Christian Hildebrandt - renaissance music in your dreams

Like all other late-baroque composers I am helplessly taken by the renaissance period which embraced the floruit of the magnificent choral composing... and 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.

Below my works are listed with title, duration, instrumentation, year composed and date of first performance (marked with *). You can take a look and listen to the music by clicking the titles. 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 concerts.

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Music for choir

Lux aeterna (3'15'', SSAA/TTBB, 2007)*2007Nov08, Helligkors Kirke, Cph. N, Martin Palsmar (cond.)

Ps. 138: Jeg vil prise dig, HERRE (2 min, SATB, 2007)*2007Oct28, Mølholm Kirke, Vejle, Coro Misto/Søren Birch

Non Sibi Sed Omnibus - text by Mark Hillman (4 min, SSAATTBB, 2006)

Magnificat II - Magnificat Fragmente (3 min, SSAATTBB, 2006) *2007May23, Rundetaarn, Hymnia/Flemming Windekilde

Choices - on a poem by Mark Hillman (1½ min, SATB, 2006)

Sanctus på Sankt Stefans Dag (4 min, SSAATTBB, 2005) * 2006Mar12, Korsvejskirken, Ensemble Vest/Flemming Windekilde

Graduale (5 min, SSAATB, 2005) * 2005Feb27, Kristkirken, Ensemble Vest/Søren Christian Vestergaard (+ SSAA-version)

Alma Redemptoris Mater (6 min, SATB, 2004) * 2005Feb27, Kristkirken, Ensemble Vest/Søren Christian Vestergaard

Efter Næsen (2 min, SSA(B), 2004)

Sanctus (5 min, SSAATB, 2003) * 2004Mar21, Jægersborg Kirke, Ensemble Vest/Søren Christian Vestergaard

Magnificat I ( 1½ min, SATBB, 2003) * 2003Mar23, Kristkirken, Ensemble Vest/Søren Christian Vestergaard

Oculi omnium (3 min, TTBB, 2002) * 2002Okt11, Helligåndskirken, Helligåndskirkens Herrekvartet

Lux aeterna (2 min, SATB, 2002) * 2002Sep11, Sakramentskirken, Sankt Pauls Kammerkor/Torsten Nielsen

Credo (13 min, SSSAAATTTBBB, + version for SATB and chamber orchestra, 2001)

Ubi caritas (4 min, SATB, 2001) * 2002Mar10, Sakramentskirken, Ensemble Vest/Brian Grønbæk Jensen

Adflictus sum (2 min, SATB, 2001) * 2002Mar10, Sakramentskirken, Ensemble Vest/Brian Grønbæk Jensen

Ps. 23: Herren er min Hyrde (5 min, SATB, 2000, Capella Hafniensis Editions Serie D, vol. 1, Cph. 2005) * 2007Mar11, Kristkirken, Ensemble Vest/Flemming Windekilde

Kærlighedens Højsang (Canticle of love) (12 min, SSATB, 2000) *2001Mar18, Absalons Kirke, Ensemble Vest/Brian Grønbæk Jensen

ode til tiden (ode to the time) (6 min, SATB, 1999) *2001Mar18, Absalons Kirke, Ensemble Vest/Brian Grønbæk Jensen

Fire Nordbrandt Sange (Four Nordbrandt songs) (5 min, SATB, 1997-1999) * 2000Mar12, Kristkirken,Komvestkoret/Theis Reinvang

Maria hun var en jomfru ren (Mary was a virgin pure) (2 min, SATB, 1997 * 1999Jan31, Komvestkoret/Theis Reinvang

Salme 103 (Psalm 103) (4 min, SATB, 1996) * 1999Jan31, Komvestkoret/Theis Reinvang

Fire Saligprisninger (Four Beatitudes) (6 min, SATBB, 1995) * 1999Jan31, Komvestkoret/Theis Reinvang

Kyrie (5 min, SATB, 1995)

Stabat Mater (11 min, SATB, 1994) * 1994Nov18 i Hellig Kors Kirke af ad hoc kor/Pia Boysen

Vær du mig nær (2 min, SATB, 1992) * 1992Sep27, Davidskirken

Kyrie (3 min, SATB, 1988)

Instrumentally based music

One two three step (1 min., piano solo, 2007)*2007Oct07, Sthens Kirke, Thomas Gooseman

Intermezzo for piano and sax (3 min, altsax, piano, 2007)*2007Oct07, Sthens Kirke, Charlotte Andersson (sax), Thomas Gooseman (pno)

String Quartet no 2 "Adagio Lamentoso" (ca. 5 min., strygekvartet, 2007, tilegnet Alba Kvartetten)*2007Oct07, Sthens Kirke, Alba Kvartetten

a kind of minuet from watermark music (2 min, piano solo, 2007)*2007Mar04,Vanløse Kulturhus, Lola Perrin

Fugleskabet / Birdscape (4 min, baritone sax, piano, violin, viola, cello, 2006) * 2006Sep6, Grundtvigs Kirke, Komvest Chamberplayers

Ost- westliche quartette (9 min, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2005) * 2005Oct30, Unitarernes Hus, Østerbro Koncertforening

Symphony no. 1 (8 min, orchestra, 2005)

ilma on kaunis (3 min, baryton, piano, 2004) * 2004Dec3, DKDM, Eskild Momme & Claus Lewinsky

Three fugues (1½ min, string quartet, 2004)

Elégie pour la mémoire (2 min, organ, 2001) * 2002Mar10, Sakramentskirken, Helgi Breiner

Das Nachtlied (3 min, mezzosoprano, piano, 1996)

Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie (5 min, string quartet, 1995) * 2000Mar12, Kristkirken, Konoy Kvartetten

Ild (Fire) (2 min, baryton, piano, 1993)*1996?, Eskild Momme & Chr. Hildebrandt

Six pieces for organ (8 min, 1991-1992) * 1992Sep27, Davidskirken, Marie Ziener

24 preludes (ca. 50 min, piano, 1990-1993) *2001Mar18, Absalons Kirke, Mads Damlund (3 preludes)

Electronica

I experimentated some years with composing for midi sounds, and I used some primitive sequencer software... I made about 50 tracks, go to my alternative MySpace profile and listen to four of them:

"Ballad" and "Lullaby" (1997)

"Pan" and "la Citta delle Donne" (1999)