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Thuon Burtevitz

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German composer

Thuon Burtevitz, (born 27 August 1973) is a German composer.

Life

Born in Halle (Saale), Burtevitz first studied philosophy at the Technical University of Dresden, then changed to the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber as a student of Jörg Herchet. She continued her studies at the Studio für Elektronische Musik [de] and as a master student of Dimitri Terzakis at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Since then she has been living as a freelance composer in Dresden.

Work

Burtevitz developed her own tuning system for the piano work "Axia" (ancient Greek: "fundamental value") which lasts a good one and a half hours. In this system all intervals have a different size. For example, there are five different fifths. The octaves are also unequal. With this tuning system a strict order of tones is created, which nevertheless remains open to infinity. The form and rhythms of "axia" are also based on the tuning system.

Awards

References

  1. Notice on SWR Classic, retrieved on 7 June 2020.
  2. Zeitungsnotiz zur Uraufführung, retrieved on 7 June 2020.
  3. "Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen: Archiv 2009". www.kdfs.de.
  4. "Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart verliehen". neue musikzeitung (in German). Regensburg. 7 February 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

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