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First name: Jan
Last name: Muller-Wieland
Dates: 1966
Category: Quartet
Nationality: German
Opus name: Klavierquartett (1998-1999)
Publisher: Sikorski (Doblinger)
Peculiarities: IMD; to buy: http://www.sikorski.de/660/de/0/a/0/I1G/kammermusik_streicher/kammermusik_fuer_streicher_mit_tasteninstrument/quartett_quintett/noten_cds_dvds.html
Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 March 1966 in Hamburg) is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas. Jan Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne and Rome, and Oliver Knussen in the Tanglewood Music Center. Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1992/93. He was awarded the Paul Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Composers' Prize in 2002. Since 2003 he is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg. Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München since 2007. Müller-Wieland is a member of the festival A*Devantgarde. He is married to the Austrian author Birgit Müller-Wieland. As of 2011, Müller-Wieland composed 14 operas. His first opera Das Gastspiel, subtitled "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists", a chamber opera after Frank Wedekind's Posse (farce) Der Kammersänger, was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992. His third piano trio Se solen sjunker on a Swedish song which Schubert also used was premiered on 29 June 2008 as part of the Piano Festival Ruhr at the Zeche Nordstern in Gelsenkirchen, performed by Siegfried Mauser (piano), Gottfried Schneider (violin) and Sebastian Hess (violoncello). His composition for chamber ensemble Traumbilder was commissioned by RUHR2010, the project of the European Culture Capital, and first performed on 19 May 2010 in the Reinoldikirche Dortmund.