Hans Ueckert
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Hans Ueckert is a retired professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Hans plays classical guitar professionally and piano moderately and "plays" on the computer when composing, particularly with Sibelius and NOTION.
Back in the fifties and sixties Hans studied music (composition and conducting), musicology, and psychology. His particular interest is in completing Mozart fragments (of which there are some hundreds – for a survey you can visit his "Unfinished Mozart" site at http://unfinished-mozart.blogspot.com). “For me personally, the most challenging part is to understand the process of composing. Therefore I try to compose in the style of Mozart to find out how the step-by-step process might have taken place in his mind when he worked on his compositions.”
Hans says the big advantage of working with NOTION is the unique quality of the LSO sounds and the expressive power of dynamics and articulations offered by the NOTION software.
His current musical projects are completing Mozart fragments, ranging from chamber music through orchestral works up to operas. In particular, He has completed all three of Mozart's unfinished operas: Zaide, L'Oca del Cairo, and Lo Sposo Deluso. With the help of NOTION's performance ability, he is now preparing a CD including some chamber music and orchestral works after Mozart sketches.
When asked what he would like to see from NOTION in the future, he said, “More sound kits with even more articulations in instrumental techniques. And with respect to the user interface: Much more user assistance by the way of keyboard shortcuts (in particular, user definable ones) and direct MIDI keyboard input in the Easy Input mode.”
Hans’ other interests include psychology, mathematics, and Nordic walking.
Rondo for Harp and Orchestra, according to the composer, is “the last movement of a three-movement concerto for harp and orchestra after Mozart sketches – ‘Dedicated to Wolfgang Amadé Mozart in the year of his 250th birthday’.
“The rondo includes four different drafts and sketches by Mozart: In the beginning a draft of 38 measures in piano notation (originally intended for the final movement of the piano concerto in D minor, K. 466), at 1' 46" time-stamp 16 measures in piano notation from the finger exercises K. 266b/48, at 3' 10" time-stamp 13 measures of a fragmentary fugue for piano (K. 626b/14), and at 5' 05" an eight measures sketch of a melody in D minor (no K. number given, but an indication as a fragmentary piece: Fr 1785d). I developed the whole composition in its harmonization, instrumentation, and formal extension (with key changes, D minor, F major, and in the end the progression from the D minor melody to its D major transposition, and with time changes – cut-time vs. 3/8 meter in the fugue fragment).”
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