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He studied cello with Gerhard Mantel, Boris Pergamenschikow, Pierre Fournier and Janos Starker, then embarked on a career of international concert activity as well as performances on radio, recordings, and television <ref> Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial Edition, Vol. 1, pages 173/174 </ref>.
He studied cello with Gerhard Mantel, Boris Pergamenschikow, Pierre Fournier and Janos Starker, then embarked on a career of international concert activity as well as performances on radio, recordings, and television <ref> Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial Edition, Vol. 1, pages 173/174 </ref>.


He made numerous significant contributions to the art of contemporary cello performance; his publication ''Fingerboards & Overtones'' proposes new ideas concerning overtones and harmonics and is considered a pioneering work in the literature on contemporary technique. In 1990 he developed the Curved Bow (''BACH.Bogen'') for the cello, violin, and viola, which, in polyphonic playing, permits the simultaneous sounding of multiple strings, with the high arch of the bow allowing for full, sustained chords. During the years 1997 and 2001 Mstislav Rostropovich has been intimately involved in its development <ref> http://bach.bogen.pagespro-orange.fr/html/mstislav_rostropovich.htm </ref>. In 2001 he invited Michael Bach for a presentation of his ''BACH.Bow'' to Paris (7ème Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch)<ref> http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/bachbogen/bachbogen.htm </ref>.
He made numerous significant contributions to the art of contemporary cello performance; his publication ''Fingerboards & Overtones'' proposes new ideas concerning overtones and harmonics and is considered a pioneering work in the literature on contemporary technique. In 1990 he developed the [[Curved Bow]] (''BACH.Bogen'') for the cello, violin, and viola, which, in polyphonic playing, permits the simultaneous sounding of multiple strings, with the high arch of the bow allowing for full, sustained chords. During the years 1997 and 2001 Mstislav Rostropovich has been intimately involved in its development <ref> http://bach.bogen.pagespro-orange.fr/html/mstislav_rostropovich.htm </ref>. In 2001 he invited Michael Bach for a presentation of his ''BACH.Bow'' to Paris (7ème Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch)<ref> http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/bachbogen/bachbogen.htm </ref>.


Several contemporary composers, among them [[Number Pieces | John Cage]], [[Dieter Schnebel]], Walter Zimmermann and Hans Zender, have composed works especially for the ''BACH.Bow''.
Several contemporary composers, among them [[Number Pieces | John Cage]], [[Dieter Schnebel]], Walter Zimmermann and Hans Zender, have composed works especially for the ''BACH.Bow''.
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==Composition==
==Composition==

''18-7-92'' (1992) for Cello and 3 Tapes, First Performance: Schloss Seefeld, Germany 2004


''Ohne Titel'' (1992) for Cello and 3 Tapes, First Performance: Donaueschinger Musiktage 1994
''Ohne Titel'' (1992) for Cello and 3 Tapes, First Performance: Donaueschinger Musiktage 1994
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''Notation 1 and 2'' for Voice (1993-94), First Performance: Stuttgart 1994
''Notation 1 and 2'' for Voice (1993-94), First Performance: Stuttgart 1994


''55 Sounds'' (1995) for Cello, First Performance: Schloss Monrepos, Ludwigsburg, Germany 1995
''55 Sounds'' (1995) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]], First Performance: Schloss Monrepos, Ludwigsburg, Germany 1995


''50 Sounds'' (1995) for Accordion, First Performance: ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany 2010
''50 Sounds'' (1995) for Accordion, First Performance: ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany 2010
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''Karpfens'teich'' (2000) for wind instruments, First Performance: Internationale Musikakademie Schloss Kapfenburg 2000
''Karpfens'teich'' (2000) for wind instruments, First Performance: Internationale Musikakademie Schloss Kapfenburg 2000


''NURHAUFFÜGUR 1-7'' for Cello and Live-electronics, First Performance: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2000
''NURHAUFFÜGUR 1-7'' for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] and Live-electronics, First Performance: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2000


''57 Sounds'' (2001) for Organ, First Performance: Rheinischer Frühling, Germany, SWR 2001
''57 Sounds'' (2001) for Organ, First Performance: Rheinischer Frühling, Germany, SWR 2001
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''Notation for Chamber Orchestra'' (2001), First Performance: Rheinischer Frühling, Germany,SWR 2001
''Notation for Chamber Orchestra'' (2001), First Performance: Rheinischer Frühling, Germany,SWR 2001


''5 Pitches, 13 Notes'' (2005) for Cello, First Performance: MANCA Festival Nice, France 2005
''5 Pitches, 13 Notes'' (2005) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]], First Performance: MANCA Festival Nice, France 2005


''18-7-92'' (1992/2004) for Cello and pre-recorded Media, First Performance: Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008
''18-7-92'' (1992/2004) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] and 3 Tapes, First Performance: Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008


''namen.los'' (2008) for Clarinet, First Performance: Treffpunkt Rotebühl, Stuttgart, Germany 2008
''namen.los'' (2008) for Clarinet, First Performance: Treffpunkt Rotebühl, Stuttgart, Germany 2008


''ONE13'' (1992/2006) for Cello and pre-recorded Media (Co-Autor: John Cage), First Performance: Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008
''ONE13'' (1992/2006) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] and pre-recorded Media (Co-Autor: John Cage), First Performance: Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008


''versbrechen - ein Fingerboard für Kirchner'' (2010) for Cello, First Performance: Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen 2010
''versbrechen - ein Fingerboard für Kirchner'' (2010) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]], First Performance: Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen 2010




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* 1987 ''Kadenzen'' (1913) by [[Arnold Schoenberg]] for the ''Cello Concerto in g minor'' by [[Matthias Georg Monn]] with the Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, Germany; conductor: Georg Schmöhe.
* 1987 ''Kadenzen'' (1913) by [[Arnold Schoenberg]] for the ''Cello Concerto in g minor'' by [[Matthias Georg Monn]] with the Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, Germany; conductor: Georg Schmöhe.


* 1991 ''ONE8 and 108'' (1991) for Cello with [[Curved Bow (string instruments) | Curved Bow]] and Orchestra by [[John Cage]], dedicated to Michael Bach and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Germany, (without conductor).
* 1991 ''ONE8 and 108'' (1991) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] and Orchestra by [[John Cage]], dedicated to Michael Bach and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Germany, (without conductor).


* 1992 ''Mit diesen Händen'' (1992) by [[Dieter Schnebel]], dedicated to Michael Bach, together with the singer William Pearson on the occasion of the "Heinrich-Böll-Woche" in Cologne, Germany.
* 1992 ''Mit diesen Händen'' (1992) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] and Voice by [[Dieter Schnebel]], dedicated to Michael Bach, together with the singer William Pearson on the occasion of the "Heinrich-Böll-Woche" in Cologne, Germany.


* 1993 ''ONE13'' (1992) for Cello with [[Curved Bow (string instruments) | Curved Bow]] and 3 Tapes, composition by John Cage and Michael Bach Bachtischa, festival ''musica'' in Strasbourg, France.
* 1993 ''ONE13'' (1992) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] and 3 Tapes, composition by John Cage and Michael Bach Bachtischa, festival ''musica'' in Strasbourg, France.


* 1998 ''TIERKREIS'' by [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], version for Cello with [[Curved Bow (string instruments) | Curved Bow]] by Michael Bach Bachtischa in Bayreuth, Germany.
* 1998 ''TIERKREIS'' by [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], version for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] by Michael Bach Bachtischa in Bayreuth, Germany.


* 2004 ''Capriccio'' 1828 for Violin solo by [[Niccolò Paganini]], version for Cello with [[Curved Bow (string instruments) | Curved Bow]] by Michael Bach Bachtischa in Worms, Germany.
* 2004 ''Capriccio'' 1828 for Violin solo by [[Niccolò Paganini]], version for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] by Michael Bach Bachtischa in Worms, Germany.


* 2008 New version of ''ONE13'' (1992/2006) for Cello with [[Curved Bow (string instruments) | Curved Bow]] and 3 Tapes, composition by John Cage and Michael Bach Bachtischa, in San Francisco, USA and Stuttgart, Germany.
* 2008 New version of ''ONE13'' (1992/2006) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] and 3 Tapes, composition by John Cage and Michael Bach Bachtischa, in San Francisco, USA and Stuttgart, Germany.


* 2010 ''versbrechen - ein Fingerboard für [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Kirchner]]'' (2010) for Cello with [[Curved Bow (string instruments) | Curved Bow]] by Michael Bach Bachtischa, Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Germany.
* 2010 ''versbrechen - ein Fingerboard für [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Kirchner]]'' (2010) for Cello with [[Curved Bow]] by Michael Bach Bachtischa, Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Germany.




Revision as of 16:01, 17 December 2010

Michael Bach (b. Worms, April 17, 1958) is a German cellist, composer, and visual artist, also known as Michael Bach Bachtischa.

Life

He studied cello with Gerhard Mantel, Boris Pergamenschikow, Pierre Fournier and Janos Starker, then embarked on a career of international concert activity as well as performances on radio, recordings, and television [1].

He made numerous significant contributions to the art of contemporary cello performance; his publication Fingerboards & Overtones proposes new ideas concerning overtones and harmonics and is considered a pioneering work in the literature on contemporary technique. In 1990 he developed the Curved Bow (BACH.Bogen) for the cello, violin, and viola, which, in polyphonic playing, permits the simultaneous sounding of multiple strings, with the high arch of the bow allowing for full, sustained chords. During the years 1997 and 2001 Mstislav Rostropovich has been intimately involved in its development [2]. In 2001 he invited Michael Bach for a presentation of his BACH.Bow to Paris (7ème Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch)[3].

Several contemporary composers, among them John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, Walter Zimmermann and Hans Zender, have composed works especially for the BACH.Bow. Bach Bachtischa is also a composer. His purely musical compositions are idiosyncratic and highly personal, described by him as “free from compositional conventions.”

In collaboration with the visual artist Renate Hoffleit he has created strikingly original string installations [4].

Michael Bach's visual works include Fingerboards (1990-2010), which capture the hand’s choreography on the cello fingerboard as color impressions, Fieldwork (1994), Mit diesen beiden Händen (1994), Lagauche (1995), and Olévano (1995-). The German postage stamp „75 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage, Deutschland 1996“ shows his composition and drawing 18-7-92, Scetches to Ryoanji (1992) [5].

Composition

Ohne Titel (1992) for Cello and 3 Tapes, First Performance: Donaueschinger Musiktage 1994

Notation 2 for 15 STRINGS and 5 Players (1992), First Performance: Donaueschinger Musiktage 1994

Notation 1 and 2 for Voice (1993-94), First Performance: Stuttgart 1994

55 Sounds (1995) for Cello with Curved Bow, First Performance: Schloss Monrepos, Ludwigsburg, Germany 1995

50 Sounds (1995) for Accordion, First Performance: ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany 2010

+Murbach (2000) für Cello, First Performance: Printemps Rhénan, France, SWR 2000

A-E-G-C (2000) for Microtonal Piano, First Performance: Internationale Musikakademie Schloss Kapfenburg, Germany 2000

Karpfens'bug (2000) for String Players and Singers, First Performance: Internationale Musikakademie Schloss Kapfenburg 2000

Karpfens'teich (2000) for wind instruments, First Performance: Internationale Musikakademie Schloss Kapfenburg 2000

NURHAUFFÜGUR 1-7 for Cello with Curved Bow and Live-electronics, First Performance: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2000

57 Sounds (2001) for Organ, First Performance: Rheinischer Frühling, Germany, SWR 2001

Notation for Chamber Orchestra (2001), First Performance: Rheinischer Frühling, Germany,SWR 2001

5 Pitches, 13 Notes (2005) for Cello with Curved Bow, First Performance: MANCA Festival Nice, France 2005

18-7-92 (1992/2004) for Cello with Curved Bow and 3 Tapes, First Performance: Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008

namen.los (2008) for Clarinet, First Performance: Treffpunkt Rotebühl, Stuttgart, Germany 2008

ONE13 (1992/2006) for Cello with Curved Bow and pre-recorded Media (Co-Autor: John Cage), First Performance: Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008

versbrechen - ein Fingerboard für Kirchner (2010) for Cello with Curved Bow, First Performance: Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen 2010


First Performances

  • 1986 SOLO (1965) by Karlheinz Stockhausen with digital delay machines. Michael Bach, Cello and the Experimentalstudio des SWF, Hans-Peter Haller, Freiburg, Germany.
  • 1986 Sonata in E-flat Major, opus 64 by Ludwig van Beethoven with Berhard Wambach, piano, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • 1991 ONE8 and 108 (1991) for Cello with Curved Bow and Orchestra by John Cage, dedicated to Michael Bach and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Germany, (without conductor).
  • 1992 Mit diesen Händen (1992) for Cello with Curved Bow and Voice by Dieter Schnebel, dedicated to Michael Bach, together with the singer William Pearson on the occasion of the "Heinrich-Böll-Woche" in Cologne, Germany.
  • 1993 ONE13 (1992) for Cello with Curved Bow and 3 Tapes, composition by John Cage and Michael Bach Bachtischa, festival musica in Strasbourg, France.
  • 2004 Capriccio 1828 for Violin solo by Niccolò Paganini, version for Cello with Curved Bow by Michael Bach Bachtischa in Worms, Germany.
  • 2008 New version of ONE13 (1992/2006) for Cello with Curved Bow and 3 Tapes, composition by John Cage and Michael Bach Bachtischa, in San Francisco, USA and Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 2010 versbrechen - ein Fingerboard für Kirchner (2010) for Cello with Curved Bow by Michael Bach Bachtischa, Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Germany.


Publications

Michael Bach, Fingerboards & Overtones, Pictures, Basics and Model for a New Way of Cello Playing, edition spangenberg, München 1991, ISBN 3-89409-063-4

Michael Bach, Die Suiten für Violoncello von Johann Sebastian Bach, in: Das Orchester, Mainz 7-8/1997

Rudolf Gähler: Der Rundbogen für die Violine - ein Phantom?, ConBrio-Fachbuch, Band 5, ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-930079-58-5

MUSICAGE, pages 246-290 and 296, Editor: Joan Retallack, Wesleyan University Press, Hanover 1996, ISBN 0-8195-5285-2

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial Edition, Vol. 1, pages 173/174, Editors: Nicolas Slonimsky and Laura Kuhn, New York 2001

Jeremy Barlow: The Bach Bow, in: Early music today, London 2003


Radio and TV

"The Cellist Michael Bach", Moderation: Sabine Fallenstein, 60 minutes, SWR Baden-Baden, Germany 1998

"The BACH.Bogen", Moderation: Sabine Fallenstein, 10 minutes, SWR Baden-Baden, Germany 2000

Interview with Michael Bach concerning the „BACH.Bogen", Moderation: Andreas Lindahl, 20 minutes, Sveriges Radio, Sweden 2007

"Daimei No Nei Ongakukai", Moderation: Toshiro Mayuzumi, Michael Bach and the Tokyo City Philharmonic, Naozumi Yamamoto, Shibuya Public Hall, TV Asahi Tokyo, Japan 1990

Donaueschinger Musiktage 1994, Concert October 14, 1994, SWR TV Baden-Baden, Germany 1994

References

  1. ^ Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial Edition, Vol. 1, pages 173/174
  2. ^ http://bach.bogen.pagespro-orange.fr/html/mstislav_rostropovich.htm
  3. ^ http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/bachbogen/bachbogen.htm
  4. ^ http://bach.bogen.pagespro-orange.fr/html/sound_installations.html
  5. ^ http://bach.bogen.pagespro-orange.fr/html/ryoanji-cello.htm
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