Born 1967 in Dragør, Copenhagen.
Composer, conductor, singer, writer and project manager for the danish composers’ organisation ’Komvest’.
Christian Hildebrandt - renaissance music in your dreamsLike 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 the 16. 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.Choral works of Christian Hildebrandt:
Stabat Mater (11 min, SATB, 1994)
Kyrie (5 min, SATB, 1995)
Four Beatitudes (6 min, SATBB, 1995)
Psalm 103 (4 min, SATB, 1996)
Maria hun var en jomfru ren (2 min, SATB, 1997)
Four Nordbrandt songs (5 min, SATB, 1999)
ode to the time (6 min, SATB, 1999)
Canticle of love (12 min, SSATB, 2000)
Psalm 23 (5 min, SATB, 2000, Capella Hafniensis Editions, Cph. 2005)
Adflictus sum (2 min, SATB, 2001)
Ubi caritas (4 min, SATB, 2001)
Credo (13 min, SSSAAATTTBBB, + version for SATB and chamber orchestra, 2001)
Lux aeterna (2 min, SATB, 2002)
Oculi omnium (3 min, TTBB, 2002)
Magnificat I ( 1½ min, SATBB, 2003)
Sanctus (5 min, SSAATB, 2003)
Efter Næsen (2 min, SSA(B), 2004)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (6 min, SATB, 2004)
Graduale (5 min, SSAATB, 2005)
Sanctus on St. Stephans Day (4 min, SSAATTBB, 2005)
Choices (lyrics: Mark Hillman, 1½ min, SATB, 2006)
Magnificat II (3 min, SSAATTBB, 2006)
Non sibi sed omnibus (lyrics: Mark Hillman, 4 min, SSAATTBB, 2007)Other works:Six pieces for organ (8 min, 1991-1992)
24 preludes (ca. 50 min, piano, 1990-1993)
fire (2 min, baryton, piano, 1993)
Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie (5 min, string quartet, 1995)
Das Nachtlied (3 min, mezzosoprano, piano, 1996)
Elégie pour la mémoire (2 min, organ, 2001)
Three fugues (1½ min, string quartet, 2004)
ilma on kaunis (3 min, baryton, piano, 2004)
Symphony no. 1 (25 min, orchestra, 2005)
Ost- westliche quartette (9 min, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2005)
Fugleskabet / Birdscape (4 min, baritone sax, piano, violin, viola, cello, 2006)
String Quartet No 2 - Adagio Lamentoso (5 min, string quartet, 2007)
Intermezzo for piano and saxophone (4 min, piano, alto sax, 2007)
One two three step (1 min, piano, 2007)
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