Marcel Wengler
Marcel Wengler was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Canton of Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg on April 20th, 1946 and is the Composer. At the age of 78, Marcel Wengler biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Marcel Wengler (born 20 April 1946) is a Luxembourg composer and conductor.
He ruled the Conservatoire de Luxembourg from 1972-1997.
He has been the head of the Luxembourg Music Information Centre since 2000.
His works include symphonies, concertos, chamber music, and musicals.
Early life and education
Wengler, a born in Esch-sur-Alzette, studied at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Brussels and in Cologne's Musikhochschule. During his studies, Igor Markevitch and Sergiu Celibidache were his mentors.
Career
Wengler, a conductor, has performed with a number of radio companies throughout Europe, amassing over a hundred works. He has produced a number of CDs devoted to Luxembourg composers' works with the RTL Symphony Orchestra.
Wengler has produced about 80 works, including symphonies and concertos, as well as a stage, chamber, and ballet music. He composed the music for Volker Schlöndorff's film Swann in Love with the Munich Philharmonic in 1983. Rex Leo (1986), a French composer, has appeared both in Luxembourg and Graz. He appeared in 1995 with the Portuguese National Symphony Orchestra in Lisbon for the first time, and in 1997, he conducted his Viola Concerto with Garth Knox and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. Violin Concerto (1997) was presented during the World Music Days in Romania, and he conducted the premiere of his Flute Concerto (1999) with the Orquestra Nacional do Porto. Beethoven and Mahler's compositional style was first influenced by Beethoven and Mahler, then by Karl Amadeus Hartmann and Hans Werner Henze.
Marcel Wengler, founder of the Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music (LSCM), has helped promote Luxembourg composers whose music might not have a chance of hearing their music in their native country. One of the LSCM's accomplishments was the founding of the Luxembourg Sinfonietta ensemble, which he has directed since its inception in 1999. Since 2000, he has been the director of the Luxembourg Music Information Centre, which also participates in the establishment of a national databank of new music.
Awards
- 1978: first prize, International Conductors’ Competition, Rio de Janeiro