020)
- Manpasikjeok(萬波息笛/萬波息笛)
, Concerto for daegeum and Korean traditional orchestra (2020)
- Symphony No. 3 for orchestra (2021)
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