(b.1934)
Discography
Wolff by Edition
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(b.1934) Discography Wolff by Edition |
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Christian Wolff was born in Nice France. He's lived mostly in the U.S. since 1941. He studied piano with Grete Sultan and composition, briefly, with John Cage. Though mostly self-taught as composer, the work of John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown have been important to him, as well as long associations with Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski. A particular feature of his music is the various freedoms it allows performers at the time of performance as well as the variable results possible for any one particular piece, for which various new notations have been invented. Underlying notions in the work are shared freedom, self-determination and democratically-spirited collaboration. The music, currently about 170 pieces, is published by C.F. Peters, New York and much of it is recorded (including 19 solo CDs), on many labels. A number of pieces, starting in 1953, have been used and commissioned by Merce Cunningham and his dance company. Wolff has been active as a performer and as improvisor - with Takehisa Kosugi, Steve Lacey, Christian Marclay, Keith Rowe, William Winant, the group AMM, Kui Dong and Larry Polansky. His writings on music (up to 1998) are collected in "Cues: Writings and Conversations", published by MusikTexte, Cologne. He has received awards and grants from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Ford Foundation, DAAD Berlin, the Asian Cultural Council, the Fromm Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and Meet the Composer. In 1995 he received the John Cage Award for Music from the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts. He is a member of the Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts. Academically trained as a classicist, Wolff taught classics at Harvard from 1963 to 1970 and was professor of classics and music at Dartmouth College from 1971 to 1999.
Edition 1: Bread & Roses (mode 43) Edition 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69) Edition 3: Tilbury Pieces (complete); Snowdrop (mode 74) Edition 4: Look She Said: Complete Works for Bass (mode 109) Edition 5: Complete Works for Violin and Piano (mode 126) Edition 6: (Re):Making Music (133/134)
  Bread and Roses (1976) Sally Pinkas, piano First Recording from the CD Bread and Roses (mode 43)   Dark as a Dungeon (1977) for bass and trombone Robert Black, bass Julie Josephson, trombone from the CD Look She Said: Complete Works for Bass (mode 109) for clarinet First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Digger Song (1988) for violin, viola, cello & percussion First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Duo for Violinist and Pianist (1961) two live, unedited performances Marc Sabat, violin Stephen Clarke, piano from the CD Complete Works for Violin and Piano (mode 126) violin and piano Marieke Keser, violin Frank Denyer, piano First Recording from the CD Volume 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69)  Eisler Ensemble Pieces (1984) flute, clarinet, cello and piano The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, conductor and director First Recording from the CD Volume 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69) The Eleven Preludes (1981) Sally Pinkas, piano First Recording from the CD Bread and Roses (mode 43) Emma (1988-89) for viola, cello & piano The Barton Workshop First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Exercise 15 (1975) for solo piano Frank Denyer, piano from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Exercise 16 (1975) for 2 instruments (clarinet and cello) John Anderson, clarinet Judith van Swaay, cello from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Exercise 17 (1975) for solo trombone (valve trombone) James Fulkerson, trombone from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Exercise 18 (1975) for 4 instruments (clarinet, cello, valve trombone, piano) The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, conductor and director from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Exercise 28 (2000) for theremin, violin, French horn and double-bass Ensemble Sospeso: Gemeinhardt, Menzies, McCoy composer prepared recording from the CD Spellbound (mode 199)  For 5 or 10 Players (1962) Version for 5 players for trombone, violin, viola, cello & percussion The Barton Workshop First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Version for 10 players for flutes, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, melodica, violin, viola, cello, bass, piano & percussion The Barton Workshop First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) For Morty (1987) vibraphone, glockenspiel and piano The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, conductor and director First Recording from the CD Volume 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69) From Leaning Forward (1988) for soprano, bass-baritone, clarinet/bass-clarinet, cello & piano Nicola Walker-Smith, soprano Charles van Tassel, bass-baritone The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, conductor and director First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134)   Hay una Mujer Desaparecida (1979) Sally Pinkas, piano First Recording from the CD Bread and Roses (mode 43)  I Like To Think of Harriet Tubman (1984) woman's voice, violin, clarinet, contrabass The Barton Workshop Judith van Sway, voice James Fulkerson, conductor and director First Recording from the CD Volume 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69)  Jasper (1991) for bass and violin Robert Black, bass Robin Lorentz, violin First Recording from the CD Look She Said: Complete Works for Bass (mode 109)  Kegama (1991) for violin, clarinet/bass-clarinet, cello, piano & percussion The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, conductor and director First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134)  Look She Said (1991) for solo bass with voice Written for Robert Black Robert Black, bass First Recording from the CD Look She Said: Complete Works for Bass (mode 109)     Peace March 1 ("Stop using uranium") (1983-84) for flute Jos Zwaanenburg, flute First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Peace March 2 (1984) for flute, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, conductor and director First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Pebbles (1999) written for Sabat/Clarke Marc Sabat, violin Stephen Clarke, piano First Recording from the CD Complete Works for Violin and Piano (mode 126) Piano Song (I am a Dangerous Woman) (1983) Sally Pinkas, piano First Recording from the CD Bread and Roses (mode 43) piano solo Frank Denyer, piano from the CD Volume 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69) Piano Trio (1985) violin, cello and piano Greenham Seneca Camiso The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, conductor and director First Recording from the CD Volume 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69)    Schoenen met veters (1999) for flute, clarinet/bass-clarinet, trombone, violin, viola, cello & bass written for The Barton Workshop Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, 1998-99 The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, conductor and director First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Serenade (1950) flute, clarinet and violin The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, conductor and director First Recording from the CD Volume 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69) Snowdrop (1970) Roland Dahinden, trombones, melodica Hildegard Kleeb, piano Dimitrios Polisoidis, violin, viola First Recording from the CD Tilbury Pieces (complete) Snowdrop (mode 74) Stardust Pieces (1984) cello and piano Judith van Sway, cello Frank Denyer, piano First Recording from the CD Volume 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69) String Bass Exercise out of "Bandiera Rossa" (1975) for solo bass Robert Black, bass from the CD Look She Said: Complete Works for Bass (mode 109)  Three Pieces (1979-80) for violin & viola Marieke Keser, violin Elisabeth Smalt, viola First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134) Tilbury 1 - 4 (1969-1970) Roland Dahinden, trombones, melodica Hildegard Kleeb, piano Dimitrios Polisoidis, violin, viola First Recording from the CD Tilbury Pieces (complete) Snowdrop (mode 74) Tilbury 5 (1996) Written for Dahinden, Kleeb & Polisoidis Roland Dahinden, trombones, melodica Hildegard Kleeb, piano Dimitrios Polisoidis, violin, viola First Recording from the CD Tilbury Pieces (complete) Snowdrop (mode 74)  Untitled (1996) for electric bass-guitar Robert Black, electric bass-guitar First Recording from the CD Look She Said: Complete Works for Bass (mode 109)  Violinist Pieces (1984) Marieke Keser, violin First Recording from the CD Volume 2: Chamber Works - I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (mode 69) Violist Pieces (1997) Elisabeth Smalt, viola First Recording from the CD (Re):Making Music (mode 133/134)     |
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