Michael Hirsch

Born in Munich on 2 March 1958, died on 6 February 2017; Michael Hirsch was a composer. From 1976 he worked as a composer, at times also in the theatre, and in 1981 he moved to Berlin; as a performer he belonged to the Freyer-Ensemble. His output comprises chamber music, vocal works, speech compositions, orchestral pieces and music theatre: the full-length opera “Das stille Zimmer” (2000) for the Bielefeld Opera, the short opera “La Didone abbandonata” (2003) for the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music, the chamber operas “Eines schönen Tages” (2005) in Hanover and “Die Klage des Pleberio” (2005) in Berlin, the “Stationendrama” (2007) of the Stuttgart State Opera in a moving train, the vocal-symphonic work “Worte Steine” (2008/09) for baritone, choir and orchestra and the madrigal opera “Tragicomedia” (2009), premiered at the Eclat festival. He received the Elisabeth Schneider Composition Prize in 2001 and the Busoni Composition Prize of the Akademie der Künste Berlin in 2005, and in 2008 he held a fellowship at the Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano; from 2002 his works were published by Edition Juliane Klein. On the Cybele album DEGEM Vol. 8 – 90 Seconds of Reality (2005) he is represented with three episodes from “Das Konvolut, Vol. 3” (2002).