Heiner Ruland
Heiner Ruland (6 April 1934 – 25 March 2017) was a German composer and music therapist.
Life
[edit]Born in Aachen, Ruland studied chemistry after a humanistic secondary school education, then school music with harpsichord as main subject with Fritz Neumeyer in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1963–1974, he worked as a music teacher at the Waldorf School Benefeld, Lüneburg Heath.
Based on Kathleen Schlesinger's research and Rudolf Steiner's suggestions, intensive musical-anthroposophical research work developed alongside teaching, as laid down in Ein Weg zur Erweiterung des Tonerlebens : musikalische Tonkunde am Monochord[1] In the course of this musical-humanistic research, an extensive teaching and lecturing activity began. His work as a composer in an expanded tonal system became increasingly important. From 1976 to 2001, he continued to work full-time in the practice of Music therapy at the Öschelbronn Clinic, a hospital for internal diseases.[2]
Ruland died in Hamborn at the age of 82.[3]
Work
[edit]Vocal music
[edit]Sologesang
[edit]- Lieder, Duette, Terzette
- Liederzyklen auf Gedichte von Hölderlin, Morgenstern, Heimlander, Goethe, Droste-Hülshoff
Choir
[edit]- Die Tageszeiten
- Steffen-Chöre
- Der Seelenkalender
- Novalis-Chöre
- Prolog des Johannes
- Sophokles-Chöre
Cantatas
[edit]- Advent-Kantate
- Die sieben Worte des Gekreuzigten
- Die sieben Erscheinungen des Auferstandenen
- Himmelfahrts-Kantate "Denn die Erde ist sein"
- Michaeli-Kantate
- Die Kristallkugel (Brüder Grimm)
Choir and Orchestra
[edit]- Grenzen der Menschheit (Goethe)
- Der Tanz (Schiller)
Singspiel
[edit]- Die Insel
Chamber music
[edit]- Variationen über ein Thema von A. von Webern
- Das Viergetier für Bratsche solo
- Streichquartett
- Streichseptett
- Die Nacht der Künste für Flöte und Vierteltoncembalo
Clavichord, Clavicantal, Harpsichord, Organ
[edit]- 3 Sontinen
- Studie über die 8 Schlesinger'schen Töne
- Suite der Elemente für Cembalo
- Die Wochentage
- Der Öschelbronner Orgelkalender (12 Umspiele und Reihen)
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Literature by and about Heiner Ruland in the German National Library catalogue
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