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Ensemble Modern

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Ensemble Modern is an international ensemble dedicated to performing and promoting the music of modern composers. [1]

44 relations: Alva Noto, Anthony Braxton, Bertolt Brecht, Charles Ives, Conlon Nancarrow, Emmanuel Nunes, Ernest Bour, Frank Zappa, Frankfurt, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, Fred Frith, Friedrich Goldmann, George Benjamin (composer), Germany, Grammy Award, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Hanns Eisler, Hans Werner Henze, Hans Zender, Heiner Goebbels, Helmut Lachenmann, Ingo Metzmacher, John Adams (composer), John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kurt Weill, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Mauricio Kagel, Morton Feldman, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Péter Eötvös, Peter Rundel, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Reich, The Recording Academy, The Threepenny Opera, The Yellow Shark, Traffic Continues, Ueli Wiget, Utp (album), Winterreise, 2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991.

Alva Noto

Carsten Nicolai (September 18, 1965), known as Alva Noto, is a German musician.

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer.

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Conlon Nancarrow

Conlon Nancarrow (October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was an American-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life.

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Emmanuel Nunes

Emmanuel Nunes (31 August 1941 – 2 September 2012) was a Portuguese composer who lived and worked in Paris from 1964.

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Ernest Bour

Ernest Bour (20 April 1913 - 20 June 2001) was a noted conductor.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.

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Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts

The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main) is a state Hochschule for Music, Theater and Dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its kind in the Federal State of Hesse.

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Fred Frith

Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor.

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Friedrich Goldmann

Friedrich Goldmann (27 April 1941 – 24 July 2009) was a German composer and conductor.

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George Benjamin (composer)

Sir George William John Benjamin, CBE (born 31 January 1960) is an English composer of classical music.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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György Kurtág

György Kurtág (born 19 February 1926 in Lugoj) is an award-winning Hungarian classical composer and pianist.

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György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti (Ligeti György Sándor,; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music.

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Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer (his father was Austrian, and Eisler fought in a Hungarian regiment in World War I).

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Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.

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Hans Zender

Johannes "Hans" Wolfgang Zender (born 22 November 1936) is a German conductor and composer.

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Heiner Goebbels

Heiner Goebbels (born 17 August 1952) is a German composer, director and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale 2012–14.

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Helmut Lachenmann

Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935 in Stuttgart) is a German composer associated with "musique concrète instrumentale".

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Ingo Metzmacher

Ingo Metzmacher (born 10 November 1957 in Hanover, Germany) is a conductor and Artistic Director of the festival KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover.

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John Adams (composer)

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Mark-Anthony Turnage

Mark-Anthony Turnage CBE (born 10 June 1960) is an English composer of classical music.

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Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Raúl Kagel (December 24, 1931 – September 18, 2008) was a German-Argentine composer notable for developing the theatrical side of musical performance.

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Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer.

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (born 1977) is a Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist.

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Péter Eötvös

Péter Eötvös (Hungarian: Eötvös Péter:; born 2 January 1944) is a Hungarian composer, conductor and teacher.

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Peter Rundel

Peter Rundel (born 1958 in Friedrichshafen), is a German violinist and conductor.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

() is a Japanese musician, singer, composer, record producer, activist, writer, actor and dancer, based in Tokyo and New York.

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Steve Reich

Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.

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The Recording Academy

The Recording Academy (formerly the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or NARAS) is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other recording professionals.

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The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling.

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The Yellow Shark

The Yellow Shark is an album of orchestral music by Frank Zappa.

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Traffic Continues

Traffic Continues is an album by composer and guitarist Fred Frith featuring the Ensemble Modern, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, which was released on the Winter & Winter label.

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Ueli Wiget

Ueli Wiget (born 1957 in Winterthur) is a Swiss pianist, harpsichordist and harpist.

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Utp (album)

utp_ is the fourth collaboration between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

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Winterreise

Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert (D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller.

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2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991

2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991 is an album featuring ensemble performances of compositions by Anthony Braxton which was recorded in Germany in 1989 and 1991 and released on the HatART label.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Modern

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