Hommage à Clytus Gottwald. Erinnerungen, Briefe und Kompositionen zum 80. Geburtstag
Clytus Gottwald's importance for contemporary choral music can be measured by his outstanding achievements, including his founding of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, which he conducted for its entire existence of 30 years and with whom he gave numerous first performances of contemporary music. Contemporaries and musical companions relate stories about an extraordinary conductor, composer and human being.
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Ewald Liska
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Clytus Gottwald
| 1925-2023The choral conductor, composer and musicologist Clytus Gottwald (1925 - 2023) made significant contributions to contemporary choral music. As editor for New Music at Südfunk Stuttgart and founder and director of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, he was in productive exchange with his contemporaries, Pierre Boulez, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen and many others. With his Schola Cantorum, a 16-voice chamber vocal ensemble, Gottwald decisively shaped the a cappella choral culture of the highest technical level that is taken for granted today. Clytus Gottwald's transcriptions of piano songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir are appreciated by choirs all over the world. Modelled on the style of Ligeti, his works set the highest of musical standards. Clytus Gottwald has received several awards for his services, including the Cultural Prize of Baden-Württemberg in 2009, the European Church Music Prize in 2012, and the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2014. His importance for the development of contemporary choral music cannot be overestimated. Personal details