About
Marius Felix Lange, born in Berlin in 1968, received violin at the age of eight - and piano lessons at the age of eleven . From 1980 to 1987 he was a young student at the Julius Stern Institute at the Berlin University of the Arts with Saschko Gawriloff and Tomasz Tomaszewski . At that time he received various awards in youth music and other chamber music competitions and in 1987 was a member of the festival orchestra and the orchestra academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival under Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache .
Education
Lange studied violin at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and in Klagenfurt . In 1993 he began studying school music in Stuttgart , and in 1997 jazz and popular music were added as a broadening subject. In 2001 he graduated with the 1st state exam. From 1998 to 2002 he studied film music and sound design at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and from 2001 to 2006 composition in Mannheim with Ulrich Leyendecker . In 2004 he received a scholarship from the Bayreuth Festival .
Career
In 2002, Marius Felix Lange was the musical director of the opening production “Germany your songs” at the 1st Ruhrtriennale . In the following years he mainly wrote film music (until 2012) and operas. So he composed in 2005 the "Opera for children and adults" The Opera Ship or at the South Pole, you think, is it hot , with a libretto by Elke Heidenreich . This was followed by the opera Schneewittchen , which premiered in 2011 at the Cologne Opera under the direction of Elena Tzavara and at the end of 2012 as Blanche-Neige at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg by Waut Koekenwas staged as a French premiere. In 2015, the Swiss premiere followed by opéra Louise in a production by Julien Chavaz in Friborg . In 2013, Lange wrote the family opera Das Gespenst von Canterville , premiered in November 2013 at the Zurich Opera House , re-instrumentation and German premiere at the Komische Oper Berlin November 2014, Austrian premiere at the Volksoper Vienna on October 18, 2019. For the Junge Oper Rhein -Ruhr , a union of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg , the Theater Dortmund and theTheaters Bonn , in 2014 he wrote the family opera Vom Mädchen, die nicht, (The girl who did not want to sleep) and 2016 The Snow Queen based on Hans Christian Andersen .