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Christian Hildebrandt is a Copenhagen based danish composer. His output is dominated by a large number of choral works, chamber music and electronic compositions.
Christian Hildebrandt about composing:
Like all other late-baroque composers I am helplessly taken by the renaissance period which embraced the floruit of the magnificent choral composing... but I am a very late baroque composer...
In my ears the music of composers like Guillaume Dufay, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez, Jacob Hobrecht, Cipriano di Rore and their contemporaries and immediate followers becomes the ideal of what choral music is all about. This music is to me old school in the best meaning of that word. I myself am writing choral music as I hear it in my imagination of how the music of the16. century would sound if it was written today. My music is renaissance music reloaded.
I'm occasionally working on two larger choral works: a Magnificat and a Mass - the two major genres in liturgical musical in the 16. century.
The former is a quite unusual approach to the traditional Magnificat genre where I focus on the fear and feelings of loss and falling apart of all known values which appear when a new life enters the world. The first wo parts are finished and already performed (Magnificat I + II). The latter will be a large scale contribution to the great mass tradition of the renaissance - the symphony of those days. I have completed a Kyrie, a Credo, a Sanctus, a Graduale and a Lux Aeterna so far. Kyrie and Credo haven't been performed yet.Contact me if you would like a copy of some of my scores. You can require a demo CD as well with live recordings from the Komvest Choral Music concerts.
music for the church
As a new service I now provide for free download some of my compositions and arrangement which are suitable for use in the danish church. Some of the choral settings are of traditional catholic texts in latin, but most of these compositions are made for the danish high mass on commission from specific churches to be sung sunday morning.
3 or 4 part a cappella settings of hymns from the Danish Book of Hymns (Den Danske Salmebog - DDS, 2003 udgaven):
DDS64 (Jeg vil mig Herren love)
DDS84 (Gør døren høj gør porten vid)
DDS99 (Velkommen igen, Guds engle små)
DDS106 (Af højheden oprunden er)
DDS114 (Hjerte, løft din glædes vinger)
DDS191 (Gak under Jesu Kors at stå)
DDS192 (Hil dig, Frelser og Forsoner)
DDS217 (Min Jesus, lad mit hjerte få)
DDS366 (Nogen må våge i verdens nat)
DDS413 (Vi kommer, Herre, til dig ind)
DDS435 (Aleneste Gud i Himmerig)
Organ settings:
music for choir (Download the Sibelius Scorch Player)
Lux aeterna (3'15'', SSAA/TTBB, 2007)
Ps. 138: Jeg vil prise dig, HERRE (2 min, SATB, 2007)*2007Oct28, Mølholm Kirke, Vejle, Coro Misto/Søren Birch
Non Sibi Sed Omnibus - text by Mark Hillman (4 min, SSAATTBB, 2007)
Magnificat II - Magnificat Fragmente (3 min, SSAATTBB, 2006) *2007May23, Rundetaarn, Hymnia/Flemming Windekilde
Choices - on a poem by Mark Hillman (1½ min, SATB, 2006)*2007Oct28, Mølholm Kirke, Vejle, Coro Misto/Søren Birch
Sanctus på Sankt Stefans Dag (4 min, SSAATTBB, 2005) * 2006Mar12, Korsvejskirken, Ensemble Vest/Flemming Windekilde
Graduale (5 min, SSAATB, 2005) * 2005Feb27, Kristkirken, Ensemble Vest/Søren Christian Vestergaard (+ SSAA-version)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (6 min, SATB, 2004) * 2005Feb27, Kristkirken, Ensemble Vest/Søren Christian Vestergaard
Efter Næsen (2 min, SSA(B), 2004)
Sanctus (5 min, SSAATB, 2003) * 2004Mar21, Jægersborg Kirke, Ensemble Vest/Søren Christian Vestergaard
Magnificat I ( 1½ min, SATBB, 2003) * 2003Mar23, Kristkirken, Ensemble Vest/Søren Christian Vestergaard
Oculi omnium (3 min, TTBB, 2002) * 2002Okt11, Helligåndskirken, Helligåndskirkens Herrekvartet
Lux aeterna (2 min, SATB, 2002) * 2002Sep11, Sakramentskirken, Sankt Pauls Kammerkor/Torsten Nielsen
Credo (13 min, SSSAAATTTBBB, + version for SATB and chamber orchestra, 2001)
Ubi caritas (4 min, SATB, 2001) * 2002Mar10, Sakramentskirken, Ensemble Vest/Brian Grønbæk Jensen
Adflictus sum (2 min, SATB, 2001) * 2002Mar10, Sakramentskirken, Ensemble Vest/Brian Grønbæk Jensen
Ps. 23: Herren er min Hyrde (5 min, SATB, 2000, Capella Hafniensis Editions Serie D, vol. 1, Cph. 2005) * 2007Mar11, Kristkirken, Ensemble Vest/Flemming Windekilde
Kærlighedens Højsang (Canticle of love) (12 min, SSATB, 2000) *2001Mar18, Absalons Kirke, Ensemble Vest/Brian Grønbæk Jensen
ode til tiden (ode to the time) (6 min, SATB, 1999) *2001Mar18, Absalons Kirke, Ensemble Vest/Brian Grønbæk Jensen
Fire Nordbrandt Sange (Four Nordbrandt songs) (5 min, SATB, 1997-1999) * 2000Mar12, Kristkirken,Komvestkoret/Theis Reinvang
Maria hun var en jomfru ren (Mary was a virgin pure) (2 min, SATB, 1997 * 1999Jan31, Komvestkoret/Theis Reinvang
Salme 103 (Psalm 103) (4 min, SATB, 1996) * 1999Jan31, Komvestkoret/Theis Reinvang
Fire Saligprisninger (Four Beatitudes) (6 min, SATBB, 1995) * 1999Jan31, Komvestkoret/Theis Reinvang
Kyrie (5 min, SATB, 1995)
Stabat Mater (11 min, SATB, 1994) * 1994Nov18 i Hellig Kors Kirke af ad hoc kor/Pia Boysen
Vær du mig nær (2 min, SATB, 1992) * 1992Sep27, Davidskirken
Kyrie (3 min, SATB, 1988)
instrumentally based music (Download the Sibelius Scorch Player)
One two three step (1 min., piano solo, 2007)*2007Oct07, Sthens Kirke, Thomas Gooseman
Intermezzo for alto saxophone and piano (3 min, altsax, piano, 2007)*2007Oct07, Sthens Kirke, Charlotte Andersson (sax), Thomas Gooseman (pno)
String Quartet no 2 "Adagio Lamentoso" (ca. 5 min., strygekvartet, 2007, tilegnet Alba Kvartetten)*2007Oct07, Sthens Kirke, Alba Kvartetten
A kind of minuet from watermark music (2 min, piano solo, 2007)*2007Mar04, Vanløse Kulturhus, Lola Perrin
Fugleskabet / Birdscape (4 min, baritone sax, piano, violin, viola, cello, 2006) * 2006Sep6, Grundtvigs Kirke, Komvest Chamberplayers
Ost- westliche quartette (9 min, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2005) * 2005Oct30, Unitarernes Hus, Østerbro Koncertforening
Symphony no. 1 (8 min, orchestra, 2005)
ilma on kaunis (3 min, baryton, piano, 2004) * 2004Dec3, DKDM, Eskild Momme & Claus Lewinsky
Three fugues (1½ min, string quartet, 2004)
Elégie pour la mémoire (2 min, organ, 2001) * 2002Mar10, Sakramentskirken, Helgi Breiner
Das Nachtlied (3 min, mezzosoprano, piano, 1996)
Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie (5 min, string quartet, 1995) * 2000Mar12, Kristkirken, Konoy Kvartetten
Ild (Fire) (2 min, baryton, piano, 1993)*1996?, Eskild Momme & Chr. Hildebrandt
Six pieces for organ (8 min, 1991-1992) * 1992Sep27, Davidskirken, Marie Ziener
24 preludes (ca. 50 min, piano, 1990-1993) *2001Mar18, Absalons Kirke, Mads Damlund (3 preludes)
electronica
I experimentated some years with composing for midi sounds, and I used some primitive sequencer software... I made about 50 tracks, go to my alternative MySpace profile and listen to four of them:
Ballad and Lullaby (1997)
Pan and la Citta delle Donne (1999)
© 2008 by Christian Hildebrandt
