Thuon Burtevitz


Thuon Burtevitz, is a German composer.

Life

Born in Halle (Saale), Burtevitz first studied philosophy at the Technical University of Dresden, then changed to the Hochschule für Musik [Carl Maria von Weber] as a student of Jörg Herchet. She continued her studies at the and as a master student of Dimitri Terzakis at the Hochschule für Musik und [Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig]. Since then she has been living as a freelance composer in Dresden.

Work

Burtevitz developed her own tuning system for the piano work "Axia" which lasts a good one and a half hours. In this system all intervals have a different size. For example, there are five different fifths. The octaves are also unequal. With this tuning system a strict order of tones is created, which nevertheless remains open to infinity. The form and rhythms of "axia" are also based on the tuning system.

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