Enno Poppe


Enno Poppe is a German composer and conductor of classical music, and an academic teacher.

Career

Enno Poppe studied composition and conducting at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Friedrich Goldmann and Gösta Neuwirth, among others. He studied sound synthesis and algorithmic composition with Heinrich Taube at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe.
Since 1998 he has conducted the ensemble mosaik for contemporary music in Berlin. He taught from 2002 to 2004 at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He received commissions from Salzburg Festival, Berliner Festwochen, Ensemble InterContemporain, The Louvre, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the SWR for the Donaueschinger Musiktage and the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Poppe was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1995/96, and won an Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize in 2004.
His opera Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung on a libretto of Marcel Beyer was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2008.
Since 2008 Poppe has been a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, since 2009 of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste and, since 2010, of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste.
In 2023 Poppe was awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize from Italian Music Critics Association.

Works

Source:

Stage works

  • IQ. Text: Marcel Beyer
  • Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung. Text: Marcel Beyer
  • Interzone Text: Marcel Beyer

    Works for orchestra

  • HUNDERT. Hommage à Pierre Boulez VI
  • Strom
  • Schnur for cello and orchestra
  • Fett
  • Welt
  • Markt
  • Altbau
  • Keilschrift
  • ''Obst''

    Works for ensemble

  • Blumen for ensemble
  • Körper for ensemble
  • Hirn for ensemble
  • O Du for ensemble
  • Prozession for large ensemble
  • Rundfunk for 9 synthesizers
  • Fleisch for tenor saxophone, electric guitar, keyboard and percussion
  • Filz for viola solo, 4 clarinets and strings
  • Speicher
  • Wald for four string quartets
  • Salz
  • Öl
  • Holz for clarinet and small ensemble
  • Dem Bones for ensemble

    Chamber music

  • Laub for seven instruments
  • Quintet for string quintet
  • Buch for string quartet
  • Freizeit for string quartet
  • Feld for two pianos and two percussionists
  • Brot for five instruments
  • Schweiß for violoncello and keyboard or for four instruments
  • Tonband for two keyboards, percussion and live electronics
  • Zug for seven brass players
  • Trauben for violin, violoncello, and piano
  • Rad for two keyboards
  • Tier for string quartet
  • Gelöschte Lieder flute, violin, violoncello and piano

    Vocal music

  • Augen for soprano and chamber orchestra. Text: Else Lasker-Schüler
  • Der Wechsel menschlicher Sachen for mixed choir. Text: Quirinus Kuhlmann
  • Ich kann mich an nichts erinnern for choir, organ and orchestra. Text: Marcel Beyer
  • Abend for four male voices and four trombones
  • Drei Arbeiten for baritone, horn, piano and percussion
  • Gold for mixed choir
  • Wespe for voice solo

    Solo music

  • Fell for drumset solo
  • Haare for violin
  • Zwölf for violoncello
  • 17 Etüden für die Flöte, 3. Heft
  • Arbeit for virtual Hammond organ
  • Herz for violoncello
  • Holz solo for bassoon or bass clarinet
  • Thema mit 840 Variationen for piano
  • ''17 Etüden für die Violine, 2. Heft''