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Eberhard Eyser was born in Marienwerder, Germany. He studied at the Music and Theatre Academy in Hannover, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, with Fritz von Bloh, Hermann Scherchen, Jannis Xenakis and Bruno Maderna.
He won many composition prizes, among them Third Prize at the 50th Anniversary Competition of the Prague Broadcasting Orchestra in 1965 for Métastrophy, the Light Music Award in Stockholm in 1976 for the overture Persistance Pays, the First Carl-Maria von Weber Chamber Opera Prize in Dresden in 1978 for Abu Said, the First Prize in Florilège Vocal de Tours in 1990 for the choral works Noche Azul, Motetus and Talamo and the Stockholm Culture Capital of Europe1998 Award for A Stockholm Symphony.
He wrote some 400 works of all genres including orchestral, vocal, chamber music, wind instruments, string instruments, piano, electronic music, chamber operas, ballet music and music for stage.
Many of Eberhard Eyser’s works have been recorded and produced on CDs, such as the chamber operas King of Hearts, Last Voyage and The Deep Water for Caprice Records; the overtures Persistance Pays and Circus for Bluebell Records; Anacrón for orchestra for Vienna Modern Masters Records; Duo 3C for violin and marimba, Barden for violin and guitar, Minimetti for guitar-solo, Colludo for percussion and strings and Racconti for violin, guitar and piano for Nosag Records; and Correlazioni for violin and guitar for Daphne Records. |