Anselm (Original Soundtrack) Leonard Küßner & Slovak National Symphony Orchestra

• 1 An die Sonne 03:15
• 2 Sonnenuhren 01:51
• 3 Universum 04:40
• 4 Snowfiels 02:53
• 5 Forest 04:09
• 6 America 02:23
• 7 Barjac 04:26
• 8 Castle 02:30
• 9 Tunnel 02:21
• 10 Venice 03:38
• 11 Generations 02:01
• 12 An die Sonne (Reprise) 01:40
• 13 Anselm 03:05
• Total Runtime 38:52

Info for Anselm (Original Soundtrack)

"In Anselm porträtiert Wim Wenders Anselm Kiefer, einen der innovativsten und wichtigsten Maler und Bildhauer unserer Zeit. Der in 3D und 6K-Auflösung gedrehte Film präsentiert eine filmische Erfahrung des Werks des Künstlers, das die menschliche Existenz und die zyklische Natur der Geschichte erforscht, inspiriert von Literatur, Poesie, Philosophie, Wissenschaft, Mythologie und Religion. Über zwei Jahre lang hat Wenders den Weg Kiefers von seiner deutschen Heimat bis zu seinem heutigen Wohnort in Frankreich nachgezeichnet und dabei die Stationen seines Lebens mit den wesentlichen Orten seiner mehr als fünf Jahrzehnte umspannenden Karriere verbunden.

Leonard Küßner ist ein preisgekrönter deutscher Komponist, der für Film, Theater und Konzertsäle geschrieben hat. Er komponierte die Musik für den hochgelobten Dokumentarfilm Dear Future Children (2021) von Franz Böhm und für den ersten abendfüllenden Dokumentarfilm über den Weltklasse-Balletttänzer Friedemann Vogel (2020) von Katja Trautwein. Mit dem israelischen Choreografen Smadar Goshen arbeitete er an Projekten für das Theaterhaus Stuttgart/ZDF/3sat (The Dying Swans Project, 2022) und den Württembergischen Kunstverein (Hoomans, 2021). Seine Kompositionen für Kammerorchester und zwei Stimmen "Einsamkeit" und "Andante für Altsaxophon und Klavier" wurden vom SWR2 gesendet. Seine Orchestermusik zu L'Aria del Moscerino und ST. Android von Lukas von Berg wurden beide bei den Filmfestspielen in Cannes uraufgeführt. Er war nominiert für den Deutschen Filmmusikpreis (2018) und für die beste Filmmusik in einem Dokumentarfilm beim Filmfestival des Max Ophüls Preis (2021)

Leonard Küßner
is a German composer for film, theater and concert hall, best known for his work on Wim Wenders “Anselm” and Franz Böhms “Dear Future Children”.

After his basic training in percussion and piano, and after many years of working in various orchestras and ensembles, he studied composition with a focus on film music at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg.

This was followed by composition commissions for film scores, interdisciplinary performance formats and the world’s first Dolby Atmos radio play “Das Duett”. The documentary film “Um uns die Welt” (director: Hanna Fischer), for which Küßner composed the film music, won the German Business Film Award in 2017.

In 2018, Küßner celebrated his international premiere at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for the “German Film Music Award”.

In the same year, his stage music for E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Der Goldne Topf”, adapted and directed by Anna Frick, premiered at the Theater Freiburg, which was performed over two seasons.

Further followed the work as orchestrator and arranger for the animated film “Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss – Auf in den Dschungel!” (2018, directed by Anthony Power), which continued in 2019 for the film “Dragon Rider” (2020, directed by Tomer Eshed), the animated film adaptation based on the novel by Cornelia Funke.

For the feature film “Traumfabrik” (2019, director: Martin Schreier), Küßner worked in a team with Philipp Noll and Peter Gromer from the beginning of 2019.

For the Katja Trautweins documentary (SWR, 3sat) “Friedemann Vogel – Verkörperung des Tanzes” (2020) Küßner composed the film music, which was also released as a soundtrack album.

This was followed in 2020 by another collaboration with Philipp Noll for the Otto cinema film “Catweazle”, which was released in 2021.

He wrote stage music for Victor Klemperer’s diaries from the period 1934 – 1945, as well as the four-movement poem setting “Einsamkeit” after Paul Celan for orchestra and two voices, which was recorded on CD under his direction.

In 2020/2021 Küßner, together with Hannes Bieber, composed and produced the film music for the multi-award-winning documentary “Dear Future Children”, which was released in cinemas in Germany, Great Britain, Austria and Canada. For this score, he won “Best Filmmusic” at NaturVision Festival, shared with Hannes Bieber.

This was followed by recordings of film music and symphonic works with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg, the Slovak Sinfonietta Orchestra, the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra as well as recordings with tenor Daniel Kluge (Hamburg State Opera), René Pape (Berlin State Opera) and collaborations with sopranos Samantha Gaul (Opera Leipzig), Katharina Ruckgaber (Freiburg Theater), Birita Poulsen, Fanny Soyer (Royal Danish Opera) and mezzo-soprano Marie Seidler.

On November 12, 2021, the CD “Die Fremde” with Küßner’s composition “Andante for alto saxophone and piano” (alto saxophone: Hannah Koob, piano: Martien Maas) was released worldwide by the Dutch label 7 Mountain Records.

Leonard Küßner is also a guest lecturer at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg on the subjects of “Orchestral programming” and “Orchestral production”.

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