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Bernd Gradwohl won the first price in an international competition at the age of 10. In line with the fading tradition of musicians performing their own works Bernd Gradwohl has written pieces for orchestra and solo instruments chamber ensembles and vocal music (which he accompanies on the piano).
With time many pieces for orchestra were created, namely:
"Intrada"
"Adagio und Fuge"
"Doppelkonzert für Oboe, Fagott und Orchester"
"Regatta der waghalsigen Manöver" eine sinfonische Dichtung
"Die Heurigensinfonie"
"Spaziergang am Pluto"
"Konzert für Teufelsgeige, Violine und Orchester"
"Gunst der Fuge"
"French Songs" for Mezzo Soprano and Orchestra
Chamber Music:
"Der Auerhahn und die Baumstämme" (Quintet for Wind Instruments)
"Duetts for Violin"
"Reise nach Cis"
Songs for Soprano and String Quartet
Songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano, 2009
2010: 3 string Quartetes
"French songs" a cycle for voice and piano, was composed in 2007.
the premiere was performed in its orchestral version the same year, in the "Haydn Saal", with the mezzo soprano Maya Berlec and Bernd Gradwohl conducting the Schlosscapelle chamber orchestra. The event thoroughly acclaimed by the audience, was broadcasted on Austrian television and radio.
The CD recording of the cycle was realised in its original version with the mezzo soprano Maya Berlec and Bernd gradwohl on the piano.
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French Songs Pense á moi Maya Berlec - Bernd Gradwohl  |
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Stylistically Bernd Gradwohl's music moves in a suspens-filled space between 20th and 21st century influence, and master craftsman tradition of the past, which approach is derived from infinite admiration for those early composers.
Of course, in light of Bach and the such, the concept and definition of the word "composer", with its practically unattainable demands in every epoch since then, must drive composers to questions their own doings:
"Opposed to him (Bach) we are all incompetent." Robert Schumann
Bernd Gradwohl's continuous search for means of expressions, finds its inspiration in different styles of music from Bach to Jazz. As a result his approach to composition, connecting past to present is a testimony to the evolution of time, but nevertheless, still carrying the inheritence of the past.
2017
- Composition and presentation of the string quartet work: "das ist immer gewesen"
- the "Alpine Suite", Six Bagatelles for piano, violin and 2 optional cow bells
2018
-Composition and Vienna premiere of the "Original Wiener Heurigensonate",
a 2 hour violin solo operetta, where polkas, fugas, canon and marchs meet in a mixture of virtuosity and humoristic poetry.
2020
"Tales of Vienna - charming contemporary pieces for violin solo"
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