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Austrian classical musician (1928?2022)
Rene Clemencic
(27 February 1928 ? 8 March 2022) was an Austrian composer, conductor, harpsichordist, clavichordist and recorder player.
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Biography
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Born in
Vienna
,
Austria
, Clemencic was educated at the
Vienna University
and studied further in France, Netherlands and
West Germany
. He was director of the Capella Musica Antiqua and of the Drama Musicum in Vienna.
In 1958 he founded Musica Antiqua (known after 1959 as Ensemble Musica Antiqua) to perform
early music
on
period instruments
. Later, in 1968, he founded the Clemencic Consort.
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Clemencic died on 8 March 2022, at the age of 94.
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Compositions
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- Meraviglia
1969
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- Moliere
Film music for the film by
Ariane Mnouchkine
(1978)
- Missa Mundi
mass in Latin, for five voices and orchestra (1981)
- Unus Mundus
(1986)
- Drachenkampf
ballet (1987)
- Kabbala
Oratorio in Hebrew (1992)
- Der Berg
chamber opera (1993)
- Apokalypsis
Oratorio
on the Greek text of the
Revelation of John
(1996)
- Stabat Mater
- (2001)
- Monduntergang
- Operelle for sirene Operntheater (2007)
- Nachts unter der steinernen Brucke
- chamber opera for sirene Operntheater (2009)
- Harun und Dschafar
- chamber opera for sirene Operntheater (2011)
- Gilgamesch
- Oratorio in German for sirene Operntheater (2015)
Selected recordings
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References
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International who's who in classical music Europa Publications Limited - 2007
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Conductors on record John L. Holmes - 1982 "Clemencic, Rene (b. 1928).
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J. M. Thomson
(2001).
"Clemencic, Rene"
.
Grove Music Online
(8th ed.).
Oxford University Press
.
ISBN
978-1-56159-263-0
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"Komponist Rene Clemencic ist tot"
(in German). ORF. 10 March 2022
. Retrieved
10 March
2022
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John Mansfield Thomson Recorder profiles 1972 p77 "Rene Clemencic also specialises in contemporary music and at Warsaw in 1969 performed his own work Meraviglia ('Wonder'). ... 'In my own compositions I want to rediscover music as something actual, something born at this moment,"
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