Alexander Mullenbach

Alexander Mullenbach (born 1949) is a Luxembourg pianist, composer and conductor. Since 2002, he has been director of the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.^[1]

Career

Born in Luxembourg City on 23 January 1949, Mullenbach studied piano, chamber music and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Salzburg Mozarteum where his teachers included Gerhard Wimberger and Cesar Bresgen. From 1970, he taught piano at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg and, from 1981, composition. Since then, he has also taught at the Mozarteum. Since 1978, he has composed over 60 works, of which six for symphony orchestra. They have been performed at major music festivals in Salzburg, Echternach, Strasbourg and Munich.^[2] Performers have included Heinrich Schiff, Roberto Szidon, Irena Grafenauer, Elliot Fisk and the ensembles Musica Viva of Dresden and Alter Ego of Rome. Conductors who have directed his symphonic works include Ernest Bour, Leopold Hager, Hans Graf and Udo Zimmermann.^[3]

Memberships and affiliations

• 1997: member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea in Salzburg and of the Grand Ducal Institute in Luxembourg.
• 1999: officer of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
• 2000: president of the Conseil Supérieur de la Musique in Luxembourg
• 2002: director of the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg.
• 2007: artistic director of the Internationales Festival Echternach, Luxembourg^[4]

Compositions

Among his most successful compositions are:^[1]

• 1974: Paysage hivernal
• 1976: Symboles
• 1981: Correspondances
• 1982: Rituel
• 1982: Progressions
• 1985: Erste Symphonie
• 1987: Dream Music II
• 1989: White Symphony
• 1991: Under the Rainbow
• 1993: Flugsand für grosses Orchester
• 2003: Die Todesbrücke (opera)

External links

• Ryan Joseph Behan, "The Solo Piano Works of Alexander Müllenbach: an Introduction and Approach to Performance" (2009)

References