{"id":12796,"date":"2024-06-11T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/kelterborn-rudolf\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:51:12","slug":"kelterborn-rudolf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/en\/kelterborn-rudolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelterborn, Rudolf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rudolf Kelterborn<\/span><\/h1>
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Biography<\/span><\/h2>
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1931<\/td>born in Basel on 3 September<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950-1953<\/td>his studies include composition lessons with Walther Geiser at the Basel Music Academy and musicology with Jacques Handschin at the university there further composition studies with Willy Burkhard in Zurich and Boris Blacher in Salzburg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1955<\/td>composition studies at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold with G\u00fcnter Bialas and Wolfgang Fortner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1956-1960<\/td>active as teacher and conductor in Basel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960-1968<\/td>teaches theory and composition at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962<\/td>receives the Bernhard Sprengel Prize awarded by German Industry Hannover<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1963<\/td>appointed Professor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968-1975<\/td>teaches at the Conservatory and Musikhochschule in Zurich<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1969-1974 <\/td>editor-in-chief of the \"Schweizerische Musikzeitung\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970<\/td>guest lecturer in the United States
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize Zurich<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1973 <\/td>Zurich radio prize for a series on understanding music by listening consciously<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1974-1980 <\/td>head of the Music Department at the Radio of German and Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland (DRS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980-1983 <\/td>Professor at the Staatliche Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Karlsruhe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/td>guest lecturer in the United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981 <\/td>guest lecturer in England<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983-1994 <\/td>Director of the Music Academy in Basel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984 <\/td>Composition Prize of the \"Schweizerischer Tonk\u00fcnstlerverein\"
Arts Prize of the city of Basel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986 <\/td>guest lecturer in Japan and South Korea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987-1997 <\/td>Director of Basel Music Forum (with Heinz Holliger and J\u00fcrg Wyttenbach)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990 <\/td>composer-in-residence and instructor at Kunitachi Music College, Tokyo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992 <\/td>composer-in-residence at Cheltenham Festival<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>visiting lecturer at Shanghai Conservatory of Music<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994-1996 <\/td>teacher at Music Academy of the City of Basel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>Member of the Freie Akademie der K\u00fcnste [Free Academy of Arts] Mannheim<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>guest lecturer at the Lithuanian Music Academy, Vilnius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>composition seminar at the St. Petersburg Conservatory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>composer-in-residence at the Musikhochschule M\u00fcnster \"Musik unserer Zeit\" [\"Music in Our Time\"]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>Died in Basel on March 24th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Until the mid-1990s Kelterborn was also active as a guest conductor, mainly as an interpreter of his own works. He has published numerous music-theoretical and analytical essays and books, and has been invited as a guest lecturer to England, the USA, Japan, China and Eastern Europe. Kelterborn\u2019s compositions have been recognised in many essays and publications. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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