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Wolfram Buchenberg, born 1962 in Engelbolz (Oberallgäu), studied school music and composition with Prof. Dieter Acker at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich; he also attended Prof. Acker’s master class. Since 1988, Wolfram Buchenberg has taught piano playing for school use at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.

Wolfram Buchenberg is a very sought-after contemporary composer. His compositional oeuvre includes works of various genres and styles from solo to orchestral pieces, from musicals to masses. A large number of commissioned compositions for churches as well as for renowned festivals, orchestras and ensembles such as the Bavarian Radio Choir document the high quality of his artistic work.

He feels a particularly strong affinity to choral music, as is evident in the substantial number of his arrangements and compositions, among others for mixed choir. His music has become omnipresent in the international choral scene. Buchenberg’s modern and at the same time tonal sound language is characterized by colorful harmonies, soloistic elements, the inclusion of spoken texts and the breaking open of traditional rhythmic structures.

Portrait of Buchenberg: https://youtu.be/H-HfNOhx1F8?feature=shared

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Rainer Maria Rilke was an important poet whose works had a profound influence on 20th-century literature. He travelled extensively throughout his life, and his experiences are reflected in his writings. His poems in particular are characterised by profound reflections on questions of love, death, art, faith and human existence. Works such as The Panther and the Sonnets to Orpheus have long been part of the standard repertoire of literary canon. Many of his poems have also been set to music. CARUS has published Rilke's texts in the form of settings of poems describing nature (Cyrill Schürch) and transcriptions of instrumental works for choir (Clytus Gottwald), among others. Personal details